skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And why should the US government be satisfied with a fully encrypted iMessage given that Apple will cave to demands given enough pressure?

Unlike China, the US is still governed by mostly democratic laws and a Constitution, and law enforcement and politicians can't just wish new laws into effect.

As Penn Jillette says, "The Chinese Bill of Rights isn't worth the paper it isn't written on."
I had a bad reaction to an antidepressant that caused me to go for about 6 months with very little sleep 3 years ago. On median, 44 awake, 4 asleep. My record was ~65 hours before sleep. I personally only experienced hallucinations as well at around the high mark. My case was unique in that it was induced by medication causing a chemical change in the brain, not a personal choice, but my mood during that time was quite terrible, and the physical discomfort caused by headaches was extreme.
Will be interesting to hear her perspective, but like an above poster mentioned it doesn't amount to much.

Couple that with the fact that athletes notoriously buy into 'woo' treatments (not to mention Joe Rogan himself is notoriously into 'woo') and it's unsurprising that she may rave about it.

Just to give a few things I've heard fighters 'rave' about in the past that have little to no substantive effect on performance:
- Crossfit and 'functional' fitness at large
- Cryo dunking themselves after a workout
- Elevation masks
- Bulletproof coffee
- CBD (not saying there aren't effects but the range of health claims made border on the absurd)
- Eating a Vegan diet vs a Paleo diet vs a Keto diet...
- Movement(?) training
- Acupuncture
- Cupping

The list is almost endless. Athletes are always looking for an edge, and many of them (much like the general populace) are not well equipped to separate the woo from the goo.
The way I hear it they were required to make the critical upgrades and forbidden from charging high enough rates to pay for it. If this is true, then the people imposing those two constraints have only themselves to blame for the blackouts.

Regulatory capture is a thing that happens and is a problem, but this seems to be a case of bad regulation, not regulatory capture.
Your comment has made a really really deep impression on me. For the past several years, I’ve been a hardcore Apple loyalist only for their stance on privacy and security.

It’s time to stop being deluded. I’m going to stop paying premium for apple and assume all my devices are hostile by default.

What the actual fuck Apple.
Detectron2 – Next-gen platform for object detection and segmentation
I did a search in the page source and there was the script tag with the article content, then I just built it out. A lot of small sites seem to be trying to obfuscate their content so they get SEO rather than really paywalling it.
Nah. Constructivism is a useful niche. That's it.
OT: Appropriately TIL kowtow is a word that came from China

early 19th century: from Chinese kētóu, from kē ‘knock’ + tóu ‘head’.
Good. Now what are YOU going to do about it? Return your library books?
> Chinese citizens have been indoctrinated for decades with the idea that Party is country.

Not withstanding the huge amount of conjecturing ('Drunk with confidence'? very objective) in the article, I think this is the root of the problem. That people believe an entire set of the population could be brainwashed as in losing the ability to think, and that it can never happen to themselves. This leads to dehumanizing the other group and generates hatred. I don't think an average American is less likely to be influenced by indoctrination (from whatever source) then an average Chinese. While both will wholy believe in whatever they've chose/led to believe.

This aside, from the people I know from China, _none_ thinks that party is the country.
Because there are dozens of competing standards and none is clearly superior to the others, because it boils down to being a really, really simple problem: Encode two numbers. (That's also why there are so many standards - it's simple so everyone wants to bikeshed).

There will be no "truly superior" solution, just one that has optimized for different properties.

Plus codes aka Open Location Codes are the biggest "modern" one that seems to have seen some adoption mainly because Google is pushing it (example: "VXQ7+QV Washington DC" or "87C4VXQ7+QV").

Otherwise, decimal coordinates are pretty universal (example: "38.88948,-77.03527" or "38.88948 N, 77.03527 W").

What3words (example: "///jugendliebe.rechtsschutz.mauerreste" or "///cabin.flops.gravel") has other advantages and disadvantages, but running it as a closed project (and the requirement to ship megabytes of databases) kinda killed the project before it started. But even without that showstopper it wouldn't be clearly superior vs. other systems, including the old and proven "two numbers, written as numbers", which is good enough and works almost everywhere.
Here in CA the price is about 0.29c kWh, so that’s $2,275. Pretty comparable to running a generator.
Wouldn’t removing the front mirrors cause helmholtz resonance[1], aka annoying “window drums”, when the front window is rolled down? If you’ve ever driven with only the rear windows down you’ll know what I’m talking about.

[1] https://jalopnik.com/why-do-slightly-opened-car-windows-make...
That's one and a half industrial combi ovens (each takes 480V 3 phase 38kw power). Those numbers seem so low.
Only if the bigger product is actually the better value, that is not always the case.

I know of several products that the Mid Size packaging has the best Per Unit value.

And several where they are the EXACT same price per unit, so they want to push you to the bigger one hoping you will waste most of it.
All grid tie inverters shut off if power in the lines are down for safety reasons. You would need something special to switch over.
They're silently making sales around the country. I've seen their installations at a few places in the Bay Area. My guess, tacitly acknowledged by a friend I bumped into several years ago who was a sale rep, is that because their technology doesn't have strong patent protection (just a productization of long-existing tech), and the margins slim to none, they're careful to avoid inviting competition, and presumably can't afford to burn much money on flashy campaigns, anyhow. Hopefully the outages will give them a bump as it seems like precisely the sort of no-nonsense solution to on-site power generation needed by light industrial customers, such as labs and smallish data centers.
Thank you for writing that out!

I’m guessing the problem is in the capital cost of having a generator system installed. Getting procurement, university real estate/capital projects, a general contractor, and any deans/admin involved to build the system.

I have just assumed that all science buildings had backup generators by default. Movies may have tricked me. I think all hospitals are required to though, which makes sense why the researcher moved his metabolic stuff to UCSF
Ask HN: Should I drop out of college to work for a promising startup?
I am a sophomore at a small college and I'm really enjoying the classes I'm taking, especially the un-STEMy ones like philosophy and art history (I like my math and CS too, but that's a given). I love my friends here dearly. I'm on a sports team.

But I'm faced with the decision to either continue with college and work at normal internships and campus jobs until I graduate, or drop out and work for an extremely promising startup.

Most of you have probably heard of them or use their product, and they're not bullshit like Uber.

I vibe with the team, I love their product, and they have the chance to be huge. I'd join as engineer #n where n is very small.

What are your thoughts on the upsides of finishing college vs. joining this company?
I wonder what sort of allegation it would take that could top what's already been attributed to this administration.
I wouldn't call sftp more modern. They're from the same time. One is interactive, and the other isn't. Nothing more. Nothing less.

So, if you're using it to load code for net booting, scp is the obvious choice since you want to automate the retrieval of a specific file from a specific place, to a specific destination. And you don't want to have to babysit it every time.

If you're copying some specific files with lots of randomish names from your livingroom entertainment server's Downloads directory to your laptop's Documents directory, sftp is your friend.

One doesn't supersede the other in any way whatsoever. There are so many things wrong with the idea that rsync is more modern.

Isn't rsync older by quite a bit? And since it is lacking encryption, isn't scp the more obvious tool to use?

You can't use rsync the way that you use sftp. Think of it this way:

* Secure direct: scp <-- encrypted

* Secure interactive: sftp <-- encrypted

* Insecure direct: rsync <-- clear text

* Insecure interactive: ftp <-- clear text

Use clear text if the network is absolutely known to be secure (good luck on that in any productive environment) and stick to scp and sftp or equivalent secure protocols.

Toss ftp and rsync to the dogs and pretend you've never heard of them except in dire emergencies where significantly better tools (like scp and sftp) aren't available.
Incredible, I knew Vanuatu was used for some shady stuff, but this is pretty grand, free pass to walk around Europe for $150k
It may be possible with greenfields projects (write a single service to store this data). A system that in unprepared for GDPR (read: all systems before GDPR) habitually store redundant information everywhere. E.g. in-game chat logs.
Social pressure that cannot translate into economic pressure will do nothing.
Coming from using Tensorflow in industry, I recently played with Flux at home. Language level support for AD should be a game changer, but it's a hard transition mentally. You have to understand one language deeply rather than two languages shallowly. I found myself bogged down solving lispy puzzles involving functions composing other functions. In tf (and most AD frameworks) you churn out some ugly procedural code in an ergonomic language that generates some ugly pure functional code in a more limited language (the computational graph). Different cognitive overheads. Julia hasn't been 1.0 for very long; it may still take off.
As user jumpingmice pointed out the obvious error in your numbers, the figure you've cited from [1] as the yearly power used was the yearly power saved by adopting efficient light bulbs:

> Throughout the rest of the campus, the school has completely replaced their lights with more energy efficient, low wattage bulbs that save an average of 376,394 kW hours per year in energy. Their overall lighting plan has saved more than 20.6 million kilowatt hours in total.

GIGO
it has been known and done by many people through time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
I was going to say something similar, maybe this is the core critical components that have to say running for life safety.

Otherwise I routinely see single racks pulling 15-25kWh albeit vastly overloaded. But that’s the norm now.
Yeah, from the link, the quoted number is actually the amount Wash U saved by changing light bulbs.

> the school has completely replaced their lights with more energy efficient, low wattage bulbs that save an average of 376,394 kW hours per year in energy
The main issue in this space is that we need a standard, not a "better" standard.

Adding another standard makes the problem worse, not better.

The task of representing a pair of numbers is trivial, solvable in countless different ways, and none of the solution is clearly superior to the others. It matters much more to have a commonly agreed solution, than what the solution is.
Well, in the event of a natural disaster...

I’m merely talking about situations where everything is fine except for the occasional brownout or blackout.

We are trying to move towards greener electricity. Wouldn’t it make sense for parts of California, for example, to generate some of that electricity locally?
I think we got trolled :)
Same with lying to police. Talking about them lying to you, but you can't lie to them. It's a tactic used to lie to people to try to get them to speak more, etc.
> Of course the app doesn't show individual officers, but I don't think it's reasonable to interpret Cook's memo as claiming that the app literally showed the location of individual officers.

I'm not certain how else to read the passage below other than Cook claiming protestors used it to target individual officers somehow.

"However, over the past several days we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence" -Tim Cook
I don't understand this comment. The grid is as reliable as it's ever been, but PG&E has been strongly incentivized to prevent wildfires. They're reacting to that incentive by preemptively shutting down the grid. There's no way of seeing the future where they didn't do that and whole cities burned to the ground, but based on recent history it's very likely that that's the future we're avoiding.
About UCB: “The cogeneration plant uses a natural gas-fired GE LM2500 turbine generator to produce 25 MW of electrical power and 4 MWth of steam.”

[2013] https://www.powerengineeringint.com/2013/10/14/university-of...
I needed to upgrade my x220. The newer X series is almost as big as the T series, and is really limited in terms of memory. I ended up getting a T480 which is nice at home, but too big on the road.

I looked really hard at System76, but I need a trackpoint. I also looked at the x210, and at the time I thought that was too much work, I'm starting to think it might be worth it.
I think some of your citations are off.

The 376,394 kWh/year is the savings they got from going to low wattage bulbs.

"Throughout the rest of the campus, the school has completely replaced their lights with more energy efficient, low wattage bulbs that save an average of 376,394 kW hours per year in energy" [1]

And your prices are from the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria municipal area, not the St. Louis area in which Washington University St. Louis is located.

[1] https://www.electricchoice.com/blog/25-of-the-most-energy-ef... #7 on the list

[2] https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/news-release/averag...
Even the devil's advocate [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate ] is supposed to cite facts and reason properly -- not claim a falsehood in support of the devil, which misrepresenting the article is.

You can't just precede anything with "just playing devil's advocate for a moment" and make it immune from scrutiny, that's the intellectual equivalent of "just a prank". From the WP article, emphasis mine:

> explore the thought further using a valid reasoning
You need to patch Chromium on Linux to get hardware accelerated video playback. In addition, you need to either have a Skylake or later CPU or tell YouTube to serve H.264 encoded video instead of VP9. This has nothing to do with web app vs. native.
>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.”

Hey, there were some black male nerds on the internet then too.
> Power outages are a normal thing and can happen at any time

I cannot recall a single power outage in my home city that lasted longer than ~three hours. And even those "couple hours" outages are extremely rare, much less than once a year I would wager.

According to the statistics, the expected unavailability in my country is around 0.002 - 0.003 %. That's hardly something I would describe as a "normal thing" that "can happen at any time". That's a really rare thing.

The "SAIDI" value here is under 15 minutes. Meanwhile the median SAIDI of the US is ~1.5 hours. That still doesn't sound like a common thing.
> Evolution doesn't do logical analysis.

Sure, but it rewards and institutionalizes behavior that benefits the genes of the individuals.
> Not much to see, but it’s a good way to kill some time.

Reminds me of the big things around Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia's_big_things
Thanks for links, there were quite a few images I didn't know. I was certainly aware of uses before the Nazis, but what I tried to say was this cartoon in particular has a similar composition and overall layout. Which is probably the main reason I felt reminded of this particular image.
Cause op didn't read citation 1 where it says that the University saved that much power by switching to better light bulbs
How about offering jobs to blizzard employees? Might work better in the long term and a good PR move.

But food for thought here: can America win when fighting both Russia and China at the same time? They say Germany's mistake in WW2 was fighting America and Russia simulta eously.

My opinion is to stop fighting Russia, let them have their way with non-NATO eastern europe and central Asia so long as they steer clear of genocide and terrorism.

As far as China goes,offense is the best defense. Perhaps with help from Russia,american allied western europe can compete with China's belt-road initiative? Ex-colonial western europe has the upper hand to compete in Africa. Just going by the nature of China's high-profile hacks (OPM and Equifax for example),it seems influence and long-term control of the west is their goal. They have no delusions of open war or a quick collapse of the west but they simply do not want to be told what to do just like America will not be told what to do when "advancing democracy" all over the world with or without force. China is in the process of doing to america,east asia and africa what America has been doing in Africa and South America for decades. Russia on the other hand wants regional control, their former glory restored and like china they also don't want to be told what to do. Except russia shows no sign of ambitions for world domination like China. Either way, America with all the internal strife would find it very hard to win in a proxy war against either china or russia alone.

I only hope things don't escalate to military involvement in HK.
Iowa State University has it's own power plant. Surprised that isn't more common.
Thank you for the detailed and interesting comment. I wish I could maintain my productivity for extended periods of time like you do. Unfortunately I find that my cognitive abilities drop-off very quickly when become tired.

Also you talk of an 'intelligence switch'. Could you explain what you mean by that?
If you're nostalgic about something that's readily within your reach, I find it hard to not just do it. Pretty sure emulators exist and a dedicated fan can easily port this to one of the hundreds of raspberry pi gaming rigs I've seen people post all the time.

Unless you've got money to throw around and not enough time to truly invest, but aint that always the truth.
Yeah, I'd believe more in the "it really hates killer whales" theory.
IOI and Warner Bros Joined Hands to Bring a New Game for Console and PC
I have encountered many positive statements about What3Words for emergency response. Just one news article: https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/17935101.what3words-app-us...

Can you comment more about "weak radio signal"? Perhaps one can deduce the a number by hearing a small sample of a sound...whereas W3W has a wider vocabulary? My guess is that if necessary, one could repeat each word several times (e.g. over a period of 10 seconds).
Nah, I was giving it an honest go. Just not diligent enough I guess.

Can't delete it now though!
https://twitter.com/humansofflat ?
The NBA may have just thrown Hong Kong’s protesters a new lifeline
Having seen plenty of adults as they attempt to adult I'm no longer sure most adults are actually adults. A lot are just children that aged. That and a lot of adults are afraid of their children or have decided to be "friends" instead of parents.
My point is that if this link was for a similarly large market, you wouldn’t read it and be impressed because you wouldn’t find it on HN.

The article’s content is almost pointless. It’s the Japan connection that gives it a huge boost here.
Pushwagner printouts are sold for a ludicrous amount of money here in Oslo. No reason demo scene guys shouldn't be able to do that also.
My main job is web development and I'm not using Linux on the Desktop for any political/ideological reasons, I'm using it because it gives me the best experience.

Desktop Linux for me is Ubuntu 18.04 on a ThinkPad T450s and it's currently my favourite daily driver (we have a 2019 MacBook Air at home I share with my partner and a Windows 10 machine for testing websites at work). I can't think of the last time I had any problem getting anything to just work - the T series ThinkPads are well known to work with Linux so YMMV with other brands/models but I just happen to love the ThinkPad form factor and design so I'm super happy.

It sucks now having the Adobe CC suite available on my primary work machine but more and more we are using Figma for any digital design related workflows and it's wonderful.

Regarding Apple laptops, I was holding onto a 2015 MacBook Air until I upgraded it for the 2019 model because it was meant to be the latest-best Air... MacOS, iCloud integration and the keyboard has been disappointing to say the least.
I recall some time back, the power generated with cogeneration needed main power with the right frequency to condition(?) it. The cogenerator couldn’t run during a blackout.

For a blackout, the diesel generators kicked in (and could completely power the platform).
Creepy 12 monkeys shit.
Fully agreed with this. In the early to mid 00's I was a heavy user of electronic music forums, everyday I was learning about new artists/releases/labels and there were hundreds of active users discussing new music on most of the boards.

Last night I spent a good hour or so trying to find something similar and just couldn't find anything. The closest thing now is Reddit but the quality of discussion just isn't what it was during those golden phpbb forum days. It's seems like it's either Facebook groups or nothing.
When I looked at it (a fees months ago), 16 GB soldered memory was the only option. Also, no ethernet port.
> 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.

Today, they showed that they are willing to lie under sufficient influence.

This sole data point is sufficient to tarnish what was assumed to be a perfect record.

There is no such thing as 99.999% integrity. Apple either has 100% integrity or is inviting you to play russian roulette with it’s products and services.

We might have already rolled the dice enough times - 1.4e9 active devices trusting apple about 10 times a day for 282 days this year = 3.948 trillion rolls of the dice. A 0.001% chance of betrayal by Apple is 39.4 million betrayals this year (approximately the population of Canada)
I wonder at what point California will just nationalize their grid/energy infrastructure. These “markets” always end up as some private monopoly with all the corresponding terrible incentives around upgrades and maintenance. If it was actually controlled by the state, it could be mandated to build out renewable-centered, decentralized systems as well.
That actually sounds like way too much for a free pass to Europe..
Domain+GothicEmpire.com+-+Premium+Domain+Name+on+eBid+United+States+|+184974465
A Fashion Designer Begins Anew in Detroit
University of Cincinnati, Michigan State, lots of large universities have that.
I have many epiphanies on the toilet. I'm not sure if it's extra blood flowing to the brain or what but the throne seems to add extra IQ.