skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went a period of several weeks with little sleep (2-3 hours per day). At first I was really tired. Then that started to go away and my head was numb. After that the numbness went away and I had a persistent headache.

The reason why I got so little sleep initially stopped after about 10 days (sleep regression in twin babies). The rest of the time was because it became very difficult to sleep. Any noise would wake me up - wide awake. It would take me hours to fall asleep. I continued to only be able to get 2-3 hours per day. Even with over the counter sleep aids.

Eventually I got some Ambien, which let me actually fall asleep for more time. That helped me get to the point where I could actually feel tired again when I needed to sleep.

It was an interesting experience.
I just tested in chrome 77, and I could only do `chrome.runtime.sendMessage("clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne", {},{},console.log)` from within the Stylus extension page, not from an external page like hacker news.
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package.json lists license as MIT.

https://github.com/nergal-perm/zettelkasten-vscode/blob/mast...
> just imagine how many places the mains power is tied into all of the buildings

Not many? As in, I don't think many buildings would have two separate power feeds. I'd expect a small number of very large connections from the cogen plant and the outside word into local distribution network(s), and then everything is single-path from there on.
> (to our knowledge)

This is really the key phrase here. What we know for sure is: Google and Facebook services do not work in China while Apple and Microsoft's do.
I'm curious, do you think taxpayers ought to be on the hook when a state-run electric company burns down a town, or should California invoke sovereign immunity when that happens?
> Did we not see 10MPH winds during the 120 years* that we didn't shut down the grid over human coordination failures?

How can you be so sure that many major fires in PGE territory over the last 120 years weren't caused by utility equipment? And why do you assume that conditions haven't changed over the last 120 years in a way that makes fires more likely or the damage to humans more extensive and expensive?
I used Solaris/X86 with 1TB+ RAID arrays back in 99/2000.
I'm going to guess you had a wierd driver issue, hardware was fairly janky back then...
I have an E495 (would have gotten the T495 if it didn't have soldered RAM and/or if it still offered a second battery), and it does okay. I think I get 3-5 hours battery (haven't measured it), and I'm considering getting an external battery pack before I need the extra battery life.

The E495 uses a newer rev of their chips and is completely usable (not as good as Intel) despite still not being on 7nm. I expect the next gen to be very competitive with Intel.

That being said, I'm really disappointed at the direction Lenovo is going by trying to make everything thin. I want a powerful laptop (compiling, light gaming) and I'm fine with some extra thickness, but I want don't want anything bigger than 14". If I want thin, I can go for the X models or the T...s models, but for some reason, the regular T line is getting thinner as well, and losing a lot of the reasons I have for getting them. I ended up with the E series because I don't want soldered RAM and I'm not paying a premium for a laptop that has much of what I want removed.

If System76 can deliver a decent Ryzen laptop (want those cores) with a good keyboard and open firmware, I'll pay. I'm happy with it being thick, provided it's not too wide (needs to fit in my bag). But all I see from System76 is mediocre laptops with open source bits, and that's just not my cup of tea.
Honestly things look subjectively better with CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled set to the default value of 1 on Catalina. Others seem to agree:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-subpixel-aa-debacle...
Earlier today i noticed some 3rd party scripts were failing. Decided to make a few tweaks to the site. Saw a post that matrix 4 is happening... Hmmm... :)
I’d need to see this “credible information” before accepting Apple’s excuse. To me it seems much more likely that the app is being used to avoid the police and that Apple and the Hong Kong authorities are lying to cover their true intentions.
The dangerous combination that warrants blackouts is high winds, dry brush, and exposed live wires.

While this combination is more likely in a desert, it's not true of all. For instance, the Salt River Project that oversees electricity transmission in Arizona switched to building underground lines in the 1970s. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/asked-answered/20...
Google Trends data [0] shows TensorFlow being much more popular for now, though the gap seems to be narrowing slowly.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2017-01-11%202...
Exactly!

I'm technical so I like tinkering and don't care a whit for Apple's locked down ecosystem and it's cost of entry, so I avoid it. But I'm totally aware of the reasons Apple make their business decisions. Their loyal fan base and easy interoperability of their products is testament to this. It has brought many technological solutions into the hands of the non-technical consumer, which has benefitted us technical folks by bringing attention to what can be achieved by technology.

(I'm not crediting Apple with this in its entirety, far from it, but they brought non-technical attention to the technical arena)

Anyone on HN complaining that their iDevice doesn't give them sufficient 'freedom of ownership' is willfully ignorant of Apple's well publicized and infinitely discussed closed system strategy.

P.S. LineageOS for the win.
Does the website work from behind the Great Firewall?
Just wanted to give you some love. It must be really harsh for morale dealing with the OSS crowd who will always consider you don't do enough without recognizing that you are helping building a road where none existed before.

Kudos to you!
The article linked there (https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2014/03/29/09/1... ) is a bit more nuanced. The heart attacks are shifted from the rest of the week to Monday, looking at the week it is about the same as other weeks.

(also, those heart attacks are not necessarily lethal)
That sounds like tACS. tDCS is DC -- no frequency components.
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How are you commenting on something like this without knowing about Forbes 400? Are you serious?
Is that enough? It doesn't really seem like there is a lot you can do in the way of hardening a phone, either android or iPhone.
Says Apple. Do you believe them?

Apple has been kind of marginal quality wise for awhile, mostly being better than the alternative because the alternative is garbage. But their handling of this makes much of what they say suspect.
So whom did you donate to in your quest to get DOMA repealed, and how much?
Unrelated to OpenBSD's pledge(2).
> within the normal range of variation and conditions that electricity grids elsewhere handle admirably.

California has very different conditions than most other places in the US. It gets no rain for 9 months a year followed by a wet winter which results in a lot of vegetation growth. And that pattern is getting more extreme. You can't compare that to a wetter place, or even to a much dryer place with little vegetation.
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> Make the app a Web App and visit it in Safari.

Is the web censored in HK?
You’d be surprised. A friend’s 11-year-old daughter who is athletic and slim just got diagnosed the other day, and she is getting a CPAP. Frankly, I think there’s a lot of confirmation bias because fat people who snore are much more likely to go in for a sleep study.
Chargers are finally coming: here's one that does 48w from one usb-c port or 30w+18w from 2 ports (plus 2 usb-a), plenty for a non-gaming laptop and phone: https://www.amazon.com/Universal-International-Worldwide-Mul.... I have one and it works fine.

Only battery pack with 2 usb-c seems to be the ZMI Ambi: https://www.amazon.com/ZMI-PowerPack-Ambi-USB-C-Power/dp/B07....
Did your Windows laptop have a SSD or HDD?

I'd been using a laptop with an HDD (but otherwise great specs) and the experience was trash. Then I upgraded to an SSD and its an entirely new OS.
> This never happened to me with micro USB or lightning ports

This happens regularly to the lightning ports among my family&friends. "My iPhone keeps stopping charging" "did you clean out the lint with a toothpick?" "Oh"

> Otherwise you can brick your Switch

The bricking was happening due to a faulty third-party dock that was sending 9V on a 5V line. Nothing to do with the Switch itself. You can use any old USB-C charger with the Switch, as long as it's not faulty.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/ckaiiv/an_e...
I had a Zettelkasten once. I (mis-?) used this system when I was preparing for my final exams of my apprenticeship.

I had to cover a huge set of knowledge fields from which ~65% I had zero experience with, neither theoretical nor practical.

The questions that were to be expected of course wouldn't go into too much detail, but the variance of possible questions made it necessary to gain a deeper understanding instead of just memorizing words (e.g. because used vocabulary can differ/overlap from domain to domain)

I've never heard of Luhman or his system, but always thought the knowledge contained in my Zettelkasten would make a great book and that the Zettelkasten's modular organization would make it very easy to parse the knowledge into whatever form you like.
If they have enough money for dividends, then they have enough money to upgrade critical systems.
Apparently it was removed because it included in-app purchases and there's a rule against profiting off of tragedies:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-google/...

> A Google spokesman said that “The Revolution Of Our Times” app, which lets users role-play as Hong Kong protesters, violated a long-standing policy “prohibiting developers from capitalizing on sensitive events, such as attempting to make money from serious ongoing conflicts or tragedies through a game”.

I guess if they remove the IAPs it would be okay?
Got it. Honestly at the moment, i'm financially somewhat secure and so i'm open to a riskier venture. If the startup failed in a year but I've gained considerable Data-engineering experience, I would still think of it as a win.

But you're right. The company/team matters and the viability of the startup matters. Though I have no idea how to estimate how their funding will turn out in the future...
Ask HN: Are there any sites that connect entrepreneurs with developers?
I can't even begin to estimate the amount of hours I've spent researching and brainstorming startup ideas. I've gone to implement a few and they never got off the ground. I mostly blame the execution but I'm going to be honest... the ideas weren't that great. Honestly I'm just tired of trying to "come up with something". I feel like one day the right idea will hit me and I'll pursue it. Then it will either succeed as a business or serve as another learning experience.

Until that day, I'm going to take a different approach. I'll just help other people build their ideas. I am okay with that "risk". I'm not trying to find a stable and slow-growth job at the moment. I'm trying to find another like-minded dreamer that has an idea they're working on that could benefit from another developer. I'm not sure if there's really a dedicated site/forum/etc for this. If there is one, I've never heard of it.

One part of me is thinking that it's foolish to think I could find what I'm looking for this way but until I find a better method, there's not much I can do other than try.

So, if you have any advice or comments then I'd love to hear it. Or if you would like to discuss anything related to this, then please feel free to reach out. I'm easy to find on LinkedIn.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesseleehorne/
Compare it to Waze, which somehow remains in the app store.
AWS is very upfront about AWS China. See https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio... and click AWS China Regions on the left side.

I would be asking AWS about the future of AWS Hong Kong which has historically has had special freedoms from China. See current events for more on that.

Typical issue is the ICP License ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license ), which is why Western companies set up shop in Hong Kong.
If it's "corruption" to pay more for greater reliability, it's "corruption" to pay more for a large sandwich than a small one. There's nothing wrong with the quality of good or service varying according to how much you pay.
Power outages happen sometimes in the normal course. They are not a new thing, and the fact that this one is planned doesn’t make it worse.

If you have specimens that you cannot afford to have warming up, it’s inexcusable that you don’t already have a backup power source.
Seriously, don't do that.

We tried nationalizing in Europe, within a capitalist framework: it just doesn't work. The TL;DR of 70 years of that experiment is that the State (gov and legis) is an extremely bad steward of any business endeavor; whereas lack of competition basically means no innovation and rent situations (it becomes sort of a tax in disguise to just hike prices or keep them stable when they should decrease).

Most unregulated big markets devolve into some kind of cartel after concentration, though, so that's yet another dead end after a 50-year cycle generally (telecom shows it well, TV as well, construction too).

What seems to work, for now, is a sort of regulated hybrid framework:

- networks and transport (of elec, data, whatever) is opened to a few companies, which can only sell access to said infrastructure to other actors, not market it to end clients.

- classic "operators" thus rent infrastructure capacity to these major actors and sell it to customers.

This allows very small actors to emerge (like "virtual" ISPs and telcos, we now have very small energy companies all over Europe). It's a recent development but these new startups provide great customer service and modern end/site equipment (easy to monitor, plug to some IS, etc).

The infrastructure caretaker status is typically "slightly public", with a non-profit mandate to maintain the infrastructure and develop it, using influx of for-profit investments by the operators, some citizen oversight, special status by law, etc. Basically, we try to make sure it costs as little as it should (it doesn't always work, rails are in a very bad situation for instance, and the caretaker is so deep in debt it's a failure, but the oversight of that dates to 100% public times with government-appointed CEOs).

TL;DR / conclusion: find the right medium between "private/unregulated" and "public/monopoly". Both are disastrous, but there are sweet spots in-between. Note that I have no idea how to pull off such change in the US, elec or telco markets are simply too entrenched / congress too corrupted it seems. We have that problem too but currently we're circumventing most democratic systems (whether citizen opinion or lawmakers corruption) by invoking the EU: “we must do it, no choice, it's EU law now”. That works most of the time and is the reason why the EU is so hated yet so quintessential. I'm not sure the Federal level would carry as much authoritarian weight in US States.
Breaking up with my Juul: why quitting vaping is harder than quitting cigarettes
Sorry, no. A nation is a legal construct, and California is not a sovereign nation. If it's a social construct then I'm founding my own nation tomorrow.

I don't know anything about Jerry Brown but he doesn't sound very bright.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license for more info on that issue.
Honestly, HN is pretty good for this.
You might check out Openland too.
The hardware/driver situation is unambiguously better on Linux than it is on Windows. I've had ten times as many problems on Windows over the past ten years or so than I've had on Linux. (never been a serious user of OSX, although I imagine it's better than the situation on either Windows or Linux because Apple controls both the hardware and software)

The problem people run into is that they fall into one of two shitty extremes. You either dive into the deep end and try to configure your own kernel and forget something. (Common in Gentoo circles) Or you go with Debian stable or RHEL and their kernel is two years old and they don't have drivers for the latest generation of graphics drivers because of course they don't. Just install Ubuntu like a normal person and you'll be fine.

Problems with WiFi, trackpads, and hibernation haven't been a problem since like 2010 or so. I get 11 hours battery life on my XPS 13 9360 which advertised 9 hours battery life when it was new in 2016.

> people say it works flawlessly - except for [insert issue here]

This is a thread about how OSX works flawlessly except for [insert issue here]. And as it happens there are a pile of issues this time around. If you have a house that doesn't have stones thrown through its glass walls (besides TempleOS) I'd love to hear about it.
"Private companies are more efficient" is one of those things that's been said often enough that it becomes a "truth".

This obviously doesn't pan out when you've got a monopoly or captive audience. Around me we have a choice of energy retailers, so we get to deal with the "efficiency" of several competing bureaucracies instead of the "bloated" government one.

Politicians love it because it abstracts them from any accountability to the people, even our left wing parties are pro-privatization these days.
> Part of me is actually expecting Apple to abandon cables altogether and just provide wireless charging/syncing

Apple was probably planning on that as well, but the AirPower fiasco has probably set that plan back quite a few years.
I think the actual turning point was when Scott Forestall was fired & Ive took over software design. Prior to that, Apple had been a software company first. Even Woz talks about making hardware so that he’d have to tools to make software.

Ive created some amazing hardware, but I’m excited to see where the next few product cycles go.
I think MacOS fails very badly at basic window and file management. Finder is still broken. Not being able to preview an open application by hovering on its icon (as in Windows) is a big productivity bottleneck. Minimizing/maximizing is plain confusing - why does the window sometimes take up the whole screen and sometimes only fill up 1/2 the real estate?
> A government entity in terms of public services tends to have "getting their job done right" at the top of the list, albeit at a lower cost when possible.

not my experience. Most government entities try to raise as much money as possible to protect their jobs and raise their salaries. gettingthe job done right is not remotely near top of the list. See SFMTA or MTA (new your public transportaion) as 2 examples. Or watch IKIRU to see the same attitude in Japan. Yes it's a movie but it rings true to people's experience that goverment never tries to "getting their job done right"
Anker[0] has a dual usb-c power adapter. Comes in handy while traveling.

[0] : https://www.anker.com/products/variant/powerport-atom-pd-2/A...
There's something going on during that context switch.

It feels like because all of the data about a problem is being unloaded into long term memory, when you return to the problem, you parse the entire data as once instead of adding to it in pieces.

It almost feels like a puzzle except the second time looking at it, you're looking at the whole thing you've solved versus just the piece you last added.
Not your main point at all. But saying they have far-left bias. Then bringing up them bringing up Biden. Biden is so far from being far left. Barely qualifies as left.
Perhaps it could be argued that Apple is completely dependent on manufacturing facilities within China and losing that access would indeed be lethal. Some of Apple's biggest competitors outside China recognized that risk a long time ago and moved to minimize it. Why has Apple left themselves so vulnerable? Is it the only way they could produce inexpensively enough to stay competitive? Or is it, again, pure naked greed?
I never said what the people were doing was wrong. All I said was that it would be illegal in some places if it’s being used for that.
Ask HN: What are some good programming language design books?
For context, I have experience programming in a bunch of languages (both compiled and interpreted, strongly typed and weakly typed) and have taken a Principles of Programming Languages course many years ago at uni, but that's about it.
He is famous for having written his books on basis of his Zettelkasten but I doubt he invented it. It could well be he thought so himself though after having lost/omitted the external reference on that index card of his named Zettelkasten.
Ecomomists are agreeing more about rising risk of irreversible disaster
The argument as I understand it is that group 2 mostly does not care about being protected from their government or even agrees with the government's actions, and they get to benefit from continued access to Apple's superior products. I'm not endorsing this argument, but it's not prima facie crazy.
I've been using Julia's Flux, it's great for when you have some arbitrary model you want to run gradient descent on that isn't just a bunch of matrix ops, as the framework overhead is way less than TF or PyTorch due to Julia being 100x faster than pure Python.
A cloud of malaise in the miasma sky—suffused by Kelly’s technium, by Mumford’s megamachine, et al.
Gotta love it...

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2 chrome
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> This has nothing to do with web app vs. native

Considering you don't have to do any of this on a native app (VLC) and just automatically get all the performance improvements, this has everything to do with web app vs. native
Firing of Chinese Facebook Engineer Ignites Fury Back Home
They blew up an entire neighborhood in San Bruno ~9 years ago. They don't learn.
Is this the same Apple that received tariff exemptions for items imported from China?
https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/30/apple-mac-pro-us-manufacturin...

Looks like Apple are getting to have their cake and eat it too. It's good business for the moment, but the wire they're dancing on seems to be getting thinner by the day.
I recommend the dual-port 60W Anker: https://www.anker.com/products/variant/powerport-atom-pd-2/A...

It'll do 60W from one (laptop), or 2x30W and is fairly compact. So I amusingly now have lightning to USB (damn you Apple), and also bring a single USB-A to USB-C adapter sometimes (e.g., for a Fitbit charging cable).
Not better, just more profitable
If you don’t mind, it’d be awesome if you could email it to me (in profile). We’re both engineers here, I don’t need anything super polished. :)

Just interested to see your approach as I’m in the middle of writing my own my own.
I charge the Switch console just fine with a PD USB-C charger. PD is very negotiable and the Switch only supports a few voltages so your charger must support the same voltages.
I've seen some comment threads almost take off into products when a couple like-minded people "vibed". That was neat. I guess I haven't been in this mindstate long enough to really utilize HN for it. Now that I think of it, I could probably just wait long enough to see people share what they're working on and then go ask them if they need help if the project is interesting enough.

What is Openland, by the way? Google is pointing me in a number of directions!
The nationalized one was probably a shitty monopoly too that had no incentive too improve since it could just beg the legislature for more budget

I’d predict it also tied up the collective conscious on funding its own mundane internal issues