skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not really my point, and all I can say about that is that executive compensation, dividends, expected revenue, those get presented in a utility's rate cases, I think California's general rate cases are every 3 years. The CPUC and the state was in the room every time PG&E laid out their plans for these decades of mismanagement.

I'll admit it's certainly plausible I'm being too pessimistic, I don't know what about people's experience makes them think a public entity is going to invest the proper amount of money in a utility in the last let's say 30 years. And when they ask what you diverted billions of dollars to, you have to get up and say "vegitation management"

My problem is that none of the risks have properly been priced, and no amount of pillory about huge bonuses is going to solve the problem, because that money was never going to be enough.

Electricity rates are supposed to compensate the risk of doing business. Claw back all the profit you want, the rates have likely been too low, and likely egregiously low to compensate for the risk that if there's a particularly bad wildfire, you get sued into the shadow realm.
Fined for breathing O2 without a license
> Be nice if phones had a standard BIOS and allowed a competitive selection of operatings systems. Worked well for PC's in the end and Linux being one of many alternatives testaments that.

It worked out well for the PC platform. Not so much for IBM, though.
You're being downvoted because people believe in propaganda being pushed by competitors, but ProtonVPN / ProtonMail are very good options. Plenty of links and reports by Mozilla in this thread will lend credence to that.
They 100% are. They're not even close.
> I remember passing around sheets of paper with URLs to type in, before there were search engines

Wow, what a throwback in time! I had completely forgotten that. Thanks for the sweet memories!

Also, I agree with your take. One key difference re. cryptocurrencies might be legal context however. Internet wasn't stepping on governments toes, more like disruption of the telco sector (which was already focused on emerging mobile at the time, a decade prior to smartphones). I'm not so sure the road is wide open for alternative currencies, because central banks and, oh, stability of the economy etc. It's a much tougher sell.

Blockchain itself however, the tech, may have killer-apps and uses — either as an evolution of currencies, or decoupled entirely from 'currency' (trustless secured distributed databases may fit many needs IMHO, notably for social purposes like contracts or unhackable communication).
That is by design though. You want your dns requests to blend in with regular traffic on hostile networks / ISPs. The solution is to not have proprietary spyware devices in your network that don't let you set your own dns.
The author is talking specifically about the classic layout, which appears to be missing in macOS Catalina.
Countering a personal anecdote with another personal anecdote. Here's another: I've been using Catalina since release on multiple Macs and haven't had any problems. I'm also an extensive user of iCloud services, Photos and Drive are very important to me and if I had any issues with either I'd probably lose my mind.
I think it might be a good way. OS designs are a boon for the free market too, as they separate out concerns and allow independently competitive submarkets to exist.

One potential challenge I faced myself with my DIY attempts at IoT hardware was dealing with power. I'm not an electrical engineer, and I don't trust myself enough to plug anything to mains power - and I don't trust random OH stuff you can order soldered from China either.
Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos. It is a wonderful book especially because of the well-designed problem sets. Most of them come with answers too.
The UK is part of the EU (and will probably continue to be for at least another week).

If the EU's privacy laws aren't sufficient in the UK I'm not sure why you think they are sufficient in the rest of the EU.
> Guest languages never get to own a platform, and with time all platform languages end up getting enough features

They do up to the point where they differ philosophically. Java is never going to turn in to a Clojure, nor is it going to adopt the type of dynamic scripting features Groovy offers.

Kotlin and Scala are more at risk in that way.
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Fuck chromebooks, I once had to make a jumper out of aluminum foil to replace the bootloader on one (not all are that bad, I know). If the aluminum jumper gets dislodged during the process, you brick the machine. I still recommend chromebooks for people who just need a web-browser and are okay with Google seeing all, but I'm never again buying one for myself without finding model-specific bootloader replacement instructions and making sure that they don't require a McGuyvered jumper cable.
Very expensive? You just let it sit and evaporate.
The culture between Italy and France is much closer than Italy and Algeria. For as much difference there is between the countries in Western Europe, there are far more similarities amongst them compared to other continents and larger regions. Counting Italians as "immigrants" is at the very least slightly misleading.
good idea. I have built a desktop cloud before.
I am typing this on $150 refurbished x230, I also have a t440s with a retrofitted IPS screen, and t450 touchpad.

shhhhh..... stop telling the other hackers, they will buy them all! XD
> I’ve collected names from the sublime—Vancouver city council candidate Jean Swanson’s (金玉鹅) beautifully phonetic and semantic rendering of her name—

Was that joke? At least in Japanese, the two first are a very common colloquial for testicles.
That's against Lightsail TOS, if you care.
Sounds a little like gluster?
Yea I probably shouldn't have used a quote there. The number ranges from 20% to 50% depending on which part of vancouver you look at. Point is that they aren't a minority there.
Exactly. I use iTunes every day to manage a very large music library. It works very well and has the features I need. I spent years learning how to use it well. I see no reason to give it up now. Could Apple have kept iTunes intact and simply removed the non-essential components? Of course, but it would have been expensive and time-consuming. If iTunes is truly obsolete, Apple should release the source code and let a community of users and developers continue its development.
The point is it's always slightly risky to upgrade, and if there aren't life-changing new features this time around (which there aren't) then in the short term you're simply rolling the dice and simultaneously losing compatibility with all 32-bit apps. It's for these reasons that for the first time in years, I'm not immediately updating.
I'm trying to brainstorm what I think is a "toy" in today's tech market, and I can't think of much. Tech pundits who have seen 30 years of crazy endeavors are taking everything overly seriously. Companies have the resolve to invest billions in "jokes" (like Facebook Portal) stubbornly refusing to recognize a sunk-cost fallacy.

Instagram is the most recent example of a revolutionary toy - when everyone thought social media was a puzzle solved by Facebook, Instagram cut the fat and became a more elegant tool to getting a message across (and making some money in the process).

I could see Slack's fun approach to workflow automation and collaboration take off, but maybe I'm biased by what I'm investing my own time into learning.
I don't see.. I genuinely believe that people should not be so eager to form opinions, that issues are always more complex than they seem, and that people should be mindful of the consequences. That's what the quote means to me at face value, so I am interested in seeing why it is being singled out as "something written by a CCP propaganda minister."
what can a paid vpn service provide that you couldn’t get with free / open source tools?
> Apple's aggressive ABI changes offload a large maintenance burden onto app developers, who have to keep updating their apps every year just to keep them working the same way

Ideally, apps that work on one iOS release will continue working on the next with no change in behavior, as Apple checks when apps were linked and will opt out of the new behavior.
If you think Western Europe has some glowing history of harmonious relations, I’ve got news for you. Heck, ask German-speaking Swiss people how they feel about French-speaking Swiss (and vice versa) and you’ll get a quick picture of how things aren’t so rosy.
It's nice to say it's luck, sure, and make everyone feel like they have a fair chance. However, I'm pretty certain the ones that obsess and plan the most to get rich and squeeze every little bit out they can into their plans have the best chance. Some lazy slob without the same attention to detail and effort just isn't going to make it.
If Lego blocks were bigger and all building codes and regulations were removed and zoning could be eliminated, then yes absolutely legos would be the next big thing that could upend the entire multi trillion dollar housing market. Imagine the enormous societal wealth creation, if anyone could build a house with the same ease (and lack of regulations) of building a website.

of course, these hypothetical legos would need plumbing and electrical infrastructure and maybe a few other things ;)
Funders and journals, not students, should lead on standards for research rigour
yep, I also put coreboot on my acer c710, becuase crouton pissed me off. I don't think mine had to rely on the jumper not falling out though -- yikes.
> my desktop workhorse, a 2017 4K retina iMac

> 5400 rpm hard drive as its main internal volume

Regardless of OS, the author _really_ needs to bail on the 5400rpm HDD and get a solid state disk in there... especially if you're gonna call it a workhorse!
That makes no sense.

1) Apple makes more margins on Mac hardware.

2) Catalina allows you to basically run iPad apps on the Mac. They wouldn't do this if they were trying to push users to iPad.

3) iPadOS and OSX are fundamentally different. There is no way Apple could ever replace the Mac with an iPad.
Our ability to make predictions based on psychohistory is pure fiction — but that doesn't mean that the rest of the comment in false. I think it'd be a real challenge to accurately predict the weather 168 hours from now, but that doesn't mean that the weather a week from isn't theoretically knowable or that it's not based on a series of knowable actions and reactions between now and then.
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I see AR as having an enormous future impact, games only a small fraction of that. We jumped at the chance to escape reality into our phones, but AR is far more seductive. VR limits your mobility, but AR can be used every waking hour.

I see it starting with small tweaks to reality...a dingy concrete sidewalk replaced with a golden brick road. Empty walls in an apartment awash with art, scenic views, and/or entertainment.
Operating systems increasingly seem to be expecting an SSD. Windows is unreasonably slower on an HDD, extremely frustrating to use at all. IIRC that started with Win8, but might've been 10. Linux DEs, heading the same way. Wouldn't be surprised to find out that MacOS is like that these days, too.

That does mean OS/DE devs are hitting disk way the hell too often and just hoping modern disk speed makes it harder to notice, but there's no way that's not adding up to some real (but less crippling) latency even on SSD-equipped systems.
It never ceased to amaze me that the Blizzard game I used to play had better security than my brokerage.

We just aren't trying that hard.
this is some insane mental gymnastics
This doesn't apply for contractors, does it?

Additionally, it's still illegal for an employer to let you end up below federal minimum wage, tipped or not. But shady places are happy to steal from their employees.
NordVPN is down, also looks like VikingVPN and TorGuard were affected as well: https://twitter.com/cryptostorm_is/status/118609795032747622...
Ah, I see, looks like there is a way to get the classic layout back in Catalina if you want it: https://www.macintouch.com/community/index.php?threads/macos...
This is a use of AI I've not seen yet, to sift through soups of knowledge, categorise it and make judgements on what else is related and relevant
The source appears to be this report by Quantis:

https://quantis-intl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/measurin...

Specifically page 18:
«Together the apparel and footwear industries generated between 5 and 10% of global pollution impacts in 2016. Footwear alone represents approximately one-fifth the impact of the apparel industry, about 1.4% of global climate impacts (700 million metric tons CO2eq), while apparel represents 6.7% of global climate impacts (3,290 million metric tons CO2eq). Combined, they account for an estimated 8.1% of global climate impacts (3,990 million metric tons CO2eq).»
It was total incompetency, shown in the way they treated their casters. Generally the production staff would be held responsible in traditional media. A producer or show runner should have been able to manage the feed. This leads me to believe that there was no protocol in place to manage this situation, Blizzard should be held accountable.

Would you see newscasters held responsible for what an interviewee said on a live feed?
The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR
Since readers here might be more apt to have the same problem:

Has anyone else noticed Catalina doesn't remember external display rotation when waking from sleep?

There have been a few instances where it somehow restores the proper rotation, but most of the time I am forced to put it back manually. I don't want a "workaround" via AppleScript or a hotkey to easily set it back to what I had configured, I just want it to work like it always had!
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> It will continue to rise because it offers flexibility ... The cloud is more expensive for large companies, for most workloads.

The way I read this is that the operating costs are higher in the cloud, but presumably dwarfed by recouped opportunity costs. This makes sense to me, given my limited experience working in large companies where every interaction with IT involved a 2-6 week turnaround time. Need a VM? Fill out a bunch of paperwork and then wait a month. We missed a lot of opportunities that way.
Purposefully not updating software on a networked machine is rarely the clever answer. Switching from Android to something else might be, depending on what the something else is.
Governments have a couple of safeguards in place to deal with irrational humans running the show. Some of them are division of power and checks and balances.

These safeguards are the reason why governance is sometimes slow and sometimes bulky but also why, by and large, governance doesn't fail entirely when it happens to be unjust: it can recover from most injustices (one argument against capital punishment is that there's no recovery from that).

And all that is rooted in a distrust that humans do the right thing all the time - without that assumption you wouldn't need these mechanisms with all their overhead, you'd just appoint a philosopher king.

[edit to add: One problem is when some of these powers aren't doing their job. Checks and balances break down when (for example) the legislature devolves into playing the executive's yes-men instead of directing its activities.]
If the combination of high intelligence and high drive generally leads to gaining more wealth, and if those qualities are generally highly heritable, then we should expect rich kids to, on average, inherit their parents' intelligence and drive, and so do well in things that require intelligence and drive, such as school & work.

But that leads to other uncomfortable questions, that we'd all rather not discuss. And so, we desperately search for other answers.
Don't use react, and it's not in my search set, but regularly and happily search for programming and tech issues on DDG. I find it's far better than Google these days. So I thought I'd try your search without the quotes, as your first result is so far from my experience.

First result: https://github.com/react-dnd/react-dnd/issues/1127

Then a couple more from react-dnd's github, then the other seven on the first page are a mix of relevant SO, and github. Seems quite a few people have opened issues on that topic!

Maybe they fixed it. :)
Aka the conspiracy theory that was ultimately found to be pushed by PIA, one of their direct competitors.

I've got enough HN internet points that a few downvotes will be fine. Thanks!
They picked women by number to join them... they don't get a pass just because they didn't pick the place
Get your clothes altered by a dry cleaner / tailor, they'll look so much better. Stop buying so many clothes.
> Not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but all of this seems like a cheap strategy to make users move to iPadOS.

How can users "move" to a different OS that’s not designed for nor compatible with their device?
Thus ended the climate change saga.
Reminds me of this article [1] about Goodwill stores hiring people with disabilities like blindness and paying them way less than minimum wage (22 cents, 38 cents and 41 cents an hour). I found the article very though-provoking. Yes, they are hiring many people who probably would not find work elsewhere. Yes, they are also paying them pennies.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/07/30/does-good...
I would imagine switches, firewalls, UPS, temp control, fixtures, and facility security are also significant cost factors.
Nah https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
I think you're seriously underselling the challenges of even 'high functioning' autism/ASD-1/aspergers.

In this group, the suicide rate is nine times higher than the general population, contributing to a life expectancy 12 years lower. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26541693

As for identifying with the disorder, this is not an uncommon response, but I think it's fraught. It seems a coping mechanism more than a reasoned reflection of how the condition shaped one's life. Understandable, certainly, but also potentially quite misguided.
I nodded in agreement while reading the article with one major exception: I don’t like the idea of changing defamation law to be more journalist-friendly. Yes to more government transparency; a big no to making it even easier for the media to get away with libel.
It's called planned obsolescence. The plan is to be obsolete by next season, so four to six months. Although I wouldn't count on H&M clothing to last ten washing cycles.
Even apart from the diversity of the natives, Zürich has roughly the same proportion of foreign born residents as San Francisco.
Public utility districts have been very successful in places they have been permitted to operate, including in the state capital, Sacramento.

Of course PGE spends millions every year lobbying against them.
Well, lack of DRM support for one. Disney+ won't work on Linux browsers.
There are two aspects to the pickup tower:

1) Entering/scanning an order number causes the robot to fetch the packages (plural) in question and deliver to an area for the recipient to pickup. This has the effector/sensors that you mention above.

2) Entering/scanning an order number causes the robot to tell the recipient to go to a given locker and it also pops open said locker. When the recipient picks up the packages from the locker and closes the same, the main screen acknowledges the pickup.

If I appear to be gushing, it is because I am darned impressed by this thing. I am not kidding when I say that it works very well. I found a video that hopefully demonstrates the technology better than my stilted write-up above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71pgd-LzzXc .
"It's an older code, but it checks out." :D Sorry, I just couldn't help myself!
https://app.keeweb.info/

It uses a KeePass database and is a self-hosted app in the browser that works perfectly fine on mobile. I have the page up at all times in Chrome on my Android for quick and easy access. The desktop app I have on my home PC. Everything is synced through Dropbox which is the actual storage location for the encrypted database. I have the desktop app set to make backups just in case on my local PC as well. But Dropbox is what they all connect to. I personally love this web app implementation of KeePass much more than anything else like lastpass or other paid services. Been using it for several years now and I've never had an issue. You'll need to grant the web app special access in Dropbox to get it working properly, but it's easy to set up.

EDIT - by "self-hosted" I really mean cached in the browser so nothing is going through the site, it's all local to you after you load the app. Also, this means you can still use it offline if you need to because the Dropbox database is also cached until it can update accordingly when connection is resumed.
The chip has potential to change the way we live, but this potential will only become reality when proper applications and bussiness models create really useful stuff around it.

I think seeing this tech as disruptive somehow is kind of obvious, but to change our lifes upside down it needs much more.

The same can be said about 3D printing. It has a lot of potential, but timing + the right ecosystem around it is also a big deal.

Apple with Newton, MS and specially Palm were there first for the pocket computer + phone, but why only with the iPhone things started to really happen?

The right bet + timing + ecosystem around it is also pretty important.
I don't understand the possible, potential advantage removing 32-bit support even has. It doesn't improve security for my sake, because I can't use a system that doesn't allow for 32-bit apps. Why can't we have a Rosetta equivalent? I've had to tell every MacOS user I know, especially non-techie ones, just to not upgrade, and consider something other than Apple moving forward.
I still love macOS but Catalina has been the buggiest beta and release that I can recall. When we saw betas of x.1 before there were even GMs/release candidates of x.0 we knew it was going to be rushed out the door.

Even after release it's still randomly losing files. Just yesterday my purchased music downloads just disappeared. No explanation (unless I trashed and emptied them in a fugue state). They were still showing as downloaded in the Music app, but when I tried to play them I got the "File missing. Locate?" dialog, so the Music app wasn't aware of this either. They weren't stored on iCloud Drive either, just the default local music folder, so it wasn't related to the iCloud Drive bug. This was a clean installation on a fresh disk, no third party system level junk, and after the unnumbered OS update they released a while ago.

There are quite a few other bugs too. macOS is still the better alternative to Windows, but the wow factor of "It just works!" is becoming rare and bug fatigue is creeping in.
Do you have some personal insider knowledge to substantiate this with? I mean I have some pretty heavy personal bias about the Washington Post being pro Amazon, and I would totally understand it if it was. But even then, I can't make a claim that they are deliberately making false stories. That's a level of knowledge I can't claim to have. That's also potential libel on your part.
If it's breaking 32-bit apps, and you need at least one 32-bit app (for the author, Aperture), that's kind of all you need to know.
The comment about macOS’s Mail.app struck a chord with me. My upgrade to iOS 13 has changed the mail app on my phone to sporadically open old inbox threads. It happens something like 1 in every N times I launch the app. It’s seemingly done at random and is the strangest thing about this upgrade by far.

It’s like Apple are trying to nudge me into being better at responding to emails. Is there a PM at Apple watching an engagement metric increase? With my personal email?!
Reminds me of a good story.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm