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Warranties are mostly to ensure you don't get sold a brick instead of a phone. Extended warranties are better termed service contracts or product insurance. The prices are high, but that might be because it's self-selecting to the people who break products frequently.

I'm not sure how you expect "how long a device lasts" to be defined. Manufacturers do typically design with some lifetime in mind, but it's not clear that has any real world relevance. If I buy a phone and stick it in a drawer it's going to last for a lot longer than its designed lifetime, but if I hook it up to a TV and play Fortnite all day it'll probably last significantly less due to the heat.

As far as software updates, although Apple does 3-5 years for iOS, Google has gone from 2 years to only 3 years, and other Android devices still seem to be in the 1-2 year range. So every Android phone is supported for significantly less than the "4-5 years" you seem to expect.

And the reason the repair bills are getting such interest is because the authorized manufacturer repair shops are so screwed up. They don't do any component-level repair, because the training and equipment is expensive, so the choices are just replace, replace, replace.

tl;dr Mandating a 5-year warranty is just handing out free phones everyone
It's like they're trying to get nationalized
Do you know by chance know if user-0defined filters take precedence over Google's spam detection? If so, I might go for it.

I say "might" because no matter what I program into it, I'll never be sure there's not an important false positive that got trapped, and so I'll forever be checking my spam anyway. It might be all for naught.
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Html form elements are laughably limited if you want to make an app - despite the years of using the web for apps, HTML+CSS is still only really usable for document-like pages.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, mind, there is something to be said about how huge browsers are becoming, and shipping a full widget toolkit would bloat that up even more.
is it? I live in California and I can no longer count know how many times visitors have come to California and been completely perplexed at how “third world” parts of it are

Including people from some extremely impoverished countries

So rolling blackouts from a series of poorly thought out policies is very congruent
Thanks. We've moved the comments thither.
Good phones are in many cases being obsoleted with forced updates. 5SE, for instance. It's impossible to stick to a phone that you like, it will eventually stop functioning properly way before the phone's physical death.
Nationalize it already.
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i have this conspiracy theory: PG&E is normalizing power shutdowns around this time of year and on Nov 3, 2020 they'll shut off power to specific areas while people are voting for the next president.
The standard Tesla Model 3 costs at minimum $10k more than the entry level Nissan Leaf (which happens to get 150mi range). That's a substantial amount of money for most of the world.
> Not sure how you'd turn it on

I'm not sure that it needs to fully turn off, many of our electronics don't have that ability. As long as it has power it could run in a super-low-energy mode that just keeps a capacitive sensor going.
> There are 800 million Chinese internet users almost all are mobile only.

What's that supposed to imply? Just Googled "number of software developers in China" and "number of software developers in the world". Got 5.79 mil (2017) and 23 mil (2018) as answers. Not sure how accurate but can't be that far off.

> Those that work as professional developers are expected to work insane hours that are unlikely to leave much time for public works after 9 to 9 6 days a week.

I didn't pay too much attention to that story, but having talked to a few software developer friends in China myself, I'm inclined to say it may be a widespread problem but probably not universal. Whether that's true or not, I certainly see a fair share of popular open source projects coming from China these days, not one in five of course, but given their relative isolation and my inherent U.S./Western bias the number that caught my eyes are still quite impressive.

Not to mention there are a lot of corporate open source in China as well. In fact, just like in the U.S., a good chunk of high profile open source projects are corporate-developed or corporate-backed.

Moreover, whether one in five is accurate wasn't even the point of my post.
Escape velocity is actually the same in any direction, not just directly upward. This is true because in a two-body system, whether or not a trajectory escapes to infinity depends only on whether the sign of specific orbital energy[1] is positive or negative. Specific orbital energy is a function of kinetic energy and potential energy, but is independent of the direction of motion.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_orbital_energy
Leave poor “beautiful” out of it! It’s innocent! Apple’s shit is beautiful because it is simple and functional, not the other way round.

I think the issue is now that their products become weirdly tacky looking from being functionally weird. The notch, the Touch Bar, the overladen gesture menus... it’s all kinda aimless and floaty. Let’s not even go into how they turned a MacBook workspace into dongle central.
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And if you read the rest of that mailop thread, you'll see that the broader IP reputation of the /24 where your IP is located is a key part of whether or not your email gets delivered.

I would venture to guess that a substantial portion of people reporting issues delivering at small scale are sending from a low-reputation netblock. (Assuming auth is all set up optimally.) So it's not that it's not possible to send at low volume, it's just that most people don't know to look at the netblock, it's hard to evaluate netblock reputation, and it's not always possible to select a preferred netblock within a given provider (especially VPS providers with low-cost options).

The bottom line is: it's hard to run your own mail server, and much of the reason for the success of services like Sendgrid is a) it's easier to set up auth properly with most of them, and b) they actively manage the email reputation of their netblocks (though some do this better than others).

If you're approaching things from a practical perspective instead of making this your hill to die on, you just use an email service provider, and for the vast majority of senders, life is a little bit easier. There's plenty of ESPs to pick from, and there's a very good chance you can find a free one that delivers better than an average VPS or IP of a residential ISP.
Incredible episode about this from 99% Invisible:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/h-day/
Sigh. PG+E texted me to say that maybe our power would get turned off. I immediately checked online, where it says that our power will not get turned off. I guess they have multiple databases that are out of sync with each other?

I am not an expert on electricity infrastructure. However, as a software engineer I can tell that PG+E's software systems are low-quality and full of bugs. I can only assume that the rest of their operations meet the same low quality standards.
"Many providers" - any concrete examples? For an SPF/DKIM'd server that's been at the same IP for nearly a decade and had not a single spamming incident.

PS. The list is immaculately maintained, the server is configured as properly as it gets and very conservatively rate-throttled. There's nothing obvious.
I think the rich and wealthy valley brains need to solve this problem too. This company is definitely done, they already have caused a fire despite outages.
@rougier, one thing I noticed reading it: the link to your research page in the Preface goes to a 404 (for me, at least).
Very likely given where they are likely to be situated
For those who can afford it. It's a great time to get home solar. Even a small 3.7kW solar panel system can help out with the basics if not more.
Didn't California fix its regulation issues after the whole Enron debacle?
They exist, but it seems the vast majority of japanese programmers are using english-based languages.
How do you know what the truth is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China
Wow, this looks very useful when inspecting higher dimensional data. The particular type of rendering is always a thing, since it is heavily domain dependent, but the neat interface to numpys n-dimensial arrays makes it super handy for explorative data analysis.
"Toxic masculinity" - this is a perfectly skippable article guys.
Why? What's the motivation?
PG+E probably doesn't care so much who the next president is, though. State politics matter a lot more to them, because the California government determines the formula for how much profit PG+E is allowed to make.
California can't (or soon won't) be able to maintain the veneer of the first world, with the third world population. Flag away and downvote, but the problem won't go away!
>The Microsoft of the 2000s, under Steve Ballmer, was almost exactly the opposite (of gates).

>Bruised and battered by the consent decree handed down by the DoJ for the very same ambition that brought it to dominance, Ballmer’s Microsoft was sales-forward and CAUTIOUS.

>It was... nervously clutching its pearls at the approach of Google in its rearview mirror

People bash Steve Ballmer for missing Search, Social Networking, Smart phones, Tablets and one other thing. They claim he had his head far up his rear end to see the competiton. He's called a buffoon and other names but ignore the fact that...

Microsoft was Caged. Had it's wings clipped. Had a huge target on its back. In case you did't know, any complaint by say Google in its early days and Microsoft would have been broken up!

This is the real reason behind's Ballmer's failure.

Gates hated politics, kept Washington at arms length and that cost them. In fact, if Gates had lobbied just a little bit, there would have been no case at all.

And that's why Google's lobbying like crazy cos it's life actually depends on it.
Sure, it's not a solution that will scale. As is wind energy: if we cover all the oceans with it, it will influence our climate and probably slow down the rotation of the earth, etc. The point is that a relatively small such storage plant can already store a huge amount of energy - enough to help balance a lot of offshore wind.
This is fallout with the idea of "mobile-first" development... while I get that it caters to a larger demographic, it is blinded by its own crapulence in regards to _functional_ UI/UX.
I have a problem with this whole algorithmic bias thing. If there's an algorithm that explicitly deals with race (e.g., If race == "black" put at end of line) then yes, that's a problem. But if an otherwise well-thought-out algorithm happens to treat blacks and whites differently, why is that a problem.

Suppose an algorithm designed to help people at risk of committing suicide ends up disproportionately helping middle-aged white males (who happen to commit suicide more than any other group). Is that a problem?

Or if an algorithm designed to deal with hypertension ends up giving more benefits to blacks? (who statistically are more likely to suffer from hypertension)

What you choose to optimize for is definitely an important matter, as Norbert Weiner's famous story about optimal defense against a nuclear attack illustrates.
I'm not so sure the problem with Microsoft was its toxic culture. So many of the key points in that article you could say ring true of Apple. Steve Jobs relished in the fact that people feared him. He literally built an entire company of yes men, right down to the chefs in the kitchen. It meant, when his strategy was right, the company did well. However, when it was wrong, it also hurt the whole company.

Tim Cook is the opposite of that in every way. He delegates, he wants efficiency, he is much more conservative in where the products go. Yet the culture of yes still exists.

The answer to all of these big corporations is just we need different theories of management and apply them across the board. Fire those unwilling to play along and grow a culture of collaboration.
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PG&E is a government granted monopoly.

Not much SV brains can do about that.

In other words, this is a problem of power, not brains. (no pun intended...)
Played three times, made it to gen 23 on the third time. Fun game.

Without knowing much about game mechanics, a "domestication" strategy seems to work well.

1. Pick a corner. Bottom-right was what I chose.

2. Move there without getting shot.

3. Shoot first at the robots shooting at your direction, then those with guns pointed in your direction. Then shoot the robots that are shooting. Save the robots that are pointed the other way, not shooting for last.

4. After a few generations, all the robots will be pointing the other way, not shooting. Kill the ones that twitch first.

5. There seem to be randomization events, and some of your domestication will be lost. Try to survive those and re-domesticate.

6. Eventually you run out of non-replenishable HP and die.
That is really impressive.

Are you operating internationally or is this UK specific?
Kind of remarkable that when I first read this comment thread, this was the top-rated comment, but while I was posting a short agreement with someone in this reply thread who noted that HN has a collective problem with snark and satire, pgcj_poster's comment was downvoted by people who apparently have a problem with snark and satire.

I would put "/s" here, but when I say there are HN readers who really need to lighten the hell up sometimes, I am not remotely being sarcastic.
The ML layer is probably getting in the way of the end user getting to the smaller samples.

Used to be you'd get the best matches from the meta data on a page.

Now there's linear algebra both trying to determine what the meta data means and what the question means, so it's going to have grouping biases.

And do things like exclude seemingly random strings of numbers, because in the training data, that's usually trash, but for you, it's a part or serial number that you're looking for
I recommend you investigate plumbing. Yeah, seriously.... I have not done anything very complicated, but it takes much of the same mindset (or skillset), it is satisfying, and you will have a job for life (aka I have just hit 50 and sort-of age discrimination (or just can't deal with the nonsense anymore-ness - or everything is so familiar it is so tedious))
In general. And three of those four were done by people who knew perfectly well what they were doing and why, and their actions while despicable, were entirely rational in service of their goals.
Yeah, couchdb more or less requires you to replicate data for individual users if you need complex permissions and want the user to access the couchdb directly.

Permissions in general need to be handled by custom reconciliation functions (dropping unauthorized changes) or some kind of nanny system that can react to changes.

For example, imagine blog posts as documents, and a list of comments inside that document. Instead of the user adding/changing the comment list, the user would add a record to a comment request list, and either the reconciliation process or a nanny service checks the requests and updates the comment list.

The much simpler solution of course is to not let the users have any write access to the couchdb and just use a REST API. But then you loose much of the benefits of couchdb...
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At some levels of regulation, there is no meaningful difference between private and nationalized. Owning the means of production includes certain rights like deciding what to do with the capital/equipment. Every regulation that controls your actions with the equipment or what your workers can do is, in part, the state seizing the means of production. Similarly with taxes. The difference between a nationalized PG&E and a private one is that if the state lights a forest fire due to poor maintenance on the lines, the state isn't going to allow you to sue them.
Problem is, the state has shrublands and, grasslands and forests which historically have been prone to natural fires. Fires happen. People also like building and living in these areas.

The state regulates PG&E, sets rates, and also establishes liability on the utility for incidental fires. So the state regulates them, they follow regulation but when something anticipated happens they’re still liable.

So the natural thing to do in that conundrum, as the Wargames villain quoth: the only winning move is to not play.

Ergo they take their energy and go home.
To extend your post, this man[1] did some research way back in the fifties about magneto-implosive generators and applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov#Magneto-implos...
how intuitive and appropriate for that action.

edit: it takes me about 2.5 seconds to dismiss a notification with that action. I don't know about y'all but I dismiss notifications way more often than open them. Seems like it should be just as quick to dismiss it as open it.
I haven't followed this closely, but last year's camp fire was blamed on poorly maintained infrastructure and the PG&E line was that there was a lot of poorly maintained infrastructure around the state.

To the corollary; most people don't complain about the lack of maintenance until the lack of maintenance becomes a clear problem.

That said, I do not know what sort of details PG&E put out in prior reports. I don't know what, if any, public oversight was in place and I don't know if there's merit to the idea that PG&E has been deferring maintenance in exchange for short term profits.
A very salty take from this person. They also seem to have an issue with white people engaging in the civic process. Hard to take their criticisms seriously.
This is why I use pass [0].

https://www.passwordstore.org/
Small battery-less grid-tied systems go down when the grid is down, it's a requirement for safety so a malfunctioning grid isn't kept hot by residential sources.

I do think this will sell a bunch of powerwalls to rich californians though.
Here's how I finally understood it (I think):

Switching is only bad if you pick correctly the first time. Since you only pick correctly 1/3 of the time, switching must be no worse or better 2/3 of the time.

Since Monty will never open the door you picked nor the door with the prize, the remaining door after he opens one is the prize if you initially picked wrong, or a goat if you initially picked right. Since you initially pick right only 1/3 of the time, you switch.
What i want from the search engine isn't an easy life. I want a tool that would give me, the knowledgeable searcher(hopefully) the biggest possible advantage over non-experts.

On one hand, it seems that Google, by aiming for the least common denominator - greatly reduces that gap.

But not really. I still think there's a good advantage to having search knowledge. I hope it stays that way.
It's fascinating that we're apparently tolerating them turning people's electricity off and burning down large parts of the state. You'd think we'd only accept one or the other. Or in a crazy utopian world, neither!
> Otherwise you're applying your "decides to mention" augment differently in each case.

You don't see the difference between saying "the older one is a boy" and "I have a boy born on a Tuesday"? The first one selects first by the property of Age and then states their gender. The second selects by the property of gender and then states which weekday they were born.
"Why is money called 'circles' in Asia?" is what I'd suggest.
Using the CanvasBlocker and WebRTC Control add-ons with Firefox means that the two most unique information points the test extracts from my browser, the hash of canvas and WebGL fingerprints, which are unique for 1 in 200,000 users, changed each time I run the test. Presumably it ought to run several times to check that the data it receives is the same for each test run. I don't currently have a UA switcher, but those would also help reduce the uniqueness of data points only across multiple tests
What's the point of this comment? GP's point was that this issue is limited to California, and is not a broader issue with US infrastructure.
Has anyone seen any plausible estimates of the additional fire danger arising from the use of all the small generators that are firing up during these periods?

I'm curious if all this represents a greater risk than powering up the lines. (But at least PG&E won't foot the bill...)
They probably designed it to work on the CEO's tablet and called it a day.
You're very welcome! Since you are a new mac user you might also be interested in the list of Mac Apps I use [0]. Also if you don't use a magic mouse/apple mouse scroll can be jerky and annoying. For my gaming mouse I use Smooze [1] to help smooth out scrolling.

[0] https://joshstrange.com/my-mac-apps/

[1] https://smooze.co/
What about landmines?
I guess how I looked at it was comparing the 24% vs the 14% to compare the fact that those who did perceive a difference leaned almost 2:1 towards the idea that males had a more positive view vs females.

To me I find that anyone thinking that there are no differences between the sexes:

>Of the 487 participants, 62% (n = 302) indicated that they did not believe in the gender difference.

Are the ignorant majority and would rather focus on those who were smart enough to perceive a difference and then which way those people were leaning.

I am probably falling into my own bias doing it this way, I am no statistician and just wanted to explain my reasoning on this.

I do agree with you that 24% out of the entirety of the study is a clear minority.

I guess I should have phrased it better, "The point of all of this, I feel is that to many people who are not ignorant to the differences in sex, the epiphany of this article was something quite obvious" or something like that.
1-800 phone trees with 0 lines of code
PG&E as been pulling (large) cash profits out for years while neglecting basic maintenance on the transmission network.

The lack of maintenance has lead directly to the fires.

The regulator decides how much maintenance they need to get done, and how much cash they can take out.
California, you know the rest of us still love you, but sometimes you're a bit crazy. Sometimes you're crazy in a good way, sometimes you're crazy in a bad way, and sometimes it's hard to tell, but here's a situation where you might want to return to the fold. Nobody else is having giant, regular blackouts.
Here's a recent dive into the problem: https://www.governing.com/topics/finance/gov-addicted-to-fin...
The most important effect of all their rules is of course that it creates a cohesive community. If you look at it as a group evolutionary strategy it’s incredibly successful.

And of course most rules and laws in society are “arbitrary”, but in order to be applicable on a mass scale they need to be measurable. For example, there is nothing magical about the age of 18 or 21, but there has to be some easily measurable rule to prevent young and immature people from drinking. So we choose a completely “arbitrary” number like 18 and stick to it.
yeah i live east of sacramento in the mountains. I'm in the zone thats had the most hours of power cut by PG&E.

The state is falling apart. Its changed so much in the last 20 years. I would rather the Sierra Nevadas be part of Nevada and let the bay area and LA leave us alone.