skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My setup right now is to upload my ePubs to Google Play Books. Once your document/book is uploaded you can access it from the app on Android/iOS or directly from the web-reader on any browser.

Play Books automatically syncs your reading progress, notes, bookmarks etc and there's no additional overhead on your part.
What the above poster is suggesting is adjusting demand dynamically based on price. That requires consumers to throttle their own usage (probably using automated systems that know the real-time price of electricity). You can run the dishwasher or charge your car or cool your home when electricity is cheap.
Their pricing is indeed extremely overpriced, particularly their self-hosted pricing.

10 targets - free

25 targets - $2300/year

50 targets - $4500/year

100 targets - $8800/year

200 targets - $16800/year

400 targets - $32000/year

500 targets - $39000/year

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5000 targets - $290000/year

inf targets - $420000/year

https://octopus.com/pricing/overview
... and what it might mean for a retail investor who mostly buys and holds broad market funds?
> Doctoral students...heavily monetize that credential at the end of it.

Ha! If only! To continue doing research, the usual next step is a postdoc (~$50k/yr). Industry positions pay better, but outside of ML, there aren't tons of them and biotech (for example, which the media lab does) salaries aren't crazy high.

I'd bet that anyone with a PhD could have made more money with a masters degree and a switch to industry.
That’s a strange projection.

Given that you only need to store energy for about a day[0] and that the batteries last at least three years when you use them like this, world battery production is already 1% of the storage requirements for worldwide 100% renewable.

One forecast I’ve seen estimates that battery production will go up by a factor of four by by 2028.

[0] longer periods with no wind and no sun are dealt with more cost-efficiently with long distance power lines than with storage.
I always find it odd that atmospheric carbon capture isn't a greater part of the conversation on climate change. It's basically assumed that we'll need to be able to take carbon out of the system to meet our goals, but so few people are willing to mention it as part of the overall solution to transitioning to a net negative economy. It seems like a technology that still has a lot of runway left before we start hitting any sort of fundamental limits on efficiency.
Absolutely this.

More functions => More complexity => Bad.

Also: decreased legibility, less opportunity for compiler optimisation.
Companies make all sorts of acquisitions, insightful or random. The acquisition of Echo Nest certainly isn't the reason for "the impact of Spotify on our culture". I assure you, Spotify's success was in its licensing a very large selection of music to stream. Everything else is marginal.
Another option is from Amcrest and is built as a doorbell. I got it because it doesn’t require a cloud connection to function and plugs in easily to Home Assistant. Easy install with existing wiring and uses WiFi for data.

Note: one disappointment was that the app automatically reached out to an Amcrest server by default (I assume) on the assumption that everyone wants access to their home doorbell cam from outside the network ... I could not find a setting in the app so just took care of it the usual way—blocked it with the firewall. Regardless, it still works in this config.
From what I can glean of this Verge article [0], it seems two cameras is the maximum possible at this time.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21083583/filmic-doubletak...
> The application is a client .NET Core based tool so it will run on Windows, Linux or macOS and does not require elevated privileges and there is no local database or network communications or telemetry.
I fully understand this - localisation is on it's way.
> The original low-end iPhone SE had the plastic case

You're thinking of the iPhone 5c, which came out at the same time as the 5s -- well before the SE, which, slightly confusingly, was released after the 6. The SE has always had a metal body.
Very good point but the use of Amusing really put me off as it's very belittling, and is representative of how I think HN commenters generally behave
interesting list of hardware and beautiful photos, but this blogpost missing one key item -- cost!

HOW MUCH $$$ TO BUILD THIS MONSTER of a "mac", and how does that compare to a similarly-specified Apple product?

Without this, it feels like a collection of thinly-disguised product placements.
Assuming there was an open source version of Windows 7 Microsoft would have to make Windows 10 much worse before I'd consider switching to it. WSL has bought me a lot of good will toward Microsoft. It probably helps that I'm blind so can't see any adds or crap ware installed on the start menu.
That's where I notice them as well. I haven't seen it recently, but I recall a few years ago there was a highway around here (Denver) that was asphalt for the two leftmost lanes with a concrete slow lane that semi trucks were supposed to drive on.

Maybe Denver is particularly bad for concrete roads because our freeze/thaw cycles get really bad. We have so many warm days in the winter interspersed with cold days and freezing nights.
That's not true in the US. Less than 15% of the feed used for animals would be edible for humans, and much of the land in the US is not suitabe for growing crops other than grass. Most of the food given to animals are farm waste products and leaves etc.

Using regenerative farming, cows can even be net carbon negative, meanwhile a lot of human feed uses artificial fertilizer which is a big contributor to carbon emissions.

See White Oak Pastures for an example (verified by third parties): https://blog.whiteoakpastures.com/hubfs/WOP-LCA-Quantis-2019...
If you want to build cooperation then praising any progress, no matter how small it might seem, is usually a good idea.

Sure there might be more disagreement down the road but any bipartisan action on climate change is better than none.
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

posting for anyone wondering
The World in 2030
What do you use for text input? A case with integrated keyboard, or separate bluetooth keyboard, or something else?
I don't see any mention of the languages that it recognizes, but a perusal of some of the JSON files leads me to believe that this handles many different languages. It seems that it's by way of regular expressions, though, not language-specific parsing.
The right way to email a Git repository
If by computer programming or media creation (videos etc) then I would say what you want is a specialist computing device - most people do not use their computers to do this, nor need them to be able to.

With an iPad you can write all the emails you want, edit and share photos, create word docs and basic spreadsheets, which is enough for the vast majority of people. I agree that phones are also general purpose computers, most people can get away with just having a phone now.

Maybe we dont agree on ‘general’ as a term, I mean what most people need or want, I think you maybe mean can do lots of different things?
Because it's better to run an unpatched OS (considering installing updates on a hackintosh tends to break it) than to run an OS with some pre-installed software that you won't even notice?
You should group founders with the engineers and grad students rather than with the VCs. We have to figure out a market opportunity and a product to fit it, seed that ourselves, eat ramen, pitch it, recruit for it and then make it and sell it. We do all that for well below market rate wages for a chance a big return. Moreover, founders get common stock, same as engineers.

VCs get a management fee and a carry. They also invest some money into the fund. Their management fee de-risks them entirely.

You can't group VCs and founders on one side and engineers on the other. It just doesn't make sense.
So coding philosophy is tied to sex, politics, and religion? We're in trouble.
Same. When I heard about Scihub, this was the page I usually downloaded papers from. I used to have access to a lot of journals, but downloading a journal was annoying. Meanwhile, Scihub provided a field to put an URL in, and you got a PDF back - which was ridiculously simple.
I read some of the context at your link, and, not having a heart of stone, I can see why the desirability of changes isn't a sure thing.

However.

Balanced against that is the reality that those same users are often the most entitled about it when something breaks. Tears to jeers in an instant.

So I don't know.
I understood it.

"Ego death" is the removal of a sense of self as distinct entity.

Since the self no longer exists as a distinct entity, and since we regard death as the end of self, it becomes impossible to be afraid of death as death is no longer relevant.
Thank you. We need to stop thinking of growth as a reasonable metric for wellbeing or relevance of products. When a new product is introduced, certainly, looking how the market reacts is interesting. But many years down the line, things should stabilise. Does your (metaphorical) baker round the corner grow yoy? And yet, somehow their bread is still good, and they have no problem surviving, except when a company with far too much capital just bulldozes in, for example by selling under local market prices.

/rant over
Judges are supposed to follow the law. What you are describing is judicial activism, which is not the function of the judiciary. The laws should be written correctly, if they are not they need to be fixed -- not enforced differently by judicial fiat.
Did they know they were on her team?
I had to check the dictionary for the meaning of "hype"

a situation in which something is advertised and discussed in newspapers, on television, etc. a lot in order to attract everyone's interest:

May be its just me because Morden day usage of "hype" seems to involve and implies a negative meaning, especially in tech. Similar to false advertising. And no one was actively promoting ZFS, they were only very "responsive".

And then zealots, I had to reread 226 comments, ran to Cambridge dictionary

a person who has very strong opinions about something, and tries to make other people have them too

I dont see anyone having strong opinions and force others to have the same. If anything a lot of people are showing not because the love ZFS, but they have been burnt by btrfs.
These hollow giants are only held together by commone enemys. Irans most common enemy is gone- sadam hussein is no more.
Thus a new one had to be found - and the sia - saudi conflict flared up. Cause here, are two, who desperatly need one another to hold there own people in check.
Israel was always just a fallback, for religious indoctrinated hatred, again to keep the sheep together.
There are wulfes out there - you need those dogs to protect you, even if they eat one of you from time to time.
Thanks for you feedback - I assumed date picker will be easier for user. Interesting to hear the other way around would be better.

When it comes to persistency - maybe I will add it some point, but no plans at this point
Ask HN: What are your best hacks/tips for designing pitch deck?
To add to the arguments already presented, it's not like you never encounter practical scenarios where a mean does not exist.

A good example would be earthquakes. The commonly used Richter law [1] suggests that the number of earthquakes decreases exponentially with the magnitude, while the intensity increases exponentially with the magnitude. In seismically active regions the frequency and intensity even appear to be inversely proportional. This results in a model where there is no average intensity. Sure this model is bound to break down eventually, but until the first earthquake that quite literally breaks the mould we likely won't know what the upper bound may be.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg%E2%80%93Richter_law
Just curious but what's the exact opposite of those statements? That he hasn't had to convince anyone of their work in order to get money? Or that it isn't based on that but on results? As someone that doesn't live in that world, I have no idea what the "exact opposite" of that really is.
Do you feel comfortable using cloud storage for so much of your content? My ideal is to be entirely self-backed-up. I want a personal git server, photo archive, etc. With bandwidth, service costs, vendor issues (dealing with google seems like a nightmare from reading online).

How did you construct your NAS? Is it a single system, or multiple hard drives/storage solutions connected to your network?
Beware the company that has a CEO due to connections and luck. Sure, anyone can sit in the seat and cash the salary checks. Not just anyone can do a good job of actually running the company, though.
A track record of bad faith on the part of Huawei and its lifeline, the CCP.
I just ddg'd "sandbox shell script" and learned about chroot. First hit:

How can I “sandbox” a shell script?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/363363/how-can-i-sa...

What would a proper sandbox look like? Every session runs within a Docker image?

I don't know anything about this stuff. My intro to the sandboxing and security notions was Java and its Applets. I guess I thought we'd eventually do everything that way.
> no, it means that the 'kettle' is a hypocrite

Correct.

> Don't hold people to a higher standard than you hold yourself

I disagree. Of course it's best to practice what you preach. But failing that, if you can't or won't reform yourself (and Ted obviously won't; old dog, new tricks, etc) being accurate in your criticism of other people is better than saying nothing, which in turn is better than defending the bad behavior of others.

Charlatans calling out other charlatans is a net good for society.
I've been using Rust for a year or so and while it's very nice once you get used to it I recently started working in D since I feel _so_ much more productive in it thanks to the GC while it still feels powerful and is fast where it matters (you can avoid the GC at performance critical places). The lack of libraries is a little annoying at times but thanks to dstep it's somewhat easy to use C stuff.
Video: Myst’s designers stuffed an entire universe onto a single CD-ROM
iBooks, no?
I remember this one. Looked interessting, but was lacking the "big picture" of data. It seems to be easy to get lost in data and loose your trail.
> folks should try it for a couple months. Leave the Macbook or Win10 laptop at home, and force yourself to rewire your brain into the iPad affordances and apps.

Hell no. The iPad is a nice PDF reading machine with its retina display and the pencil is a joy to use but the device is barely usable for any text entry and don't support any real programming workflow.

However some shortcomings can also be positive, in particular I find the limited multi-tasking really helpful to concentrate on the reading of a paper, which is way way harder on a desktop computer with three screens, dozens of tabs opened and multiple running applications.
I feel like I exist in the "enthusiast" segment which Apple completely ignores.
Touch interfaces have an inherent disadvantage here — there's no equivalent of 'hovering' a 'cursor' over something to see if it changes visually, triggers a tooltip, etc. Their interfaces actually need more help to be discoverable, not less.

Swiping isn't even a great gesture for most uses. Earlier today, I had to delete maybe 50-100 downloaded podcasts from the Podcasts app (there is seemingly no way to do this en masse). The quickest way to do so is with repeated swipes, but it's almost impossible to be consistent with your swipes over 50-100 items: sometimes the swipes 'stop short', sometimes they just fail for no obvious reason. A swipe is also a LOT more physical effort than a tap — if I could have just pressed a "DELETE" button 50 times, it would have been a lot more palatable (still short of a proper multi-delete, of course).
Totally agree that this could be morally wrong or "dubious", but the definition of "not illegal" is legal.
The more invested someone gets, the more likely they are to kick up a fuss when they decide it's a scam. If you were pitching this deck, you don't want prominent, angry VCs posting publicly on Twitter about how it's a scam.

If you weed them out right at the beginning, exposure doesn't happen as quickly.

Moving down the funnel means increasing time investment for the scammers, too. Better to spend those hours on someone gullible.
Pish-Posh.

If Microsoft was as dedicated to open source as their recent PR pivot and thrust has lead us to think then they would have no problem taking on this monumental task.

this 'stupid' PR move from the FSF is only a response to a similiar PR move from MS.
Put this next to the old Softbank pitch deck, take the company names off and I bet you people wouldn't be able to figure out which was fake.
The canonical guide for installation is amd-osx.com ; plenty of helpful folks in the forums and discord.
The British government wish for Chinese firms to spend money on British goods/services, for Chinese tourists to come to Britain and spend money and for the Chinese government to enforce more intellectual property rights which benefit Britain. Even prior to Brexit this was true, but obviously post-Brexit these considerations are even more important.

If a major Chinese supplier is completely excluded because they are Chinese then it will be seen as a very deliberate snub. This in turn will make it harder to achieve the goals mentioned above (investment, trade, etc). Instead, this kind of compromise is so the Chinese government don't lose face and Britain can still meet the national security requirements defined by the United States.
> There just doesn't seem to be a lot of appetite for it even if you look at more powerful home systems.

Speaking for myself, I have no actual interest in AR/VR. It doesn't bring me anything that I need or would use for more than the novelty factor. I suspect that I'm in the majority here.

Where this tech shines is in niche markets -- gaming, industrial uses, and so forth.
I agree with this 100%. I'm a data scientist that works with large demographics and just putting data out there to people does nothing. You have to tell a story around it and give it context for it to make any sense to most people. The most important part is sticking to objective statements about the data and then justifying the actions that are a result of new data.
Couchbase announces settlement of trade secret litigation with Redis
That was fast. Just 12 days ago it was featured here[0].

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22066177
Heh, the icon is named "audible":

"displayName": "Dynamic command execution",
"detectedIcon": "fab fa-audible"

It's probably unintentionally used by an engineer unfamiliar with the product as audible is more common as a descriptive word than as a brand.

https://github.com/microsoft/ApplicationInspector/blob/08c91...
No no no, human trust, not machine/cryptographic trust. The same way you have human trust (or distrust) over many things running on your computer. You didn’t get to verify any of the code in the firmware either.

There’s differing levels of paranoia. I don’t pipe curl to shell at work. I do it at home sometimes, usually via Github.
Not having to waste your momentum is really, really nice on a bike. I always resent stop signs at the bottom of a hill.
perennials require less work than annuals
Hey, that was a good story. Thanks for sharing.
Did you apply security updates when they came out? If not, how did you justify connecting such an outdated machine to the internet?
What health effects specifically are you talking about? There is a lot of shaky science in the nutrition field.
Theory versus statistical fit in macroeconomic modelling
Mom of “Success Kid” Meme Sends Rep. Steve King Cease-and-Desist
Pu is an unusual metal. It has at least 6 different solid allotropes (phases), each of which have different density, hardness etc. The phase can change over time, kind of like how an old chocolate bar can become white and crumbly or soft and chewy.
You build your bomb expecting your Pu to be in the δ phase (delta phase). If your pit has changed into a different phase due to age, the explosive lenses will not compress it correctly and you will get a dud or reduced yield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_plutonium
I wish I could be as "religious" about my own company as that pitch deck is about warp. I know it's a scam, but the way its presented, I'm almost excited about it, lol.
Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News
I was gifted an HP 6300 and was astonished by how easy they are to Hackintosh. The 6300 & 8300 can be had on ebay for $75-150.

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-hp-6300-pro-hp-8300...

I added this graphics card:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B7YMBFC/

I even get HDMI audio support.
If I were to guess I'd say it is from collecting guano to use as fertiliser. This practice is quite common and used to be so common that there is an expression in Norwegian for something selling very well, "Det selger som hakka møkk" [1], which means "It is selling like chopped shit".

[1] https://www.sprakradet.no/svardatabase/sporsmal-og-svar/som-... (Norwegian)
How does this get corrected? Do investments wind up losing all of the gains, or do those who didn't have an opportunity to participate get left out and the value of their holdings diminished?
> I'd bet that anyone with a PhD could have made more money with a masters degree and a switch to industry.

This is common knowledge for those pursuing CS PhDs. You don't do it for the money. If you only care about money, a master's degree is what you want.
But if historic video from the device is no longer associated with the original account, does it get deleted or just owner change? who is to say it doesn't get given to the new account... You'd have to try it and see.
>But I don't think the solution is to lock away knowledge. The solution should be to try to educate people as much as possible.

Yeah...me too...I'm guessing people didnt actually read what I wrote...
You come off attached to your existing conclusions: All duolingo users are lazy, and nobody can ever become fluent in a language from a class. You're free to believe these things if you want, but it will prevent us from having a constructive discussion. Cheers
My comment is serious.
Who said what at Davos 2020
If you read the article, they discuss it there.
iOS App Security: The Tough Job Everybody Ignores (Happy Data Privacy Day)
For someone with psychological trauma in his/her past, is it worth the risk of messing with one’s head?

I’m thinking about something like visiting a resort-like place (recommended here; forgot its name) where they have experienced ”mediators” that help you, and actual doctors.
> We have a proven and tested way of producing electricity without any emission - nuclear power plants.

We don't know that since to this day we do not know what cost a nuclear power plant actually imposes on society. The geological issue of ultimate storage for example is absurdly complex and remains unresolved. Here in Germany there's only very few potential locations[1]. None of them without potentially hazardous downsides.

[1]: https://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Endlagerung/Bilder/BGR_Ber...
Does it support HTML? Can one parse HTML with regex?
> Well I guess if that's too much trouble, then why write documentation either?

Bad guess.

> Ultimately, the effort put in to proper distribution reflects on the maturity of the project

For some, maybe. Even though there maturity of the project is reflected by how timely three bugs are fixed, quality of docs, size of community, development of new features.
> Solar and wind require energy storage that we don't have now and it does not seem we will without major technological leap.

We do have energy storage now, and it is already pretty damn good. Lower costs of production offset the cost of any inefficiencies of storage.