skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, you're talking not about unilateral personal choices, but unilateral country choices.

It's not that simple, there are many unilateral choices a country can make that would not have a net negative effect. For example if you close a coal power plant in Virginia, China is not simply going to build one and sell the power to the US - there are physical limitations there.

You have a valid point that a country needs to think about unintentional consequences of their decisions, something politicians are notoriously bad at, but claiming that all unilateral action is net negative is such a ludicrous strawman that I don't actually beleive that's your position on the subject.
Ask HN: Living in Berlin, family of 4, working for tech
Hi all
Keen to hear experiences of people with families who made the move to Berlin in recent years.

I got an opportunity to live and work there (FinTech) on a good salary for at least two years.

Interested in lifestyle, safety and schools mainly.

From my research it seems that the city is very much geared towards the new generation but I'm happy to be wrong.

I currently reside in Australia if that helps.

Thanks!
> Firstly, they only slowed down older phones to prevent them from crashing as they had less and less reliable battery draw

I see this posted a lot and I honestly just don't buy it.

Processor power draw for most high-priority OS tasks (eg: keyboard input) are virtually zilch compared to keeping the screen lit for that much longer.

Everything says this happens to older phones, not phones with high usage. If you get the battery replaced--will Apple speed up the phone again? If I am on my iPhone 24/7 and constantly discharge down to 5% SOC, how come Apple doesn't slow down my phone more than someone with scarce use?

Even unreliable power draw makes no sense. You may be not able to predict the SOC from the OCV of the cell as accurately as SOH diminishes than when it's 100%, but cell phones largely use lithium cobalt oxides which have well-defined OCV:SOC curves! There should be no need to guess how close to a low SOC you are--you can just read the OCV.
You missed the point.
All businesses want good employees, but what they want most are employees that can be replaced if necessary. They hire people to accomplish tasks and add value. I have felt underappreciated in corporate roles before, but then I realized that I was attaching too much of my identity to my job and in something where I had no real equity. Since then, I am much better at separating work from personal life, and I am happier putting my personal interests above the company's.
We don't have to be surprised about some of these events, since they have been predicted in the scriptures, for now, for a long time (ice melting, storms, quakes, waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds, fires/smoke, all things in commotion, and other significant catastrophic events).

I greatly appreciate the science and am glad for progress in our efforts. But I think we are not competent to solve planet-wide issues when we have largely rejected the instructions given by the earth's Creator (like, honesty, the Golden Rule, etc, etc): we have a hard time trusting each other even when we say we agree. I'm glad we can share our own thoughts. We need His help both to address important issues globally, and in our personal lives.

And importantly, we can be OK. Related, more detailed thoughts at http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581820.html , a simple site w/ no javascript or sales).
Don't worry: Tononi (and, by extension, Koch) have thought about IIT much more than the author of this article.

You are correctly pointing out the conflict between computationalism ("consciousness is what certain computations feels like from the inside") and physicalism ("consciousness is what certain computations feel like from the inside, when they take place on physical substrates, perhaps requiring the involvement of quantum decoherence").

One of the best primers on the current state of academic hypotheses on these topics is the whitepaper "Principia Qualia" by the good folks at the Qualia Research Institute [0].

[0] https://opentheory.net/PrincipiaQualia.pdf
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that issue. It seems like after running activate, `pip` does point to the right location (`which pip` points to the virtualenv pip), but I'll look into it.
Didn't they also build like a 6 person gaming rig on one server?
Don't worry, all the other peripherals will lose driver support, and your processor will crack long before 5 years anyway... Hah.
No, no, this rigorious ratings are for lower class endavours.

Higher classes get a title, which is a one off rubber stamp of quality and then will never again be judged on performance standing alone. Dr. Senior. Dipl. Ing.

Except by there peers, who will lower a silk of omerta over "internal" affairs like a lack of quality in work.

Of course, between these professions, there are meta-power struggles, which will play out, in a court- stylized fashion, a eternal ritualized war between castes like "management" and "technical execution".

Metrics, as demanded by one caste, are worthless, as they rely on a working interface provided by the oppossition or in depth knowledge, making a allegiance two too factions necessary.

Thus all that remains of them is a ritualized insistence, to compensate for the creeping feeling of a lack of controll. For those who need them, can not get them and be certain they are accurate.
Making metrics, actually - a flag of truce.
Always on accident of course. There is no way a hardware manufacturer would intentionally sabotage their products to boost sales.
At least the change didn't require an adapter.
Would you need 32 V's or could you run the program on one server with 32 threads or instances?
I'd much rather be involved in a hydro-electric disaster than a nuclear one though...
Well, both. We can’t explain qualia for example, and no AI (at least, no non-super intelligent AI) is going to give us insights there. Perhaps we can create an AI smarter than us that can actually tell us what is going on, even if they can’t experience qualia.
All four of the major carriers and Apple offer 0% interest loans on phones.

At least with T-mobile. Even if you have horrible credit as long as you pay your bill on time with them for 12 months, you are eligible for a no interest phone loan.
I noticed the McDonald's near my home is running a promotion. "Safe Driving" gets you discounts on McDonald's food.

I'm in a particularly non-tech savvy area. I have not seen this is running in higher-income, higher-education neighborhoods, or any McDonalds inside universities.

I didn't look into it, but I feel that the app probably uses GPS to know your location as much as possible in order to monitor "Safe Driving". I guess you could use only accelerometer data to look for hard acceleration/braking events, but I doubt that's the purpose.

Seemed like a data broker trying to drum up new data sources.

Edit: Coincidentally, the next YouTube ad I got after submitting this was a McDonald's ad.
In my opinion, that's the only positive to using OSX. Wish they didn't use an old as hell version of Bash. For my Linux work, I code to Bash 4, and I've been bit a few times when my scripts won't run on my laptop due that.

The need for 3rd party software (spectacles) to allow me to use hot-keys to shift windows around (native feature in Windows, Linux, and iirc even the windows manager in Sun V when I used it for a short time). Same story to alter the behavior of alt-tab.

I also can't prevent windows from stealing focus if some random app decides it wants to pop up something (again native option in every other OS I've used). That's apparently been an active complaint on the internet for somewhere close to a decade from what I've seen during my fruitless searches for a solution.

I've had numerous issues related to the App store randomly signing out, which may not be an issue to normal users, but in my case the office uses a shared app store account to handle App Store purchases, so that was exceedingly irritating but probably a "it's just you" type of complaint.

And none of that even touches the debacle that is Catalina. I ended up completely re-installing the OS, as a vast majority of software I needed wasn't compatible due to the deprecation of 32-bit support.

All in all, I personally hate the OS and can't stand it. I'm currently looking for a new role, and can't deny I'm giddy at the chance to get away from it. And honestly, I'd probably turn down a position if it came with the requirement to use OSX again.

However, I do recognize this is my experience and others really do enjoy OSX. But to each his own.
Even if the sticker wasn't shown at auction, Tesla isn't off the hook.

Cars at auction are typically sold as-is, and when they are sold as-is, the seller can't say "Oops, we forgot to disable that feature" and then disable it a few days later.
Renewables 2019: 46%

Renewables 2000: 6%

Coal + Gas 2019 40%

Coal + Gas 2000 59%

Fact: Germany reduced fossil fuels coal+gas and increased renewables massively. Gas itself has increased.
“How can I complain?” (2019)
This isn't so much a nuclear question as a power transmission question. Here is a link that could help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Ad...
Especially considering how blatantly false it is, Japan is literately covered in volcanoes/hot spring sources; hence why Onsen is such a big part of their culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen

My cousin is a Mechanical Engineer with a concentration on renewable energy sources, and while at school for his masters he was telling about his professor he was working under who had his work halted after 3/11 (Tsunami and Fukushima meltdown) on exploring the viability of steam powered turbines to offset energy needs for Nuclear, which by the way at its peak never exceed 30%. I as a anti-nuclear activist was dismayed to hear that.

It was going well with promising leads, apparently he still needed gather like 3 more years of data to present to the Japanese government before he got grants and permission to move forward with projects and proofs of concept. Sadly, it never happened.
> I doubt many people would've cared if Apple had TOLD us that's what they were doing, and also made it an switch.

It’s just a few dozen of bucks to change a battery, and people did it in droves when Apple told what they were doing.
"The most regretful thing to me was a pregnant woman from Huanggang. She was in very serious condition. Nearly 200,000 yuan (S$39,505) was spent after more than a week in the ICU. She was from the countryside, and the money for hospitalisation was borrowed from her relatives and friends. Her condition was improving after the use of Ecmo, and she was likely to survive. But her husband decided to give up. He cried for his decision. I wept too because I felt there was hope for her to be saved. The woman died after we gave up. And exactly the next day, the government announced a new policy that offers free treatment for all coronavirus-infected patients. I feel so sorry for that pregnant woman."

I had the unchecked belief that China claiming to be a communist country would be covering medical costs.

Above reminded me of this: "'He cannot speak or look after himself': A 17-year-old with cerebral palsy died after being left alone for 6 days while Chinese authorities quarantined his father over coronavirus fears" - https://www.businessinsider.com/teenager-cerebral-palsy-dies...

Edit: I really can't understand why anyone would downvote this comment - the downvotes are making me laugh.
Can you explain what a thin clone is?
GoDaddy Screwed Up
8.01.2020 - Purchased a domain from ended auction

9.01.2020 - Called support, got told it’ll arrive on 16.01

16.01.2020 - Got refunded (never asked for it in the first place) got no domain, called support, told “the deal was off”, they’ll reply with details

till this day - Nobody takes responsibility, nobody replied, the case is forgotten
> The city needs to actively make it harder to use cars with bus lanes, road diets, removing parking, etc. It's moving in that direction bit by bit, but takes a long time and the NIMBYs fight for every inch of asphalt.

FWIW these are actually NIMBY policies. NIMBYs don't like it when people drive cars on their streets.
Hell, we don’t even know if the brain is the causal creator of consciousness. It’s a contrarian view to think otherwise, but it can’t be proven false.
This sounds good if your organisation is political. However if the coding work is below par it’ll probably get found out sooner or later. Schmooze the boss but wax on wax off make sure the basic job function is being done well enough.
We are, thats the problem.

When you can make a ridiculous profit on a flagship phone and sell it for $500-700 (say, a OnePlus, for a good example), but they sell it for $800-1400 (Samsung, Apple, et al), then what am I paying for? It's supposed to be for better support and a smoother experience when things go wrong.

You know who has historically stabbed me in the back the least? OnePlus. I'm not going to say it has been perfect, but for a phone I spent $550 on, they've screwed me far less times than other alternatives would have.

So, we are paying for the patches to be delivered on a meaningful schedule for more than 3 years. I seem to be getting it what I paid for, and you don't.

There is something massively wrong with this picture.
Your question makes no sense. If a license is so restrictive to you that you can’t deploy it to testers, why would you be wanting to evaluate it in the first place?

If you’re not distributing the result to other people, literally nothing you described matters at all.

As for integrating ideas, as long as you don’t copy actual lines of code, simply learning ideas and techniques from any OSS doesn’t cause license infection.

That’s not evaluating a codec though, is it? You’ve gone far beyond the scope of this thread.
Standard practice is engine check light, then mechanic looks at it, then you replace the part for £X using one of several generics, or a first-party part if you want.

So, Apple could instead have had a "battery EOL" warning, sold batteries and specs to 3rd party market, and ensured batteries were easily replaceable.

Oh, why didn't they do that I wonder, maybe because they've spent the last decade making their stuff hard to repair and ensuring parts aren't available in order to encourage upgrades instead of repairs? Surely not, not Apple, they hate sacrificing the welfare of others for the sake of their profit!

If the idea that Apple would rig this didn't fit perfectly in the rest of their narrative then perhaps the judgement wouldn't have come.
Selling something and using your software updates to bait and switch people is not ok, whatever the rationalization is.
I submitted this already, but this is worth reading also:

https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/puzmZFQGRTiiquwLa6tT-g/confere...
Yeah, I know, but as I mentioned it's a deceptive way of looking at things. Every 0.1% matters to companies at this scale.
Grokking Streams and Fighting Zombies
> theories of rights still exist in the absence of laws.

Sure, everyone had their own theory of rights. And if by people acting to defend their property you mean “people will fight to secure access to those things to which their own personal theory of rights holds them to be entitled”, well, you’ll notice that's exactly what I described, but not at all what people mean when discussing “property” normally.
> Why should an instance created by an ASG have a host name?

It means you can connect to it by just knowing its instance ID.

Adding the IP address everywhere also works.

There can be some nice SSH config options though, like using a particular key for everything *.prod.myaws.com
Around half way down that thread, someone posted a sound attachment with a bunch of noise.

Mine sounds exactly like that if I crank the gain too. I keep the Scarlett at about 35% and do notice a lot of noise as I go above that. It climbs up quickly.

What's interesting is the DBX has enough gain on its pre-amp to keep the Scarlett at 0% with the AT2005 mic but I don't do that because I found with the AT2005 + DBX + my personal voice combo things come out a little too boomy on the low end which is weird because my voice is pretty high. So in this case I like having a little bit of the Scarlett's presence come through and at this amount of gain there's no real noticeable noise.

The DBX's pre-amp gain is really quiet. I have it at 100%. There's extra gain you can add on the output side too. I keep that one at -8 DB because if I go any higher than that it clips, which is nice because it means the DBX has a lot more power to give for a more power hungry mic.

I'm still not 100% happy with my audio. I think from a line noise perspective it's close to as good as you can reasonably ask for but I feel like it's still too boomy and slightly muddled on the low end. I keep the low end completely off with the DBX too (it has an "Enhancer" which is sort of like a basic EQ for highs and lows). I'm not convinced it's a pure DBX issue tho, or a problem with the microphone.

For example, this guy has the same AT2005 microphone https://youtu.be/g95hJZlWFwU?t=111 and personally I found his sound to be very natural with a great tone. It doesn't feel boomy and it has an even spread across the spectrum. I don't know what pre-amp or interface he uses.

Audio is super complicated because your real voice plays such a huge role. That and it's a rabbit hole that never ends haha.
> There's no discernible difference between p-zombies and 'real' conscious beings. There's a good chance that we're all p-zombies and a distinction between zombie and real doesn't exist.

I think you're getting it wrong. There's no externally discernible difference between a normal person and a p-zombie, because the difference is in how they experience. I know I'm conscious, because I subjectively experience it, but I can't be sure about anyone else because they could be a p-zombie that has everything except that subjective experience.
Appeals Court Win for FOSS Advocate Speaking Out on Licensing Restrictions
BTW here are some pictures and more details on the Alphafly Next%: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a30783617/nike-alphafly-ne...

Released 2 days after the rule change.
[Vaporfly] last about 150 miles for racing (important races) and further 400-600 miles for training.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8908413
They are refusing to refund it. Yes, I can charge back and will. But I was referring to what can I do in response to Lenovo. There is a law but it's useless. So I just get fucked over with no recourse. I can't sue then and the ftc doesn't give a fuck and won't pursue the issue so they will keep fucking people over since there is no recourse. I cannot get justice.
I would look at France's history, they are one of the most nuclear centric countries, with (relatively) few major accidents.

In general, build a not-fancy light water reactor away from the ocean and major fault lines.

We have the most experience with LWRs, and they are pretty safe except for the impact of major natural disasters.

There are other reactor designs, but we really need more experience with them.
This is clearly the case today, pending some new discovery or intellectual leap surrounding consciousness. For all I know, you are unconscious, and your purpose was to type that comment so as to trigger my realization I am the only conscious being in existence :)

(Not a good way to live your live, but a theory consistent with the evidence.)
> Whatever you may think, the fact that you are having an experience is the only thing you can know for sure

It seems to me that you’re defining consciousness as having thought (please correct me if I’m wrong). I’m ok with that, but I think at a minimum you’d have to agree that any creature is capable of having thought and therefore possessing of consciousness. If not, let’s say you’d argue that an ant is just reacting to chemical signals, I’d just say the same is true of humans.
Definitely a bad estimate if that is an original battery. 500 charges should bring the health down to about 80%. Presumably yours has been charged 1000-1500 times since it was purchased new from Apple.

My 11 Pro is at 96% and it is only a few months old.

Lithium battery degradation is a chemical fact; it happens as reliably as, say, car brakes do with use.
What in the world are you doing when that picture was taken??
If consciousness is a special state of matter, it should be analysable and detectable, right? Can't we apply scientific methods to the hypothesis that "there exist a special state of matter"?
coughubuntucough

IIRC, they recently discontinued the link and related data sharing though.
Which then makes it more economical to produce your own electricity so more systems get installed, until the power grid just shuts down entirely and everyone is self sufficient....
Very cool illusion.

If I unfocus my eyes and look at only one of the buses, I can see that it is moving at a constant rate across the stripes. But the moment I try to look at both, the illusion takes over. I can sort of get half the illusion by focusing my attention on one of the buses, but still 'noticing' the movement of the other: in that case I will see the bus I am paying attention to move at a constant rate and the other bus move in a stepping motion.
But, on its way to the Moon, how would that Cortex M0 fare against cosmic radiation? One bad bit stops the show.

The smaller are your transistors, the more they are susceptible to impact from a particle.
Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
Sigh... we really need more functional nuclear plants that aren't built to use technology from the 70s. I suspect that one reason Bernie is against new nuclear plant creation is the absolute debacle that was Vermont Yankee[1]. Even a lot of pro and pro-ish nuclear folks in Vermont got pretty disheartened by the whole affair.

These plants cost insane capital to get running and mismanagement can cause serious problems, so economic pressures tightening belts (or just greed for higher profits) is a constant force fighting against safety... Newer reactor designs contain much safer critical failure outcomes that could allow them to safely operate - even within the constant profit pressure of modern culture.

1. General information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_P...

List of articles from VTDigger on the topic: https://vtdigger.org/tag/decommission-vermont-yankee/
I mean, by the time your battery is in that state, you're well out of warranty. So they'd have to pay for the new batteries.

I do agree with your key point though, but from a different perspective - they'd probably make more money from people upgrading their phones to the newest model.
> Mine is the C930e, but Wirecutter now recommends the c920s, which is cheaper and adds a privacy shield.

Ah, Wirecutter. The same guys who will one year absolutely recommend dual-hose portable ACs (and cite many sources, including the Department of Energy) and utterly demolish the efficiency of single hose models. Then, next year, say that this is not actually important at all. Because they are less practical or something. Which is an argument they themselves discarded just one year prior.

What changed? That's left as an exercise for the reader.

They may be fine if you use them to check products that you might otherwise have missed. But as far as recommendations go, I'm not sure they have no agenda.
isn't this essentially a 21st century castle?
https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.htm... casts doubt on the future of Nuclear growing anywhere near enough to be a best-hope; scaling it up to world energy production of 15TW seems infeasible - burning through the available Uranium supplies in ~5 years - even scaling it up to 1TW would stretch many resources used in nuclear reactor construction such as rare elements.