skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I font work at Google, but it was exactly my thought when I read >”I’m not switching to another employer – instead, I hope to spend my time working on justice issues, and on growing and strengthening the nascent tech labor movement."

Basically, Google paid them enough to retire early, and they cashed all those checks and now want to bite the hand that fed them. Must be nice.
The other thing that would happen that no one talks about is that electricity rates would skyrocket because the power company wasn't making enough money. This is exactly what happened in Ontario, Canada. People started conserving and it caused rates to go up. Same thing happened with water in California (at least the Bay Area). People started conserving better, so to reward us, they raised water rates.
People need to stop acting like this is news. It's the new normal. Welcome to the anthroposcene.
Emulation is fine, is whether machines are able to achieve "consciousness" that is at stake. I don't know if anyone feels strongly on the matter either, at least on the academic level. But it's the same as with other odd philosophical position: people run into problems with other alternatives, go like "why not..." and suddenly they have an odd belief.
Came up a few days ago (at a different url, oddly) and the comments are worth looking through.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22193451
> Why do people keep blaming the company.

The socially accepted responsibilities of companies are changing. The more Google goes down this road, the more they transition from being liked to being disliked but having power not to care. Eventually people will remove that power from them by abandoning their services, even if it takes a while.

Companies are groups of people. Those people should be asking what they care about in the world, not what makes the most money that will then be spread to shareholders.

> For engineers still looking for work, GOOGLE is the best place to work

This is a bold claim regardless of ethics and seems to be quite prestige blinded.
This is so dumb. Apple has a lot of flaws but old hardware support certainly isn’t one of them. Firstly, they only slowed down older phones to prevent them from crashing as they had less and less reliable battery draw. Secondly, Apple’s support for legacy phone hardware is the best in the market. It’s absurd that they’re being punished for this.
That's not really oversimplification though, it's more like making an assumption. But I agree that it's a minor point. I mainly brought it up in my other comment in this thread because the topic of consciousness fascinates me.
Checking in with a Lenovo Carbon X1 gen1 running FreeBSD flawlessly.
Everything works including suspend/resume, the only things I never tried to use are the camera and fingerprint reader but I guess I'll check out of curiosity.

Battery life is better than Windows. The touchpad is a little less pleasant to use (hard to click on a small target while using the laptop on the couch, the pointer always moves a little bit when taking the finger off). It definitely works better after some 30 minutes of usage but I have no idea why.
A lot of people with tech backgrounds seem pretty pro-Vaporfly. As a (former?) competitive runner you might find my anti-Vaporfly perspective interesting.

To me, running is a non-mechanically-aided sport. The moment a shoe attempts to store and return mechanical energy in the stride, to me, that's a different sport.

We already know that people can go faster and farther with mechanical aid, if you use big enough springs on your feet. Look at the discussion around Pistorius' blades. Let alone something like putting wheels on your shoes.

So we know from first principles that there's going to be some limit to the mechanical advantage that footwear is allowed to provide. The only question is where to draw the line.

Now you could draw the line at providing any mechanical advantage at all, and keep the sport the same as it's been since the dawn of time. Or you could draw the line a little bit farther along, making the sport partially about the runner and partially about the technology. I see no coherent reason to do the latter, except for shoe companies' profits. It hurts the fairness of the sport, it takes a bunch of fun out of it, it transfers a whole bunch of money from a previously-dirt-cheap sport to the shoe companies, etc.
This sort of action is precisely the reason why we have, in the UK, the ability for working men to vote (Originally, they couldn't, it was won by the Chartists in the 1800s), the ability for women to vote, human rights laws, worker's rights laws, and the NHS.

More recently McDonalds workers went on a mass strike in the UK for a living wage, and got a pay rise:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/mcdonalds-w...
I guess this could be useful for people who do not know how to use email rules / filters.
Is humidity usually high by the ocean? Would it be more efficient to pull water out of the air? Maybe take advantage of low night temps to collect dew?
Haha yeah, I rememeber the NIMBY's in North Austin. I was living out near the Domain area back then, so I was glad to at least get the Kramar station. Honestly the biggest shame is still no rail line out to Austin Bergstrom.
Forget AGC: Cypress CYPD4225's clock rate is higher than that of Playstation 1 (48 MHz vs 33). However, I don't see graphics specs here so there's room for growth.
I would say the risk is the same as with hardware 'bugs'. Where for example a passive component that drives a power transistor can exceed it's expected tolerance rate. Thats why reliable electronic systems (medical, space, avionics) have some components or circuits redundant.
My OP3T is running just fine. It's three years old now. I've put Lineage on it, sure, but that's to escape the Chinese data hose more than anything. I do miss OxygenOS, it's actually pretty decent.

The specs are perfectly sufficient to run anything modern. Granted, I don't play games. But browsing, navigating, chatting, watching silly videos, they all work flawlessly. So far, the battery has been holding up, too, even though I use dashcharge all the time.

So that's just that, two data points. I do believe a lot of people could probably fix their phones by hard reset or using Lineage — in turn, that puts the burden on the OEMs to produce good OSs for long-term use. They don't want to, obviously. I don't think the mobile market is FUBAR, but I do agree it's not in the best state. That's not due to the phone per se, it's due to the ridiculous vendor/OS situation we're in with Android.

And don't get me started on security patches…
I usually solve this problem by averaging several recipes that look plausible. It's unlikely to give you the best version, but it will be good enough to let you decide if it's worth trying again. The 2nd attempt can be improved using general cooking knowledge.
The official release notes for the following release is certainly a clear official statement.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/

“The insertion-order preservation nature of dict objects is now an official part of the Python language spec.” (June 27, 2018)
Fined $27 million.

Made $64 billion in the last 3 months.

So that's about 1 hour of profit.

I'm sure they've been taught a lesson they'll never forget.

EDIT: as pointed out below, that was revenue not profit. But apple make so much damn profit it's not as crazy different as it would be for most companies. So it's more like 2.5 hours.
Using OrderedDict is actually nice in this case, even if the default dict has the same ordering. That way you're explicitly saying you rely on that behaviour and it makes reading the code easier.
Apex Legends Revenant Abilities (Season 4) – Everything We Know
This feels like a reasonable outcome. I think Apple could have done a much better job of communicating what was happening, and I imagine having to agree to having committed a "deceptive commercial practice" probably stings much more than the fine itself.

Apple has already made the settings for all of this much more apparent, which seems like the outcome that actually helps customers here.
DC Court Declines to Rehear Net Neutrality Case
That is good advice.

Only problem is that we do not have Bill Murray's 10,000 years to endlessly master everything in Punxsutawney.

We have to pick our fights carefully.
The alternative is management who knows the domain well enough to understand those they supervise. That is expensive and hard in itself to ensure reliably.

It is a matter of the push and pull of scale advantages at varied sizes essentially which is essentially universal but varies by domain.
Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source
The inclusion of the "Gurwinder Principle" casts doubt on the other principles listed.
It always feels like the other person started it. Maybe their behavior was egregious and I missed it (we don't come close to seeing all the posts here), but even in that case, we need you to stick to the guidelines no matter how badly another commenter behaves.
1. Apple doesnt repair, they offer replacement. No prior backup? lol you lost all data, have a good day.

>latest iPhone used a 3D circuit board! Who has knowledge and skill to work on that?

2. a 40 year old stay ah home mum? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81whx_7wKHQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjZMWzXyzjU
> We get together and tell the boss, look we're not gonna keep shoving rat shit into the sausage

Absolutely no one at Google is doing that. What is happening is that these employees are telling their bosses "we would prefer not to shove rat shit into sausages" and the bosses are saying "no". Then these employees are going home and posting about it on social media and going back to work making the same sausage the next day.
Personally, I don't see the difference.
On a long enough timeline, especially with more energetic atmospheric conditions, isn't it possible for the land to redistribute itself more uniformly from the various forms of erosion to the extent that it's all submerged?
Sorry very tangential.

One time I wrote something like this, and shared on reddit. Like you, I used minimax to solve tic tac toe. My comment was downvoted to oblivion and one highly upvoted person wrote:

> You don't need "AI" to solve tic tac toe, it's a solved problem!
The problem is they didn't tell anyone they were doing it.

So people thought their phone was just old and slow and bought a new one, when they could have just replaced the battery and made it fast again.
Not op but I'd be very happy to be destitute in old age just by knowing humanity saved the world.
Although Ivy will bring nice improvements all around, you won't see the 12kb bundle sizes you are talking about in this initial release of Ivy. `renderComponent` is the key that will enable that down the road in some fashion (you can play with it now), but I appreciate the teams approach to easing the framework into major changes like that.
Many programming puzzles are simply formulations of classic problems that have well-understood solutions, which students in any Computer Science degree program are taught.

I'm guessing you do not have a CS degree?

I don't think you need to get a CS degree, but you should get a bunch of syllabi from various CS programs, and get all of the material and study it.
I don't think it has ever been more on emissions per capita than China.
> Assume there is no collective action in the next century. What next?

Probably World War 3.

What come next after climate havoc, possible nuclear war - who knows.
> It's a really good time to start building the capacity to effectively and ethically handle big influxes of people

The problem with that is, that one of the bases of Capitalism is the maintenance of SCARCITY. That is, it's necessary to put most people in a situation of want, of low availability of resources, products, services - so that they have no choice but to work for capital-owners (= owners of commercial companies) to make a living. But to provide a decent life for a lot of incoming people means that there has to be an available glut of a lot of stuff.
Sounds like the reasonable thing to do is to the electric bill into a fixed fee portion (infrastructure) and a variable fee portion (energy).
Simple IDEA – ensure that the results of our elections can be trusted
The universal language of 1's and 0's, mathematics, it is the only objective and realistic solution to create a new form of 'checks and balances' - one that appropriately addresses the technology of today.

SIMPLE IDEA - ensure that the results of our elections can be trusted. As far as you can tell, is this idea possible? Do you want to take this idea, make it yours and make it happen?
-- the grassroots component will be much easier than you think, and I could help you find someone to hand it over to --
Create a transparent voter database for all of the (Iowa) voters to log in and claim their identity, and vote transparently.
Then, we use those data points to compare and contrast with the official Census Beauros records to flag any inconsistencies between the numbers. We are then given the opportunity to use grassroots methods to find the individuals who are registered but have not voted; allowing them the opportunity to vote. Using an algorithm(s) the degrees of separation between individuals is calculated. Networks of potential people who have been in your life will be provided to you and organized in categories of connection making it easy to review. If someone has died or your supposed neighbor doesn't exist you can record that... with the confirmed knowledge and degree of your connection, the weight of your report can be valued in determining the outcome of that potential error, et. al.
The reported inconsistencies can be crossed referenced and those data points will provide a much higher probability of authentic data.
Once again, creating a grassroots opportunity to determine the truth - and not just by one organization - complete transparency. The software(s) should also transparent, using many eyes as a security measure to ensure impenetrability - nonpartisan, citizenship of the world accountability - a real form of 'checks and balances'.
The fine, it appears, is because users "were not informed." They "committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission."

Not because they slowed it down, contrary to the headline.
I made my point. I said you had no first hand knowledge, which you don't, you just repeat what you want to hear. I was not ambiguous. Then you say you could be wrong but then throw a temper tantrum about being accused of being wrong doing to me the very thing you say I shouldn't do.

And embarrassed is absolutely appropriate. You aren't arguing something trivial like is Casper is just a glorified drop ship operation. You decided to say the best country in the world had its course forever altered by Russian misinfornation. Do you have an uncle in the gru we don't know about?

Then you say we don't do put downs here while endlessly trying to put me down.

People like you should be called out for peddling the actual misinformation.

Have a good weekend, don't be so sensitive
I moved to the bay area in 2006. Between then and now, each employer I've had was at least 30 miles away from the next.
It can be disabled on all email clients by turning off "Load Images in email from third-party servers". (A good feature nevertheless).
HardFails: Insights into Software-Exploitable Hardware Bugs [pdf]
Public comment opened January 3rd, and ends February 14th

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/com-amendment-3-2020-0...
Explains why my iPhone 5 still runs quick as a whip.
I've got a Lenovo X1 Carbon 7th gen for FreeBSD development; there are many options besides ancient hardware. Buying a non-name $200 laptop isn't likely to result in a good experience, but if you're willing to do a little research there are many good options.
Furby toy or Furby spy? (1999)
Someone did a calculation for Singapore: https://medium.com/sausheong/estimate-the-solar-output-of-yo...

His conclusion: 'This is about 7.3 TWh or 11.5% of the 63.4 TWh of expected Singapore’s electricity consumption in 2030'

He also made an interesting tool to calc easily the output of solar panels on your rooftop: https://sausheong.github.io/solarest/

The only thing missing there is an easy way to get the average sunpower for some place in the world. I made a small app to calc that from the nasa website but unfortunately did not yet have time to put it online
That SFX Entertainment only is a footnote, underplays how controversial this corperate overexpansion was. If you prep up a whole style of music as a corperate owned bran,d with big advertising budgets, no wonder it can collapse. 2012 to 2016 was an engineered hype.

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/10/06/445039871/...

Live is scaleable when it comes to the industry, festivals are international brands now, idol bands exist. Artists and performers find themselves again mostly at the short end of the stick.
Well, did you?
I don't use any Safari extensions.

Regarding ad blockers, my solution has just been to stop using the internet so much. I almost exclusively use it for work now. So I run into almost no websites with ads.

I heartily recommend going internet free except during work hours, and using the library for the rest. It's been such an amazing life improvement for us, we wish that on everyone.
They implemented a software feature to make an older, degraded battery last longer - while it should be optional and obvious, a government fine seems a bit over the top.

We've all now got houses full of IoT devices (Smart TVs, Webcams, etc.) that have serious security problems and don't get proper updates because the vendors lack incentive. This is a disincentive, and totally the wrong way to go.
I prefer the 20% margin, of course.
Why would I tie up an extra $900k to make 5% ?

You make the 20% with the 100k, and hopefully find similar opportunities with your other 9 stacks of 100k's.

Profit is the only driving force in the market.
"City-states" - I doubt that, unless they have their own army, currency etc.

However, the model of the Hanseatic cities:

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

may be something that certain cities or city-regions could theoretically try to set up.
Apple was actually fined for failure to INFORM consumers that the update would slow down their phone.

To quote the regulator:

> were not informed that installing iOS updates (10.2.1 and 11.2) could slow down their devices [...] committed the crime of deceptive commercial practice by omission" and had agreed to pay the fine.

This is kinda clickbait reporting from the BBC. Which depressingly has become more the norm in the last few years.
This talk covers the origin & debunks the premise of 1000 fans: https://youtu.be/otbnC2zE2rw?t=273
Huh... I have the exact opposite feeling. I've used a MBPr for work the last two years, and I absolutely hate it. I've pushed to get a good solid Lenovo, but that's been repeatedly rejected as they like the convenience of the whole office using OSX and Apple hardware.

I've felt the touchpad wasn't sensitive enough and the click action was way too feeble. Combined with the mushy feeling of the keyboard and the atrocious user experience of the OS, I can barely stand using it each day.
This is true, however, their software is slowing down the phone. I recently compared the iPhone 7 with iOS10 vs iPhone 7 with iOS13: the camera app got slower and is shooting blurry pictures often, the gallery app is slower and less responsive, the keyboard takes a significant time to open now vs. always instantly available.

The phones do "get slower" - and this is annoying af.
GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs, etc.--combined with open source and public clouds that abstract a lot of the complexity--have helped mitigate the impact of the slowdown of CMOS process scaling especially for the workloads that really need the performance. But it's reasonable to wonder what happens when we start to run out of various "hacks" and performance stops getting cheaper and more power efficient.

Big implications that I'm not sure the tech industry fully appreciates.
thanks for the writeup.
This is the unstoppable march of capitalism, turning even its workers into commodities; predicted quite accurately by Marx in the 1800s. Half of our workforce will be able to be completely represented by some number. No different than a bushel of apples.
Maybe the problem isn't necessarily latitude, but light intensity. Any info on that? It's great that countries here and there are considering alternate options.
I have an iphone 6 (not even 6s), with the original battery. The battery health says capacity is 96%. Maybe that's a poor estimate? There are some things that run down the battery at a fascinating pace, but that's a very recent event. For instance, I can lose 20% charge in airplane mode. I now have to turn the phone completely off when I want to store it somewhere like in a locker when I work out (yeah, I'm a boomer I know- I'm one of the few people in the gym who don't have headphones on).
There are certainly some, but "most" is unsupported by evidence.
Because if you don't subscribe to a branch of philosophy that's ok with being just a Newtonian thinking machine, it's kind of a scary concept.
It is, and it would also be accurate. Many things Obama did have been undone in less than 3 years, and the same will happen after Trump leaves.
They already do. This is what the article is about. Official Apple Certification prohibiting you from repairing almost anything. All you are allowed to do is mail stuff back to Apple for a replacement.
Not really. There is literally precedent in this regard. TeX is stable. Very stable.

Has it been extended? Yes. And some extensions can be seen as borderline required. But I'm not unconvinced that one of the biggest factors in this is that he tried to make it stable. And showed great restraint in what requirements to go after.
Hey! This is one lunch!
Rackspace ends free OSS hosting without notice and sends invoices
Crypto.

Lots of projects high on buzz-words but low on competence and value creation potential are highly valued, while lots of projects low on buzz-words and high on competence and value creation potential are lowly valued.

When the pendelum swings, a few clever wolves will get filthy rich while the masses lose their shirts.

As always.
I'm torn because I can see both sides. On the one hand, yay technology. On the other, as a former competitive cyclist, I understand why it's important to keep it grounded in the basics. I was unhappy when bicycle racing quickly adopted the electronic shifting - I felt that was a step away from the bicycle's original design. Just felt wrong.
Lots more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22266966
without telling the consumers. They now have to tell them when performance management is on.
Because running freebsd on a laptop is an edge case. Most people run it on servers. It’s not trying to be everything to everyone like Linux is.
I'm not sure, but the underlying principle is that we're trying to avoid repetition. Especially the kind of repetitive arguments where people turn mean.
We had a better model for artists for recorded music before buffet streaming: pay for recordings. The trajectory we're now on was less an inevitability driven by new tech + market forces and more a result of specific policy choices and business plays.

If your generalization applies (and it may well apply), then that's something to consider for anyone who could find themselves as easily exploited by scale as its beneficiary.