skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electricity production (in the building power plants sense) isn't very elastic. Profitability wouldn't be the only, or likely the primary consideration for what to close and when.

The market for electricity isn't very "efficient" in that way, a utility or market doesn't buy and sell from an individual power plant so the price/profitability of a single plant doesn't reflect the supply/demand from that plant.
I believe that Windows will soon 'do an Apple'.

That is, just as Apple has built its proprietary Desktop built on top of a BSD UNIX base, Microsoft is gradually moving towards building its Windows Desktop on top of a Linux base.

That would remove hundreds/thousands of highly paid MSFT developers that currently have to maintain the underlying OS and obtains their function from the thousands of 'unpaid by Microsoft' Linux OS developers.
I add water to make them a little fluffier. Also, water doesn't spoil overnight, so I can take them to work and have them at my desk after the commute. On the weekends I use bacon grease.
I'd seriously doubt more than a few of people at Google would want to use 365 at work. I for one never felt the need when I was there nor afterwards and the entire company is fully utilizing Google Docs which is a better product as far as sharing and search is concerned. It's not like people at Google constantly email .docx files to each other, lol. Nevertheless, you can request it (in an AppStore like fashion, not some overburdened process) if you really need MSOffice, but Zoom binary being banned seems to be a completely different matter though, as pointed out in other posts.
How are deploy commanders chosen? On my (very small currently) team, the person who is on-call is also our deploy commander, but it seems like you might need something else for a larger team.
Because you'll end up seeing more ads, as publishers will show more irrelevant ads to make up for revenue lost due to lack of targeting
I rename the "email" key in our register endpoint to "emailAddress" and all code that touches that key turns red less than 1s later, whether it's in the client or server.

Edit: All of these edits to your posts after I've already replied are very confusing.
Yeah that hit the nail on the head for me.

You’re app needs work if people’s reaction to trying it out is, “ok... now what?”
It's common in the US to add milk. The first person who showed me how to scramble eggs without adding milk said it was "the French way to scramble eggs". She was Romanian.
That looks... absolutely disgusting, and I considered myself a fairly adventurous eater coming into this thread

Read through the article and found that it's served along with "Head cheese" on special occasions, so I clicked on that only to find out I'm certainly not as adventurous as I thought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese
Has the FDA given approval for any of the millions of people to be infected with the dangerous strains?
With PHP (What slack was using at one point for some of the services. I think everything uses Hack now which may still maintain a similar model). Switching directories can be mostly atomic.

PHP-FPM with opcaching doesn't need to access files once all the opcodes are cached (turn off file modification checks in production). When you move the directory, you will restart the service.

Unless a request hits a file that is rarely used and not cached, you should be not receive any errors moving the directories.
Exactly. why do you think they punched the OPM to get SF86's?

It continues to surprise me that people just don't grok basic concepts of intelligence gathering. Particularly on a site like this....

And as much is its controversial here, there is a material difference between US and Chinese objectives, value systems and implementations of surveillance.
Minetest, an open source infinite-world block sandbox game
It's interesting that atomic deploys weren't in from the start. That was one of the few deployment practices we really insisted on from day one at my own businesses, if only because the uncertainty you get from trying to trace problems where your system isn't in any known state makes it all but impossible to work systematically.

A related challenge where we've never really found a good solution is how to handle deploying updates atomically when both code and data model are changing. That is, we need to migrate both our application software and our database schema in some co-ordinated way.

In practice, this usually ends up being done in multiple stages, where during some intermediate part of the process we are actively maintaining both the old and new database structure and running both versions of relevant code, at some point in the process there will be a bulk conversion of existing DB data that was only in the old format to the new one, and then hopefully at the end we switch to reading only the new version, retire the old code, and if necessary remove the old DB contents that are no longer in use. Even then we probably still want to keep an implementation of our previous data API available that is reverse engineering data from the new format, just in case we have to wind back the application code due to some other problem.

I got tired just writing that, and it feels similarly dirty actually deploying it. How is everyone else handling this? Has anyone found a satisfactory way to migrate code and data forwards, and if necessary backwards, without timing or data loss issues? Controlled deployments of application code seem to be largely a solved problem with modern tools and a bit of common sense, but the database side of things doesn't seem to be nearly as clean, at least not with any of the strategies I've encountered so far.

[Edit: I see that while I was writing this, someone else has already raised a similar point elsewhere in the discussion and a few people have replied, but unfortunately only along the lines I mentioned here as well. This does not make me optimistic about finding a cleaner strategy, but further comments are still welcome.]
Or even lose money if they are reducing the value of an asset.

Specifically, running their car into the ground doing driving.
The texture was more unusual to me than the taste was. I expected something more like a hard boiled egg, but it was very rubbery and didn’t yield to the teeth as easily.
Post-quantum digital signature algorithms based on lattices are starting to get secure, efficient and based on simple mathematical constructs.

IIRC, the basic construction is you generate a lattice trapdoor matrix R, such that A*(Rt + e) ~= t. Finding an input p with small coefficients, for some t such that Ap = t reduces to one of lattice reduction problems, since it requires a finding "good" basis for the lattice (if you invert A you'll have huge coefficients, so you can't forge it. Having the trapdoor R to make p = Rt + e lets you use the trapdoor to find the preimage, and the gaussian vector e smudges it so that an attacker can't collect signatures to decipher R (this is learning with errors, another problem that reduces to lattice basis.) So the signature is easy to verify, and the trapdoor matrix is relatively small and efficient to compute (iirc a couple megs and <1s)

Disclaimer: not a cryptographer, just a hobbyist.
> The behaviour of some full-time uber drivers is simply irrational and that is effectively being exploited by companies like Uber.

Irrational to you.

> If one includes the cost of operating and maintaining the vehicle, not to mention the depreciation, the risk of losing work if it actually breaks down and so on you're not arriving at a salary that is even remotely sane or competitive.

There are a lot of reasons why people still make the economic decision to drive on ridesharing platforms, even considering all of this. 1) If the car is a sunk cost (I.e. they would have owned the car, Uber or not), then it isn't accurate to include its cost in the equation. 2) Some people will happily trade-off the slightly less competitive pay in return for not having a boss and not having to clock into a job.

> Just look at who has to pick up the cost during the corona crisis now because these people are effectively broke if they can't drive, it's everyone else.

This is literally true everywhere in the world. Coronavirus is a once-in-a-generation black swan event, and most governments' responses have been mass shut-downs of the economy and forced unemployment. The taxpayers foot the bill for most workers, employee or not. "Employment" status would not have changed that.

> In the name of flexibility we are loading social responsibility of regular employers onto the public because drivers overestimate the benefits and underestimate the risks and companies like Uber want to line their pockets.

This is how safety nets work. In many developed countries, health insurance is decoupled from employees and taxpayers foot the bill. Would you not consider this an abrogation of responsibility of Danish/Canadian employers to provide benefits for their workers?
Client access license. For Microsoft Windows they come in per-seat and per-machine. To OPs point, they were talking about RDP. When you are licensing per-machine then (windows server) you are limited to one desktop user and two remote users (for windows desktop it’s one user at a time). When it is per-seat then you can have as many concurrent connections as you have licensed for. Per-seat is enforced by Microsoft Licensing Server
If increased supply outpaces increased demand then energy costs will fall.
> "I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number — and this is just my hunch — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it's very mild, they'll get better very rapidly. They don't even see a doctor. They don't even call a doctor. You never hear about those people,..."

At the time, the person who said that was called an idiot.
> Full time employees get benefits like unemployment, health insurance, COBRA, FICA contributions etc.
And tons of other legal protections that contractors do not normally get.

They do not if the employer has fewer than 50 employees. Which is a huge portion of low paying jobs.

FICA contributions have nothing to do with full time employment, nor are they benefits people are eligible for before retirement age.
I usually do the same thing, manually. I have a set of about 10 signatures that I vectorized (so that they scale with no visible artifacts). I apply one of those signatures to the PDF documents in an editor that can edit PDFs (currently using Affinity Designer or Publisher, they're excellent).

Then I take pride in outputting the cleaniest PDF possible. Never received any complaint. Most people on the receiving end probably print them out, and they appreciate the clean result, compared to what you get when you re-scan it (or intentionally blur it).

That said, for 27 pages (!!) that tool would prove a lifesaver.
(Four hours after your comment and it wasn't just downvoted: it has now been flagged, marked dead, and is unavailable for anyone not logged in and you can no longer reply to it.)
Me as well. It does seem that the whole point of being a billionaire is to do whatever you want. I can't imagine why so many seem to stick to managing their creations, which after a while can't be much fun.
Think of TV and other traditional media. The content is created to attract people which are turn sold to advertisers as a commodity. If you're looking at specific content, you are being targeted, by the content and any appropriated ads depending on who is buying at the time. All without individual tracking and targeting.

Seeing an ad for something like a keyboard on a site about cooking is wasteful in so many ways. Mostly due to the inherit waste/loss in the ad stack and market. Too many middlemen taking too many %s of the pie to add what is in essence, a small lift in performance for the advertiser. Who really has no choice but to spend more if they want to increase their goals.

The problem is that the internet became about gaming a false metric to make money. Success was measured by metrics like Impressions...

The entire market is very wasteful and exists without a proper market forces to balance the costs. Facebook, Google make up their pricing. There is no transparency in the demand, they just choose a price, take a large % of the value, (or all) and have no incentive to change course.

Most people better receive random, contextual driven ads than specific targeted ones. They interact with something similar to the content rather than to their specific browsing history. The thing that FB figured out, was they could combine content into ads and also sell ads against that content. Taking hold of the whole enchilada.
New options for webmasters to control their snippets at Bing
Apple's Covid-19 cleaning recommendations again ruin “screen-gate” MacBooks
In 2017, Apple extended the warranty on many MacBook displays to 4 years[0][1], because they recognized that their anti-glare coating was too easily removed with 70% IPA wipes. This week, they are telling customers that it is fine to use 70% IPA wipes on any "hard, nonporous surfaces" of any apple products (including those MacBooks models that were already acknowledged to be incompatible with IPA) [2]. Unfortunately, Apple's advice is now causing customers to ruin their laptop screens again, at least one of whom had not previously ruined their screen with any cleaning products over the past several years [3]. Apple's guidance:

> "Is it OK to use a disinfectant on my Apple product? Using a 70 percent isopropyl alcohol wipe or Clorox Disinfecting Wipes, you may gently wipe the hard, nonporous surfaces of your Apple product, such as the display, keyboard, or other exterior surfaces."

Apple support's response is predictable in that it disavows any fault. Disappointingly they also don't walk back the recommendation to use 70% IPA on MacBook displays, but instead devolve into an argument over the definition of "display"[3]. >Apple Support Agent: "The 'display' and 'screen' are used in different wording."

Do consumers who followed the advice written by Apple for disinfecting their MacBook displays have any recourse?

0: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/17/apple-extends-free-staingate-repairs/

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/bf9hgz/damaged_my_screen_really_bad_used_rubbing_alcohol/

2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204172 Web Archive alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/20200408111634/https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204172

3: https://imgur.com/a/jtTztAd
I'm just googling, but FWIW, from 2017: The China Carbon Market Just Launched, And It's The World's Largest. Here's How It Can Succeed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/2017/12/19/the...

At a cursory glance, it seems like it's still ongoing, at a price of 8$/ton: https://www.icf.com/insights/public-policy/china-carbon-pric...
Wow that’s a huge loophole then. If true you might be on to something. That’s pretty cool.

It’s also sad we have to go to these Herculean lengths to bypass the slowness of the FDA.
I see that you mentioned Heather Adkins and her role at Google, which seems to me like a good-faith effort on your part to answer my question. I appreciate that. However, as you mention, the important question is whether I believe in Google's security organization/apparatus competence.

A security organization is made of people, so the question as to authors is still relevant, it is just more numerous and hopefully better than the sum of its parts. In my mind, an adequate answer, which you have no obligation to give, would highlight individuals who have material authority over the content of the book and what they have done in specific and how that indicates an understanding of developing and deploying secure systems. Even better would be their personal confidence level on the capability of those systems and how secure they believe they are in quantitative terms. This provides a falsifiable statement about their capabilities.

For the question of the organization's competence, I use my default opinion on information security organizations on it as I have no knowledge as to the internal capability or competence of Google's security organization other than through public information, hearsay, and extrapolation from my own experiences of the information security industry. By default, given the rest of the information security industry, I see no reason to believe in the competence of any security organization. I base this on personal experience working with people in security organizations, the regular reports of large organizations (that I and likely the average person would naively assume to be competent) being compromised trivially, and the lies that most organizations tell about their security before, during, and after breaches. These experiences lead me to default to non-trust and distrust organizational reputation in favor of specific concrete examples showing capability which is why I asked for such.

I hope this adequately explains my viewpoint.
Excellent. So in reality this is just a transition thing. I hope it is.
Yeah, I love lighting my water on fire and fracking earthquakes.

Switching America's oil subsidies to solar and wind would be much better than pretending that fracking shale is a net plus.
Wow. From:

64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE

to:

16700332000 KB SYSTEM RAM 3865524000 KILOBYTES FREE

?? Wait a minute... this guy has 16 terabytes of RAM?!?!

I mean I knew we've come a long way... but not that long. ;)

Looking at the code, it's a bug in reset.ps1 that mistakenly appends "000". So just a normal 16 GB system, phew.
Another fun option for preserving eggs: salt them. I've never used them in a recipe (not sure if they'd work). but they are delicious eaten like charcuterie.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cured+egg+yolks&oq=cured+egg...
I don’t think that’s the same thing.

Edit. Don’t get me wrong. I’m on your side. I just want to figure out if it’s feasible.
Vehicle maintenance is not the same as depreciation.
I agree, but then the countries where tuition and healthcare is more accessible have other issues that make you feel like you're treading water.

In Canada for example, housing is significantly more expensive on a cost/hours_worked basis than large chunks of the USA, and many households have debt load levels higher than the US. Cost of normal goods such as gas, utility bills, food, consumer goods, etc are also more expensive than the USA. You can see similar dynamics in Europe too.
> Nobody is dumb enough to believe that Google is saving money by not using office.

Maybe I'm dumb, why wouldn't they be saving money by not paying for Office? Obviously they could buy it for every employee, including the majority that don't need it, but why? They could also just light money on fire (but why?)?
DIY face masks design with filters for Covid-19
there are no basic human rights. there's only what we can agree upon or fight for.
"Exponential processes just don't really exist in nature". Hopefully no one (cough, politicians) says this anymore, after Covid-19.
Just because 20ms is the default doesn't mean that it has to be that way. The chart you linked shows a big "bubble" for opus for a reason.

Opus minimum frame size is actually 2.5ms:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#section-2.1.4

Of course there's a ton of other potential sources of delay that make my fantasy hard to achieve, probably already starting at the typical USB microphones (in headsets/cameras).
Perhaps it indicates that the soil is at an optimal moisture level for planting/ germinating a seed.
It's more like US$13.50/hr if you take the exchange rate from a few months ago, before the COVID-19 crisis.
JPMorgan Fires Credit Trader and Cuts Staff Bonuses for WhatsApp Use
Minetest is amazing. My kids were obsessed with Minecraft. After introducing them to Minetest they love it too, and don't notice much of a difference. But, I love it because:

1. It's free as in speech!

2. It's super hackable! https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Overview

3. It's light on resources. It's written in C++ and my 10 year old desktop computer can host a LAN server for 8 people at a time with no problems.

4. My kids are excited to learn to code, and this is a great bridge between Scratch and "something real." Without learning the complexities of graphics and game dev it's very easy to program small parts with "mods."

5. The build works on everything I've tried. Builds just fine on super old Debian stable running on my Pine Book Pro, and also builds fine on my bleeding edge Fedora machine.

6. It's already in most repos so you can install it easily. `dnf install minetest or `apt install minetest` . Some repos (like Debian) have a very old build, but it's easy to clone the github repo and build it yourself.
Similarly and linked in the same article, the human nose is sensitive to ozone in as little as 0.1 ppm, and it seems an unlikely coincidence that it starts to become hazardous to respiratory tissue above this concentration.
@dang @sctb headline / title should be "Zappy: Free Screenshot & Recording Software for macOS" or something similar. Current title leaves out the "for macOS" part and the original <title> is just fine here.
The switch can't just happen in an eye blink. The push through the 00's and 10's for renewables are the precise reason we have enough renewable infrastructure that the balance can begin tipping. Saying the actions weren't justified is basically saying "See? We got the effect! We didn't need the cause at all!"

It's also possible that an even bigger push to get to this tipping point earlier would have saved even more money that will be spent mitigating the extra years of ecological harm, but counterfactuals like that are admittedly hard to prove and we're not at a point in history where that judgment could be assessed.
My point is that if there is any downtime for the switch, for example restarting a service, it's not atomic. A small percentage of failed requests can still be high in absolute terms for a company like Slack, so why not using a paradigm [1] where you have atomic switch? And also instant rollback.

[1] https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/BlueGreenDeployment.html
Or to wear protective gear that costs basically nothing. Not touching your face at all is extremely difficult where as wearing a mask is very simple. Why suggest very difficult measures when very simple ones work better.
In Portugal, this movement was push forward by the royal court (together with the Catholic church, of course), so Portuguese was the only language to do so. For some reason, the Spanish course didn't follow suit.
You might as well ask why should computer prices fall. Energy costs fall because of advances in technology. Wind and PV have now brought the very rapid cost reductions of the tech sector to the energy sector. PV costs fell by nearly an order of magnitude in the last decade.
My company uses HBase currently for things on premise and we're moving to a mix of psql and BigTable in GCP. This is how we do things except all of our "schemas" are defined by the client so we just have to make sure that serialization/deserialization works correctly. With psql we might have to figure out a migration strategy, but for now we'll just be using it to store raw bytes.
"Exponential processes just don't really exist in nature"

Wait, do people actually say that?
In most modern western societies your spouse that you cheat on can indeed very easily leave you any time she or he wants to, and they're certainly not powerless in either a legal or practical exit sense.

Not during the early 1900s, which is what's being discussed here. Also, "any time she or he wants to" is a complete misrepresentation of today's situation, as well.

And no, cheating on someone sexually or romantically is not the same as abusing them in any legal sense,

I didn't claim it was abusive, I claimed it was a terrible thing to do. I claimed that his abusive behavior was abusive, which is true.

Your entire argument is based around strawmanning against an argument that wasn't being made.