skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure it will be Microsoft building the chip... unlike Apple, they don't have a big enough market for it. Unless they use it in their cloud or Xbox line. The surface line is too small... now, Qualcomm going and building a bigger, faster chip to compete with Apple might be more reasonable. And if Microsoft put their weight behind it and add that security stuff mentioned earlier in the week, allowed windows on Arm to be purchasable by end users and maybe, just maybe, added windows server support, we might be getting there...
The story is an excerpt from:

Ziegler, James F., et al. "IBM experiments in soft fails in computer electronics (1978–1994)." IBM journal of research and development 40.1 (1996): 3-18.
What Can Apache Events and Workers Do for You?
When you signed your agreement, that Android technology didn't exist, so reserving themselves the right to get root on your devices accessing corporate information was the closest, yet very blunt, approximation. Personal devices were highly discouraged or even forbidden for a long time, but employees kept asking about them, for the convenience. These use cases and internal dogfooding were major factors in the eventual development of Android Enterprise and related products.
But the Chinese have politics invading many aspects of society anyway, but lack the ability to do anything about it. Is that less stressful, or more?
Yes, it is a bit silly to paint it as some unloved, underrated diamond in the rough. It's hugely popular.
Precision Medicine Approach Reverses Case of Type 1 Diabetes
Google is a special case, via play store the effectively have complete control of almost every android phone.

Its foolish to think they wouldn't use it.
You’re right, I’ve only had a few jobs in my life. But I have hired dozens of people - everyone I’ve hired received their contracts the same day they receive an offer.

Very surprised this isn’t common practice.
Ha, I was going to make a comment along these lines. I didn't mention the languages I enjoy over PHP but I can assure you JavaScript ain't one of them. I don't hate JS but as a server-side language I would pick PHP over it any day.
Oh wow, I just looked up Bonzibuddy and I guess I learned something today! :D

Sorry, I misunderstood this to allude to "Bonze" a German/French derogatory translating to "fat cat".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bonze
I have been working on this project recently. Feel free to check it out.
> If you buy a share of a publicly-traded company you are not "investing" in the company

no you are - because it's a chain of capital investment that is linked all the way to IPO (or private investment pre-IPO).

You purchase a share publicly from _someone_ who has purchased it from someone else. This chain of purchases leads all the way back to the initial share offering.

Just because your dollar doesn't go directly to the company doesn't mean this form of funding structure isn't "contributing capital". Your public share purchase allows an existing share holder to exit - without which they would not have purchased the initial share in the first place.
I just flipped them, reading the wiki on the terms I see I had them backwards.

My partner always corrects me and I think they have them wrong :P at least we agree on which one is better too
The AWS Billing System
You're right that humour can help bring certain things to light where a more courtly scenario might not. I'd posit that the opposite is also true where a space with more formality can also be helpful. Each sort of space has its strengths, and it helps to participate in a variety in order to be well-rounded.

One thing I like about Hacker News is that since humour isn't centred as much, crass ideas can't be cloaked in a joke and get a pass. I'll go into some Discord channel and see borderline-insensitive memes be normalized as they're "just joking" or "didn't mean any harm". That thing doesn't happen as much here as those memes would fall flat when presented plainly.
400s are user errors ;)
Abilene Paradox
It is certainly in relative decline. This is a matter of fact not opinion.
Try using double quotes for literal search (like in web search)
> I'm getting something like 775% chance it would happen yearly, but that seems too likely,

In probability, when you roam outside of the 0-1 (or 0-100%) range, you can guarantee with 775% certainty that something went wrong somewhere. ;)
In theory, I would love an IT union. But in practice it's likely to turn into another extortion racket by a small cabal of sleazy fat men. And they will stay in power appealing to the lowest of the low flattening salaries and destroying meritocracy. With sadness I have to say, no thanks.
Existing hydro lakes can act as storage (within the constraints of how much inflow there is and minimum outflow rates).

Decrease lake outflow when solar and wind are producing power. Increase lake outflow when they are not.

https://www.hydro.org/waterpower/why-hydro/available/
Negotiation doesn’t mean that you get your way and they agree to your demands

Sounds like both parties had a hard line on what they would accept
Most corp IT teams require employees to install a mobile device management profile, which enables you to then run teams, get email access etc. it’s also what gives your company privileges on your phone.

Some MDM profiles can have pretty nasty access enabled (e.g. route all IP traffic via Corp net, access device location at all times, remote wipe etc).

Take a look at what your MDM profile says if you have one installed.
How about an album called "Ok Google Play \"Ok Google Play Music\""...

It's amusing to think that there is an elegant solution to this problem in text --- quoting --- which unfortunately a lot of the population doesn't understand beyond one level at most, but also cannot easily be expressed verbally.
Germany emits less than half the CO2 per capita than the US, and their per-capita CO2 emissions have been going down steadily (more than 50%!) for more than a decade. France's are lower, but Germany's decarbonization is working well.

It is also incorrect to assert that the majority of Germany's power costs are due to the extra power plants. The majority of the costs are taxes and fees which have nothing to do with the extra power plants.

You have numerous falsehoods in your post, your analysis is incorrect, and your conclusions are false.
Huh? Norway alone has 85 TWh of hydrologic storage.

New Zealand has about 4 TWh, but they are considering adding an additional 5-12 TWh with one single storage project:

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/scientific-thoug...
The House of Saud has a plan. It isn't going quite as well as they had hoped, but it's going. Aramco was IPO'd. They wanted a trillion dollar valuation, and didn't get it.

The next step is to sell that stock before the oil market collapses, preferably leaving themselves with a lot of cash and a minority stake in a much smaller company.

Cash is going into technology stocks, venture funds, and international real estate.
A salvage operation with some similarities was that of the MV Tricolor, a car carrier ship with a bumpy history sunk in December 2002 and salvaged 2003--2004.

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

Video documentary:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0ENOJBLVgjw
Adler is a lying scumbag. . .
Not comparing google to coal mines. BUT

1. Unionized coal mines had/have much better wages and working conditions :)

2. Of course there are shades everywhere. And just because there are worse exploiters, doesn't mean google should get away with anything that's not "as bad" as those.
Yes, so shocking to hear that considering how police in the rest of the world are known for their stellar reputation in the community.
Yeah, I'm sure some providers do support some of my feature requests here. But definitely not a single one supports all of them (or I'd have moved to it!) Amazon Music, for example, supports this blocking only for songs in their pre-built playlists. It's little constraints like that that contribute to the frustration.
Peaker plants can get paid fees to be ready to deliver power, even without actually running. I think there are plants that get built, paid for as a pure peaker plant, and never run because the peaker is not required.
Do you know whether it was considered?

In this particular case, I don’t know, although the lack of any positive examples to point to suggests that it’s not an option that’s typically given any weight in decision-making.

Whose department should take the budget hit for maintaining a no longer viable project?

Speaking as a user, I don’t care. Isn’t Google swimming in profit?

(I realize of course that you don’t achieve the kind of success in the first place that brings those colossal profits without making hard-nosed decisions along the way -- arguably)

Whose reputation should be dinged for running a non viable product?

Again, speaking as a user, I’d put value in keeping the “non-viable” product around, if it were one I happened to use.

I’m not expecting my answer to change anything, but it’s a general answer to a general question. What could they do differently? Answer: eat the loss.
I lol'd.

SPAs are great if your customers actually want an application. Figma, AirTable, Google Sheets. These don't make sense as server rendered pages.

If you're in the publishing business and need your articles to rank high on Google, then yeah its probably not a good idea.

EDIT: Or Slack for that matter
> This requires overbuilding, which is currently cheaper that storage, and the average generation is highly predictable for day-ahead or hour-ahead trading.

We should also keep in mind that this isn't unique to renewables, all power sources have to overbuild because systems get taken offline for repair and maintenance regularly. Sometimes it's even weather dependent as well, in a recent heatwave France had to shutdown nuclear power stations because the river for cooling water was becoming too warm.
South Korea: The life-changing exam that won't stop for a pandemic
I did that, and it's still just some board room speak about cost reduction, novel data enrichment and not what actual it actually does. What do I use this for?

I get that you want to sell this to executives, but the people that point executives to products to buy are the developers like me, and if don't understand what it does, I can't see executives finding your product.

Just give examples of what on-the-ground problems is solves, converts kafka messages to s3 objects or what?

Lack of novel data enrichment is not a problem that I have, but I could do with something that streams k8s pod logs to kafka or s3 or whatever. Does this solve that?
Every apartment building I've lived at in recent memory has one of these signs at the entrance.
Yeah some of it is a real pain.

I try to buy all my audio books from Downpour since they are DRM free, and music as you mentioned isn't a problem. I was very into music in the 90s/00s and bought nearly every CD I wanted and I ripped them into mp3s years ago. I may just budget a $100 or so to buy mp3s I don't have that I still want to listen to, and cancel YT music.

I don't often buy ebooks since I love physical paper, but when I do I try to buy DRM free or use Calibre/Apprentice Alf to strip the DRM and convert to epub.

Movies are a real challenge though. Plenty of older stuff I have on DVD and it's easy to rip, but it does take an enormous amount of effort to rip blu-ray. I may try to do an OTA antenna hooked into Plex for most of TV, but will probably keep CBS all access and a couple others for movies/shows/etc. So I'll self host most things :-D
PG&E practices the time honored tradition of stochastic terrorism through incompetence (avoiding maintenance commitments) and regulatory capture (to avoid the penalties).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/18/business/pge-...
People should be allowed to unionize but I'll oppose it at every front. Because mass power means mass power that can be turned against me. 2016 taught me something. There are a large contingent of anti-immigrants out there. Should you allow the creation of a mob, a day will come when the populists will take control of it.

In moments, the mob can break generations of integration. The best defence against it is prevention of its formation.

No, should you gain any appreciable fraction of power to unionize, I think there's a lot of my money I would throw into the opposite effort. No populist mobs. Never again. No group should have that power.
Oh I would say it has changed a lot throughout history. For quite a long time, setting out on your own from your family, profession, town, etc. was a great risk, and there was nowhere near the social/economic mobility that we have today.
Thank you. Contacting YC itself requires solving reCAPTCHA, so it's not too friendly either; but it's better than that.
Here's a very concrete example: The address space in Urbit for self-controlled entities is 2^32, four billion. You can use Urbit if you don't have such an address, but you're a subsidiary of whoever is giving you access to the rest of the network and you're subject to censorship/control by them. You can't develop an independent identity that someone else can route traffic to.

Now, it's true that the IPv4 internet also does this. But the IPv4 internet does this because they didn't expect to run into the limit (far fewer than 2^32 IPs were originally usable), and then they started working (halfheartedly, but whatever) on IPv6. Urbit has the limit because, as a philosophical position, they believe the limit is a good thing, because there should not be more than four billion people with full human rights.

https://urbit.org/blog/common-objections-to-urbit/

> A 32-bit planet is a tool, not a toy. Like a car, it's a device for a responsible and independent adult. There aren't 4 billion cars in the world, nor 4 billion independent adults.

> If you aren't an independent adult, and you don't need or even shouldn't have unconditional digital freedom (no one's 8-year-old daughter needs unconditional digital freedom), a moon from someone else's planet is fine. (Even most of today's independent adults don't complain enough about being Facebook's moons.)

This was written by Yarvin in 2016, when there were over 5 billion people over the age of 18 in the world, so at least one billion adults then were unworthy of first-class citizenship in Urbit's "digital city," and even more today - not to mention the 8-year-old daughters or 12-year-old daughters or 16-year-old daughters who need conditions on their digital freedom.
Personally I think (hope) that huge imports from foreign countries of energy-generation hardware (thinking especially about solar panels, not sure about the rest) won't last forever and internal production of such components will be somehow in/directly promoted, which might lead at some point to a stabilization of prices (because of less competitivity / more protectionism), at least for a while.

This thought being based on "energy" being a strategic resource for all nations, and no nation willingly wanting to become dependant on any other one in this context.
Unless I'm doing something wrong here - just typing some javascript into the console gives me...

function rn() {
return parseInt(Math.random() * 100);
}

function drawing(){
let result = [rn(), rn(), rn(), rn(), rn()];
return result.sort();
};

function sequential(arr){
for(let i = 0; i < arr.length-1; i++){
if(arr[i] + 1 != arr[i+1]){
return false
}
}
return true
}

let counter = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < 10000000; i ++){
if (sequential(drawing())){
counter ++;
}
};

console.log(counter);

16

Mathematically, it seems like you'd need to draw one of five numbers from the range, then one of four numbers, then one of three... so the likelihood would be 5/100 * 4/100 * 3/100 * 2/100 * 1/100 = 0.000000012. Although those odds don't seem to line up with the javascript I posted.
I am a horseshoe crab, actually.
[off-topic] Hey randomdude - a few months back you replied to one of my comments with some well wishes that I could get back into motorbike riding soon. Just wanted to pass on that Melbourne is now free from lockdown again, and so I am able, and have been. It's great! I hope you're doing well too!
Can you tell me concrete ways in which the average googler SWE's life will improve if they join a union?
They got a less fucked world. That’s good for Germans too, and we are blessed they are big enough to make a difference.
I wonder, why it is still not possible to spell the words you want to say if they are not recognized by the voice assistant?
s/California politics/politics/g
Or use compression, people used to do that.
I think the average home ownership in the US is 5-7 years. Depending on the size of your solar setup, you very well may not break even before moving for whatever reason.

That said, it does make sense if you do plan to stay for 10+ years I think. As new houses get built, hopefully with requirements for solar, the housing stock will eventually all be upgraded to include some form of solar generation. I would expect the price to further come down and the majority of homes in the 1st world to have residential solar of some form within the next 30 years.
Dell scammed LTT – Invoiced them for premium support they refused multiple times
> It's sad to see people downvote correct information.

I'm confused, there's no downvote button in HN.
Meanwhile, what's the slogan being pushed by the World Economic Forum: "2030: you'll own nothing and you'll be happy." Raite...
Look at PG&E's recent accident and incident record.
Fine, you can also say "Set a timer", pause for a hot take, and then say "four minutes" and it's fine. I just tried it and it worked without any issue.
I just remembered about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AEbn1NUvq0
Number "21" shows on the screen before the actual extraction (1:06 & 1:38)
Cloud based ides make me feel uncomfortable. Do companies really want their developers dependent on a web app being online? Isn’t sublime so much faster than a web app? Are there IP issues to worry about from the “we can change our TOS at any time with no notice” clauses on these sites? Won’t the data be really tempting to sell one day? Maybe I’m just not the target audience for it
It should be regionalized:

Hey Pal! for Edinburgh

Hey Jimmy! for Glasgow

Yo! for LA

Oi! for NY

Doode for SF

etc
DeepMind co-founder: Gaming inspired AI breakthrough
"Relative decline" is like saying, "my parents are half as tall as they were when I was eight."
> Being in the 49% that disagreed with something is still better than your boss mandating the choice instead.

No, it really isn't because of ecosystem effects. Per-company unions find themselves rapidly affiliated with industry unions and then pan-industry unions. The net effect of this is that in non-union industries you can go somewhere else and negotiate with a new boss. In union industries you go somewhere else and you're still subject to the same 51%.
In my experience, machinery experiences more wear and tear if you repeatedly turn it off and on than just letting it run constantly.

I’d expect a power plant to be the same with all the heat and whatnot.
Spotify developed AI to detect songwriter plagiarism
many if not most people might voluntarily employ a disassortative mating strategy independent of any sort of state coercion.

In the Cystic Fibrosis community, many people have no idea they are carriers and know nothing about the condition until they have a child with the condition. And then they are left with the gut-wrenching decision-making process of "Should we have more kids, knowing there is a 25 percent chance they will also have this Dread Disease?"

This is a huge hot-button topic in the CF community, or was when I used to participate in CF discussion spaces. As the saying goes, most people "wouldn't wish this on their worst enemy," much less their own child whom they have to raise.

(If they have any idea what is involved, most people wouldn't wish raising such a child on themselves. It's a significant burden to care for such a child. That alone is enough reason for many people to not want a child with a serious genetic disorder.)
I think it depends solely on one thing: Does it add to the topic at hand in a way that promotes intelligent conversation?

Lazy or dismissive humour doesn't. It usually is a stopping point, or results in a thread of follow-up jokes deviating further and further from the actual conversations, each one trying to out-clever the previous one - a distraction far away from what was posted and intended.

That's what usually gets downvoted or outright rejected on HN.
Regardless of whether or not IT professionals should be worried about their salaries, labor power isn't just about compensation.

Unions could negotiate for better parental leave (which is still atrocious throughout the US, even in relatively cushy jobs).

Unions could empower tech workers to actually push back on unethical policies and projects, as opposed to right now where they get to make a statement and then nothing changes.

Organization is about changing a power balance; it's not just about money.
Not open source, but I do recall some searched-out expletives in the leaked Windows 2000 source code providing the Slashdot crowd with some amusement back in the day. Most were around having to kowtow to weirdness from certain vendors.
The UK is subject to EU law and is part of the EEA today; they have to go on what's true now, not what may be true in a few weeks. In any case the UK will inherit most EU data protection rules; they'll presumably change the wording in January, but the rules won't change.
Recently, I opened the packaging of a new product I had purchased (I actually don't even remember what it was), and a small paper tag fell out that said, simply "WARNING: CANCER".

Oh, okay... thanks. :)
To calculate the probability of some event with probability P coming true at least once out of N total tries, you do 1 - ((1 - P) ^ N), not P * N as you've done.

Doing this, your final figures should be 12.1% and 96.8%.

For the expected number of times it would happen though, you are right, it would be three or four times per year on average for the second case.
Sure, I bet NSA employees are quite happy as well.
Setting aside the issue of government suppression, social media (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter all being specific examples) have been terrible with censorship this year.

It has become impossible to discuss any scientific question for which there is a political angle without being censored. I've seen peer-reviewed publications on Facebook and Twitter, hidden behind "misinformation" flags. Questioning orthodox views (even with well-sourced, rational scientific arguments) is enough to get you banned or blocked on the major social media platforms.

We're in a dark place that I didn't think I'd ever see in my lifetime. If you cannot question science, it isn't science.
Haha, well, I guess I learned a new German derogatory term so it's a win-win all around :D
There is you need a certain amount (200?) of karma to use it. Posts with negative votes have more lightly colored text. The above post no longer has negative votes so it's normal colored now.
$200 max sounds nice. I paid that some months for a 900 sqft (83.6127 m2) apartment in the summer in Texas. I have family that have seen 3-400/month for their larger houses some months.

Granted, these are mass produced homes built in the 50s-80s for the most part before home construction got more strict about insulation and energy used to be a lot cheaper.
What if this isn't a memory issue? What if we don't need to remember everything and overestimate our roles as tiny person on blue dot?

Or what if we don't remember due to valuing things more than people? The app becomes an illusory replacement of genuine interaction.
Crossref
I'm admitting it. I LIKE PHP. It's fun and incredibly easy to work with. I have inherited messy code bases. I have inherited nice code bases. But getting it up and running is _never_ a problem that I have had.
My take was that if you did run and it stopped, well, then you know.

Absent of any state change like input.