skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take some advice from someone who has been there and done that, and suffered for it: -

Cure yourself of this tendency to jump to extremes. Your relationships and your career will benefit from pausing and moderating what you say.

To the content of your comment: -

There is a sizable menu of options to make wind and solar more reliable. Two technologies with nearly a century of history behind them are pumped hydro and CAES (compressed air energy storage).

Batteries have been technologically feasible for decades, and are on the cusp of economic feasibility (that is: being cheaper than the alternatives), thanks to the manufacturing learning curve that the OP makes so much of.

Better grid interconnections also help a lot and probably have an even more illustrious history than pumped hydro and CAES. Demand management (asking large users, e.g. pulp and paper mills to pause for a while), is also a venerable technique.

It is possible to use surplus power to make fuels to burn when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. This is still in its infancy only because we have never before had periods when electricity had a negative price.

These are just the things that sprang to my mind without thinking about it. There are others.
Here's what I do:

- Refuse to work for a company that treats privacy as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

No one has to work at Google. Anyone who gets an offer from them has ample opportunity to work elsewhere.
Please don't name your song "Launch Nuclear Missiles".
It was nice to take a break after work and have a quick challenge. I guess the hard part was the password, after login it was over quickly. The game almost lost me on password guessing, I misunderstood something and had a different date. Hammering away at the password wasn't fun. Between guessing the name, the date, the date format, and case sensitivity, it leaves one with too many options to hammer away at manually.
Are you saying, if the only way to communicate with Facebook users, is to use Facebook? I think if users are only allowed to use Facebook then it might be an issue. But it sounds like you are saying company X has a monopoly because only users of company X can use company X programs. That doesn't sound like a monopoly to me. In the US who only has access to Facebook?
They should’ve bought TSLA at $420/share ($84/share adjusted for split).
I don't know if it is quite so meaningless. But I doubt the US government is going to do something to give us more power over our technology. The Feds successfully threatened to shut down an entire social network this year. They don't want to lose that power. They do care about mass media and how people discover information, however. They will take action to make sure the wrong information is not being shared widely.
So better be one of those. It's not hard to be a shareholder. Buy some mutual fund shares.
You can develop resistance naturally. I was exposed to COVID-19, therefore I have antibodies and I am immune, supposedly for 6 months.

> You can develop resistance naturally. When your body is exposed to a virus or bacteria, it makes antibodies to fight off the infection. When you recover, your body keeps these antibodies. Your body will defend against another infection. This is what stopped the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil. Two years after the outbreak began, 63% of the population had had exposure to the virus. Researchers think the community reached the right level for herd immunity.
Well, no, because we have differing views on what The Right Thing™ is.
> I also recall someone working years ago on a way to push snapshots to S3

You can pipe zfs send to gof3r.
It's interesting that someone found my summary of the article threatening enough that they wanted to vote it down. For context, here's a direct quote from the article describing what the complaint is: "NLRB has found Google’s policy against employees looking at certain coworkers’ calendars is unlawful"
There are a lot of things that aren't illegal. That doesn't mean they're not a problem.
> The inability of industry and academia (and the w3c) to create standards is what created the opportunity that enabled Apple to succeed.

Steve Jobs crippled the web browser, wouldn't allow non-Safari browsers, and didn't open the hardware APIs the way modern web APIs and WASM seek to do.

Don't misrepresent history. It was always about control.

> Turn signals are a great example of why this idea is dead on arrival. They have been around for close to a century and the government mandated them 50 years ago.

Air bags, tire standards, headlight specifications. You're picking on the wrong part of my argument.

> If you want the US computing industry to move at that speed, the government will make that happen for you.

This sounds like a boogeyman. I hypothesize computing evolution happens slower because of how locked down everything is. Smartphones are stagnant already - no government help required.
When I logged into the virtual password manager in the game my actual password manager wanted to add the account!
A friend of mine has a VR start-up and has shown me some demos. Some of those were of concerts and parties. The experience is quite unique, especially when the camera is on the stage.

It is a unique experience and if done right, I would likely purchase recordings, even though I am quite unlikely to buy regular recordings of live shows.
The browser monopoly was first broken by Mozilla Firefox, and then Apple and Google developing WebKit and Chrome.

There is no reason an industry consortium couldn’t produce a new platform.
Renewables as a utility power source won't stop our reliance on oil. Fossil fuels like coal and natural gas are on the chopping board, but oil still has considerable permeation through our lives and a very large conversion cost and social inertia to overcome yet.

Plastics, shipping fuels, many manufacturing processes use oil during manufacturing but perhaps not in the final product. Vehicles are still decades away from being replaced by EVs.

The technology is all there and there are some "quick wins" coming around the corner I think. Container shipping switching to nuclear would be a quick change once regulations are in place for one example.
HTTP/1.1 pipelining was never useful due to head-of-line blocking and no browsers enabled it by default.
That was an amazing rant. I really respect the level of detail and dedication to the rant.
I hope they (EIA) are off the mark. If the predictions from the EIA a will materialize, we’re going to have a huge carbon problem.

However, I think there also are reasons to believe things will be better:

1) the EIA forecasts linear growth of renewables, while its been behaving exponentially over the last 5-10 years. That gives me hope they’ve underestimated the long term growth rate. (It would be interesting to compare their older predictions vs actual)

2) nearly all of the energy consumption growth is non-OECD and will require newly built generation. If cost of renewables continues to drop, it might just be economic sense that pushes renewables over coal

3) at least on the EU side, fossil fuels are increasingly getting a negative connotation. On top of the financial comparison, I expect this could dampen new fossil growth as well.
AWS vs. Alibaba Cloud Pricing: A Comparison of Compute Options
High-energy X-rays reveal the secrets of ancient Egyptian inks
> Cool, as a rough approximation, it is close to (1/50)^6, right? But couldn't the first ball be any ball? That doesn't really matter. So wouldn't it just be 1/50^5 for 6 balls?

It's very, very far, between non-replacement (~1.36x), order (5!=120x), the fact that final ball is out of 20 instead of out of 50 (2.5x), and the number of possible sequences which would be notable (at least 16x, but actually probably a fair bit more because recognizable patterns are pretty broad).

The upshot of which is that estimating at 50^6 is off by multiple orders of magnitude...
What would be the airline's alternative plan? The A320neo family has a multi-year backlog of orders, so you'd be delaying your aircraft replacement. Keep flying older 737 NGs? Then your competitors can beat you on costs due to lower fuel burn.

That all said, Boeing is liable for penalties due to late delivery of many (most?) aircraft.
You’re incorrectly conflating the two cases described in the article. Berland was fired for viewing other’s calendars, Spiers for the notifications.

The NLRB ruled both firings were illegitimate and their actions protected under labor law. So no, she was within her rights and the NLRB said she’s to be reinstated.

The NLRB has no direct enforcement power, so how it resolves itself will be dependent on if the NLRB pursues Google in the U.S. Court of Appeals, they settle out of court, or otherwise. My guess is that they settle because an NLRB ruling against you isn’t likely to work in your favor in the event of an employment lawsuit. But regardless, what Spiers did stands as a favorable precedent for workers in the event of other disputes with similar circumstances.
> The government is not a scalpel, it's a sledgehammer. It can easily say that the same company can't make both third party app stores and operating systems, or both video search/recommendations and video hosting. It's a clear enough line, it isn't mired in technical details, you swing the sledgehammer at the fault line between the two markets and break them apart. Then you go home.

This works.

Let's do it.
I have the exact opposite reading. A monopoly is perfectly positioned to make outlandish offers way over value for potential future competitors to kill or absorb them and maintain dominance. Make them an offer they can't refuse.
Have to agree with this. I kept thinking "Instead of playing this, I'd be way better of buying an Arduino and building something real instead. I'd learn a real skill and it would be less unnecessarily difficult on top of that."
Yup - I think that all matches what I'm saying. It's a fundamental philosophical tenet of Urbit that there are fewer than four billion people in this world who are deserving of a "proper identity that can't be canceled." Urbit specifically exists to promote having an independent digital identity instead of being subservient to Facebook, Twitter, etc., but not everyone in the world is worthy of having that independent digital identity in Urbit's eyes, and never will be.

To be clear, I'm not primarily arguing whether Urbit's view is right or wrong - it's probably clear that I mostly think Urbit's view is wrong, but the primary argument I'm making is that Urbit encodes this particular view into its technical implementation. I'm definitely not arguing, for instance, that 8-year-olds deserve the same rights as 30-year-olds - but I am arguing that it's a legitimate position to say they do, and that human society may, with good reason, come to that conclusion in the future. But Urbit has closed the door on that question. Sure, we live in a world right now where not all people have the same rights, and in particular children do not. But in a world where Urbit succeeds, there's no point even debating the question, because not all people technically can have the same rights.
Chinese also has the additional problem that character simplification in the PRC broke quite a few pronunciation cues. With 廣, you can correctly guess it'll sound similar to 黄. Simplified to 广, you have no idea.
Japanese companies massively exploit their employees and the presidents often live like kings. They might not get an SV salary but they get an expense account, cars, vacation homes, and other perks all provided by the company. Meanwhile their employees get paid shit and work 10-12hr days and don't get paid overtime.

I'd chose SV over that anytime. SV at least pays on average 6x what a similar employee makes in Japan and effectively treats their staff like royalty. Flex hours, lots of vacation, space, good equipment, breaks, gyms, meals, etc...
Typically what I've seen is if something is policy before hand, then it's legal, such as retention policies for email. In this case to do something similar, you would need the phone to not retain more than 24 hours of information or similar or be jumped and have your devices forcibly taken a away and get into some sort of 5th amendment edge case where you don't have to give the contents of your mind / say anything.
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The OP is being naive. He's probably never been sent a warning notice from Comcast/Time Warner Cable to stop using Torrent to illegally download movies, or otherwise you may need to pay penalty or get sued.

Sure, it IS possible to go through all kinds of convoluted ways to bypass the law, the same way you can go through all kinds of convoluted ways to illegally download movies (using Tor/VPN/etc.)

This means something like Bitcoin will end up being as mainstream as Tor. It will be enough to cripple the entire industry so it never grows to a meaningful size.
Can they not make more of the previous design? Or is 100% of production capacity 737 max
This mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it, acid.
The issue is that you can't switch from Facebook to something else by yourself. You may want to use Signal, but the 75 people you want to communicate with on Facebook don't have Signal, and the cost of convincing every one of them to switch so that you don't have to use Facebook is insurmountable.

Whenever there is a network effect, anyone with a monopoly on the network has a monopoly on a market.
A new season of HWNDU. About time.
> Cool, as a rough approximation, it is close to (1/50)^6, right?

No. 50^6 is about 938x bigger than (50 choose 6), which is the correct chance of picking 6 of 50 numbers.

> And wouldn't the odds really be: p = (1/49 * 1/48 * 1/47 * 1/46 * 1/45) for the balls to be drawn in order in one lottery?

This is not correct either. There are 45 sequential possibilities of winning numbers: 1-2-3-4-5-6, 2-3-4-5-6-7, ... 45-46-47-48-49-50. So "45 / (50 choose 6)", about 647 times more likely than that calculation for p.

Of course, if you start adding in other striking patterns like 2-4-6-8-10-12, the chance of a "fishy" draw becomes more and more likely.
As it turns out, when you have a smaller set of results to work with, every point of data has outsized effect.

http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/a310.htm

The airbus A310 had 1.35 accidents per million flights, and for some reason people still fly in it
> They should've just kept out of conservative circles and let them exist.

Not sure where you get the idea that Facebook is somehow hostile to conservatives. Hell, they hired Joel Kaplan, a GOP operative, and made him their VP of public policy[1]. They made fringe tabloid Breitbart a 'trusted source.' Elderly conservatives are kinda Facebook's lifeblood at the moment.

They're not just letting conservative circles exist, they're fueling and radicalizing them.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/facebook-twitter-don-t...
I almost threw my thing against the wall when it did that after a 6am alarm
Businesses OutLasting Pandemics and Difficult Times
How do you get out of bed when literally everything in the world is out to kill you
(By the way not a true story as far as I know -- it's just the kind of thing someone telling a tall tale usually finishes with).
Yes there is. HTTP/2 has SETTINGS frame to communicate implementation capabilities, and SETTINGS_ENABLE_PUSH is standardized to communicate push support. Chrome will send SETTINGS_ENABLE_PUSH set to zero, so no user agent parsing is necessary and all compliant implementations should handle this transition transparently.
Tokyo has a reputation for being cold even to Japanese people from other prefectures. Osaka was more fun and friendly.
"draconian government takeover of private corporations"

It's not a takeover, it's a break up of business units.

When these units operate together, they enable a kind of power otherwise unachievable.

Carriers and Mobile device makers play incredibly anti-competitive games all the time in the fight for market share.

It's almost surreal. The carriers were pretty bad before smartphones, now it's Android+iOS.

Large entities can play all sorts of games like forcing their buyers into exclusivity, requiring them to not carry competitive devices all sorts of things.

Microsoft is a classic example with Office: they can integrate their software into their OS in a manner they don't afford to competitors, thereby leveraging their OS monopoly, into other monopolies, which in the long run is bad for business.

Platforms have an inherent aspect to them which makes us want to have fewer players, but there still should be more diversity.

Remember feature phones? There were plenty of choices. And buying one, did not lock you into the next one. They were not 'platforms' there were 1000 varieties even if there were some 'big players' (ie Nokia).

There are actually some consumer benefits when vertical integration is done well, and there is pricing competition - which is why I think that the desktop market is fair.

Apple is being a 'good capitalist' on the Mac side - great innovation - and choice.

The issue with Facebook is an entirely different issue, I don't even think it's one of 'anti competitive' behaviour - the real issue is a little bit political and it's about the control of information, liability, content filtering, 'truth' etc.. That's where that discussion is focused.

If I were 'Capitalist God' I wouldn't break up Apple but I would force them to allow open distribution of apps, while allowing certain measures for security, and of course, transportability of personal data from all apps, all vendors, including Apple. Similarly to Google with their services and Android.

With Facebook and content, requiring them to have a completely independant panel for content filtering, with some kind of objective oversight (like a board, but not corporate), where FB gets to set pretty much any policy they want, but that Board/Panel ensures that there's fair and consistent application of those policies to the content.

Much like Banks are regulated: they have to have 'firewalls' between their buy and sell side operations to avoid conflict of interest.

Finally, some rules about channel ownership and exclusivity - so that Apple/Android can't join in with AT&T/Verizon to basically cut every little other vendor in the world out.

Honestly, what I just described just as an example is not deeply interventional, and it would allow those businesses to thrive mostly the same while giving users more choice, privacy, allow business to set their own content guidelines and wash their hands of politicians thinking 'their party is treated unfairly' because it's literally and independent body doing the filtering equitably, and it would let smaller players with actually decent products into the playing field.
Sounds like you didn't find yours. I know plenty of people that did find their dream profession so it's might not happen to everyone but it's factually not a fairy tale
From early in the article:

"Let me start by making one thing clear – the current Pine Store isn’t going away and the pricing in the Pine Store will remain unchanged."

Then near the end:

"The Pine Store, in its current form, isn’t going anytime soon and the current community-oriented price point will not change."

I don't want to nitpick, but I believe some further clarification would be needed; those "in its current form" and "anytime soon" can make a world of difference.

Don't get me wrong, I totally support the move, although I'm not sure bumping the price to $299 for a device that isn't 100% ready yet would be a good move, especially considering that most customers in retail shops wouldn't be so sensitive about privacy, openness, etc. compared to online purchasers.

If I may offer an idea to recover some costs, why not making a backplane board for the PinePhone mainboard, with screws, flat cables to the mainboard and connectors to the external world? It could become both a development platform for the phone, and be used as a SBC for tinkering. Also all people who upgraded their phone to the 3GB/32GB version could make some use of their old mainboard.
It could become a normal procedure: phone is upgraded, old mainboard becomes useable again, everything is reused and nothing is thrown away. The message sent would be so different from other phone manufacturers and their planned obsolescence.
Flying is much safer then driving, but that a statement based on real statistics. However, a large number of people have an irrational fear of flying vs driving. That’s the point.
I disagree. If all companies are forced to use the same components, it removes the incentive for companies to innovate on those components. Why bother building a better battery lock if you're not allowed to use it in your products without giving it to your competitors first?
No, you don't have any idea what you're talking about and you continue to display this ignorance

>He tried to sell me a block of Urbit address space at the time. I don't remember the asking price, but it was substantial, many thousands of dollars

Okay, many thousands of dollars for how big a block of address space? I'm guessing it was FAR, FAR less than $20 per planet. Because, you know, that's how technical projects like this work. The price of address space has been going up over time as development of the project and engagement with the network increases and risk decreases

>Yes, the crowdsales priced individual addresses at less than one cent, but it's a 64-bit address space, so even at one cent that puts the gross valuation of Urbit at many orders magnitude greater than the gross planetary product since the dawn of human history

Oh boy. No, the price I quoted you there was less than one cent per planet, because that's the unit that we're talking about here. Planets are the 32 bit level of the address space, so that puts the gross valuation at around $40 million

Maybe you think that's still overvalued; I have no interest in speculating myself. But the point is that you are absolutely wrong about the $20 per planet figure above being a lot less than earlier figures

>the addresses are not sold individually but in large blocks, with part of the pitch being that people who get in early can turn around and sell parts of their holdings

Which is true of pretty much any digital asset, corporate stock investment, etc. Yes, people investing money early in an experimental software project with explosive growth potential are probably speculating to try and make money down the line. You think this is shocking news to anyone?
Hi Kevin, I sent you an email last week asking if I can skip the call and have not heard back. Would you check my email from junwon@product.ceo, activate account, and send me the self-service instruction?
https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2011/10/personal-cl...
"That is something I cannot allow to happen."
Juggling websites in the 90s is my history with the internet that so many seem to be nostalgic for. An advancement in a hobby going straight from colleges to a 10-year-old in a small town via unstyled html.
That would fall in the rarer category of 虚假字, or bogus characters.
I'm the CEO of Exodus (https://www.exodus.io - mentioned in the article). In many regions, we're currently more popular than the bible: https://www.google.com/search?q=exodus

Exodus is a non-custodial self-hosted wallet. This means that you have access to the funds and only you have access. We don't have access nor do we see your activity.

Betteridge's law of headlines applies here... i.e. no, the government is not banning crypto wallets.

I'm biased, but this regulation will be worse for exchanges. Each customer will likely have to take onerous actions to withdrawal their funds. This will further bifurcate centralized custodial exchanges and non-custodial decentralized products like wallets and DeFi.