skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expensive phones don’t necessarily have much more long term software support than cheap ones and the cost is typically shared across the full product line.
Yes Apple provides longer support than Android phones, but a high end iPhone and a low end iPhone get the same term of updates, just as a high end Samsung and a low end Samsung get the same term of updates. A highend Samsung absolutely could have longer support which would improve its value. At the point where this is being built for high end phones, the marginal cost of including support for low end models is very low.
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Why do the climate activists hiding, I can not understand?

Climate is fashionable and respected today, they would got medals maybe if not hiding?

I can openly say that I am for good climate and ecology. Greta Thunberg is also not hiding.

And about this specific activist, do you know what he is accused of? (It must be something other than activism, right? Difficult to imagine climate activism is illegal in France).

PS: I understand this topic is mostly about Proton failing the privacy expectations, but curious to know what can activist be charged with.
Yeah, this debacle will probably help them find a better wording of their guarantees.

They do explain the threat model quite well but the information is scattered around (e.g. https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-threat-model/) and this matters in an era where the attention span of people is very short.
I think the subtext is, "yet another scam perpetuated by the cryptocurrency community at large."

The whole thing started out as a utopian ideal for freeing people from centralized control of transactions and it's turning out to be yet another thing ruined by bad actors.

In that context, buying SSD's from (largely) thieves who (largely) will fleece you in several other ways will not turn out well for you.
Perhaps the unvaccinated people in low-vaccination countries are unvaccinated due to low vaccine supply, and thus take non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI: masks, social distancing) seriously, while the holdouts in high-vaccine countries have opted out by choice and belligerently disregard NPI, causing the disease to run wild through their communities.
First of all I was talking about power consumption, which is never expressed in MW or kW.

Secondly, mW is also power, not electricity consumption.
4Wh is power consumption (or electricity use if you will). The "per day"-part was just referring to the duration, hence the use of a different unit. I could just as well have used Joules and skip the "day"-part entirely to confuse the reader as to how I arrived at the final figure.

Edit: just to make this even clearer - do the dimensional analysis yourself and see why I used Wh/day. Or to put it differently: what do think is the answer to the question "say a car saves 4Wh of electricity every day. How much electricity does the car save in a year?"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd say it saves 4Wh/d•365d = 4•365 Wh/d•d = 4•365 Wh (or 5.256 MJ if you insist).

> the first thing we do when we see such a figure is convert it back to its SI units so that we can do our calculations within the system that we’re more familiar with

I bet my firstborn that the vast majority of the population will not do that and are not familiar at all with the actual meaning of the figure.

Had I converted the whole shebang into Joules instead and expressed the total energy savings as 5.256 Terajoule I can guarantee that outside the odd physics major no one would be familiar with what kind of energy use we're talking about.

Look at your electricity bill and tell me what it unit it uses.
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Tangential plug, I launched my own social network without feed, notifications, or even a way to find people there.

It flopped everywhere I promoted it, but it is still online since I am on free tier of the host service.

If anyone wants to check it:

https://www.quidsentio.com
Have an army of pre-qualified reviewers at the ready. Have them blast the site with comments as soon as your launch is live to game the algorithm and get more traffic. Alternatively, just sit back, hope that people will judge you based on the quality of your product — and be doomed.
Isn't it a probable cause to search your car, since it's the car and the cash that has broken the law, and has no rights to privacy?
It's not. My guess is that some folks are of a hard libertarian leaning even verging into sovereign citizenship.
Yep, I know the pain all too well. ESM is also currently a disaster as many popular packages migrate without transpiling to CJS and you cannot call ESM from CJS contexts.

As you said, it's good to separate the ecosystem from the language/runtime. Things will improve over time, but everything has just been in transition for so long. I dream of the day that transpilers are no longer needed and TypeScript is baked in to all browsers. Until then it is a mess.

> node-gyp might then depend on python2

`cmake-js` is the preferred option now. And Rust native deps don't have this issue.
I have a protonmail account. When I log in to the interface, I see the body of emails, without providing any key on the client (not that it'd help since the client is a generic browser running their website code). This implies the process exists to recover the body of my emails. Also, I type in the password in their web UI in cleartext - there's no other way to gain access - which means they also have access to my cleartext password and could be forced to disclose it to the third parties. So unless you provide some contrary evidence, your assertion is false.
I think they ask everyone that question so they can take the money. It's a very profitable question when the cops get to keep the money
No, it is exactly the opposite.

The well-documented failings of psychology should cause us to take a closer look at other fields to see if they have similar problems. If they don't, then great. If they do, then fix them.

For example people studying metascience have found that a lot of medical research is of questionable accuracy. It is not as bad as psychology. But it is bad and I'm glad that people are taking this problem seriously.
I don't understand why it is so hard for people on HN to understand that "no logs by default" is perfectly compatible with "if the government orders us to turn on logs, we must".
"Jira scales. You just need to put a varnish in front and move the comments to disqus"
And the sellers can in turn ask their seller for updates.
Try using two of them connected together.
FWIW, I am pretty sure "[your] grandma's pâté" is also a "processed food".
I have been waiting for the Fed to conjure up a bad bank and put the Fed's underperforming assets and some treasuries into it then have it go insolvent.

Seems like the easiest way to cut the Fed balance sheet.
> Not even going into the problems with second-hand phones and that poor people de-factor have zero legal rights as they don't have the money to take sellers to court.

This thread is about EU law.

In EU you don't have to take sellers to court, you just have to nag customer protection authorities until they do.

It might take some time: Google still hasn't gotten a massive fine for abusing its position in search and ads to kill competing browsers despite my reports but I will not be surprised when it happpens.

PS: come on guys and gals and do write to your local competition authorities. The sooner we can get this sorted the better.
Is this the diaper guy's project?

Not trump

Lore
I emulate it by deactivating as many notifications as possible, and manually checking replies after a few days or weeks, when I remember. I have noticed that what was a "hot" discussion often becomes pointless and laughable after enough time has elapsed. I usually don't feel the need to reply to these old bickerings anymore.
Yeah, strange omission. No Metaphone or Double Metaphone either, though IIRC there are some IP entanglements with those.

It does include two other Phonetic algorithms, neither of which I’m familiar with:
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Timing is everything in old games, change that and you change the experience into something different. Not to say it's better or worse, but it's not the same.
I really like like the idea of a "high latency" social network, effectively bringing back the feeling of old snail mail (but more public).

2 weeks seems unnecessarily extreme to me though, even 24h would probably be enough to severely limit the flame potential. It would also potentially mean that one could have a daily routine of checking for the new content and replies and writing your own stuff and you're good to go for the day.

Although to really be effective I think it'd have to work on a global tick (i.e., all new content is published once a day at a certain time). Otherwise the new content would still slowly drip continuously and you'd still have the addictive nature of social networks.

At this point I'm sort of reinventing a collaborative version of a newspaper.
Well, that's the baby out with the bathwater, then.

Defense in depth, always.
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Exciting to see that click bait has made its way into the research realm.

Nobody would be the least bit interested in this paper if it didnt have a funny sounding made up word with no known definition in the title.
I think we are long past the point where we can trust all governments to use interpol notices only when required, and for the local law enforcement agencies not to take nuclear actions based on something that is clearly contrived, or political in nature.

Now, I don't support squatting, but launching an interpol notice, and attacking privacy under color of law seems like a misuse of the law, and abuse of the Swiss legal system.

We may need to attack this problem differently since it appears the Swiss do not have the vaunted protections they claim.

Also, we need Protonmail to look into offshoring, and obtaining independence of a potentially abusive legal system.

Sealand had at least a few good ideas around immunities from State power.
Anxious.
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I read this sst post when it originally came out and decided to experiment with taking 0.3mg melatonin every evening. I started to get heart flutters that literally lasted all day. Stopped as soon as I stopped taking melatonin.
The manufacture Lean and JIT were disseminated by Toyota. But the software development things called of Lean and JIT aren't exactly equivalents of the manufacture versions of them.

I also disagree that the equivalent of stopping the production when you spot a defect is fixing your bugs as soon as you see them. The equivalent would be something more meta, as asking yourself why that bug was created and changing the way you work (like in adding a linter rule).
>age's CLI is so much nicer and easier to integrate than gpg's

Some of that seems to be from omitting features, though. Gpg CLI integration allows passing both the cleartext to be encrypted and a passphrase on pipes. Which means things like --passphrase-fd, which age doesn't seem to have. Makes it simpler, but also means you have to have more clear text in files, at least temporarily.
I suppose if you're going for that level of realism, then you have more complexity like the person reaching for the doorknob and opening it. That's certainly more complex.

Maybe the problem is trying to simulate it as a generic physics engine object, as opposed to a specific object type that has its own hard-coded rules of motion. Again, there's complexity involved, and I can see how it makes the job more difficult when you have to integrate with the rest of the game engine.

Still, I would think that by now game devs should know that doors are difficult, and thus take them into account from the beginning when designing a game engine (maybe that's what they do) rather than trying to integrate them into the engine that's already been designed.
I want seven years of warranty for computers and mobile devices and would be willing to pay a lot for it, but alas.
> take turns with people in your circle to become a 'star' for a period of time

I like this idea. For a while, "day in the life of a ____" posts were very popular on imgur, and I really enjoyed it, even though they were strangers.

The downside I figure might be that after someone's star-time, they get a lot of incoming attention, which then fades out. Some people might react quite well to that and others quite poorly, so I figure you'd need a set of other functions (say, blast-from-the-past auto-regurgiations, or week-delayed emails as suggested in another post here) to mitigate that and help people of various social proclivities all feel comfortable.

I miss letter writing. When you'd sit down and put real thought into it because you'd know it would be the only time you'd communicate for the next week or two. Or even tape swapping -- my dad and uncle used to mail tapes back and forth, hour-long audio rambles because it was more fun than the written word. Every tape started with a delay to make sure the leader was past the head, then the "pk-ssht" of a beer can being opened....
I like this, but I think a reasonable alternative would be that for smart phones older than a certain age the manufacturer publish enough information for the creation of free drivers and software and unlocks for installing that software. One thing that makes me really sad is that I would probably be perfectly fine still using iPhone 5 era hardware if I had a free OS I could put on there with ongoing support. That's entirely reasonable in the desktop/laptop space so it strikes me as kinda sad that it seems non-existent in phones, when it's all just computers anyway.
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The problem is that however distasteful or lacking the current situation is, it’s been adopted by most large companies and is seen as standard now so nobody has any incentive to improve it and it self perpetuates akin to hazing rituals at fraternities . Google got us into the current mess with their claim to have found the only difference between good performance and bad performance at Google was the ability to do algorithmic problems. If only they published that research! Before Google was Microsoft. The only thing that would incentivize employers to change now would be engineers refusing these interviews en masse or a small company becoming an influentially big one that has a different hiring scheme altogether.
> if you forgot your password, boom, all your email is gone as is access to your email address

Replace "email" with "Bitcoin"
I often have an urge to pull out my phone to look up some info that is pertinent to the conversation, especially if I can’t quite remember something.

I eventually learned to just let it go unless it was of immediate importance, but the constant impulse to use my phone as a reference device persists.
Ah, you’re one of those people.

Sounds to me like the person you’re replying to had you perfectly figured out. If you’re lucky one day you’ll get to look back on this comment in regret. If not, you’ll keep living in ignorance.
I went to pick up a book at the circulation desk at my uni close to the first day of classes and of the people in front of me and in back of me there were 9 girls and 0 boys in line.

If the class were gender-balanced the odds of that would be 1/512; I have no idea what it means ("girls are much more interested in using the library?") but I think it's significant.
The worst part is that the syntax is designed to make JS look like other object-oriented languages without changing the prototypical object system to match the semantics of such languages.
You are basically correct. this word is nonsense and NOBODY uses it.

The author is using a funny sounding made up word to attract interest to their research.
He obviously did not understand what his job as a manager is about.

Why on earth would a manager be allowed to set tolerances like how you describe, tool or no tool?

It makes no sense and is first and foremost a management and cultural issue. Second a work process issue. Solid third, one of competency. Probably ways below numerous other problems lies the tool.

You obviously needed to be able to set tight tolerances for some work, so… you seem to need the setting on occasion.

These stories just blow wind in my sails!

If you have management like this (american?) you must be measured like crazy - set goals based on metrics that will push things in a direction you see effective.
Yes, StarCraft I. The issue wasn't physical realism. The problem was that a player could move a tank under a building during mid-landing, siege it up, and the boundaries of the building protected the siege tank from melee attacks.

Killing the tank was the "creative" solution, instead of a "brute force" solution to change the game dynamics to prevent the tank from sieging up under the building in the first place.

In SC2 the tanks will be forced to move out from under the building when it lands, but SC2 also has a much improved unit movement system over SC1 that allows this to be done more easily.
Imagine powerful and lightweight laptops only sold in Americas and Asia while in Europe one will only be able to buy bulky (because repairability) and slow (because high-end manufacturers focus on less regulated markets) versions.
About half the population have one of the ten most popular names. Not as severe as in Wales or South Korea though.
> You’re paying 50 per year? Judging by the amount of complaining in this and the other thread I would have guessed you must be paying at least a few thousands per month and/or were are one or more of a) an activist from Afghanistan b) a whistleblower from the US c) a human rights activist from China.

d) building the proverbial nuclear submarine in your basement :-p
It’s a well known way of getting your post to HN frontpage.
It's a good question. The short answer is that although the daily peak in California tends to be around 7pm, the annual peak is more like 3pm-5pm due to air conditioning on hot summer days. So solar, at our current margins, actually does supply peak demand and thereby reduce capex needed for gas peakers.

(And annual peak demand is the correct timeframe to use, since our system targets reliability on the scale of years not days.)

Today's peak: http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/index.html?fbclid=I...

Annual peaks: https://www.caiso.com/documents/californiaisopeakloadhistory...

I wrote a detailed version of this comment later in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436432
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If a person can’t afford expected repair expenses during the useful lifetime of a product, then they can’t afford that product.

You wouldn’t buy a car either without planning for repair costs.
There is no harm in trying.
All your comment has communicated is that Varnish can scale. Wordpress is not Varnish.

The gp isn't "wrong": putting Varnish in front of WP is a possible solution to the fact WP doesn't scale, not a disproof of the fact.

Furthermore it's a highly limited solution: WP is only static if you limit it's use to its static features, and configuring Varnish for the unholy mess of 3rd-party dynamic/interactive/form-handling WP plugins is nightmare territory.

Wordpress doesn't scale.
Nuclear could be cheaper; its high cost is probably more regulatory than instrinsic. There is an obvious tradeoff here, but if you look at the renewable/clean energy programs in many first world countries, the primary trend seems to be replacing EOL nuclear with wind/gas. I think we could be doing better.

Hydrogen is promising, but there are technical problems with transportation and storage. I'd like to see carbon taxes push us towards these types of solutions instead of burning 'renewable' carbon.
This academic view of things does not matter to the people who are living a reality where their parents have done better than them. You seem to be ignoring this fact.
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This researcher just made it up. You could make up your own words if you wanted
> if the currency is controlled by those who have most of it, how is this any different from government-issued currency

The difference is, if a cryptocurrency is mismanaged, people can sell their holdings and buy a better-managed currency, decreasing the value for those who have the most to lose.

That provides a selective pressure towards good economic governance, which doesn't exist with too-big-to-fail central banks that can require you to use their product because of legal tender laws and tax payments.

Also, programmable money is inherently more valuable because of new use cases it enables, like smart contracts. That is why diversifying into cryptocurrency is better than simply diversifying into a foreign government-issued currency.

Full disclaimer: I do not own, and have never owned, any cryptocurrency.
Not only that, but it's very unfortunately worded. There's a missing "contents of emails, attachments, calendars, files, etc. cannot be compromised by legal orders", since I assume there is vital metadata that still can be compromised.
This question seems to stem from some assumption that the employer-employee relationship is perfectly symmetrical and therefore both sides should be litigated the same.

Employers should get prosecuted harsher because they have the power.
I was expecting the blog post to have a bit more of substance after the introductory line:

> V8 v9.4 is filled with all sorts of developer-facing goodies

Instead it just describes a single feature, and then DIY:

> Please use `git log branch-heads/9.3..branch-heads/9.4 include/v8.h` to get a list of the API changes.
I wonder what the authors opinion on Helium would be: https://www.helium.com/
TDD is cargo cult.
The other thing about jira is it’s configurability. I look for replacements every so often and all will require us to change our process. We have adapted jira to our exact process like I’m sure many teams have.
The government seems to be worried he will illegally stay past his visa, either due to his past history or because his country might impose restriction on him coming back due to Covid.

This would be trivial to avoid with something simple like a safety deposit; You leave 10k and you get it back once you legally depart the country at the end of your visa. Overstay and lose it. Alternatively, the home country could underwrite it. This would remove any incentive they have for keeping a student from returning home.

Even before the convenient excuse of Covid, it seems overstaying or illegally working on a student visa was quite common in Canada [0].

[0] https://thewalrus.ca/the-shadowy-business-of-international-e...
The thing is: can you run an actual company with paying customers and do this, from an operational perspective? Do you know <<any>> commercial company doing this?

I think it's pretty much impossible. How do you debug issues? How do you track and prevent abuse?
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Many countries actually have laws that say you HAVE to log.
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