skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany is closer to 50% coal if you look at actual demand being fulfilled instead of just production. In the linked image, the grey area is conventionals (mostly coal), the green area is exports of surplus.

https://oneinabillionblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/hourly...
Bulb Shack
So then explain this page:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201222

Why would they bother fixing any of the bugs ?
Also located in Aus, and I'm chomping at the bit to get my hands on one. Would love to support this company as much as I can!
I've added an fssnip for the ASCII renderer. It uses NAudio. Should be pretty easy to use. http://www.fssnip.net/85g
But did people typically run Vista 64-bit or the 32-bit version?
Envy has driven much of mankind's progress. Evolution provides us with these emotions because they work.
Bored AND frustrated... I'm curious what you do for work? That's one of the worst combinations in terms of human-factors.
"Even if I only had to pay the $4,050 to buy the stock options, I would not do it. I would rather invest this money on myself, and my family. I would even prefer to buy Bitcoins for that amount, than to invest it in GitLab."

Which would have been the better investment?
Before Michael Dell built a PC empire, he was a teenage Apple II nerd
Extreme heat is broiling people in developing cities – Science – AAAS
This is not entirely correct, alpha and beta radiation damage the crystaline and quasi-crystaline structures of metals and other materials

Even when the reactors themselves, generally rest on light or heavy water, the steel, titanium and other metals and materials nearby the pellets or rods suffer greatly as a consequence of radiation, so it is not a matter of just neutron degradation, but a generalized problem of the physical interaction between radiation and the molecular structures of the materials

Sadly for my case, my materials science course on University was very, very weak, but last year I found this MITOpenCourse which covers this topic on detail, I would highly recommend it to absolutely everyone interested on the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjZjVUWMEz0
>Why are people out to crucify Apple for a story that's still being resolved?

>The company hasn't denied the bounty, they're just incompetent / slow on this process.

People probably expect more from... checks notes The world's most valuable and successful modern corporation.
The pilot's union is on the list I gave.

Aside from the union: because Southwest employs 8,500 pilots and they're not exactly all on linkedin or something.
Got it, didn't see that.
"Normal laptops" don't have many of those ports anymore, only available via dongle.

I don't know what examples you refer to that are less expensive or more user-friendly.
As you say, much of the low gas prices that have occurred in recent memory is due to fracking. Those of us who are a bit older remember when natural gas used to be much higher than we're currently seeing, even before adjusting for inflation.

The energy companies used to also ramp up production in areas like the Permian Basin as soon as oil/gas reached certain thresholds. They are generally being much more disciplined right now because of uncertainty about the pandemic. From that perspective, the prices are more indicative of the "post-pandemic" economic recovery than inflation. If there was less uncertainty about the pandemic recovery, they would be more likely to invest in additional drilling and the price would come down from current levels. They just don't want to be caught ramping up production while seeing a simultaneous pandemic-driven downturn in demand.
The number one reason to use a banking app on your phone is to deposit a paper check by taking a photo of it. I am not aware of a bank that lets you do that from a webpage.

Vanguard works on my completely google-free phone, although I had to change the OS language to English because w/ Android set to French their app would force the use of commas as the cents separator, then complain that commas are not a valid character. Another fun thing was it uses its own internal camera app, which would focus the preview, then completely ignore the focus setting and take a blurry photo of the check. Eventually I figured out the camera's default focus length and take the photo from that distance.
Are you by any chance talking about the job they voluntarily applied to and can freely leave at any time?!
Apology accepted. And on the point of sharing information, I can agree with you. I do want to see more of that because I doubt that any of us knows everything about this. Please continue to share whatever information you find and how you came to know it.
Done enough research into this that I'm familiar with the stuff you're describing. I remember looking into those packet radio protocols, and honestly, they seemed kinda rudimentary, especially (IIRC) the error correction algos. Seems like there's a lot of low-hanging fruit in that area.

> I'm all for the idea of a long range, decentralized, encrypted mesh net. I've read a fair number of papers proposing and analyzing different approaches to make this happen.

What do you think the fundamental value of a meshnet would be? For my part, seems like an (encrypted) text-only system with high latency (15 minutes per paragraph, even) and a range of hundreds of miles between hops, would be preferable to something capable of streaming HD video that was restricted to hops of only a few hundred feet.

I think that's a fair comparison of what the physics can handle, and I think that if the former existed, there'd be a lot of people using it.

Edit: looks like I edited out from under you. Sorry, didn't think you'd see it so quick.
> I believe they recently got more funding to expand operations because Linus from LTT said he was personally investing in them. That makes me feel a little bit better about waiting for a 14" form factor and/or an AMD chip

IIRC he wasn't even a main investor and his investment was around 200k, which isn't that much.
Exercising options isn't "investing in the company" if you immediately sell the shares acquired by exercising, assuming that is possible. In fact, it is worse for the company if you do that, so OP should do it(and make a bunch of money for themselves).

If Gitlab IPOs at $66/share, that means the author will get almost $1M from selling their shares they acquired for $0.27.
Use the energy to persuade your representatives to actually do something (including by raising awareness among your fellow voters) rather than voting for a particular party. Of course, Democrats are more likely to be persuaded, but "sit back and vote for Democrats because it's better than <shitty alternatives>" is a pretty surefire way to lose the climate war.
...in (2017) before leaving GitLab.

Tomorrow on the 14th of October 2021, GitLab is going to the public markets and will be priced around $60 - $66 a share. So this person threw away his $1m worth of stock options because of GitLab's culture.

Oh dear.
In the Navy, we called it “mechanical agitation” it raised fewer eyebrows than “I hit it with a wrench and it started working again.”
I don't think I can remember taking a flight in the last 5 years where I didn't receive a survey email during/after the flight. And I used to fly a lot.

That includes cancelled flights, which I had a lot of because I used to do at least weekly hops between two east coast cities (surprisingly staffing issues were almost as common as weather, but usually it was a combo -- eg weather causing delays in pilots arriving and then once the pilot arrives the weather is bad enough we can't take off.)

Always a survey, even if cancelled, 100% of the time.
New observatory to probe the mysteries of Earth’s ‘forgotten’ subsoil
So, dumb question...

If you were training some deep learning model...

...should you be trying a few Wavelet transforms on your inputs, and feeding those in to your model, too, to see if your model performs better with wavelet inputs?
They don't personally pay. But they still have to balance the budget, and the more that's spent to help with gentrification of the surrounding area (such as via nice football fields, good teachers/a good greatschools rating, well-kept grounds and events) can help lead to increased future funding and thus a bigger paycheck, at least within 5-25 years.
I didn't mean for my comment to come across as disagreeing with your overall point - just highlight that there is (in my mind) a fairly big difference between auto-generated footers attached to outgoing emails that you referenced (re banks, teclos) and explicitly written instructions at the beginning of an email.
Top Python Tools for Malware Analysis. – PythonStacks
It's really, really hard to know what your options will be worth years into the future. You make the best decision with the information you have available at the time.

A cold-hearted, unemotional, calculation might have led him to a different conclusion four years ago--cheap options are very cheap, so the risk is low. But it is very hard to know that. And if a company has done you wrong, not giving it any more money, time, and emotional investment can be worth a lot of money to you.
Related Google Groups discussion from 18 years ago, which claims it's related to the US Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.periphs.printers/c/-qgA_pGE...
If BO’s PR-folks would be worth their money, mission control would have been wearing Star Trek clothing.

This is just weird.
This is such a great idea! I've really struggled with how to test real-time audio code in the live looper I've been working on [0]. Most of my tests use either very small, hand-constructed arrays, or arrays generated by some function.

This is both tedious and makes it very hard to debug test failures (especially with cases like crossfades, pan laws, and looping). I love the idea of having a visual representation that lets me see what's going wrong in the test output, and I'm definitely going to try to implement some similar tests.

I'm also curious what the state-of-the-art is for these sorts of tests. Does anyone have insight into what e.g., ableton's test suite looks like?

[0] http://github.com/mwylde/loopers
This was supposedly true of the Apple III (https://www.techjunkie.com/apple-iii-drop/), but upon searching to find that link, it seems this story may be apocryphal: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12283/did...
Below is the original manual for a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal, which did not use any of the VT100-derrived escape codes (and was much less expensive at the time).

The ADM-3A is notable as it was used by Bill Joy to develop the "vi" editor, and the key layout should be familiar.

http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/D...
> It’s been a couple of months since I was fired from my job as a Backend Developer at GitLab

As far as I understand it, you don't usually get to keep your options when you're fired.

Rest of the post? Disgruntled employee trying to spin "I was fired!" into "I quit!"
To be honest that's how I felt about Windows 10 and most other Microsoft products.
The article is 4 years old. I'm not saying it was a smart move, but at the time he would have had to pay taxes that he might not have been able to afford. I know people that left SpaceX options on the table because they couldn't afford the taxes.
In hindsight maybe. Can you foresee what the next 150 person company that will IPO in 4 years is?
Which would have been the better *risk adjusted* investment. It's easy to say in hindsight that it would have been a good choice, but far harder to know in the moment. Startups fail all the time, including YC ones.
That's a very common myth.

I volunteer at the mountain as either ski patrol or a snowboard instructor. I do 13 days of work (almost always before the mountain even opens - setting up signs, fences, shovelling snow, etc.) and then get a free season pass and have no other responsibilities for the year.

Even when buying a pass it's $900 for the year... which means I just pickup 2 weeks of some odd jobs to pay for it.

I bought my snowboard gear around 7 years ago (used).. so at this point it has cost cents per day.

I have no money from "when I was a software engineer", so it's not like I'm living on some big slush fund or something - I just make smart decisions now about how much money I spend, because that directly dictates how much I'll have to go to work.
> He added that this is not merely a European gas crisis, but a global one, stemming from both a “huge hike in demand for gas from China and Asia,”

whats the source and reason for this "hige spike" ?
For me the 'science' and covid related issue comes down to the major point of risk perception. In the early days, there were videos of people collapsing on the streets in Wuhan, and the disease was thought to be extremely deadly with a CFR of 10%+(1). As the months went by we realized its not really dangerous at all to kids, with death and hospitalization rates extremely tilted towards the elderly and obese.

The main insight I have is that say we found out COVID or one of its variants had a 30%+ death/hospitalization rate as the months went on. I firmly believe more people would get vaccinated due to the obvious severity of it. This current ~1% IFR is at a point such that some think its not deadly enough to warrant the hypocritical restrictions and mandates, and some believe that it is.

Lets say on the other hand that as the months went by, we discovered COVID had a 0.000001% IFR. 1 out of a hundred million people that caught it died. [assume long COVID does not exist]. We could see that ~50-100 people would die worldwide. I think most people would call you foolish if given this IFR, had you been calling for continued mass restrictions.

We are at an inflection point such that we have vaccines, we have mandates, we have restrictions, yet some clamour it isn't enough, while others clamour its too much. These all are based around the perceived deadliness, not the true deadliness of COVID.

(1) - I don't recall the exact number
Accurate and fast Hand-tracking on a mobile AR/VR platform
It really wasn’t more nuanced than that - I’m pretty much quoting verbatim. The argument stemmed from the lack of generics in Go, which apparently was a sign of incompetence.

My general point is that there a lot of people who see the world in binary - genius or idiot, perfect or incompetent.
They recommend you split 10% across the first 10 employees. it's not 10%/10 = 1% each. The earliest engineers get more, the later engineers get less.
Germany already spends so little on their military that they have been in breach of their NATO treaty obligations for years.
Honestly, what you described tells me it's bad culture in the company. I had bad managers at good companies before, I either switched teams and they got moved. I also worked at a company with bad culture and bad managers. I left as soon as I realized they were all lying and never looked back.
Yes, they do have some way of using your iCloud account credentials to get to the backup key. Given the level of customer support needed for forgotten backup keys, they have probably chosen this as the lesser of two evils.

If you don't like that "feature," don't do iCloud backups. I do direct backups as described in the support link. Apple doesn't have those keys.
I have a hard time taking this suggestion seriously, because it amounts to asking everyone to give up every material pleasure with no actual sense of the degree to which it harms the environment, particularly when we could instead change the system to produce things with minimal harm to the environment. But again, I recognize that's no fun for the folks whose identity is wrapped up in sacrificing "for the environment". It's politically impossible, there's everything to lose, and there's nothing to gain over a carbon pricing scheme.

That said, if I were in charge of Exxon's marketing apparatus, I would absolutely campaign to get people to think that they could personal-responsibility their way out of this problem. Go environmentalists! You can do it! Put your back into it!
Lex Fridman had an interesting biological anthropologist who worked with Goodall studying Chimpanzees who had some interesting ideas about the divergence of humans from our shared ancestor with Chimpanzees[0], namely the excising of reactively hyper-violent males, e.g. alpha males.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY
It very much depends on your inputs, but it’s likely worth a shot. Note that wavelet transforms are generally much slower than fast Fourier transforms.
My ThinkPad X1 has no number pad, and puts pgup/pgdn on either side of the up-arrow key, which works quite nicely for me. I picked that laptop specifically for the keyboard.
I would guess that the night usage is so low that with 4h daytime storage you can sustain all the night usage.
Irish DPC greenlights Facebook's “GDPR bypass”
That's easy to say in hindsight, but most startups fail.
It is OK to use different words for different kinds of positive feelings. What people call pleasurable and what they call dopamine hit are to large extend quote different experiences. There is some overlap, but that is it.

We can call everything pleasurable, but then out language will loose expressivity people apparently want.
I always only read the comments.
I'm always a bit confused about the CPU limit (for the pod), some guides (and tools) advice to always set one, but this one [0] doesn't.
Ops people I worked with almost always want to lower that limit and I have to insist for raising it (no way they disable it).
Is there an ultimate best practice for that?

[0] https://learnk8s.io/production-best-practices
I wonder what Mechanics Illustrated had to say about the grid not being ready for air conditioning back in 1960.
Sure you do. They were part of your comp before you were fired, not after. Generally they're yours.
I can't find a source for this info at the moment, but I believe Gwynne Shotwell saying that they'd actually approached NASA (and possibly other customers) and asked if they'd like to fly anything on the Falcon Heavy demo mission. Clearly, nobody took them up on the offer.
More cores for running k8s locally.
Have you perchance tried Gerbil as well?
All this 90's culture that I was too small to be a part of gives me that para-nostalgia for a time I never experienced. The stories of the hackers and newsgroups and BBSes. I was but a child looking on, passively absorbing it. Were these companies ever not monsters, their products ever moral? We joked about them being evil but they truly seem worse now? The 'dark patterns' of addiction and abuse and flagrant use of your 'data' against you to their profit and surveilance and empowering the powerful. What they are optimized for seems different, but maybe I was just naive then.
Almost all companies give you the choice to purchase vested options even if you have been fired, usually with some 90-day deadline or whatever. It's very normal.
You don't even have to go that far. Scientists are just people. They are intelligent and experts in their fields but to be a Phd means you have a very narrow slice that you are an expert in.

The problem is when these people try to public support certain government policies. Knowing climate science or quantum physics does not qualify you to be a policy maker. It does qualify you to inform policy makers on your narrow area of expertise.

I've seen a lot of scientists pull appeal to authority fallacies by saying, I'm an expert in X and I say the government should do Y. Most people aren't scientists but they are smart enough to know that scientists don't know everything and usually not any more adept at politics or government than anyone else.

Politicization of science by scientists has done more damage to the public trust in scientific institutions than anything else.
E-waste surges in 2021 as world sends goldmine to landfill
Hear wavelets can be extremely useful when the signal of interest is square-shaped, or fast processing is required.
OneBigTextFile
A new(ish) Reddit group devoted to using one big text file as a productivity tool.
Seems like a much better idea is to have some kind of imperceptible "this is forged" symbol on the saved file and anything exported.

Even a dumb criminal could get around this with another photo-editing application. With the latter they'll get caught and not understand how. And legitimate uses like the author's aren't affected.
That’s why /proc isn’t mounted as readable.

Problem solved, oh oops sorry systemd.
You've got the wrong ideas. The government isn't using the same exploits as you and me, their backdoors are hidden much better and offer far more comprehensive control than just a silly Gamecenter vuln.
You mean acting like pretty much any other retailer?!
Devil's advocate here: I've worked the other side of managing bug bounties.

It is entirely possible the researcher found something but didn't realize how deep the problem went. Apple may have released an incremental patch and is working on fixing a larger issue they found when digging into it.

When this has happened in the past, from the researchers perspective things seem quiet/delayed because we obviously can't share details of a larger vulnerability with them. All we can really do is ask for more time. In the end it all works out and they get paid out/credited for the original+follow on bug.
While that's a common sentiment in some topics in tech; I think the general intent, if not actual result, of progress in tech is to make things faster, more secure and easier.

So forgive me for asking. :)
stdout is by default buffered in almost every language. Outputting lots of non-critical stuff to stderr, or manually flushing stdout on every write, is definitely a rookie mistake. Raw terminal output should not be a big performance sink either if you do the sane thing and only write on every 100th or 1000th or whatever iteration of your main loop. No threads needed.
also slightly related the artile 'Moire no more'
Is it moral though? What do they do with these exploits? If it is to help advance the agendas of countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia how would you feel submitting exploits to them?
It wasn't possible for him four years ago.
> I've yet to hear a compelling reason why a many-millionaire needs a huge house, but many certainly go that route.

Sure, it might look better if these millionaires practice what they preach and live in small cottages, but it won't move the climate needle in any meaningful way. It's basically the same argument as "If everyone was more mindful of their climate impact, the world will get better," which is already questionable, except that we now narrowed it into a small number of rich folk, so the impact is even more questionable.

Also, when Greta Thunberg decided she got tired of the hypocrisy and crossed the Atlantic in a yacht, people still made fun of her as being a spoiled rich kid. Some people will complain no matter what - let's ignore the messengers, and focus on the message.
Do extra work, and do present it, but pretend it only took 30 minutes when it actually took five hours.

Congrats, now you get credit for the extra work and you're a "10x rockstar".
Nick Clegg? Nick Clegg of the libdems went to facebook??
So was he an employee or a contractor? At the end of the post he claims to have been a contractor.