skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is someone really hungry or starving if they're overweight or obese?

Maybe, yes. It's easy for someone with an ample supply of cheap, crappy food to have both a calorie surplus and a nutrient deficit. These people are absolutely "malnourished" even if they're obese, and are a significant burden on the public health system. Food security is not just about access to adequate calories, it's about access to nutritious foods, to foods that make people feel full without eating to excess, etc. But vegetables are dramatically more expensive than soda per calorie.
Do you guys provide access to actual quantum/hybrid computers now or is it all simulated?
so you don't iron or fold your clothing? you don't mind it smelling like mildew?

my goodness...
So why does the Tesla keep on moving instead of parking itself when it becomes obvious there is no driver?

It shouldn't have been possible to warn seven times, the autonomous car's job is to protect society from bad drivers.
Let’s encrypt has tight limits on the amount of certificates it issues per domain. Presumably to stop this exact scheme
It is really a stretch to say that Leibniz's "best of all possible worlds" argument means he believed in the existence of a multiverse. The centerpiece of the argument is that, of all the potential worlds, this is the one that has to be the best, because it's the one that God created. If the actual set of possible worlds were all created, then there is no reason to believe that the one we exist in is special in any way, which defeats the purpose of the argument in the first place. So the multiverse exists only in the metaphysical sense of "we can imagine a universe where gravity is repulsive instead of attractive," not in any physical sense of "the universe where gravity is repulsive exists next door."

A second point to bring up... Leibniz's theodicy hasn't really gone over well with anyone, particularly any notable theologians. The core argument really boils down to "evil exists because God thought that a universe where it exists was the best one," which is more of a dodge than an answer. Most theodicies instead present evil as somehow necessary to appreciate good or a necessary component of human agency and free will.

As someone else said, Nautilus loves their multiverse theory. Even if they have to twist the words to make it seem like other people believe it.
This sort of biased cynicism is really uncalled for.

From the science side, it is solved. What's needed is implementation from industry to make it cost effective and have large enough scale.

This is already happening. Grid-scale lithium ion storage is cost effective enough to replace California peaker plants that run on natural gas.

In Arizona, the latest paired solar + storage project is selling electricity for $45/MWh.

And the cost curve is continuing to fall for lithium ion at a fast and steady rate. The market for storage has developed so quickly that there hasn't even been time to set up subsidies for storage, before it was economical to start using it in practice. Some states are now implementing storage subsidies, however, which will extend storage into more applications where it's not yet economical, and give the industry a further kickstart.

The question will be if demand response will be cheaper than storage, and if customers will put up with the hassle of demand response. As far as costs, not using electricity is hard to beat, investing in reducing consumption for identical work output, with efficiency measures, pay great dividends. Of course, for the common home owner, convincing them to spend $500 now, in order to save $1000 over the next 5 years, is a hard sell.
What are the existing tools that it doesn't match up to?
From the post:

> Tipping is coming

> Great service deserves to be rewarded. Tipping is now available in Seattle, Minneapolis and Houston. We’ll be adding more cities over the next few weeks, and will make tips available to all U.S. drivers, by the end of July 2017.
VPNs will remain because of SSH, eh?

https://github.com/google/huproxy
It seems python itself also confuses these topics then. https://wiki.python.org/moin/Why%20is%20Python%20a%20dynamic...
Are we heading toward a future where it's illegal to drive your car on the road if you have modified its software?
I agree that should be the default but getting the data to do it automatically is hard if you're going to ask users to mark things NSFW on their own accord.
Well, southpaw doesn't have a pejorative connotation, so I guess it beats being called "sinister".
You can give imgsir.com a go if you like. Caught with my pants down on a train but I was thinking the patreon model. No donate, basic images. More donate, things like videos etc and various inbetweens
(A) I don't like specifically supporting Google's efforts to tie direct-funding to their ad-platform (they specifically have made many efforts to make it so that direct funding is connected to removing ads because it cuts out people like me who refuse to use the ads… using their direct-funding approaches is actually an increase in advertising, not a reduction)

and (B) I don't like the "viewer's choice" argument that I see as basically suckers-deserve-to-be-suckered. People who aren't thoughtful or knowledgeable enough to install an adblocker are just the people most susceptible to advertising manipulation. I want no part of increasing that. My understanding is that YouTube doesn't just give me a cut of revenue or not, they actually increase the ads tied to my videos if I "monetize". I won't be able to control the ads either to make sure they aren't manipulative or promoting products I would not be comfortable endorsing.

The money would totally help me provide more and better content, for sure. I hate this dilemma, but I've ended up sacrificing a lot in my life to work on building a more ethical economy around all of this via https://snowdrift.coop (approaching launch, not fully operating yet) rather than give in to this whole ad-based economy that I would have trouble with even if it were only advertising typical corporate crap let alone engaging in the far more unethical tracking and other shit they actually do. https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/existing-mechanisms#third-... expresses my views on this.

I hope this doesn't come across as me shaming everyone else who uses ads. I think the problems are systemic and recognize fully the way any individual going against the flow isn't necessarily the answer. That's why we need systemic change. I just wanted to share my perspective so this thread at least had the critical issues brought up, even though it's tangential. (Although my story of $0 ad income is an answer to the question)
"The one question we will have to deal with as policymakers is do we want a subsidy regime for storage, or can it can be delivered by market forces alone."

Right. That's the policy issue. Government subsidies for batteries would be a huge giveaway to battery manufacturers. California [1] and Sweden [2] have already offered subsidies. That may not be a good thing.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Will-California...
[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2016/11/22/sweden-will-offer-60-su...
#3 and #4 are probably related
Morton's better stuff seems cribbed from Team Science. There's already a serviceable, perfectly-compatible-with-Team-Science philosophy that reminds humans that we are part of, made of, and embedded within nature: physicalism.

I don't understand the appeal/utility/whatever of Morton's odd original contributions (hyperobjects, conscious boulders). It doesn't refute popular misconceptions of a nature-human gulf any better than plain physicalism. It's also not a very appealing basis for Team Humanities propaganda (as you style it) -- who's going to make a Hyperobjects Coloring Book?

Morton's philosophy reminds me of those old herbal remedies that turned out to contain one active herb plus a bunch of superfluous materials and preparation rituals. There's a bit of something valuable in what he says but you can find it purer and simpler elsewhere. Of course even today some people deliberately seek out remedies made with a bunch of superfluous ritual and inactive ingredients, because they like complication for its own sake. Maybe that personality type forms the core of Morton's fans.
True, however, Google is facing more and more pressure from regulators for favoring their own services in search. The EU is expected to drop a massive penalty in the next month or two for Google favoring their own shopping services over others, and surely implement new restrictions on how they can conduct themselves in this regard.
If you're looking for a short, and practical introduction using Python, then one is included as part of the documentation for pyQuil (part of the Forest toolkit):

http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro_to_qc.html
I need this for cell #s

Having said that, I plan on using this.
Ask HN: Received unrequested Google verification code e-mail, but have SMS 2FA?
I have SMS 2FA enabled on my Google account. A few minutes ago, I received a couple of consecutive e-mails from Google (seems legit, not spoofed), with a verification code.

Obviously this is alarming and I will be changing my password. The account activity logs don't show any unauthorized devices. However, I'm wondering why I would get this in e-mail form at all when I have SMS 2FA enabled (and all legit requests have been received through SMS)?
I think you misunderstood. My point is that you will still need direct access into the network in order to work on the BeyondCorp servers themselves, for example -- not that SSH shouldn't, or couldn't, be covered under the zero trust model as well.
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"Pickling" may be an incorrect term here.

Green olives are unripe olives, black olives are ripe olives. Unripe olives contain very high levels of oleuropein, which is especially bitter and thus green olives cannot readily be eaten. Ripe olives have little, if any, of this compound.

To make green olives edible, they have to be cured (typically using a lye-based process for speed, but can be done with plain water over a longer period of time) to remove the oleuropein, and thus making them edible. After curing, they are typically kept in a salty brine to extend their shelf life.

Black olives do not need the curing process, but can be brined in either a salty water brine, or oil, or no brine at all via pasteurization.
>So, are they just selling plain ol' non-free software?

Or, as we used to call it, just "software". They're selling software.
The most inefficient time to run your AC is when it is hottest, aka the time that most people are running their ACs and are unlikely to stop running their ACs. Peak usage isn't as flexible as you seem to think.

Also, hot days happen everywhere at once, so you can't even borrow power from other grids, because they are likely just as in need of power as you are.
What the GP describes is still more that possible. I happen to have some physical hosts in a data center, but you can have the same effect with a Linode VM.

It is massively convenient to run your own server. But you need to know how to maintain it (or be willing to learn). It isn't that hard, depending on what you're doing, but there's some effort and learning if you don't do this for a living.

Well worth it, at least for me.
Thanks for your response.

I see him as valuable potentially if he can make introductions to the CEOs/CTOs in the hotel industry. We've been going at it ourselves but I've only managed to get time from boutique hotels as opposed to larger chain hotels. I wonder if having someone like him could open more doors for us.

What's a reasonable equity amount to give a business advisor or a business development person?
I know they changed the software somehow (although I don't know exactly how).

It seems like if the driver isn't interacting and following the rules (like not keeping their hands on the wheel) why not slow the car and have it pull over with hazard lights on?

My car's systems (though not as advanced) will simply turn off if you're not doing your part.
I concur: I'm typing this from my home office in Palm Springs, and I'm a Director at Google.
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Why would you pay a lot for it? What problem does it solve for you?
Amazon employees are encouraged to patent basically anything, at least in AWS. Validity of content or relevance to future business plans isn't really a factor.
Ars Technica has an article that's not paywalled:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/tesla-model-s-wa...
From a UX (and potentially legal) standpoint, it matters less how many warnings he ignored in the few minutes prior to the crash, but how many warnings he—and others—ignored on other drives.

By way of extreme example, if every time anyone engaged autopilot, it issued a warning every minute, you would quickly ignore them. Information fatigue.
My girlfriend does incredibly complex modeling (she's a computational geneticist). From my limited understanding, it sounds like you may have some of the same challenges that she does.

Do you think Python and Go are more suited to that domain than R or Julia?
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Does ag read it automatically so search results are well formatted? git diff?
We need olives expert from HN - is this just USA (California) thing? I don't believe that black olives in Europe are actually artificially dyed with iron gluconate. My impression is that in Europe black olives are riped olives picked in late autumn or winter. Anyone to confirm?
Tensorflow 1.2 has integrated new instructions from Intel, does anyone have any figures on 1.2 showing CPU performance vs GPU's?
Predicting who will respond to cancer immunotherapy
I guess that it's even easier to sniff upstream traffic (to/from VPN endpoints) to such small internet outposts than, let's say AWS, Akamai or any other large infrastructure provider out there.
They did. From the article: "Since the crash, those reports have said, Tesla has updated its Autopilot feature to include a strikeout system, whereby drivers who repeatedly ignore safety warnings risk having their Autopilot disabled until the next time they start the car."
It's sad to see the the us becoming a corporatocracy, maybe the idea of more controlling government is less of an evil than the status quo.
Here is a recreation of the change that Dan Ingalls did to Smalltalk-78 to address Steve Jobs' objection that scrolling wasn't smooth enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEz08IlcNMg
As someone who has previously conducting a job search while employed full-time, recruiters are a must-have. I don't have all the time in the world to job hunt during normal business hours. Having people who were motivated to be the one to find me a job saved me a lot of time, got me a lot of info, and the recruiter who was working for the company that inevitably hired me was super helpful in recognizing my potential from maybe a bit of a lacking quality resume, and pried for a bit more info... a dedication a faceless Google algorithm will never have.
I'm the one who wrote that patent (sorry).
Exponentiation explained visually
I think one of the main issues here is assuming that jobs that pay minimum wage are (or should be) meant to support a family. There is all kinds of politics swirling around this issue, but one simple fact remains: a worker must create more value for their employer than it costs to compensate them. Just raising the minimum wage isn't going to help if the work isn't providing the necessary value. Sure, prices can rise to the consumers, but other market pressures will be at work to counteract such a rise (think automation, etc).

I think it is much more important to try and train/educate workers such that they aren't dependent on minimum wage jobs for their livelihoods. Then those jobs can be what they are supposed to be: entry points to the workforce that allow workers to develop skills and move on.
Is there an actual source for that number at all? Intel did a
marketing blog post [0] where they said 4TB per 1.5HR, but without any actual explanation of it, and since then a bunch of posts started using "per 8 hours".

I'm cautious of this number because the camera and sensor feeds are very often reduced heavily in resolution and then passed for processing, so if they are considering raw uncompressed sensor streams then that's not really representative of the theoretical stored size of the data or the size of the data actually processed.

[0]: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/self-driving-cars-big-...
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We couldn't make the binaries small enough for our current device ;)

We use Linux heavily to develop our own quantum OS. Programs written with Forest targeting the QPU [1] pass through the quantum OS, which runs on the control systems at our facilities. Thanks to our cloud API, users don't need to know these details.

[1]: http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/qpu.html
Isn't that making that IP an even bigger target for anyone interested in large amounts of traffic?
Haha, that's great. Just the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon for me, then.
blush that was the intent.
Agreed. There's a lot of snakes in the biz. I had to tell one to turn his auto-dialer down because it was annoying me. If I didn't answer he'd be hitting me up several times per day every day. Then he'd lie about not having an auto-dialer.

They want huge commissions but they don't add a lot of value. That commission is almost always way more than it would cost me for my time to recruit from my own network or through traditional means.

Many of them never even meet their candidates. When I was in the market a long time ago - they would prep me with what to say to the hiring company even if it wasn't part of my skill-set at the time. That's very dishonest.

I'm an employer and they'll call me and immediately start talking about a candidate. They'll ramble on and on about how great their candidate is even though I'm not hiring or I'm only hiring for a different role.

Part of their strategy is to push a candidate on you, get you to like them and then talk about their commission only if necessary. They get really squeamish if you ask about commission.
While some (elsewhere) are arguing the system could have gracefully handed back control by slowing down to an eventual stop, it's pretty clear the driver was at fault. It's also not clear how the autopilot could have done better - is slowing down on a high speed road any less dangerous? It needed a human in the loop.

The evidence was that the driver was wilfully ignoring the safety warnings, just like ignoring a fence or sign above a steep cliff. That increased the fatal risk to him and other road users. Any other (less litigious) country would immediately place the fault where it clearly lies.
I'd encourage you to reach out to the Julia lab at MIT. They're generally very happy to help spread the use of Julia at MIT.
You might qualify for the Public Suffix List (https://publicsuffix.org/list/), which also helps browsers isolate your subdomains, and Let's Encrypt has a trial program for organizations that need more than 2000 subdomains: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg56b_wLmUN7n-WWhb...
Isn't Google a third-party?
Is it possible to have a side income while having a full time Software Engineering job in California?
Biggest changes were from 0.3->0.5. Even from 0.6->1.0 it's not expected to break nearly as much code as before.

It's easier to argue to use Julia now since the New York fed uses it for their full scale model of the US economy
Is Mesos somehow used to deploy and orchestrate software in driverless cars?
X Y Z voters. Y and Z are same person.

X votes 10 for A.
Y votes 1 for A.
Z votes 1 for B.

Didn't Z( and Y) steal all of X's voting money?
Good to know, thank you!
I wish them all the best. Julia seems to a good idea -- a high performance language with easy syntax (easy for Python users to jump to Julia), very good features for threading/multiprogramming, good type system...

...here it seem like any other modern language, until you see that Julia has something that many other languages lack: true macros (true metaprogramming.) A big feature. And multiple dispatch on all functions! (a very nice feature that puts it above many other languages in use.)

You can even program Julia in s-expressions if you feel like it. (Some argue that Julia should be considered a Lisp dialect.)

Compared to the other languages with Python-like, C-like or Algol-like syntax, Julia stands out from them as a more powerful alternative. (If you need more power and flexibility than Julia with good processing speed, i think only Common Lisp will clearly provide it.)

A very recommendable language, especially now with this initiative for giving more "enterprise-like" support, and worth looking in depth, if you are also considering moving to Go and Rust.
extra note: I have a relatively low (for U.S., not just among Hacker News crowd) income otherwise, so my refusal to monetize with ads isn't even tied to otherwise having a high income. I just don't want to play this game that I can't agree with morally.
Maybe.

Are you saying that "the bootstraps" (panic access) is VPN? Why isn't the first level just an open SSH port?

I'm not sure why "when all else fails" is better left a VPN port than an SSH port.

I'd say SSH infrastructure (a server with only pubkey login, maybe behind TCP-MD5 and/or heavily filtered source addresses) is probably more reliable and safer than a VPN.
It's funny because they've quintupled the team of engineers to make changes that most people are criticizing. The strategy of Youtube to offer similar content and hold the user for a longer time on the site works because they are very good at understanding the average user's taste. But Imgur is very weak, totally dependent on the information the uploader provides, not from the viewer. They could have grown in markets where Reddit is weak like South America, Asia and Africa as a totally independent and mobile-focused product. But they make little effort in that direction.
I looked at your links, but I'm still not sure I buy it. All of these seem to quote the same study, and it doesn't involve any child under 3, which is actually where a lot of early childhood development happens. That's the time when a child who's left alone in a room will basically turn into a vegetable.

I do agree that there's no magic formula for being a great parent. The baby Beethoven phenom, best color to paint your baby's room, etc are indeed useless. But that's good parents who actually care trying to read studies and be better. These parents are involved, and care. Not all parents are like that.

From your second article:

"In fact, the study found one key instance when parent time can be particularly harmful to children. That’s when parents, mothers in particular, are stressed, sleep-deprived, guilty and anxious."

This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that would happen less with older, more established parents.

On the other hand, if the parents can't hold a job, or are addicted to drugs, I think you'd be hard pressed to say that doesn't have an effect on childhood outcomes. If anything, parents who are criminals are more likely to have children that are criminals.

If you want to say criminality is genetic, that's a fair argument. But I believe it's more likely to be about class/race/means, and is a set of learned behaviors.

I think there's a limit to how good parenting can affect outcomes to the positive (genetics). But I also think bad parenting can't be ruled out. And none of these studies talk about sub-par parenting.
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