skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India has the most thorium reserves, according to USGS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occurrence_of_thorium

And they have had the plans and motivation to build domestic reactors for the past two decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%27s_three-stage_nuclear_...

NSG membership keeps getting held up by someone or the other and would provide more energy security for India.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/nuclear-reactor-at-...
> we're on the very lowest bottom level of the sentience hierarchy

I don't have proof of this, but I think most creatures have some amount of awareness, progressively decreasing as you descend the great chain of central nervous system complexity. Probably decreasing quickly at first, from humans to primates to regular mammals, and more slowly afterwards, until asymptotically vanishing into virtual nothingness as there's no complex nervous system to speak of anymore.

Perhaps we're at the bottom of the interval of what could be called truly self-aware consciousness, as opposed to, I don't know, maybe somnolent or lethargic or dimly awake consciousness. With that I would agree.

Which of course automatically raises the question: why should the ascending arc stop here? And what do the next levels look like? Probably impossible for us to imagine even in principle, but still.
If you mean lower level Rust code, there are no exceptions. Errors are just regular values encoded in the type system. If you're familiar with OCaml optionals and results, it's the same thing
reminds me of when apple did that same exact thing https://www.wired.com/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking/
I'm not saying this person is innocent, but 25 years for something that didn't hurt anyone is way excessive. This sentence would be more appropriate for murderers, and yet some of them get way less.
Google redirects most outgoing links from Google search in the browser to their AMP cache version instead.
This is a good answer. The price increase is not uniform across the academy, and much of it is signaling-based. At many state schools, the amount spent per student has actually gone down over the last 30 years:
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/uc-educational-e...

College is more expensive for the student because state funding for students has dropped precipitously. That means an increase in tuition, but that increase pretty linearly-maps to the decrease in state funding.

Now. many private schools have increased their nameplate cost. This is the signaling issue I mentioned before. When StateU tuition rises from $5k/yr to $10/yr over 5 years, the private universities use that increase to justify an increase in their nameplate cost from $25k/yr to $40k/yr, because they can. Of course, few people actually pay that. Increases in the actual amount people pay for college (other than at 4-year state funded schools, due to the changes in state funding) are much tamer than the headlines say: http://www.businessinsider.com/college-cost-changes-over-25-...
Rocket and Submarine Inventor Under Scrutiny in Disappearance of Journalist
Bottom of article the author missed out on the TPU v2 talk.

TPU v2 is in alpha stage right now but if you're a research you can apply to use it over at google cloud service.
This new thing to do at night
anyone tried?
This is a general Google trend it seems. Google Images does it too: if you scroll left after viewing an image, you get the previous result instead of the page you were on. Really frustrating.
More interesting is that they broke CoinJoin.
This change was requested by the AMP team.
What is egress in this context? What is ProRes? Just curious
So you think this very website you’re using right now – HN – could be improved by AMP?

I doubt that.

The only pages that get improved by AMP are those that abuse AMP then again anyway.
As a university staff employee, I've seen very little indication that anyone is ever let go on the basis of performance. They might get shifted off the upward track, but they will rarely get a pay cut and almost never get fired.
Adding more context. Sorry for missing it out in first place. I mostly work in Big Data Space. Google Clouds Big Data stuff is built for Streaming / Storing / Processing / Querying / Machine Learning at Internet Scale data (PubSub / Bigtable / Dataflow / BigQuery / Cloud ML). AWS scales to terabyte level loads. But, beyond that, its hard and super costly. Google's services autoscale to Petabyte levels / millions of users smoothly (for example BigQuery / Load Balancers). On AWS, it requires pre warming / allocating capacity beforehand and that costs tons of money. In companies working at that scale, that usual saying is "to keep scaling, keep throwing cash at AWS". This is not a problem with Google.
What do you mean by "survive"?

My experience is that no one survives a confirmed diagnosis of cancer. By "survive" _I_ mean that their life is unaffected and they die of something else and that their death is not sped by cancer.

Oh, there's the occasional "miracle" out there, but no one's paying attention to potential false positive diagnoses (i.e., person was diagnosed with cancer, is treated, later turns out to not be cancer at all, he's a "miracle", thank you Jesus, thank you Lord!)
Isn't that what should happen though? I also doubt they'd vanish - iOS is too big of an audience to ignore, so unless the Terms are particularly onerous, I'd imagine most would just fall in line.
a broken website, with an un-selectable dropdown and white "undefined" text on a black background?
I love wunderground because of the personal weather station support for hyper-local weather. Though at some point it's kind of a "man with one clock knows precisely what time it is, a man with two clocks is never quite sure" kind of thing.
Yep yep yep. I wasn't alive in the '70s and '80s, but that's still a big part of our culture and history up here in the greater Seattle area.
And sadly, NOAA doesn't update their predictions even when something like rain is occurring right outside one of their offices (happened in the Monterey Bay Area).
Almost never. You'll get fired if you sexually harass a student, but not for performance in the classroom.
It definitely still applies.
That's not true at all. Universities used to be much more involved in student life. Read up on 'In Loco Parentis' in higher education.
Teradici does do this. Feel free to send me an email :).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
That's not even close to being 'that exact same thing'.
It is? So how do I get the advantages in Google search (being ranked in the carousel right above the top result) without running the official JS from Google’s CDN?

I can’t even use the JS from a local CDN.
Yep it's a completely unrealistic concern
I've often thought what the implications ought to be for countries like Norway, sitting on a massive sovereign wealth fund derived from oil and gas. It might prove useful and just to confiscate those assets and put them to work on climate change mitigation programmes!
I think that's a bit of a reach. That malaise may have contributed to certain aspects of the conglomeration of groups/sounds that came to be called grunge, but let's not forget the vigorous marketing efforts around it at the time. Economically-speaking, the decline of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest may have as had as much or more to do with music-impacting unhappiness.
It is okay to think about luck's influence on your life, but I would say it is a mistake to cite luck as a justification for everyone else's success or your own lack thereof. While it absolutely helps a lot to be at the right place at the right time, you also have to have enough talent to capitalize on the opportunity.
At least on iOS, this is an easily solvable problem on most web sites even without AMP: tap the "Safari Reader" button in the toolbar to get a text-only version of the web site. I assume that something like that is a thing on Android and elsewhere.

I understand the usability case for AMP, but let's face it -- making a mobile-friendly web site really isn't that difficult, as long as you're not insisting on jamming things up with untold megabytes of JS woo. Google's argument to publishers is essentially "jam up your desktop sites with whatever JS woo you want, and let us unjam the mobile site for you." And, you know, fine, but to take advantage of it, you're essentially tailoring your web site to let Google reformat your content in a similar fashion to Safari Reader -- and, unlike Reader, Google is doing it by rehosting your content. They get the clicks, and you get whatever analytics and revenue they deign to share with you. And worse, that opens up the strong potential for Google's search results to penalize those of us who would rather maintain control over our own content.
Ex-Google Engineer Hires Harmeet Dhillon as Lawyer
The real mvp is always in the comments
This may help in determining where you might stand on the naming:

https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
really? seems fine on my end
Once you create the test, you can open it up for applications. You can also search based on the demographic you want (age range, geographic, etc.) and invite users yourself.

If people apply, you can pick from those. I invited about 60 testers and had ~180 others apply. I was able to pick from that 180 set - and the reward goes only to them.

Also, before you start the test, you buy 'Beta' credits. You can choose to use these however you want, for example if you buy 50 beta credits, you can give a $5 reward to 10 testers, or a $10 reward to 5 testers. You can buy more credits as you go if you want to offer rewards to more testers.
I think one way to get people who are genuinely interested would be for you to build a mailing list.

I always got good users from Beta List.
I do it instinctively since I was 5 so it's hard to explain it.

If you can use a big monitor it would be easier.

Place very near the screen, enough to trick your left eye to see the left small eye icon, and the right eye the right icon. You should see it as a single eye. Now slowly move your head back and try to keep relaxed. If you get to do it you should see the illusion of 3D appear on the whole image.
I'm a licensed HAM radio operator, but I'm too young to have gone through the Morse era. One of the things that book did for me was kindling my interest in learning to transmit and receive Morse.

I mean, you never know when you might need it, right? :)
Nah don't delete yours - I think it's equally valid, because yours talks about Google's (less than neutral) motivations/actions.
Exactly and eerily true. At my university there this is a category 2 serious incident; like a fire, flood or epidemic. Any student admitted to emergency medical care due to inebriation, means the Serious Incident Officer is involved. How the SIO is supposed to find out I don't know.

I struggle to understand why relatively high-level management or SIO needs to be paid to get involved in what another 'adult' does out side of lectures/labs and campus.
My argument is only that starting with the proportion and metrics of Roboto and not changing them means that what you will end up with at best is a marginal improvment over Roboto. If "marinal improvement over Roboto" is what you are aiming for, great, but don't oversell it or your work will be dismissed in the same way that I did in the original post. There are myriad solutions to how letterforms are created, and it isn't a foregone conclusion that these forms are or will continue to be "the best".
TL of AMP here.
Just wanted to clarify that we specifically requested Apple (and other browser vendors) to do this. AMP's policy states that platforms should share the canonical URL of an article whenever technically possible. This browser change makes it technically possible in Safari. We cannot wait for other vendors to implement.

It appears Safari implemented a special case. We'd prefer a more generic solution where browsers would share the canonical link by default, but this works for us.
If McDonald's takes your money but doesn't give you your food, who has been hurt?
> It's great for Google search and bad for everyone else.

Well, other places (including Bing) do the same thing with AMP caches, so even if it were only good or then cache operators, that wouldn't just be Google.

But, the speed is good, and whatever problems the client has on iOS, it's been great on Android, so as a user I mostly see it as a positive.

And it's got built in support for advertising and analytics and the cache operators end up handling much of the traffic, so it seems like a win for publishers, too.

So, I'm not sure who the “everyone else” that AMP is supposed to be bad for is.
> I don't know how Rust's RAII deals with exceptions thrown by lower level code.

Unwinding across an FFI boundary is considered undefined behavior.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/behavior-considered-unde... last bullet point.
Also, BSD tree.h for red-black trees and splay trees http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/sys/sys/tree.h
I think there's somewhat of a vicious cycle at work. Someone paying $50k/yr. wants more than classes in a run down building, and then a threadbare dorm to sleep in. That's a ton of money, and I don't think it's ridiculous for people to expect a pretty darned nice experience (inside and outside the classroom for that). But of course, providing those facilities and experiences costs a lot, so tuition increases. And with the increased tuition, so too increase expectations, and the cycle repeats. I'm not saying it's right, but it's what I've observed.
1. A lot of the stress, at least imo, is in knowing what to get, how much to get, and balancing that against constraints like what's available at the store and price. Having to make a string of smaller decisions. Being able to do this online makes things a lot easier. I really doubt that outsourcing the mechanical part of it all - picking up, hauling, taking home the groceries - is going to stress out the workers to a comparable degree.

2. Sure, except a vehicle getting trashed will be much less likely if 50 cars are reduced to 1. Not to mention the increase in productivity due to 50 people not losing time by sitting in traffic, or being at risk of bodily harm.

Don't understand your cattle point.
> Problem is though that many airline are starting to offer WiFi connectivity. I just hope that they've built shitty systems that won't work most of the time... :)

I take advantage of the cognitive friction induced by the fact that you have to pay (even though it's cheap); I don't think I've ever used WiFi on a plane. It's nice to have some time with (almost) enforced lack of connectivity. I also never get Internet when traveling, including on an extended backpacking trip when WiFi was hard to come by. It makes it more inconvenient, but it's more than worth the ability to be fully present while exploring new places.
S/He's responding to "What if it's all a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" therefore in this scope there is no GW
It also frequently crashes the browser when zooming in on something on the page.
I wonder what proportion of Mountain View is controlled by Alphabet.
Maybe, but using one of the most successful and wealthy institutions in the world as an example of ineffective bloat isn't useful for the overall argument.

"This workout routine is a waste of time and effort. See, look at Usain Bolt doing it."
This is how it works in Australia and it works very well IMO.

It also indexes with inflation so that there isn't a major stress if you graduate with a low paying job and work your way up to a higher salary.

This does mean its everyone's lowest priority to pay off, but you can't reasonably avoid paying it other than not making an income.
Yeah. In particular, I was really looking for something for "here's how to do most of the basics for Cloud Storage".

If you look at https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/la..., for example, there's not even a top level navigation index that I can read through to guess what function I might need by name.
Looks really good.

We really need good open source fonts.
They were involved in a supervisory role. All male or all female dorms, mandatory on-campus housing, curfews, tightly controlled visitation and social events. Now, students get to do whatever they want and are only held to account after the fact. There is a huge ethics bureaucracy with committees conducting hearings, investigations, and various other CYA activities after the shit has hit the fan.
Why not? As long as its vegan margarine. Its clean of at least a subset of ethical concerns that many foods are not. Clean is a very overloaded word though so I certainly see where you're coming from, but it works just fine for me.
Good luck finding a Walmart close enough to you if you live in New York City, Boston/Cambridge, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or much of the SF Bay.
On the research point, why are research and teaching commingled? Both are important, but it seems that they require very different skillsets. Would we be better off filling universities primarily with people who love teaching, and are great at it, and having some other kind of institution (or some separate division of universities) do the research? Is this heresy?
> The Governor of NY was run out of office and nearly prosecuted when some bank compliance officer when transferring a few thousand bucks to a escort service.

Spitzer was almost certainly parallel construction.
The budget of stanford pasted in this thread shows that tuition is 20% of the income alone.

Sure, tuition could be made cheaper, but i'd say the incentives got perverted because they don't need more students at all. They get their money from somewhere else.
Just to make sure I'm following this myself: this isn't about disabling AMP, it's about making sure that URLs that you send to other applications or the clipboard from Safari will be the true URLs of the original web page, not AMP URLs. Right? That's the only way I can read "strip AMP links from shared URLs," but a lot of comments here are piling on to AMP itself. Which I understand (I don't like it for a lot of the reasons already brought up here, both in terms of philosophy and usability), but I don't think that's what we're actually talking about.
Just use Udacity or Coursera
I chose to major in CS the same year the dotcom bubble burst. Nevermind the specter of outsourcing at the time. Due to those and many other factors, I am completely where I am by luck - at the time for all I knew I was basically majoring in candle making.
> We'd prefer a more generic solution where browsers would share the canonical link by default, but this works for us.

We had that solution it was called 'the web'.

I'd prefer a more generic solution too: get rid of AMP.

It really isn't about what 'works for you' it is about what is good for Google versus what is good for the web.
"Reducing waste (CO2, methane, heat, whatever) increases profits."

That's a broad generalization and far simpler model than what the poster is referring to.

Yes, riding a motorcycle instead of an SUV decreases all emissions. This is the simple base case.

However driving a diesel SUV decreases CO2 but increases NOx wrt to a gasoline one. This is the higher-order effect.
Civilization collapses and we begin the glacially slow, many thousand year process of extinction.
A significant portion of the time (more than 1/2) AMP URLs fail to load, forcing me to "Request Desktop Site" in order to load it.

When they do load, they fuckify the URL, so I can't copy/paste it normally. I know I can go in through the page's menus and get the real URL, but it makes it harder for no reason.

I consider the URL part of the page's UI, and commonly manually edit it. This makes it harder.

So far as I can see, there is no advantage to AMP pages, versus a fast and simple HTML page, with no external resource requests.

Sites can serve that themselves, rather than using Google.

In short, it breaks features I use, and doesn't provide advantages.
Brace for angry comments. (I'm neutral on AMP personally, but it has a really bad rep here.)
The cat food smell when you cook them is for real. I noticed it independently, and it turns out plenty of people had already observed this. I wonder if this will hinder mass adoption -- it really did make my apartment smell strange! They tasted great though.
I'm wondering if there are people who actively try to eliminate certain types of luck from their lives, for example because they think it would make life too easy.
You can't just extrapolate out to 2.4B. Just one quarter ago, that same extrapolation would have been more than 2.8B. They are improving their efficiency while increasing their revenues. I wouldn't be surprised if that loss run rate is $2.0B flat by end of Q4 while gross revenues continue to rise.

Lyft on the other hand has losses almost twice as high as Uber's relative to gross bookings. People accuse Uber of buying market share, but the truth is that Lyft is the one actually buying market share instead of earning it.
I really don't understand Redhat's position here.

RHEL5 came with one init system. RHEL6 came with another. RHEL7 comes along with yet another init system replacement.

Each of which has required software vendors who build software to run on those platforms to do non-trivial porting work. I know it's annoying the software vendors no end.

I've heard from so many end users that they can't upgrade to RHEL7 (or derivatives) because the software they need to support doesn't work with systemd yet. Stuff that makes them frustrated with both RedHat and the software vendor. Annoying your customers hardly seems the sanest business practices.

Luckily with Debian being on board, and thus Ubuntu, at least there's some incentive for vendors to work at it.
This is not Apple fighting AMP.
Here's my AMP experience on Reddit:

1) Click the AMP link in Google
2) See half the reddit thread comments, since AMP is a cached older version, I then need to click "View full comments" which gets me to the mobile reddit link I wanted in the first place

3) For some reason, links in AMP reddit dont let you open in a new window -- which I often want to do when reading comments inline and see someone post a link in a comment. Frustrating.

AMP cost me more time and effort than having just gone to the non-AMP link directly.
> If ice starts to melt, we are doomed.

It's already happening. Natalia Shakhova has been studying this for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSsPHytEnJM
Back in the mid-2000's I chose not to major in CS despite having a strong interest in the area, largely due to the doom-and-gloom news surrounding tech in the wake of the dotcom bubble burst.

To a certain extent, I'm still paying for that mistake.
> Thank heavens. Google's efforts to 'improve' the web have been disastrous.

This Apple action is done to honor the AMP teams design of how AMP URLs should be handled, so it's actually, in a sense, part of Google's efforts to improve the web, not a counter to them.
Can you get other autostereograms to work? That particular one took me a while to get focused even though every thing else on the page came quite easily.
Title is misleading. Doubt OP (using a throwaway account) even read the comments; great work.
Hear, hear.

If you want to incentivise not delivering multi-megabyte "experiences" to people, I could see a case for feeding page weight into the ranking algorithm. Then people would be less inclined to have tag managers loading tag managers loading a zillion random js trackers.

I have personally saved at least one decent laptop from landfill by installing uBlock Origin on it, and making the web usable again.
"AMP's policy states that platforms should share the canonical URL of an article whenever technically possible"
Is this true in the US, in general? My alma mater has a circa 9 billion dollar endowment... yet it still sends me sob story letters soliciting donations.
Maybe they can put it as a big round button in the bottom-right so it doesn't break with Material Design too.
Chance favors the prepared. Everyone has countless opportunities, but only some recognize and act upon them.