skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. There are huge political implications to the energy transition. Less nat gas dependence is going to be the next step after electricity generation is clean, and that's going to hit some petrostates very hard. Places like Qatar and Russia are definitely already making plans.
This. I watch F1 because it's the closest thing I can find to a public engineering competition.
What area of research do you work in? Did you go back to working at a university?
I would feel bad about this if YouTube wasn't already ramping up targeted demonetization via "YouTube Heroes".
> The Statue of Westminster and the Australia Acts conclusively separated Britain's sovereignty from Australia's.

But the Queen is still the head of Australia, so how does that work?
Ask HN: Are there anyone who does not use Google and Facebook accounts?
By Google and Facebook accounts I mean everything related to them, like Google/Facebook login for 3rd-party websites or WhatsApp (owned by Facebook).

Using Google search or viewing publicly available Facebook pages without respective accounts does not count as long as you remain anonymous to the service.

I am asking this because I thought most of people (even on HN) are using these accounts, but others seem to have different perception.
Thanks I did not know that, however... In spite of it's truth it is an extremely useful metaphor when trying to make a point about unnecessarily complex over-engineering to no actual benefit to the user. Do you have any alternatives which are not myths? (Sincere question)
It does, yes.
The only time Facebook asked me for ID was after I copied the profile of my friend for a laugh. After a while the account was blocked and I would've had to provide identification​ to prove I was indeed my friend and unblock the account.
> The better the overall search algorithm, the less the need to hack around it by paying for placement..

All the things you need are not necessarily known to you in advance. It’s entirely possible that someone has created a new product that no one knows about, and allowing these companies to pay for visibility allows you to discover these ideas that you might end up finding useful. The idea is that when advertisers pay for placement, they better have a useful product (that can recoup the cost), or else they’ll be throwing money out the window.
Yes, my advice to any aspiring AI researcher is to have a kid and approach them similar to how Piaget did
Provided that your density is low enough you don't necessary become a black hole by just gaining weight.
That was my question as well, it wasn't answered to my satisfaction in the article.
Nobody owes you a living. You are free to think up a better business model.
Australian constitutional conspiracy theorists are my favourite kind of conspiracy theorists!
Meh, video streaming services are still pretty terrible.

Just let me download a DRM-free file. That way I can play it offline on my preferred media device. If I decide to rewatch it a few days later, I don't have to worry about wasting extra bandwidth.

I don't mind paying for content and services. I'm fully cognizant of the reality that things cost money. But when the content isn't being provided through a fair medium, or the service sucks... People will go through other means.

Since I enjoy anime, I have paid subscriptions for both Crunchyroll and Funimation. Despite paying for their services, I always find it more convenient to download and play regular files. It's still worth maintaining a subscription, since it funnels some of that money to the studios.

Surprisingly enough, this is something the porn industry gets right. AFAIK, most paid/premium porn websites let you download any movie. No bullshit.
When did good old netiquette get lost?

Standard limit [0] was 4 lines, after the "-- \n" delimiter, and it was a good limit. Right along the convention to not sending HTML [1] in emails.

[0]: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#sigs

[1]: http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#nohtml
A French wine trade war
Interesting. Is that supposed to restrict access to adult content? Do porn sites also ask for the social security number?
I hope this is just a joke I don't get.
Ok, back to the beginning:

You were dumping on "identity politics" as if it were some weird new thing invented by the left. My point is that by any reasonable definition, identity politics has been sustained and enforced by the right in the US. For centuries. It is the left that has been trying to tear it down.

The move you're making is known technically as "erasure". Instead of admitting that the status quo is the result of energetic pro-white, pro-male, pro-rich stacking of the deck and honestly proceeding from there, you erase the history and treat pro-white-male identity politics as normal. That makes any deviation from or challenge to it supposedly problematic "identity politics". Even though the very identities at stake, like "black", were constructed by white men, you blame the victims.

You also conflate "real" oppression with "historical" oppression. Your effective definition of oppression isn't some objective measure of misuse of power. It's "the bad shit in the past that is definitely now over". Which is an incredibly convenient definition for your line of argument.

These are only plausible rhetorical moves if you don't really understand the history. You are making bold pronouncements on a topic you obviously don't understand. Why? From here it looks like motivated reasoning with a goal of protecting the status quo. Thus my suggestion that you go take a class. Which I still recommend.
A shower in the lounge after your long-haul trip when you're waiting for your domestic connection can also be absolutely fantastic.
South Korea implemented ID requirement for online posts under the disguise of stopping hate speech. How far is US left wing from demanding something similar?
The canonical source [1] on the Node side seems to have been fully redacted at this time, so here's the post in the community forum where people are discussing the issue [2].

Once again not taking sides (although this article seems to have dropped off the homepage).

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/310

[2]: https://github.com/nodejs/community-committee/issues/111
So according to US Govt. Accountability Office, the 1% Muslim demography committed 27% of the terror attacks. That alone should speak volumes.
This bothers me:

>> Giovanni Santostasi, a study coauthor, developed an algorithm that delivers the sound during the rising portion of slow wave oscillations. This stimulation enhances synchronization of the neurons’ activity.

They did not actually measure "synchronization of the neurons". This is just speculation. In psychology they insist that you need to propose a mechanism for change. In this case it may be true, but they state it as fact without any actual evidence.
She has a book of 100 tricks[1]. I bought it as a gag for my coffee table. My retired father got many chuckles from it and said it is filled with things he had seen.

[1] http://amzn.to/2vAebzP
Still, it's not a criminal offense to violate TOS. Worst case your account gets deactivated.
Use neither. Never plan to use either.

Your assumptions were distorted by being in a Facebook/Google bubble where you missed the forest for the local set of trees you could see.
And just in case, previou HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14821478
Awesome find. This is before the days of vapor recovery when lighting a cigarette could actual start a fire due to unmanaged gasoline vapors. Nowadays, a secondary hose inline with the gas hose vacuums the vapors away.

Surprisingly, the most common gas station pump control system is still made by Veeder Root and even that technology is decades old. Namely, the TLS-350R. California air resource board is really slow to certify new tech. We petrol businesses are literally and figuratively living in the Stone Age.
I have neither a Google nor a Facebook account. DDG for search and OSM/Apple for maps are sufficient 99%/time. Only thing I have is WhatsApp, as all of my friends/family/work/etc have it..
If there is a need for small businesses, and advertising dies, small businesses will survive because someone will come along to solve the problem of income for small businesses.
I love create-react-app too, but for a slightly different reason:

They have an excellent, super-comprehensive README that covers practically everything you'd ever need to know about state-of-the-art Frontend JS tooling: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...

create-react-app itself is great for quick prototyping, but for non-trivial apps, chances are, eventually some esoteric production concern will force you to "eject". At that point, the sheer volume of configuration you'll be left with will be rather overwhelming if you've never dealt with the underlying technologies before, and modifying/extending it can become rather intimidating.

My recommendation is to start your first few projects with create-react-app, to get a feel for what a modern JS dev experience feels like, and then once you find the need to eject, instead of actually ejecting, copy your code over to a new project starting with just a bare minimum Webpack + Babel config, like the one in react-hot-loader-minimal-boilerplate (https://github.com/wkwiatek/react-hot-loader-minimal-boilerp...) and refer to the ejected configs of the create-react-app version of your app and the create-react-app README to port over pieces of tooling that you feel are sorely missing from your create-react-app days, one by one. This way, you'll be left with a much simpler and leaner tooling pipeline that you fully understand and one that you'll be able to extend and maintain much more easily.

I usually refer to the react-hot-loader-minimal-boilerplate config as a baseline simply because I consider es-next transpilation and hot-reloading essential parts of the modern Frontend dev experience. If you don't, you can totally start with something even more barebones.
You could base all the images on the same layer, then the disk space wouldn't be an issue, right?
The Communications Media, Ironically, Have Failed to Communicate (1968)
You consent to go to the website that has ads on it.

On the other hand, you don't consent to seeing a billboard whilst on public roads, so I don't think I'd object to people "defending themselves" (whatever that looks like) from billboards.
I can go to Home Depot or Lowe's, right now, and walk out with a breaker box, conduit, a bag of breakers, a couple hundred pounds of copper, and install my own household 220V/150A electric service. Local codes or the electric company may require an electrician to sign off on my work before I grid tie, but the companies who make the stuff aren't going to refuse to sell to me. Nobody seems to think me killing myself by making mistakes with that would be the fault of Home Depot or the manufacturers, and I'm reasonably confident that is more dangerous than installing a battery box (unless Tesla has built an inherently dangerous device, in which case it won't matter who installs it).

I can also go to the same store and walk out with a roof-sized pile of roofing tiles. No one will stop me from putting on my own roof.

Hell, Tesla sells cars. The single most deadly consumer product, by far, in the world. Admittedly, people have tried to sue them about their autonomous features, but still, cars are really deadly and no one blames manufacturers for those deaths (though, we do, as a nation, impose some safety standards...but, it doesn't stop tens of thousands of deaths every year). Tesla is arguably much better about not killing their customers than some other manufacturers, but they already operate in the most deadly industry (aside from, say, coal or fossil fuels, but the deaths caused by those industries are generally an amorphous statistical blob of health problems rather than distinct deadly events).

My point is: Unless Tesla has built a dangerous product, there's no safety-related reason it should be treated differently than other home improvement items that require the same types of skills to safely install them. Electrical and solar power are well-understood by plenty of non-professionals. I do see the appeal of making it turn-key; they're aiming for average home owners, particularly at the time of construction or roof replacement, when there are already contractors involved and a mortgage to pay for everything. A large-scale solar power installation is expensive, and it makes sense for most people to work it into their mortgage.

But, it's frustrating for me; when I build a house (and I'm kinda shopping for land now in a casual way), I plan to self-fund it and do a lot of the work myself because I enjoy that sort of thing. There won't be a mortgage, and I won't be paying for contractors to do things I can do myself. Electrical work is well within my comfort zone. So, it's frustrating that when I install solar, it'll have to be the somewhat less attractive panels rather than nice-looking tiles.

It's certainly Tesla's right to sell their product however they like. But, I reckon I can complain about it, too.
When I say anti-economic, I mean anti-economic-development, as in the ideas of Marxism being incongruent with the truths of social and market reality, and thus highly disruptive to an environment where society can organise itself to meet people's economic needs.

There is a wide consensus in the field of Economics that central economic planning is fundamentally flawed as a system of economic organisation. This flaw relates to the nature of knowledge and its distribution throughout society. In my opinion, Marxism's conceptual shortcomings are why it has been associated with so much misery over last century and a half.

A biblical verse is unusually apt in this case:

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits."
The old machine learning for everything answer!

ML people need to learn to look into a problem before spouting this sort of stuff.
8 Principles for Keeping Customers with You for Life
Being a peasant (in the sense of someone working in the land, not as the subject to some feudal lord) was much more free and far less repetitive than being a factory worker (or an office drone for that matter).

People also don't understand how many free hours those people had (because a lot of farm work is seasonal).
With batteries (and even small battery packs) there are two main safety issues: (1) chemical combustion (due to mechanical damage or stress or electrical stress i.e. over-charging) (2) Burns and fires caused by arcing.

For (2) the exact configuration basically does not matter, because generally speaking all battery packs capable of storing a large amount of energy are also able to release a large amount of energy in short time. So if you cause a short you'll always get a nice arc. Note that most kinds of protections are way too slow to suppress arcing, so you can always burn yourself. Arc-fault detection is more difficult in DC systems as well.

(1) is mostly a matter of doing things right. This means active temperature monitoring and measures (cooling, venting, shut-off) for larger packs. Independent over-voltage and over-current monitoring. And of course the little things, like wiring things up the right way and placing sense wires at the proper locations. For example, this is a simple thing of doing things wrong:

+ Charger -
| |
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
|- Cell -|
| |
+ Sense -

Designing these kinds of circuits correctly requires a lot more experience and detail knowledge than one may think at first. (Besides miniaturization this is another reason why one-chip battery management chips are so popular in the industry).

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I did a few things with a few types of batteries (lithium ion and lead) and these little cells can cause an impressive amount of uh "disturbance" in short order. I admit I am almost as careful (in a different way, obviously) with them as when handling high-voltage things like the HV oscillator in an old 'scope.
I have clinical insomnia and have relied on white noise from a fan for many years to sleep. On cold nights, I point it away from me, but always fall asleep more easily with it on the highest (loudest) setting. When I travel, I turn the bathroom fan on in hotels. The constant sound helps keep my thoughts from running rampant.

On the rare occasions when I can't do either of these things, I improvise with earbuds, but the effectiveness is diminished.
His is full of shit. Fake ID rarely works in China anymore since the ID scanners become networked, not only used by police but also hotels/public transit etc.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw rvagg pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
> The tooling ecosystem, the performance, the VM, the GC, the libraries, etc...

None of that emerged from whole cloth in the beginning. It's the result of time and wide adoption. Java was released for free. Smalltalk wasn't.
Why do you need to unpack? I've never had to do this .... I've never been to se Asia though.
Not to mention unpaid internships...
I think we're talking cross purposes. I'm not saying that there we never came up with better things; far from it!

Rather, disregarding how we got here, the situation we're in now provides challenges that sort of justify the complexity and confusion we're in now. Maybe this comment better expresses what I'm saying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218425
I have a Google account on which i am only logged from mobile phone and a Facebook account that i have disabled nine months ago and that i reactivate upon need.
Pretty fast page load time. That is really nice when clicking through the entries.
A timeline or browsing by time categories would be interesting.
Okay I won't. Please give me the link to your website, so that I can blacklist it completely on my hosts file.

And to be extra nice for you, I'll go ahead and do the same on all my friends devices too, since every last one of them uses adblockers. You wouldn't want them stealing your ad supported content would you?

I'll even block your website on every firewall I get my hands on, because believe me, there are no ads going through those firewalls.
For extra info, bundler-audit relies on https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db
People just want free stuff. Google did introduce a program (Contributor) which would allow users to pay to fund their content creators without seeing ads. Last I heard that program was not doing well.
How do you know an individual molecule doesn't have consciousness?
Я с тобой согласен, товарищ! That's the mission indeed.

I fucking started a school in Hungary to give a better education to my (well, my brother's, details) little ones. Hungarian education didn't change enough from thirty years ago.
I have a specific example of one that bit me recently using Laravel, which has these doctrine dependencies upstream. On my mac I'm running php7.1 because it made sense as most of the code I write is served there now finally but there are some major projects stuck on 5.6 servers. As such I was recently bitten by this: http://doctrine-project.org/2017/07/25/php-7.1-requirement-a....

There about 7 packages listed there. Each github repo has at least one closed issue about this change, likely spurring the article. Knowing the fix of 'pinning' my platform to 5.6 is such an easy fix but what I had to Google to get there absolutely was not.

I feel in this instance that the concept of a platform dependency like PHP is or say the underlying Node.js engine is wildly different than an upstream library. The solace I get with node is often the jump from say 4 to 8 breaks a ton of shit. The jump from PHP 5.x to 7.x breaks exactly none of my code. I believe if it had I wouldn't have jumped to it so eagerly, even though PHPStorm does a wonderful job at keeping me from using 7.x things when I specify a project is 5.6.

I ultimately recognize now that I am the one that put myself in this situation but I feel like library maintainers could do a better job to prevent me from shooting myself in the foot. I know now to pin to very specific major.minor numbers at the very least and proposed that Laravel add the platform config flag to save other similar developers from making the mistake. The problem wasn't that just Laravel pinned to 1.* but that doctrine's own common package did it as well. If the platform config option didn't work another choice was to pin the specific version of upstream packages in Laravel's composer.json. That version of the fix feels like I'm ignoring most of the benefits composer was supposed to give me in the first place. I know the node ecosystem can suffer a similar fate just as easily but it feels really dirty to be in that situation. I start to wonder if I shouldn't be using those packages at all.
Farmer in the winter sounds like an OK job as long as you had enough food stored away.
>I do know I've had better success in things with single minded focus

You might have had better success "in things", but did you also had better success in relationships, family and personal health?

Because that's part of the balance thing.
I wonder if this couldn't be emulated somehow via e.g one pedal and steering angle and/or rear diff measurements to put more braking power to the inner wheel?

Then of course, it might be banned as a braking aid similar to ABS. Using any kind of feedback loop for braking effectively makes it a stability system
which I assume is not allowed?
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My first thought was whether this could be an artifact of evolving measurement methods or changes in sampling.

Another possibility is that baseline was actually higher than normal, because maybe it fluctuates depending on context (e.g. under certain stressors like war time).

Or maybe we are just seeing the pr0n effect.
I'll post an article that is not a serious technical discussion, but I hope you enjoy it anyway because it has a very different perspective. It's a nice story and it is reposted every other year in HN. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152131 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549320 )
That's a very impressive demo. I did Javascript development full time from 2012-2014 (Node.js 0.8 and Angular 1.0) and it's amazing to me that essentially none of the constructs he mentions were available then. It wasn't that long ago!
That's something I've noticed as well. My own take on Mexican restaurants is, the more elaborate the decor, the less impressive the food. The little taqueria in the strip mall has far better food at a far lower price than the impressive-looking chain restaurant, in my experience.