skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of this really contradicts my points. Reduce the time spent cleaning by reducing the amount of time you spend cleaning. This could mean cleaning more often, but you will still spend less time doing it.

And... none of the people you mentioned are likely to benefit from the first several waves of robots cleaning outfits. Which was what I had on my mind.

That is, if you are a person that feels they need help cleaning their clothes, you are likely not a person that will benefit from the first robotic solutions. Unless, of course, you could already benefit from the current outsourcing techniques for the job. And it will be a while before those are beaten in price.

I say this as someone that has grown to love our robotic vacuum. Things is awesome. Probably still cheaper and more effective to just sweep and vacuum manually.
and what do we do when people abuse those systems? let them die?
Moral hazard?
10% isn't a fact, it's an example that is close enough to illustrate the thought experiment but allow you to do the math in your head (I originally learned about this years ago in a personal finance podcast).

And of course the fact that I have $65 in my wallet right now instead of in the bank takes $650 out of the cycle. If you're in a country where people don't trust the banks that much, or people have almost no money, a big fraction of all the money in play may be in cash, in someone's pocket, a safe, a cash register, an ATM, a briefcase, or hiding under their mattress.

Banks usually don't lend money out to just anybody, so the worst case scenario never actually happens. Or only happens once every 70 years. If there aren't too many banks in your country then you oversee more of the money supply and the house of cards effect should be more obvious than here.
My last laptop was Nostromo, same place of inspiration.
This is awesome and it's inspiring to see the Gates' making huge moves in philanthropy. It makes me wonder what the philanthropy would look like if other business leaders like Warren Buffet were also to run major charitable institutions.
The second link is a partial duplicate of the first link; it contains nothing not contained in the first link. Maybe that's why?
>There's no fundamental reason why trucks are less likely to electrify than other vehicles. In fact, the greater fuel savings makes it seem even more likely.

Energy requirements between commuter and heavy-duty commercial vehicles differ substantially, and batteries are of course the biggest hurdle against full electrification.

Light trucks could probably mirror SUV development, at least for part of the market. If they won't, it's probably due to demand side of the equation.
Banks do post current balances which reflects how ledgers work. The current balance also reflects transactions that havent posted and that seems to be in line with the example
Tesla's SDC program is badly broken. Trust me, or trust the string of engineering departures.
De-indexing old stuff might not be a good idea, but I'm increasingly running into the problem of google (and DDG) returning old and outdated results, I wish they would put more weight on recent articles, or at least add the option too. The time filtering options just aren't enough.
> present a properly scoped warrant!

Gosh, I first read this as "a poorly scoped warrant" and didn't think twice about it.
Why are governments around the globe so keen in taking down Uber?
I think this is more related to Gates trying to eradicate polio and showing that he's even willing to incentivize countries that can handle the distribution to do so themselves.
The Gates' are fucking destroying what's left of polio, even its debt.
Two thoughts in the other direction:

The internal alert might not have been "law enforcement has arrived with a warrant for our computers." It might have been more like "a bunch of armed men just demanded to be let into the building, I don't know who they are yet, shut everything down now and ask questions later."

Employees might have a legal obligation to protect some of the data that's accessible from their office computers. Maybe credit card and banking information, or health information for drivers?
The problem is a charity paying off your debt does not make your credit better. While its slightly better than a writeoff/forgiveness because the creditor isn't as angry, it still shows they can't pay back loans. Is a future creditor going to count on a charity showing up to pay them off?
Nevertheless, third parties paying off debt encourages the acquisition of more debt.
I am really not clear what your point is. But here are my "sources," fwiw:

I had a class in Homelessness and Public Policy from SFSU some years ago. I lived in California a total of 12 it 13 years, iirc. Five and half of those were as a homeless person.

I am author of the blog the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide, which means I hear from both homeless individuals and reporters periodically. I still participate on a homeless discussion forum where it is not uncommon for people to ask where they should move to as a homeless person. I traveled from Georgia to San Diego as a homeless person. I went there in part for the dry, temperate weather.

I recently got off the street in part by traveling to someplace cheaper. It is much wetter here than the places I lived while homeless. Nonetheless, it is a relatively temperate part of Washington and seems to attract a lot of homeless. I am fairly confident the relatively temperate weather is a factor.
Norway may implement that in a sensible way, but the UK recently scrapped a similar sentence because it was linked to a bunch of injustices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protec...

People would go in for a minor offence, but be seen as high risk, and then stay in for many years.
Then the information that is properly scoped in the warrant will be revealed to the authorities. What won't happens is the police will not be given free rein to go on a fishing expedition to random data not specifically granted in the warrant. That's all we're talking about here, the authorities didn't get to go on a fishing expedition.
On being an Engineering Manager
On the face of it $76m seems like a staggering amount of money. Then we learn that the foundation dedicates $3b a year, and this seems like a drop in the bucket.

Amazing what massively focused resources can accomplish.
"The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government."

-- first paragraph of the wikipedia article.

Always ask "Who benefits?".
The mobile phone thing almost certainly isn't an issue - my phone generally sits between the sofa and the Switch and I've never had any connectivity problems, regardless of what the phone is doing.
Why wouldn't a judge buy the logic that the purpose of security is to deny access to anyone not explicitly authorized? I mean it's not like there needs to be a special provision to detect and allow police.
> It's not a new idea.

Indeed...

"In order to overcome the limited operating range of electric vehicles, and the lack of recharging infrastructure, an exchangeable battery service was first proposed as early as 1896. The concept was first put into practice by Hartford Electric Light Company through the GeVeCo battery service and initially available for electric trucks. The vehicle owner purchased the vehicle from General Vehicle Company (GVC, a subsidiary of the General Electric Company) without a battery and the electricity was purchased from Hartford Electric through an exchangeable battery. The owner paid a variable per-mile charge and a monthly service fee to cover maintenance and storage of the truck. Both vehicles and batteries were modified to facilitate a fast battery exchange. The service was provided between 1910 and 1924 and during that period covered more than 6 million miles. Beginning in 1917 a similar successful service was operated in Chicago for owners of Milburn Wagon Company cars who also could buy the vehicle without the batteries."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehi...
Regarding Buffett, specifically, it would look an awful lot like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Informati...
Don't blame Twitter. Blame the idiots who are sexting without end-to-end encryption.
Interesting perspective, haven't thought of it this way before. It does still provide some benefit to the country though, they can use that money for something else instead of having to pay it back to Japan.
Not claiming otherwise, but I'd be interested to know what a normal days mileage looks like for you?
I’m slowly reading through this book, and I agree that it’s really, really great. I disagree, however, that this means one should “delete all these apps”. I’ve tried the Headspace and 10% Happier, and I think they’re great introductions for anyone who might not be ready to absorb the simple-but-not-at-all-simple language of The Mind Illuminated. It seems that perhaps you’ve forgotten that each of us is on a path, that it’s perfectly fine if this path is different for everyone, and that there is no end to the path outside of death or loss of awakening; certainly not “I finished this cool book”. As someone else has already pointed out, there’s quite a bit of irony in your commentary.
Why do you consider rates as distinct from other forms of compulsory taxation? It may be that rates where you are are a different thing to rates in Victoria (where I live).

Here, rates are:

* compulsory

* "progressive", based on land value, not value of services provided

* go towards services that may not be used by the ratepayer specifically, for example municipal swimming pools, not just say rubbish collection or road maintenance
Probably not. First this is a highly unusual event, not something other debtors could reasonably expect for themselves.

Second, the money was used to fight polio, a terrible disease. Moral hazard would be Nigerians driving Ferraris purchased by Melinda and Bill. This is not that.

If the Gates want to eliminate such diseases, they must be elated to see effective programs spending their money to do it.
If your company doesn't care enough to have good management, they don't value you. I'd react accordingly.
The mirror image of your argument is just as applicable:

Law enforcement has already been seen to act adversarial to private interests, remotely logging out of computers is utilized to try and limit law enforcement's ability to obtain information beyond the scope of a warrant. There is little doubt that law enforcement would willingly take information beyond the scope of the warrant and later find a way to use it against them.
I'm curious how heavily used Go is inside Google (as they are the core developers), does anyone know the approximate ratio of languages used there?

Is Go one of the top 3 languages with Java and JavaScript, or is Python or something else more significant.
Why depend on government to address this problem? If several thousand Bay Area families would step up and volunteer to provide shelter and long-term social and financial support to the homeless population, the problem could be solved in short order.
I doubt many people will rush out and make iffy loans on the assumption that Bill Gates will pay them off.
Why does the 6th largest oil exporter in the world need a $76M loan paid?

Edit: Downvotes? Legitimate question guys. Can someone explain how that works?
No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

This article has some factual information about it, including statistics from census data and some details. e.g: substance abuse, people being priced out of their homes, etc.

I would keep politics and ideology aside.
I've convinced myself that this happens in gmail / hangouts history search too. It'll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term.

I haven't done this methodically, and I can't prove that this is happening, but it's infuriating nonetheless.
Immigrants from other states vs. native Californians.
That's not necessarily true. NYC and London serve as huge hubs. 22% of JFK's traffic in 2016 was connecting passengers, aka passengers that did not start nor end their trip in NYC [1]. That's 22% of traffic that you can free up by adding more point-to-point flights and bypassing JFK entirely. ~35% of LHR's traffic was connecting passengers [2]. If you live in a small/midsize city in the eastern US and want to go to Europe, chances are you'll be taking a small 737 flight to JFK before connecting onto your flight to LHR and then connecting on your flight to your final destination. However, the industry is moving towards more direct flights (see: Delta just added a direct flight from Orlando to Amsterdam). These flights will reduce the congestion of JFK and LHR considerably.

> Also don’t forget that airspace is also quite congested.

Airspace is congested around specific airports, but the same situation applies: there are other airports with almost zero airspace congestion that can easily pick up the slack. If you're talking about jetstreams, we're almost nowhere near saturating the available airspace over the Atlantic.

1: https://www.panynj.gov/airports/pdf-traffic/ATR2016.pdf

2: https://www.statista.com/statistics/303920/flight-transfers-...
Analyzing a New MacOS DNS Hijacker: OS X/MaMi
Not to sound pedantic, but the singular verb finds in the title needs an edit please :)
The United States heavily punishes countries that legalize drugs, if not by direct sanctions, then by pulling aid.

See how US threatened UN with pulling aid, and Pakistan.
And shouldn't that be the case? Shouldn't a raid be a last resort when the evidence being sought is at high risk of disappearing?
Having roommates in your 30s isn't that weird in LA, SF, and NYC.
There's a couple things that make trucks a hard nut to crack(again I say this as a Model S + diesel truck owner).

1. There's a 6k GVWR weight limit for a lot of local streets. Most half-ton trucks are in the 5200k range so adding 2k of batteries easily puts you over this.

2. Trucks are rated for total tow capacity, adding 2k of batteries means you cut towing capacity by 2k or upgrade the brakes/drivetrain which adds more weight.

3. Trucks aren't that aerodynamic, trailers even less so. That means per-kW you're going to get a lot less range than something that has a good Cd.

4. Charging stations just aren't setup for trailers at all. You'd have to find a place to unhitch, charge and rehitch which adds even more travel time.

For commercial trucking routes you can probably go electric sooner since they are regular routes but for consumer trucks I don't see it happening soon.

Recently we had to drive 400mi roundtrip towing a 5k lb trailer @ 18 MPG. Going from a GGE of 37kw/gal * 0.5 thermal we would have needed a 412kWh battery pack to make that trip with 0% range left.
Build more houses
Ding ding ding.
9to5mac article on this: https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/15/macos-dns-hijacking-malware/
Thanks for the info. To me, just about any HN post about XYZcoin is a minefield these days. The sentiments seem to all be unrealistically positive and the derision of the glaringly insane XYZcoins are just swamped in whataboutism and thread-derailing. I know it's a hot market and there is a lot of stuff going on, so these threads themselves are warranted, yet the comments in them are just clownshoes.
I use Race Car designations GT40, R8, R18, 919,488
You also see see similar protection mechanism with some of the more security minded individuals. It's a bit like shutting down the PC (to enable the encryption) if you notice a police raid on time, at your home. Or something like USBKill, an USB kill switch (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/05/usbkills_laptops_to...).
Yes and no:

- People often want to limit housing in their particular city/neighborhood, but

- They agree that there should be more housing built somewhere, just not near them

It's like being for pollution regulations, except that you demand that you yourself (and your buddies) be exempt. Normally that wouldn't work in a democracy, but imagine that only the polluters get to vote: that's how land use regulations get decided (because the beneficiaries of lower housing costs would be largely potential residents, and you have to live there to vote).

In practice, the solution is to have zoning decisions made at a higher level; at the metro area level is probably the best one, since they tend to function as economic units, and that mimics how people tend to choose housing.
From my german perspective, every assumption in this article looks quite gross and barbaric.

Here, everyone is insured. If you break your arm, you get it fixed. If you get cancer, you get therapy. If you get the flu, you get a prescription. The overall cost is paid by the entire population, through the insurance system.

For what is the alternative? Maybe the overall monetary cost would be lower if everyone had to watch the price, but you would pay for it in human lives and suffering, when people have to decide between dying of illness or dying of hunger, or between lifelong pain or clothes for their children.
Normally moral hazard is a concern for charitable activity, but in this case it would be a good thing because it isn't really encouraging negative behavior. If countries intentionally go into debt to eradicate critical diseases with the intention of getting the debt forgiven or paid by someone else, that would be just fine.
Also note that this is the debt of the government, not of the population. There is no guarantee that it will have any objective benefit to the population. Being a third-worlder and having worked for the government and knowing how it works fairly well, I'd rather throw the money from an helicopter than give it to the government. It won't do much good but giving money to the government is almost certain to make people worse off.
It’s definitely a joke, intentional or not. Hell, it’s even funnier if it was unintentional.
I downloaded the Google Arts and Culture app and tried the first documentary in my VR kit. The "South African Prison" one.

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in this tiny cell
http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51d081ccecad04b3350...

How can we humans be so cruel?
Seems reasonable when you put that way, but as you said you are unsure how google handles their indexes. I doubt we will ever will unless your signature is on a NDA.
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This article doesn't specify exactly the legal problem here. Maybe the article just lacks key details, like how Uber violated the warrant or the legal repercussions they could face.

The article vaguely makes it sound like Uber acted within their rights and the police just don't like that they didn't find a bunch of unlocked computers to rummage through, by virtue of what it omits. I don't have a problem with that. If their warrant amounts to a fishing expedition, it actually sounds like harassment of Uber. A warrant should specify something you have some likelihood of finding. If the police walked away empty handed and Uber doesn't face charges for destroying evidence, it seems like they had a bad warrant to begin with.
This is how research in economics works. It can take even 5 years to get a paper published, although these guys seem to have written the paper quite recently. Turnaround was quick for them...

Pre-publication version of the article is available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2977479
Believe Buffett donates to the Gates foundation. Here he donated ~$3 billion last year https://www.reuters.com/article/us-buffett-charities/buffett...
The problem is that in many urban areas especially in CA, there aren’t many viable housing options for those who are mid career and want to live alone or start a family. “Just get some roommates, we did that when I was young” can be a little condescending to a 35 year old someone making 150k/year.
I guess it's a good thing that the tie cuts off blood supply to the brain.
Well, that's cool.
> Kids name not matching is a much smaller deal than changing your name.

That's easy to say, but that's just your personal feelings on the matter. My sister left her name alone when she got married, but changed her mind (and her name) when she got pregnant, specifically because she wanted her kid to have the same last name as her.

I would probably make the opposite decision if I were in her shoes, but it was her decision, based on her desires and what makes her the most happy; not mine, and not yours.

> Because it doesn't affect anything in practice what their name versus parents name is

Depending on where you live, there can be social confusion and even a stigma. Maybe you're lucky in that where you live that isn't a problem, but that's not the case everywhere.

> Changing a name on the other hand gives practical problems such as for any copyrights, email address, source code, publications, etc...

No one's saying there aren't practical problems, but if the name change is worth it to you, then by definition you have accepted that trade off as also being worth it.
Ummm... LA has more homeless people than any other city because of the weather. NYC winters kill. LA's outdoors are basically like the indoors most other places. No mosquitoes. Only rare rain. 70 degrees most of the time.

Much of California's poor are created elsewhere and they move to California. It's easier to be homeless in California than most other places.
Try pinging your site: https://pingomatic.com/
Looking for an official announce from Jeff Barr/AWS Blog.

This just looks like a pretty basic Git repo.
Did you read the article? Please explain why you think it’s unauthorized access.

>> When the call came in, staffers quickly remotely logged off every computer in the Montreal office, making it practically impossible for the authorities to retrieve the company records they’d obtained a warrant to collect. The investigators left without any evidence.
A judge "can simply simply a request compelling the company to turn over evidence" in what jurisdiction?

My understanding of the majority of warrants are that they have a nebulous grasp on transnational corporations.

For example: if I (the police) have a French warrant and serve it on the Paris offices of Uber, but Uber has a pager service that performs whole disk encryption and sends the keys to a server in Panama, where does that leave me?

The French government isn't going to raise a diplomatic ruckus over a taxi company operating illegally in Paris.

And I'd strongly suspect a judge wouldn't be inclined to allow me to forceably repatriate the data (which data?) without further evidence (exactly why I was serving the warrant!).

So essentially, I don't see it as being technologically hard to construct a system where I am enabled to operate illegally in a country, as a matter of corporately-sanctioned policy, while skirting around local technical ability and federal legal will to call me to account.
>> storing my.cnf in VCS is a better idea than updating it in prod.

Eh, 'but we can't store things/API keys/passwords in VCS! It's bad!' is a pet peeve of mine. No, let's not 'just update it manually when we need it'. No, if outsider getting your DB password (somehow) poses existential threat... Chances are that you have way more concerning problems.
The Joycons feel great (when using both), I have no idea what "word on the street" is talking about. Using them for 2P mode is "meh" - playable but not the best.

The Pro Controller also exists, which is a standard controller if you want to use that. It's on Groupon for $30 right now.

You can also use your own GameCube controllers with an adapter if you want.
This is exactly what I'd want a company holding my personal data to do. There are lots of problems with Uber, but this is one of the good things.