skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this comment really funny because "satisfy your hunger" is the primary marketing message that Mars pushes for Snickers.

So in the course of questioning the value of a marketing concept (personae), Alan is inadvertently demonstrating that he has fully internalized the Snickers marketing.

Maybe this was intentional? If you have a link for greater context, I'd be interested to see it.
People are biased to want to grow and be challenged. An easy life is an unsatisfying life.

Are games the answer?
The article claims 10% of all energy is wasted due to turbulence in pipelines. If this turbulence is reduced by up to 90%, meaning we use 9% less energy on a planet-wide scale, that's not saving the world?

I don't think we're going to come up with a 90% reduction in some moonshot strategy. I'll take a few percent here and there wherever we can get it.
Oh, that's neat it's what they're doing. Far as secure PDF reader, you can definitely reduce risks it poses with mitigations which reduce headaches when they don't reduce attacks. Those I was thinking of are doing it with acceptable overheads these days. On the far end, the CPU solution already compiles legacy C to run capability-secure on FreeBSD with OS and CPU available to download and run. Just gotta buy the board which has other uses.

So, there's more possibilities to explore on top of these existing solutions.
How complex is TFT? 1980 is a bit of a nexus for RPGs with too-many rules (e.g. the first edition of rolemaster was published that year).
I just finished the "soft launch" version of this. It's a truly excellent way to get started with deep learning. The course is very hands on and practical. This version has been updated to use pytorch and a bunch of new techniques. Highly recommended if you are looking to get started with deep learning.
I have two recommendations for anyone in this situation:

1) Talk with the state insurance commissioner. Make sure that your paperwork is in order, and then file a formal complaint. Mentioning this when talking to insurance company reps will get you booted upwards to people who are more able to help you so that the to make their problem go away.

2) If you have a case that's a clear compelling class, talk to a lawyer after the first appeal.

Background: My son had some prescribed therapy for a mental health condition that I was told would be covered when I talked to the insurance company. They subsequently denied the claims, then backpedaled on the first month because "I'd been told that they'd be covered.", but the subsequent months were not covered. I was left with a several thousand dollar bill. Washington State has the Mental Health Parity act, which states that mental health treatments must be covered to the same extent as rehab or surgical treatments. The insurance company ended up losing 2 class action suits, (a federal and a state) and paying $6.4M to repay all the class member's denied claims and an agreement to not deny claims in the future.
Maybe I wasn't looking for a TV show but for a Wikipedia article on a lawyer. Thanks to another comment I know now.
I believe th hour and a half is a global average. So the many hours you spend in Honduras is balanced by the 15 minutes a week I spend on laundry.
Well, you're at least 40. I immediately thought they were ranking armed, non-projectile fighting.
> I much prefer climate control and radio with knobs and levers, no screens thank you (hard to get away from now thanks to silly requirement for reverse camera).

I do too. The curse of automotive UX are touch-screen soft buttons and menu-driven UIs. On a car, every major function that you might use while driving should be controlled by a dedicated physical control. This includes pretty much every function present in a car before in-dash screens became common and many things that have been introduced since.

> Navigation much better on phone. Always up to date, no extra costs.

This is true. Carmakers have realized this any many new cars support technology for your smartphone navigation app to display on the center console screen.
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Yeah, but "mac 'n' insects" doesn't quite have the same appeal!
If counterfeit Tether has been used to prop up the market the losses of the comparatively few people who actually hold Tether will be a drop in the ocean compared to the affect on BTC price. The bitcoin price is a function of demand, if Tether tuns out to be a scam, and has been used to artificially inflate that demand, then the price can only go down. There is also the problem that if Tether collapses, there will be a run on all exchanges that accept Tether, particularly Bitfinex, and the resulting panic will send BTC through the floor.
Is that true that panels only last for about a couple of decades? A quick google suggests that that's just the warranty period and they just lose about 1% efficiency a year.
It's federated.
They have "cash and investments balance of $18.0 billion"

https://investors.delltechnologies.com/news-releases/news-re...
It would be great if we had a continent wide grid that could efficiently transfer energy from one region to another, but we don't. Building one would be enormously expensive and we'd lose a lot of power in transit.
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A quote, from the article, to consider:
"I have this little Hippocratic oath for data designers in the book. There are two basic questions I encourage them to ask themselves. One is, does it increase self-determination of poor people? And two, if it was aimed at anyone but poor and working people, would you be able to do it? And if you answer 'no' to either of those, don’t do it. You’re on the wrong side of history."
Just jump in with this course. Your background in web dev will be really helpful, but there will be plenty of new concepts to learn - don't try to understand everything perfectly the first time through, but just try to complete each week's assignments as best as you can. You'll need to learn python and numpy along the way, but there's plenty of free online resources you can refer to when you see something you don't understand. And use http://forums.fast.ai of course.

You can then go back through them a 2nd time and do a deeper dive. By that time, our Intro to Machine Learning course will be out too :)
I think there is a disconnect between what people think personae are for (improving usability for everybody) vs. what they are actually for (focusing resources on the few most important market segments). Focusing means that usability may actually go down for people who don't fit into those segments.

And of course like anything else, even if personae are conceptually sound, a company can still screw up in the execution.
Analytics is there, depending on platform it's either opt-in or opt-out. Android is opt-out for now, desktop seems to be opt-in. Not sure about web.
Fully support lol you can buy land in Colorado pretty cheap.

Had a friend do that... He bought 3 acres, spent a couple years building a cabin in his free time. Then one day just quit and went off to the woods.

Still visit him and he seems pretty happy with it. He doesn't need much income and makes enough money off odd jobs he seems to be doing pretty well.
Your premise is refuted by the fact that China is the primary customer of Middle Eastern oil today, and will overwhelmingly be tomorrow. Please explain to me how it was in the US interest to topple Saddam, lose a couple trillion dollars in national treasure, all so China could increase its power and influence by securing critical oil supplies and displace the US influence in the Middle East.

And when it comes to enemies, neither Iran nor Russia have need of external oil supplies.
The Blank Slate, another great book by Pinker, is a thorough and fascinating read that lays out the many misconceptions of human nature and its implications. He performs an exorcism on those who confuse morality with nature – myself included.
And you haven't seen it as a TLD now, either.

(The TLD is “com”, which you probably see fairly often in that role.)
You may have a point or two, but you're being downvoted because of the tactless way you've stated them. Also since when is a longer read only for "STEM people"?

edit: Fooled me, looks like it's been corrected.
Farming is all mechanized these days. Farmers have to deal with OS and firmware updates on their tractors.
What do you mean by "main"? The third largest party in Germany wants to leave the euro. That's why the government collapsed - their new electoral success. Is third largest party not "main"?

W.R.T. surveillance, yes that sucks, but spy agencies have never been accountable to the law in any country as far as I can tell. German BND is exactly the same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Intelligence_Service_(...

To the extent that they're less effective than GCHQ this reflects maybe a smaller budget or less capable employees, rather than major difference in intent. BND certainly doesn't care about EU human rights law any more than other countries do.

With respect to (4), the EU has no agreement amongst its own leaders about the strategic goals for Brexit either. Merkle and Macron want to exploit it to massively deepen integration, but Merkle is now longer chancellor and there's no clear consensus in Germany for that. Netherlands, Finland, other countries don't want deeper integration. Eastern European countries are busy fighting the commission and want deep relations with the UK after leaving. But the EU can't stop attempting to cherry-pick: the very thing it criticizes the UK for. The only deal it's been able to propose is all the bits the EU wants and none of the things the UK wants, steadily increasing the chance of no deal at all. And that's about 10% of the mess.

The reason Brexit is proving difficult to handle smoothly is because the EU and its loyalists really struggle with the idea of compromise, and extremism always divides people - go watch Darkest Hour and see how even in the face of a far, far, far worse and clearer adversary than Michel Barnier the British government was still split down the middle between "go it alone and fight" vs "appease and hope for the best". No big surprise that the same "give them whatever they want" vs "walk away" tension can be seen now too. That's democratic governments for you.
Earth's energy budget imbalance is around 0.6W m^2[0], while a passive cooling device developed by SkyCool Systems achieves 40W/m^2[1] of cooling power, so covering 5% of the land should be enough to balance things.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget

[1] https://www.google.it/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/60884...
So, certainly not a lawyer but does this really mean anything? Isn't summary judgement only for when there are no facts under dispute?
And who are you talking to? The problem with Matrix (or other messenger technologies) is not that they're not good enough (in most cases nowdays) but that if not enough people are using them, they're useless, even if technically superior. I have pretty great working Jabber server but the issue is I have literally 2 people left I can talk to using it nowdays and both hardware and maintenance costs when compared to benefits are not looking good.
Subsidy suggests someone giving you money, as opposed to not taking your money. These are not the same thing at the margins.
Storage typically is only enough to store energy generated during the day for use at night. It's nowhere near enough to account for seasonal changes or extended bouts of cloudy weather.
They have ~$47bn debt with ~$18bn in cash. Giving them a net debt of ~$29bn

https://investors.delltechnologies.com/news-releases/news-re...
Gah, that always gets me. Thanks.
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I appreciate the correction, I didn't know that change was part of it. It still sounds reasonable to believe it's more about manufacturing than about coal. Not saying I agree with it, I don't like it, I want to encourage solar and wind, but I get the desire to protect American workers.
It's true that PLC's use ladder logic, which is a representation of relay logic from 60 years ago. There's nothing wrong with ladder logic. It's easy for electricians to understand and change. More importantly, though, it's easy to see the logic flow that makes that conveyor belt that could rip off an arm, or that 1000HP fan, or that critical pump or that critical valve, function. It's important that the safety interlocks, switches, timers, and sensor values that control that piece of equipment be all grouped together visually to help avoid the frequent surprises (bugs), so common with text based programming languages.

If you want to beef up the network security to the PLC, be my guest, but don't disparage ladder logic. It's the right tool for what it's used for.
Jeremy,

Just wanted to say thanks for all your work. I'm taking some time off from my regular job as an iOS developer to pursue an ML project of mine. I wouldn't have had the confidence to do that with out your online course.
I wrote up a project I did after last years class on Medium, also because of your guidance.

https://towardsdatascience.com/25-lights-part-ii-e021b66e449...
As someone whose washing machine broke the other day mid-washing, having to do the laundry old-style, I cannot agree more with you.
Thank you for creating that! :)

BTW I just had a thought. What if instead of a txt file like you have:

hi everybody welcome to practical deep
00:00:00.000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPBSB1HLNLo#t=00h00m00s

...you instead created a markdown file that had:

[hi everybody welcome to practical deep]
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPBSB1HLNLo#t=00h00m00s)

...then you'd have a readable transcript, where every phrase is hyperlinked! For bonus points, run it through the bidir RNN punctuator to add punctuation: https://github.com/ottokart/punctuator2 . (I plan to do this for the transcripts in the future BTW).
Or even just a standard-size socket where you could securely clip-in a phone or tablet holder. They sell all kinds of flimsy things that attempt to clip onto the air vents or CD slot, it's about time there was a standard.
While it's great that they found a way to keep working on the project, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth personally because it feels like ultimate capitalism in play even when it comes to protocols like this.

Status.im hasn't done much other than raised a huge round of ICO, so they're sitting on all this money they can use to buy out other "competitor" protocols. Sure, they have a prototype beta and I guess beta testers are using it, but they don't even have a working app on the appstore.

Their (Status.im) strategy seems to be use their treasure chest of money and gain traction by acquiring other protocols (It may sound like a "partnership" but essentially the whole deal seems to be that these projects that received investment are expected to integrate with Status token)

I would have no issue with this approach if they actually HAD launched a product, but like I said, they don't even have a production app.

Riot has been around for a while, and they have an actual product. I think it sucks that an organization with more money can just buy out another org with less money. I would have loved to see Riot build their own destiny with their own tokens instead of raising capital from a competing messaging protocol.
Actually you don't. When the servers go offline in June, you'll still be able to update the watch. You will still need a phone running Pebble software to do it but since most of the functionality requires a phone with that software anyway this isn't much of a loss.

Pebble has done very well by it's customers for a company that didn't exist anymore. They definitely put in 110% to make sure nobody is left with a brick -- they didn't have to do that. The lights are off and nobody is there anymore. Honestly, given how much they've done I find you complaints even more misplaced.
The current title of this post is (imho) highly misleading and not related to original title.
> The idea that "You’re 37 times less likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning than you were at the turn of the century" makes a large difference in the happiness of people is ridiculous.

I believe he put that in as an interesting, somewhat unexpected benefit of modern life. His next few arguments are what really backs up his points.

> Maybe its because rates of marriage and church attendance are on the decline.

As someone from a country where the church held far too much sway and still tries to hold back the rights of gay people and forbid abortions I take a lot of hope from the fact that people are attending church less.

> Maybe its because of the debasement of our culture and education.

I don't think western culture or education has been debased at all. Can you elaborate?
Do you have good references about how to setup the environment with a Nvidia GPU in a Windows machine?
Transcription is a hard problem but it's pretty closed to solved. The unsolved problem is telling an voice assistant to do something useful and having it do it. An AI assistant would be something that could act on "Book me a trip to Tokyo and inform the relevant people," not interacting with a spoken command line, invoking some API by voice, or laboriously filling out a form by talking to a computer.
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It used to be that solar panels never paid for themselves, then it was 20 years to break even. Now, I think, we're down to 5 years.

Solar panels are getting cheaper and cheaper, and they definitely have a positive ROI now. And there are huge solar farms being built all over the world. I'm pretty sure they did the math before investing millions of dollars.
The problem I have with that interpretation is that we know that other countries - eg, those European countries with nationalized health care - have equivalent or better quality of care than the US, for situations like this, and at less cost.
Yup, and this is nothing new. In 2008 they tried to decline paying for my emergency treatment and ambulance. I was unconscious, but the ambulance was out of network and therefore I should have chosen one that was in network while unconscious. Then they wanted to not pay for the actual emergency room trip despite the fact that I spent the night there. Only numerous appeals over half a year and the patience of the staff at the hospital helped me to finally resolve this without hitting collections for a few thousand dollars. There will come a point when people are simply fed up with companies like this and they will literally demand blood. I hope scummy companies like this remember that.
LOL! I almost spit out my lunch. Which wouldn't be good because I'm sitting at my desk, in front of my station, in a very quiet office.

Bravo.
Better hurry up and flag this before someone thinks facts are political.
True, and yet...

"Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money." - Tim O'Reilly

You need to teach good money habits. They're important for your kids to know. You also need to teach that money is not the central focus of life. That's at least as important.
I don't see how changing my password changes a "security context". I don't suddenly get more or fewer permissions.

As for logging other places out, that's a design choice. People change password either because they routinely change theirs (they either need to or choose to), or because of a (suspected) compromise. In the latter case you'll probably want to log everyone else out (though, who says you're logging out the attacker and not the legitimate user?) and in the former case you shouldn't (otherwise changing your password becomes annoying and avoided). The interface for changing the password could have a "log out all sessions" checkbox or it could just be a feature separate from changing your password.

No, it's not as simple as you put it. No need to condescendingly pass it off as "security 101".
My first thought about reading that article too. I'm suspect of this submission to HN actually; usually, tech news that's submitted here is very detailed in the algorithms and "how" things work. This article reads like a press release watered down for investors.
No, it doesn't seem very possible to accurately audit trillions of dollars of transactions in the biggest and most secretive organization in history. They've been trying for almost 30 years now to no avail, all the while their budget and power have been increasing.
I'm not arguing that they're genuine, the quote was simply to show that they do in fact claim to hold $/£/etc to back the tokens, and not just general 'assets' that the parent comment described.
Agreed. Its interesting too the external costs of not using coal. EG shutting down mines causes a lot of economic hardship in some regions of the US. Is that a subsidy for gas/solar/nuclear?
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Once the main iPhone is at home (with its owner or left behind) the HomePod gives access to key information from the owner (their messages, their reminders, their calendar entries) to anyone within reach of the speaker. Anyone can ask for the content of my latest messages, can send a message in my name or check my reminders.
The idea that it should only be about the doctors and the patients is a little strange when you consider the fact that the insurance companies are paying. Of course they are going to get a say!

Your family members that are upset that they can't charge more than the people writing the checks are willing to pay are just like any other business people. All sellers of goods would love to be able to charge higher prices than the market will support.
I know things change over time, but the old advice on hackers was that most of them are not as malicious as they seem. For instance, many viruses have been accidentally more damaging than the creator intended.

Hacking a car to kill people is a lot different than kicking someone out of a video game. Even people who SWAT don't anticipate their rival/victim being killed.

They want the person to be miserable, not dead. It's cruel and vindictive, but it's not homicidal. Or at least not most of the time.
Unfortunately since they took VC money they couldn't just sit by and be a small player with a loyal customer base. That would have been the ideal position for them and could have kept them going for a long time. But that doesn't satisfy their investors that wanted to see a high return on their investment.

They never even really got their fitness side off the ground before they died. The Pebble 2 was their first fitness focused watch and they were already dead when it came out.

The Pebble Round with a heart-rate monitor would have sold like hotcakes to women with the right marketing.
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The bombed-out city that turned the Europeans was Dresden. Not Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Dresden.
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Decreases in panel costs result in only modest decreases in residential solar costs, because the panels aren't the bulk of the cost of install. There's all the labor of installing them, the other equipment like inverters and electric panel upgrades, the engineering time to evaluate the site and design an optimized system size and placement, and then just the general overhead that comes with the business (sales, marketing, admin, billing, etc.). The panels themselves might only be 30% of that.