skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About the smog, i'm in shanghai right now, and i can tell you that the air is far less polluted than Paris, France. It's actually quite weird, because i thought the exact same thing as you regarding smog, i thought i would have to wear a mask for the duration of my trip. I was amazed at the number of electrical vehicle here (not a single motorcycle running on gas).

Note that it may be due to the chinese new year holidays (although it's been over for two weeks now), or to the price of real estate that rose to such a level that nobody can live downtown anymore... I'm not sure the reason, but i was really really surprised.
Users in the EU are not legally required to follow such notices until you make some form of contract with them. Which requires consent.
Staying silent isn't an endorsement of the status quo. Similarly, we shouldn't have any expectation that company X or Hollywood celebrity Y owes it to us to denounce whatever the twitterverse currently finds distasteful. Entitled people on social media love the fact that they can bait companies into every political squabble nowadays.
Don't worry utilities, electric demand is going to double once we switch to electric cars.
Is it possible this was just a mistake or maybe a rogue employee? I can't imagine Google allowing someone of this low competence to make changes to search.
That’s just a fancy way of saying “I’m fine with the status quo”.
And remember that GDPR applies to EU citizens outside the EU too, so you’d need to confirm with the user upfront that they aren’t an EU citizen before capturing the information.
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I don't really support that solution however. I am the sort to allow for freedom at the cost of safety in most cases.
> random urls from the same domain would work fine.

What stops someone from blocking the domain? I think a combination of random domain + url would make it rather hard to detect these things.
Eh... I'm not sure about "wildly effective." A few years ago I started a business and cold called for several hours each day for the first four months. I didn't make a single sale, and I'm told I have an excellent phone presence.

What succeeded for me was SEO, direct mail, and email campaigns. I still had to do sales pitches, but I was working off warm leads from people that actually wanted to hear from me.

I'm not saying cold calling doesn't work. I'm saying it's an inefficient use of time. Yes, some people will buy, but there are far more efficient ways of reaching potential clients.
In this article the author states: "The latter definition is important for developers. It includes things like IP addresses, mobile device IDs, browser fingerprints, RFID tags, MAC addresses, cookies, telemetry, user account IDs, and any other form of system-generated data which identifies a natural person.". This information does NOT automatically qualify as personal data. Information being unique is not the same as personally identifiable. A random cookie sent by the browser is not PII. A cookie stored in conjunction with say an email address could be.

Certain information can be classified as PII if it possible to cross reference it with other stored information to identity a user. For example a European court in a recent ruling stated that a full IP address could be considered PII because an ISP would have a record of IP address and time with a persons name.
This should be a kick to the shrinking heavy industry.
I have thought about a natural language understanding (NLP/NLU) based startup to do exactly this. So much to do, so little time.
...but near term "If my child died in a situation where I know without a doubt an AI caused the accident, it would matter a hell of a lot to me."

There are going to be a lot of lawsuits that will sort out the legal frameworks after the first wave of failures by automated conveyances....
Ha! - In the article that smoggy image was worth a 1000 clear breaths on this side of the pond.
Don't worry about the utility companies - they're already looking for ways to monitize you even more.

At ReInvent, there was actually a utility mouthpiece touting how they were interfacing with Salesforce to make more money out of you by running deep learning on everything they know about you to create proactive and individualized "sales opportunities".

"Your refrigerator/TV/hot water heater seems to be inefficient. We're offering a sale on those right now..."

"You appear to have a water leak. Want us to send out a technician to do a full workup?"

"Hey, you seem to really like American Football. Want to buy these three premium channels that offers even more?"
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It doesn't return anything for me in the US.
Mesosphere DC/OS, AWS, ECS, EKS, EC2, cloudformation, Jenkins, deployment API developed at home grown...
yeah I'm ok with not being SV.
Then there is also the move of energy intensive industries to abroad. Those that needed huge amount of energy, like Datacenter from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Apple are setting up JV or their own solar farm. More people going off grid.
Does anyone actually use Google Shopping? I personally don't know anyone who does.
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I'm trying to figure out Google's angle here. Is this just a dumb legal-initiated move to shelter Google from culpability for any future gun crimes committed with guns purchased after looking at Google Shopping? Is this an attempt to shield against bad PR on social media from "supporting those evil gun sellers"? Or is this an attempt by Google to throw their weight around for ideological reasons, to try to make gun purchasing as much as a pariah as the Confederate flag became after Dylan Roof (when major online retailers did the same censoring)?

Whatever the case, it's definitely making breaking up Google look a lot more appealing. Encourage your friends and family to get off of Google and use something like DuckDuckGo instead. For too many people, "Google = Internet", and it's becoming increasingly clear that that mindset will leave people vulnerable to inhabiting only a small curated collection of approved mindsets.
On one hand, great, useful, and very pretty. On the other hand this reinforces the use of such antiquated and hacky concepts as clearfixes, or floats for layout.

Also, the ellipsis truncation is very tricky to pull off. The parent element needs to be a block if I remember correctly.
You encrypt the data before it’s stored with a unique key, then destroy the key when the user requests it.

Doesn’t help for pre-GDPR data but that’s the way you should be building going forwards.
Perception of brightness is not linear. The human eye response is not linear. So x10 the luminous flux (power output) will be perceived as brighter but far from x10.
Still, inactivity is not equivalent to choice. Otherwise we wouldn't have the term "negligence" (for when you really should be acting, but aren't), and the life in society would be an impossibility - after all, you and I, and most of us here, are very inactive about world hunger, human trafficking, human rights abuse, climate change, social justice, etc.

Moreover, inactivity/neutrality is different from just "supporting status quo" in the sense that when the status quo changes, you still remain inactive/neutral, instead of fighting against the "new normal".
It could easily be the other way around. Right now cars are murder machines. Your child could be hit and killed by a human driver where an AI would have avoided the accident.
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@pbhjpbhj - I believe the meaning of the sentence is that Troy Hunt is expecting/planning for a few orders of magnitude of growth.

"Soak a few zeros" for example going from 1,000 calls per second to 1,000,000 calls per second.
I notice this has been pushed down the rankings on the frontpage (it was near the top a few minutes ago). Surely this sort of incompetent implementation of a politically-motivated decision by a major tech company is worthy of our attention?

(Exactly how submissions end up at a position other than their natural ranking has always been a bit mysterious to me - should I blame some algorithm thing or malicious actors?)
Which is itself a tiny fraction of the number of yearly immigrants.

It's only a big deal because most of them are coming to work for 1 industry.
True, the way they've implemented this seems calculated to cause a splash. I expect they'll roll out a more nuanced version after the attention passes.
I'd argue a more subtle point: JS is fine, it's phoning home with all sorts of personal info siphoned off my PC that is the problem. JS is used to do this usually, but isn't the only way as seen in tracking pixels in JS-less HTML emails.
No, that's just a way of saying "I don't care either way, and if the status quo completely changes tomorrow, I still won't care".
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It's a matter of principle. Also, unacceptable if you can be prosecuted for posting stuff.
What folks use for deployment strategy for machine learning based models?
Ublock origin filters update automatically. You can find filters specifically targeted at mining.
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You just reminded me of some news from my home county:

http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2017/11/28/coal-yard-demolition...

I had friends who used to exit that place carbon-black from jobs shoveling coal.

The region is partnering with the local Six Nations tribes to develop a solar farm.

The stacks (skyscraper-scale) are coming down tomorrow.

>The 4,000-megawatt station was built in the early-1970s. For decades, it was the largest coal-fired generating station in the world.
Lol, I'll believe it when I see them execute on this strategy. Utility companies are not known for employing talented innovative thinkers, those people tend to flock to opportunities in other industries.

It sounds to me like Salesforce was able to sell this utility on an a vision that the utility is unlikely to execute on.
What guarantee do I have that a car will take me where I want to go if I cannot drive it myself and I cannot inspect the software?
Definitely not true. GDPR significantly broadens the types of data subject to legal requirements. Whereas yesterday I only had to protect PII and content, now even telemetry and performance data becomes subject to new rules.

This is a huge problem for an org that relies on huge amounts of such data to keep our product running and uses systems which were never built with these new rules and classifications in mind.

Furthermore, there are huge complications surrounding "data processor" scenarios (in other words, Enterprise SaaS products). For example, what takes precedence, GDPR deletion or our contractual security/auditing obligations?

Again, I'm not saying that any of this isn't worth while, just that when you get down into the weeds things look a little different.
Virtue signaling at the highest corporate levels. Must have been approved by Pichai himself. He probably felt insufficient backing to say no (which would have been in the interest of the company) to the aspiring apparatchik that executed this as her career move.
It would be useful if people downvoting this could say which bit is incorrect, or what it's missing.
I hate quoting wikipedia, but the definition they use is far wider:

"A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.[1] Although commonly extended from government, the term subsidy can relate to any type of support – for example from NGOs or as implicit subsidies. Subsidies come in various forms including: direct (cash grants, interest-free loans) and indirect (tax breaks, insurance, low-interest loans, accelerated depreciation, rent rebates)."

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

That would at least indicate that the definition is by far not as clear as you would like to have it.

Diesel is taxed lower with the aim of promoting two economic goals: lowering total CO2 output and supporting the transportation sector. It falls really right under that definition.
> But if you are inactive, then you are choosing a single road: allow those with power to keep on as they are.

Reducing politics to "choosing who has power" is a dangerous oversimplification, and one that I think is at the root of our shitty, polarized political culture that's unable to compromise on anything.
Why not have a driver present? Just don't understand how that improves the test.
Why everything must change every five years
Instead of trying to block ad-mining, consider this;

With the right PoW algorithm and the hardware access to optimize it, it really seems like an excellent economic model, specifically if you must opt-in in exchange for seeing no ads.

Today we deal with advertisements that destroy the user experience and have a very real cost to the user in having to navigate through intrusive ads. Which also, by the way, often cause the same over-revving and slow downs as mining do.

In response, ad blockers rewrite or block a site’s code to eliminate the ads, consuming the content but starving the site from its only revenue stream. Not theft, perhaps not even morally wrong, but certainly to the detriment of the site owner.

Microtransactions or subscription-based content pools with view-based payouts have been proposed for years and have had some traction but certainly aren’t widespread.

If you could opt-in to mine on behalf of the sites you visit in a way that respected your real-time compute resources, in exchange for a completely ad-free experience, would you do it?

It seems like mining for someone is the ultimate micro transaction. There is no overhead and no fees and you can mine for a portion of time equal to tiny fractions of a cent of value. In fact, mining for enough cycles to produce even a penny of value would be a fairly substantial amount of computation.

The crucial question is the effeciency of the process. There are no transactions fees whatsoever to mine for someone else, the bandwidth is minuscule, the code is fairly tight. But the one thing that makes it inefficient is if you’re consuming more compute than necessary to most optimally perform the PoW. In other words, if your hashrate per CPU-second is sub-optimal because the sandbox doesn’t allow an efficient PoW implementation, or because the algorithm can be run orders of magnitude more efficiently on specialized hardware, that in itself is a form of transaction fee.

If we can get a PoW algorithm which runs near-optimally on general purpose computers on a blockchain that isn’t dominated by botnets, then the economics should work out that you are paying whoever you mine for approximately the cost of the electricity required to perform the mining, effectively leading to a way to make free micropayments.
Is the internet is getting safer?
Selecting the "fanboy" 3rd party lists in uBO settings in addition to the default lists is the easiest way, imo, to get to 99%+ coverage.
I found it on a bike trip. I've also lived in one of those places (Oudezijl, North-Eastern Groningen). The North-East of the country here is quite bike friendly and definitely as close to car free as it gets. Houses there are cheap because of the fear of earthquakes due to gas extraction, which means it is easy to buy in but very hard to sell.

One very good way to find such houses is to look at night time satellite images and to look for places with very little light. Any houses in those regions will be in very lightly trafficked areas.
Maybe. For what it's worth, OpenBLAS is at least as fast on all AMD64 micro-architectures before AVX512 that I've had access to. That's for DGEMM, which is what normally matters; MKL may well have optimized more kernels than OpenBLAS has. Unfortunately, many cling to performance myths in the face of measurements.
if I could afford that I wouldn't need to work - get real mate
Take all my upvotes and offer a newsletter for subscription please.

The lack of digging is a frustration I have with a lot of new guys who join the team. For example, they might create something new and tack on some new, untested piece of code without reading whether something already exists within the same codebase. Even in a startup environment where documentation is scarce, it's worthwhile to ask the question of, "Did someone else here think of this problem here before me? What did they do?"
I can afford to buy a car outright, but why would I? Most new cars have terms of zero interest for several years. If I can invest my money elsewhere while taking advantage of a zero-percent loan, why wouldn't I?
This. When I was learning to code by making games I was making state machines without even knowing the definition.
So did the detector get clobbered by this particle?
Chrome has a task manager built in (press shift + escape) and it does show CPU usage.
Our learning AIs will have an instructor, just remotely

> the DMV will require that those testing autonomous cars without a driver present have a dedicated communications channel that ties the car to a remote operator, who can take over if needed.
It probably depends a lot on your type of product.
What's the guarantee that a taxi driver will take you where you want to go? You can't inspect his software either. A taxi driver could feasibly just leave the taxi and take his keys with him but practically that doesn't happen. Also you would have a cell phone so could call their support or arrange another car
Current cars aren't exactly designed for "leisure." In the future we will probably see more car designs centered around leisure such as sleeping, working, or eating.
I found this guide to be pretty good https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/
What's troubling to me is that it's very unclear what specifically is required. I know the linked post isn't legal advice, but in the page about 'privacy by design' linked to by the origin link, they list "Minimize the amount of collected data" as as an item (supposedly to be achieved to be in compliance with the law).

What's the minimum amount of data? Who decides that? Is it dependent on context? I'd hope so!

Can any site just 'do an end run around' the law by requiring their users to agree to allow them to collect whatever data they collect now or that they've already collected? If so, that seems like it'd be likely as helpful as current terms of service.

Another item mentioned is "Where possible, pseudonymize personal data.". What's a practical example of that?

Yet another item – "Don’t enable social media sharing by default.". Is the thinking that user's shouldn't be able to share something via social media without first explicitly enabling that option? That just seem unfriendly. Or is the idea that doing so protects someone from doing so accidentally? This seems a lot like the 'cookie law', itself an annoying mandated nagging that probably backfired (because everyone was effectively trained to just do whatever necessary to get rid of the corresponding notification on every site they visited).

Again from the privacy-by-design page:

> There is no checklist of ready-made questions that will get you there; General Data Protection Regulation requires developers to come up with the questions as well as the answers.

That's a really unsettling description of a law.
awesome news - first of all public transportation in any town with more than a hundred thousand inhabitants is good enough that nobody needs to use a car except for very specific cases. of course if everybody would switch to ÖPNV then the capacity would be maxed out - so the conclusion is increasing availability of public transportation.

also the way parts of government (mostly those rooted in Bavaria) attempted together with VW, Audio etc. to weasel their way out of taking responsibility. the testing applied was stupid and lacking realism - but nonetheless they programmed software that detects a test and adjusts the motor's inner workings. that's beyond benefiting of stupidity - that is criminal.

It feels great, great, great - I hope this will strengthen research and development for and of electric vehicles.
Toy guns are probably a desired target here if this is a reaction to school shootings.
> With TV this will end badly unless something drastically changes because the rising prices will drive more and more people to cut-the-cord. I suspect as soon as you can get major sporting events in a convenient form outside of having a cable subscription it'll be game over.

In the US, SlingTV offers the ability to get local Fox (NFC) and local NBC (Sunday night games) in their "Blue" package for $25/mo. You can jump up to "Orange" and get ESPN (Monday-night games) for $35/mo (but this package only allows you to run one stream to one device at a time). You do have the option to get both packages for the obvious cost, but at that point, you are coming up on the price of standard cable. SlingTV does have NFL Network, but Amazon got the rights to stream Thursday night games last season. Local CBS is still missing from Sling, so too bad if your team is in the AFC I guess.

MLB (MLB.tv), NHL (NHL.tv), NBA (NBA TV) all have their "out of network" streaming services that can be purchased without a cable TV sub, but watching in-network games can typically be done with a $10/mo VPN service.

In-network games for NHL/NBA/MLB are really what is left for disruption for the "big 4" US sports. But with Comcast tied NBC Sports and all of the regional channels, I suspect they will be holding on to those rights with a death grip.
>Jevons paradox(1) has previously ensured that increased efficiency resulted in increased demand.

you can only have so many devices and appliances.
My commute is currently around 2 hours each way. If I had a self driving car Im still probably not moving much further away, even though it would be a significant cost of living difference.

On the other hand I could see people whose commutes are 30 minutes tolerating a 1 hour self driving commute especially if it means they are paying 1/2 their rent.
The city should be almost deserted during CNY. But right now at the moment of this post, Shanghai is worse than Paris:

https://aqicn.org/city/shanghai/ (95)

http://aqicn.org/city/paris/ (66)
True, you can track people using plain old cookies and the likes.

But JS can do much more shady things than tracking people.
In Sicily during summertime definitely no blankets...
Horizontal and vertical centering - needs a height on the parent which is omitted from the example.
I don’t know about “dining,” but people here in Los Angeles eat entire meals while driving every day. Having hands free won’t necessarily be like hanging out at home, but there is a whole lot you can accomplish if you’re used to it.
> Staying silent isn’t an endorsement of the status quo.

If you stay silent, supporters of the status quo can simply say “see? people are happy with it; if they weren’t more would complain”.

So once again, neutrality is a myth and the only people who claim otherwise are those who are content with the status quo.
The market value of putting off paying $18 in sales tax for six months at 2% interest is $0.18. Not a lot of people will be signing up to fill out paperwork for ~$0.18.

Especially when, because it happens at scale, it only means the state has to raise the tax rate by that amount to raise the equivalent revenue to cover the bond interest it has to pay because it didn't get the money sooner.
> Tooltips are my favourite CSS-"trick". I've seen countless developers implement those with javascript, which is redundant if you know proper css selectors.

Unless you want to show a tooltip in a container that has `overflow: hidden`, since it will then clip the tooltip as well. You need to use JS in that case and put the tooltip directly in body, then position it absolutely.
Are you aware of others in your company or at other companies that also use cannabis as much as you? Or are you aware of people using narcotics/amphetamines?
Can any suggest accessible resources or courses for GDPR training for software developers and product managers?