skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Arctic Sea Ice Blog has been my go-to for cold hard facts about the arctic. The main author of the blog has been quite a bit less active over the last year, but his data aggregation page[2] is still alive and ticking.

For example, I can see from the DMI (Danish Met Institute) Daily Arctic mean temperatures north of 80N graph that area-averaged temperatures in the farthest north have been well above average all season.

There is also a plot of the total freezing degree-days over the entire winter season, and its anomaly relative to the past several decades. From there, I can see that while this season has been far less cold than average, it was not nearly as warm as last year.

Last year's winter season set a new minimax record for arctic sea ice coverage over the winter, but that didn't turn into a minimum coverage record over the summer.

It looks like the total arctic sea ice extent is currently setting a minimum-coverage record at this date, but its too early to tell if it will set another minimax record. From the regional graphs page[3], it looks like most of the anomaly is coming from the Bearing Sea.

[1]: http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/

[2]: https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/

[3]: https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/regional
Google sold Boston Dynamics last summer to Softbank. Their next big moneymaker is the Google Cloud Platform which competes with AWS and Azure.
With Android 8 you can use Keepass2Android which has the auto fill API support, but still in beta. Auto fill is not yet supported in chrome though
The heat spikes in the Arctic now so early on in the year and the jet stream which previously brought cold towards the Arctic now shifts the cold down in cold spikes and record cold fronts to north east and Europe. It seems we will no longer have an Arctic soon and the jet stream will be permanently shifted due to anthropogenic climate change.

We had record heat in Southern California in early February and around the same time these graphs show the Arctic temperatures spiking our temperatures began to drop. I'm afraid once the ice is almost wiped out we will expect more record high temperatures and while all the heat builds in the Arctic more record colds as the cold that was in the Arctic is dissipated to other places.
Even better would have been paying one of the popular unboxing channels to make that video (well... not too popular or it would be crazy expensive!).
No it doesn’t. Html has img and picture tags. https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/semantics-embedded-content.html...
This is totally tangent but while the cost is perhaps not always quantifiable in dollars every post that makes it up here has the cost of some story behind it. In this case that is a $14k story on top of building the company.
I haven't said anything about arctic sea ice levels, have I?

I just provided a factual summary based on the original Danish report about the cause of a one-day temperature spike recorded at one weather station in Northern Greenland.
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Well, sometimes I check prices in multiple ways. Logged in at ISP-assigned IP. Not logged in, on another machine, via VPN service. My wife and her friends sometimes get different price quotes for the same flight/class, at the same time.
Interesting comment there:

I discovered, the hard way, that the Android Gmail client, using naked HTML (with a default naked DTD specification), does exhibit this problem. It only responds to <img /> [i.e., not <image />]. gmail.com is fine with <image />, but not the Android gmail client.

Looks like a fingerprinting opportunity to me.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Color Standards for Frozen French Fried Potatoes [pdf]
The American midwest is quickly becoming a blue-collar version of Silicon Valley
Candyjapan and some businesses from patio11 occasionally makes it to front page. They write very informative posts.
The USSR was relatively close to the US in population, and the Space Race was neck and neck. The Soviets beat the US to outer space with Sputnik.

China has a way larger population relative to the US than the Soviets did. It's not even close.
I'm interested in the tech scene in Whitehorse for... reasons... as well

What are the job prospects like out there? Is it all mining and mining-related stuff like PLC?
"The visual USDA Frozen French Fried Potatoes Grades and Standards come in the form of a printed leaflet that depict a series of seven potato color grades in short, long, and crinkle-cut forms. It is intended for use in classifying the visual color of frozen French fried potatoes, or other similarly fried products."
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In a startup brand awareness p is extremely important perhap more so than coke. They spend millions of dollars because they are trying to reach billions.

The most useful thing I noticed some startups do is get involved in their niche community and spent money building brand awareness for a targeted group.
Personally it freaks me out that people would have robotic relationships. The smart speaker things freak me out for the same reason. They look like idols to me. I'm a loner, I have survived for most of my life completely alone. I talk to myself, at least it isn't a machine. I actually care about myself. A robot is an appliance. God forbid it becomes more than that. Don't personify the damn things, the next step is deification. I don't care if I get downvoted. Personally it freaking pisses me off getting calls on my phone from chat bots trying to manipulate me. Same thing for my these things trying to scam my elders. Pretty soon we're going to need a Butleran Jihad. Not kidding!
Think of money as a form of control and you will understand you friend. When you are accustomed to being knocked down every time you get a little ahead, deal searching is something of a coping mechanism, a way to take back control from the system.
We do need a way to get sensitive data sets to researchers, there is a lot of public good and discovery to be had when we do.

Cynically, when we were finding that de-identification of data was not a cryptographically secure or a viable solution for providing data sets to researchers who couldn't be trusted to protect them, a nagging voice would suggest k-anonymity and now DP were a way to obfuscate the distribution of risk in the solutions through layered niche abstractions, and use the ensuing confusion to get the data toothpaste out of the tube.

Today, I like the idea that DP provides a set of information theoretic criteria for candidate algorithms for protecting privacy and anonymity. It also appears to provide practical tools for technologists to reason about information theory problems in their day to day work.

It's hard to imagine it was acceptable to say, "sure you can do cancer/autism/health research, but first we need a viable generalized homomorphic encryption solution before we share our data with you," but that was the state of health information security up to even recently.

The need for a class of non-cryptological (e.g. not certified algos), and non-zero-sum information privacy protection tools reflects how we actually use data today.

I am still wary that project types will wave DP around like a talisman to ward off security analysts threatening their deadlines, but that's not DP's fault.

There is a joke in here about how the response of security people to DP and privacy is often snark, but I will leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Right. It's good to compare multiple searches.
I believe it does it this way so that it works even if your libc isn't compiled with debugging information.
Right, but there's a subtlety: The dollars saved in those minutes are worth a different amount to a rich person depending on their relative impact on the sale. $50 off of $300 is a 1/6 discount, so a "good deal" that they will (somewhat recreationally) decide to go and get. But they still don't inherently care that much about $50. You could say if they make lets say ten times what I do, they probably care 1/10th as much as I do, about $50.

Anyway and meanwhile, $50 off of $1000 is a 1/20 or 5% discount. Now it's still the same $50 they don't give a shit about, but it's also now an insignificant discount. Would they spend extra time on what to them is a rounding error on a $1000 purchase? They're not really getting a "deal" anymore, it's a bore, and they decide to spend the extra $50 just to buy back their half-hour. So long as the price is still "about $1000" they're OK with it.
She had been drinking a lot of cranberry juice -- the folk remedy for a UTI. That may have had something to do with her clean sample, though this is just speculation. Most of the times that she's had these infections, her samples have had detectable bacteria, so this was an unusual case even for her.

BTW, she had so many of these infections that her doctor eventually referred her to a urologist, who put her on a daily antibiotic (cephalexin, aka Keflex) as a preventative. She hasn't had another once since starting that, though there have been a couple of times that she felt like she might be getting one, and took an extra cephalexin, which was sufficient. I wish we had known about this option sooner.

Also: my pointing out that UTIs can sometimes fail to show up in the urine test was not intended as a defense of the way the hospital treated you. Quite the contrary: doctors should know that that can happen. My wife and I were not happy with the way she was treated on this occasion as well — it took hours to convince them to start the antibiotics, and she was in a lot of pain.
Fairly obvious that Google uses upstream chromium then adds in all of the proprietary g APIs and anonymous usage statistics after the fact.
Yes, they could. Or maybe the opposite. So you check simultaneously from two machines. One where you're identified, and the other where you're anonymous.
I wonder if someone could train a DNN to uncensor images of similarly redacted information
I need a phone that does everything. Water proof, wireless fast charging, vr, use it as a credit card everywhere. Slow software updates are something I knew going into it. Oh and a headphone jack. I try to find phones that do everything my s8 does but I can’t.
Lol this entire thread you've been defending Iota without facts.

a) there's nothing broken in the Zcash cryptography. Some cryptographic assumptions used by SNARKs are a bit hairy and novel, but these assumptions, and variants there-of, haven't been broken in over 25 years of trying.

b) State-of-the-art efficient SNARKs require trusted setup, but this can be distributed, as was done with Zcash and will be done, in a better way, in the next Zcash upgrade.

c) CFB called Aumasson's methods 'primitive'. Hardly polite, especially considering Aumasson is co-creator of solid hash functions like Blake2.
Most people think about a dollar as a dollar.

They don't realise it's not worth focusing on saving a dollar here and there, if they then move ahead and overpay for a house or a car (e.g. by not negotiating).

Half the battle is getting a good (or great) deal on expensive, one off purchases, if possible (say everything above $2k). Don't worry about the rest. As with everything: 20% of the "work" gets you 80% of the way there.

You can then not worry about the smaller expenses -- the ones that are generally time consuming and annoying to track -- that tend to make your life miserable.

Yes, Starbucks is expensive, but you're not going to go bankrupt drinking their coffee. You're also not going to get rich by not drinking it.
It annoys me that there is an invisible rectangular border to the play area. The flowing background colors suggest the play area is the browser window but not so. I could do with more stretch room.

Also (Chrome on MacOS) if you drag a node to the border and it stops, the node is now stuck to the mouse and you have to click to drop it.
I need to be doing this because I am so tired of all the artificial restrictions that Google has in Android.
Similar situation. Lived with my mother, constantly stressed about survival until she kicked me out at 14. Moved in with my upper middle class father (who should have had full custody from the beginning, courts don't always do it right eh?)

For a while (my mind says 'for now'), I'm able to make about 100k in 6 months in the midwest. My formative memory combined with the local prices make this a nearly unimaginable sum. My "resting expenses" coalesce to no more than 90$ a day at the extreme. At 90$ a day I feel like i'm spending my face off. Any more and it'd feel like I was buying a jetski while unemployed with loan shark money.

58$ a month is $7,000 over a decade. Most things aren't worth that when I think of it in those terms.

To expand my consulting services I bought a unity3d license for $1500 a few years ago. As soon as they decided MRR was the way I pivoted hard towards selling webgl to interested customers instead. Recommended the last company I worked for stay away from AWS Lambda for similar rent averse lock-in reasons. Locking yourself in to something like that reduces your degrees of freedom.

In some ways I'm definitely hamstrung by this attitude. I will never own a home unless I save up enough to buy one in cash (I'm trying!). I rolled my truck a few months after graduating and had to get an auto loan then. I paid it and my student loans off like I was on fire and had to spit myself out. Last time I checked my credit, the "not enough lines of credit" penalties had me in the basement, which is hilarious.

I'm just glad I can life like this, for now.
Almost no phones have replaceable batteries now. And the active variant tends to have insane battery life.
Well, there's no reason to use Tor, because you'll need to identify yourself before purchasing a ticket. But you can use a VPN service.
I only heard the bad sides of perfectionism in the last 3 years honestly.
very reasonable system (although can be easy circumvented by moving). It would not have prevented anyone from accumulating
the wealth that everyone is complaining about in this thread
though.
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I fooled millions into thinking chocolate led to weight loss
I generally buy $600 phones, but I spend a fraction of that buying used/refurb (eBay,etc.). I have an S7 Edge+, S7 Edge, 2 S7s, an S6, and an S6 edge. I spent maybe $1400 on all combined, with all but the S7E+ being in essentially new condition (it's cracked and ugly but makes a good, free WiFi server).
The menace of lead poisoning
Looking through the TOC - It seems like most of this was in just as a "fairly robust steady state" as it was three years ago? Was there some part of this that struck you as having solidified in the last few years?
In general, time should be spent on various levels of abstraction. It's important to spend time at practice and it's important to spend time learning how best to go about practice. It's also important to spend time deciding how much time to spend concerning yourself with each individual realm of practice (work, family, hobbies, fitness, etc).

This is why I think one of the most important goals you can have is to devise a productivity strategy which reaches across all of these realms and levels of abstraction. That meta-skillset encapsulates all the others and has the widest impact.
...actually they are just destroying the Android experience.

Maybe that is the end game. Make andoid look bad, then turn around with their own OS that you can optionally install on all of their phones. Maybe even other devices. I mean they cant possibly be trying to make people like using their phones.
I suspect she's on a Mac with SIP on.
The voice-over market has a lot of dedicated sites. Check out voices.com for one.
‪What industry is contributing to climate change the most? Where is a good place to find data on this?‬
Speaking as a marketer: getting positive ROI on ads is hard. That’s why people hire professional marketers to market things. I often find that non-marketers think they can do marketing, and then when it doesn’t work, they tend to blame the platform. I hire engineers to do engineering work, and likewise business owners should hire marketers to do marketing work.
This is true, but those people enjoy their wealth only at the sufferance of the party oligarchy; they take their marching orders on any political issue from the party and if they ever challenged the party oligarchy on any issue their wealth would evaporate and / or they would be forced into exile. They don't form a separate locus of power that is separate from the party elite, they're completely subservient to it.
At least he's getting some good SEO-friendly clicks out of the blog post ;-)
The "not enough lines of credit" thing bit me too, if you don't take debt you can't have debt, it's so bizarre.

Regarding your AWS lambda aversion, I am also guilty of aggressively avoiding lock-in with cloud vendors... Now I wonder if that is related to my upbringing.
The rational answer is that if you would drive 30 minutes to save $50 off a $300 tablet, then you should also drive 30 minutes to save $50 off a $1000 tablet. You've described the psychology of why a wealthy person might not drive the 30 minutes for the $1000 tablet well (but still will spend the time to save money on the $300 tablet), but that choice is still irrational.
I love how when this comes up, it's people either saying "Here was my experience when I was poor in the past." or "Here is what I think about economics or the wording of this article."

Don't get me wrong, I know what website I'm on.

But in all seriousness, is there room for currently poor people in this discussion?
Sure, lots of worst case scenarios are possible, and if you’re worried about it, you should stockpile some canned food in your basement because there’s no guarantee against a dystopian future.
Market research is the easiest way to solve these problems!
That sounds like a bug. All ads longer than 30 seconds should be skippable: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/2679940?hl=e...

That sucks, and certainly would be frustrating. If something like that happens, sending feedback (right click and select “Trouble shoot playback issue”) can help (and no, those feedback reports aren’t just sent to /dev/null; they really are helpful!). Additionally, some employees have been known to lurk on r/youtube, but they might request the debug info for the playback (again, right click on the video; do this while the ad is playing and save it for later if you/someone needs it).

Disclaimer: I work at YouTube, but I’m just posting this in a personal capacity and don’t represent my employer in any way.
What marketers are you talking about? Who are "these guys"?

I work with marketers and I am one myself, and the concept of brand-building is as familiar as loops are to software developers.

No doubt you've encountered misguided individuals, but please don't generalize from specifics.
Yet communicating in a clear, consistent, and accurate fashion is crucial.

Many years ago, I worked in a photographic store. We developed film and printed photos, primarily. One of the women took in a film for development, wrote the customer's surname in the name box, then wrote "Matt" over the name.

It's fortunate that we would hand out the top slip so we would match the packet numbers, because when the customer came back into the shop we couldn't find her package. We did find one for a Matt Sullivan (or whatever the surname was). It turned out she was quite annoyed with us for not printing it in matte as they asked, so we reprinted it at no charge and she got to keep both sets.

The staff member argued that she had written matte ("See? It says Matt right there." "That's the name, not the paper type. The paper type has an -e at the end.") on it, it's just that language changes and we had to accept and adapt to it. Didn't matter what her argument was, though, because she screwed up and it cost the business money.
It's in HTML5 as well, but is converted at tokenization time to <img> and a parse error is recorded.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/tokenization.ht...

(Search for "image")
What they lacked is support for Android apps, since obviously expecting everyone to rewrite all apps for a new platform is a non-starter.

If Mozilla had simply acquired LineageOS, worked on MicroG to reach feature parity with Play Services, added Firefox for Android and their own app store in addition to Google Play via MicroG, and resold flagship Android phones with that as well as offering it to OEMs, they would have had significant success at very little cost.

In fact, they still could do that.
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I currently work at Google, and from what I know and have seen about how we handle privacy internally I'd be really surprised and appalled if that was the case. Mind sending me more details? My nickname @google.com.

Anonymous reporting in Chrome has been one of the leading use cases for differential privacy at Google. See e.g. https://github.com/google/rappor and https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... which specifically mentions the Chrome use case. This seems to indicate the people who work on this do care at least in some amount about privacy.

(Given the fact that you use a throwaway account I'm very much not expecting to see anything else than FUD, but hey, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.)
You can be winning at your own self defined game. And you probably should be.

Not all games are zero sum. I'm not saying that you need to win in order for others to lose. The cause and effect are almost the inverse of that. What I'm saying is, your definition of success and winning is defined by either achieving what others have, or avoiding situations you know are possible because other people are in them.

You know you're winning because your not in a third world country, homeless, starving, immediately dying, etc. You wouldn't know those were states to avoid unless others were in them.
Updated data on the second chart for 2018: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

Such an outlier is not completely unprecedented it looks like from his chart, but only if it immediately and rapidly corrects downwards in the coming days...
The collective matters. The culture of the people surrounding all the money on the coasts is what drives economic policy, fiscal policy, trade policy, immigration policy, and largely social policy. You're concerned about the mathematical tally of a person's vote and I'm concerned with the actual power they have. I think you're mistaken to conflate the two and that differential is exactly why our electoral college and senate were designed the way they are.

You seriously sound like a white person denying white privilege. Sure, the entire nation is designed to maximize your benefit, but the system is rigged in such a way that minorities sometimes get something they want. Meh, you'll be fine.
I would have agreed last year. But I recently got some really nice Bluetooth headphones and am really digging not having a wire...
The new Nokia 8110 4G
There is MyRocks, you work like usual mysql. When you want distrubted-db, yeah you need to design. But comparing RocksDB vs LMDB, the second is easier but not by much ?

Think citusdb without consideration you're gonna expect good performance in sharded environment?