skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple explanation: Jevons paradox is an observed correlation that has held true for certain notable industries at certain periods of history, but is not a law of nature. Demand for anything is neither infinite nor infinitely elastic.

But more specifically in the case of electricity: there is no demand for electricity, and never has been. The actual demand is for what electricity can do. If the slope of the energy efficiency gains of electrical goods is steeper than the slope of the induced demand for those goods, there's no reason why more goods demand (in accordance with Jevons) shuldn't result in less electrical demand (seemingly contrary to Jevons).
I used to sleep without a blanket or sheet when I was in South India. But the weather is nice and hot, which allows me to sleep without a blanket. Not in cold places.
> I am curious, if you offered a service that allowed users to post their own data to your service. How do you protect against customers posting data that violates the GDPR. I.e. peoples personal information being posted in plaintext?

You ensure that those users have a way to delete the data again.
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> And it seems like if proved (decrypting network traffic from mobile device?) would destroy Facebook's image w/ customers.

Would it, though? Facebook gets caught with its pants down standing in front of a row of bent-over users pretty regularly, and for the most part those users seem happy or naive enough to stay where they are, or at best just migrate to other Facebook-owned services like Instagram/WhatsApp.
Nope, I'm in Europe and got it. Try using this link:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec&section=face_r...
I got this notification in my news feed last night and now I can't find the option to shut it off on desktop or mobile. No idea what is going on.
Seriously. It feels like the article ends in the middle of a thought.
Do you always ask dumb questions?

It's one thing to have CCTV active in places where you visit, quite another to have the social sharing lemmings plaster your face all over the web for all to see and datamine. What I want and what I get are not always the same things, but I'll do my level best to influence that which I can influence.

Here, two older blogposts that may give you an idea of where I'm coming from:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide

https://jacquesmattheij.com/trackers

For the downvoters and flaggers: do you really believe parent asked his question in good faith?
Having spent the last few months living in the Bay Area after decades on the east coast and Midwest I find the constant banter about technology refreshing.

In other parts of the nation that I’ve lived there is less mono culture but I often hit a wall chasing my ideas.

In the Bay Area there is limitless possibility not just embraced but quarterbacked by seemingly everyone I meet.

If New York or Chicago had a culture that not only embraced these other wonderful cultural aspects of life but also had this focus of building big ideas so deeply engrained in their way of life then I’d be there and not here.

That said, the rent is too dang high out in the Bay. Time to end NIMBYISM in this state!
Right, but you had assumptions built into your data store before, namely that you could keep all info about someone for eternity, and that you'd never have to correct it.
True. Yet this fairly rigid tradition may also affect real world AGI policies.
Why do people hate Dart? It looks like a nice language, has a well thought-out design. (I just looked at tutorials, havent written Dart code)
"And it contains histatins, which not only kill bacteria but have been shown to speed wound closure independent of antibacterial action."
I guess it depends on perspective, and how the net is measured.

If net positive _revenue_, and your perspective is stage budget (or you benefit from state funding) its a win.

If the net is a calculation of revenue, public safety, and overall community, maybe not.

Troopers are generally traffic and criminal law enforcement agents - public safety. Tax law enforcement may be the jurisdiction of state police in that region, but its rare to use patrol to enforce those laws. There is typically a division specific to revenue.

Taking focus from patrol away from the enforcement of criminal and traffic laws and pivoting that to securing the state budget would be considered by many to be a misuse.

If troopers are looking for unpaid taxes, who is looking for reckless or drunk drivers? Who is conducting area patrols where visibility is a much a crime deterrent as actual arrests?

What probable cause is used to stop any car at the state border and look at receipts? Traffic violations do not provide for vehicle searches, and IIRC there are no dogs that sniff out undocumented expensed.

Such divisions in jurisdiction are in place so that the "long arm of the law" does not get too long.
From the paper (preprint found here [1]), you are correct in how they reconstruct this information. They use birth data (including estimates of gestation period) to derive the pregnancy rate at a moment in the past. They also attempt to compensate for miscarriages and abortions.

I think your central conclusion is sound, though, namely that this cannot be used to predict the future because there's no reliable data source to give the pregnancy rate in the present.

On the other hand, it might be possible to show that even excluding your (1), (2), and (3), it would still make a reliable predictor. But I'm not sure that there are datasets that would allow any insight even into the number of reported pregnancies. Potentially pharmacies would have access to rudimentary proxies in the form of sales of pregnancy tests, or inverse proxies in the form of sales of contraceptives. Large companies might have information on parental leave, but in the lead-up to a recession, you might have the confounding variable that people are losing their jobs at a higher rate, leading to a direct correlation that might overstate the phenomenon.

[1] https://www3.nd.edu/~kbuckles/BHL_fertility.pdf
You mean periodontics? I think the main problem there is horizontal bone loss. Periodontists can laser off unhealthy gum tissue, but once the jawbone has retreated, there's less scaffolding for healthy gum to regrow on, so it won't grow back to the same level you originally had.

Figure out how to reverse horizontal bone loss though, and you'll be rich!
Damn, I had trouble finding more than 3 degrees
Out of curiosity, aside from emotional distress, what harm are you afraid of?
I've been to SH plenty of time and I know about the ring road topology (same as Beijing actually). But if you look at the map, it just gets worse, not better, as you get farther from the center.

CNY is a great time to visit Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, since people there either (a) go home (they aren't locals) or (b) go on vacation somewhere else far away. CNY practically lasts longer than the official golden week, so traffic is light as well.
You can most definitely harm the family of the dead person.
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ASan has lower overhead than Valgrind, and is great when you cross-compile something to an embedded/constrained system. I have however observed noticeable overhead on code doing many small allocations.

Which was nice to be able to observe, because the code didn't need to do many small allocations.
Yes, Typescript will tell you that it's of type A, but that's not what happens at runtime - that's what I wanted to say. During runtime it's a plain object that has the aforementioned signature.
That's a bizarre gripe. Everywhere I live, utility companies beg subscribers to use less power, because they want to keep output within the hard limit of their current (ha!) capital outlay, in the face of population growth.
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It depends on the city.

You mentioned Houston as an example. Well, Houston has a rivalry with Dallas, where I live. One thing that came up when gas prices dropped like a rock a few years ago was that Houston's economy also dropped like a rock because of how dependent the whole city is on oil, but Dallas was totally unfazed by the whole thing because of how diverse our economy is, causing some of my more crass fellow Dallasites to lord it over Houston about how much better we're doing economically and making fun of Houston for putting all their eggs in one basket (IMO, that was going too far: as much as I like to joke about how much Houston sucks, it's always just joking, and I'm not going to take pleasure in their unemployment).
Welcome to an economy that is run like a game theory experiment not to service public economic interests

Quantophrenia in action
Ya, if you are in the French Concession in Shanghai, it can get a bit pricey I guess. Beijing really has nothing like that, well I guess you could try living in Sanlitun or something.
What language did you write your app in?
I've owned a treadmill desk for about 3-4 years. I've pretty much looked at almost all the products in the market related to desktop / standing desk ergonomics, and have conducted my own studies on myself

Standing in a standing / treadmill desk is not something you do all day. What it does it give you more oppurtunities for positioning yourself while at your desk. Sitting at a desk only has so many ways of sitting down (foot hammock, foot on desk, foot on footrest, normal position, etc)

I currently have about 10-15 variations of sitting / walking / standing up at my standing desk. Differnet foot hold mounting options, different modes of sitting on my varidesk seat, different standing postures.

By adding more variants of being at your desk, you can adjust yourself as you see fit depending (1) how long your at your desk at a time(2) what muscles you have currently fatigued (post workout).

That and also working out helps too, I do mostly bodyweight fitness. Pullups, squats, body rows, pushups, etc or anything on a suspension trainer

What you should buy if your interested in a standing desk is actually either an (1) transformable adjustable standing / sitting desk + a chair or (2) a treadmill desk + a varidesk chair for overall ergonomics.
cities don't exist in a vacuum. Many towns die because something essential like a coal mine was removed from the economy, just like removing cars (no matter how noble) could kill some cities too.
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I'm with you. But I'd also be worried about coming off as the angriest (or most paranoid) guy on earth. I probably already hold the title in my family.

What would be neat is a polite discreet social signal that politely discreetly signaled this to people with a camera. If you did it right, you might also get rich in a Pet Rock sort of way.
I can click the little arrow, go to settings, and there's a "Face Recognition" entry in the sidebar, between "Language" and "Notifications".

This is on the desktop website. Sounds like it's hidden deeper if you visit from a phone?
I don't think they're doubting it's a fact, but rather just saying it's a fact they don't understand. Saying "no one needs to explain the theory of relativity" implies it's intuitive to everyone, which is very obviously not true.

Hand-waving isn't an explanation, it's a distraction.
I mean the userspace apps.

If Google plays an Android/Android Things on Fuchsia there won't be much use of C++ for app developers.
> Do you know what is the global consumption of energy of data centers in 2016 ? It is same as consumption of energy of global aviation. Think about it, the energy consumed by Data Centers is equal to all commerical planes world wide flying.

Does the global aviation cost comprise just the cost of flying planes, or does it include the cost of maintaining mainframes for flight bookings?

Also, how does the consumption of power by data centers compare to the consumption of power by all consumer PCs/workstations? That's kind of the comparison we're looking at here.
I don't understand this. Say you're not interested and move on. Being a dick to someone trying to earn a living says a lot about your character. And I promise, the sales rep doesn't care. Their job is dials and talk time. Your bot is helping them reach their daily quota.
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I’m trying to figure out iMessage usage and I can’t find significant data online...

Do you use it or it’s completely optional for you?
If only there was some kind of giant innovative cooperation that attracts only the best and brightest talent that could solve this nuanced problem...
Energy consumption of data centers as of 2016 shows they are a major component of total energy consumption and therefore worth watching. It doesn't imply how that will affect _growth_ in energy usage over time. You have to look at change over time taking into account demand, supply and efficiency together in an analysis like this http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/06/27/heres...
This is great news! Anyone have a recommended Vulkan intro?
In Silicon Valley everything is just framed in the context of technology because that is what we do.

The diversity of startups is huge: marketing, software for construction project management, dog walking apps, you get the idea.

To say there is no diversity in the Bay Area might just mean people aren't looking hard enough.

Hell, you can go work for Tesla, in the automotive industry.

The fact that they are all tech companies is just the process we're going through in general at the moment as software continues to fill gaps where things are done manually or otherwise inefficiently.
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Same place you'd go for any questions about the law: an expert. Just like if you thought you had cancer, you'd go see a doctor.
They followed up with that person from that episode, and they all determined that it most likely wasn't microphone listening, just cross platform tracking with instagram.

https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/113-reply-alls-year-en...
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I wonder if the instinct to lick wounds is related to this.
Poetic mystique
I love surge, it's been awesome.
> early programmers were SSHing into fucking moving cars

better than telnet!
Anecdotal, but years ago I uploaded a picture of a friend. He's a bit of a hermit, and doesn't have social media accounts. The picture scrolled by several times that week, and Facebook asked me to tag who this was. (This was perhaps... 2010?) I uploaded perhaps twenty or so photos, but that was the only one they asked about.

I haven't seen this for a while, but I used to get my friends pictures scrolling by. (Not even my own!) "Tag Becky in this photo? Yes/No". Clicking yes confirms what Facebook already knows. Clicking No tells them... what? That they were right, and it is Becky, but I don't want to tag her? What does not responding to the prompt mean?
I have to guess this is why gmail stopped (or at least announced stopping) personalized targeting: the difficulty of deciding if anyone on the email is subject to GDPR.
This article didn't dive too deep into what this service offers but every company I have been at has this problem. And each time there seems to be a different way of sharing credentials whether it's passwords, certificates, or keys. What could this service offer that something like a password manager or vault doesn't? Is it the ability to rotate items regularly or expire items? Can I set super granular access for sensitive credentials? These features would be helpful to avoid the headache of managing these kinds of secrets.
"very unlikely there isn't life" == "very likely that there is life"
Why should I have to be afraid of anything?

Is this a riff on the 'if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear' theme?

I just don't think it is ok that large companies are working their way into datasets about every living body on the planet and that is my right.

See also, article 12:

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."

http://www.claiminghumanrights.org/udhr_article_12.html#at13
But you might be exposed to lead...
It really depends on the context. For example "baiting employees with free food" seems completely innocuous to me. Everyone knows what is up, nothing nefarious is going on.

Journalism involves using colorful words to make the article colorful enough to read. Even the Chinese media does this, it isn't just an American thing. Articles that aren't read are worthless.
Electric cars create synthetic electrical demand, since they displace oil demand. It's still energy demand. (The switch from oil to coal vs solar vs hydro vs wind is interesting, but the top-line "electricity demand" number means very little.)
Are you sure it's not going in the background anyhow? I thought they've been using facial recognition to tag pictures for years...
I used Electron as I wanted to have it native and cross-platform. The stack is mostly JS and React.
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Typo in the title: GPDR -> GDPR
Where can I order/make your tinfoil hat?
This one has decent reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-USB-C-Reader-Memory/dp/...

(Linking to amazon as an example, am not affiliated with the seller)
It is if its stolen property...which most of that data belonged to the company that was hacked.
I've had exactly one run-in over 10 years or so about this with someone who did not believe me when I told him to delete a picture of me he just took. Other than that everybody seems to understand just fine.
Why don't you just give the band the money directly instead of buying something?
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Thanks :-)

I've never used Object.create for inheritance (although I heard it was a favorite of Douglas Crockford's at some point).
And the syntactic sugar of es2015 classes is so appealing I never wrote constructor functions on a regular basis.

What's so conceptually difficult about es2015 classes that confuses people? They always felt intuitive to me. A bit restrictive perhaps, because you don't have private methods, or instance properties, and if you want to call super in a method you have to do it before anything else, but other than that — nothing especially confusing.
yeah I just cheated by using orphaned articles and managed to 'win'
I don't see it in Canada.
I prefer having nominal intermediate states just for debugging purposes. "What am I doing now? Does being in START imply it's already started the process? Does being in RUNNING imply the process was completed successfully?" vs "What am I doing now? In motion!"

In the example given, I'd probably stick to a single intermediate state and let the language work as my implicit state machine for the internals.

Depends a lot on the boilerplate required to insert states though, my preferences owe a lot to the HFSM implementations I've used in the past.
150,000 in 1997 is about $230,000 in 2017 dollars based on an average inflation calendar.

Which would you rather have had to save with?

Saving as much of salary as possible is rarely a bad thing.

With salaries this high - it could be between 40-70% depending on where you live (maybe even more) and if you co-habitate with someone.
Oh wow, it was actually 200 miles for a Tesla 3 which is 350km. And it's only going to improve.

That means in an urban environment they'll be able to drive for quite a long time before charging... that's interesting as it means even less real estate needed for charging.

The implications of this technology on daily life in the next decade will be nearly as interesting as the deployment of consumer internet in the 1990s. There are so many possibilities, it's very exciting...
I saw it in the app. So this is not accurate.
can't find it on desktop
I see Flutter the same as in React Native and Xamarin, cross platform mobile UI framework that provides native feel. PWA is an attempt to make web apps/sites work as well as native, web app/site by default is "cross platform". Google is not going to replace PWA with Flutter or vice versa. Just two groups within Google with different ideas on PWA vs native dev. Similar to GMail vs Inbox, Polymer vs Angular Elements, Go vs Dart, Allo vs Hangouts etc.
.. and on glibc (the usual libc on Linux), the MALLOC_PERTURB_ environment variable can be used for similar stuff (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/mallopt.3.html ).
Dart compiles to machine code plus the rendering is mostly impl’d in Dart so you can change basic things about the rendering in Dart, FWIW. In general the dichotomy you’re painting b/w scripting and native languages can hold, but the details make the difference. One interesting thing in this case is having a single language that AOTs but also JITs. The hard thing is re: interfacing to platform APIs, which the OS usually provides in its blessed lang (Java / Obj-C).
I think that problem will in some ways solve itself.

Ideally you want to consult with a lawyer to ensure you're in compliance. Certainly that's what we're doing where I work (we have dedicated in-house legal staff dedicated to privacy issues who have been taking point on this), but when you're smaller that can be prohibitively expensive.

Within a couple years, though, I expect any serious commercial or open source platform available that deals with data to have GDPR-related features. It's already starting to happen, and hopefully GDPR compliance won't be something you have to go out of your way to do; it'll just be a normal part of doing business that everyone understands.

The transition period will likely be rocky, and it's my hope that the EU will be initially lenient dealing with honest mistakes that companies work to quickly fix once discovered.
A nice middle ground is to step through with the debugger when you're in your own code and see what other code it's calling that isn't yours. You don't/can't read all of it as you said. But perhaps knowing the bits your interacting with helps a lot.
Almost, it requires the users to actively opt in rather than opt-out.
> You aren't doing business unless you're accepting payments/selling/shipping things to people in the EU.

I wonder how ads play into all this. E.g. are people who watch an ad on YouTube considered YouTube customers? Are they considered customers of the ad company?

My concern is that we will see more (non-EU) companies implement something where users "pay" for services/features by watching ads. I do also wonder how it then affects the ad companies if they collect personal information about the user. Does the user count as a "customer" if the ad company is the one paying?
And considering we still have no signs of mega-engineering structures, interstellar probes or otherwise interstellar broadcasters, it would increase the likelihood for a great filter to be ahead of us. Constraining the last terms of the equation.
What about the possibility that our ancestors who slept under cover where better hidden from nocturnal predators (smell and sight) and maybe bitten by fewer pathogen-spreading insects?
Construction workers and architects don't tend to work internationally. If they do, they hire lawyers to sort out legal requirements for them before they even sign a contract.
All of your comment is accurate.

In addition, this is not news in the sense that this is not _new_. Anecdotally, this feature has been active for many for months, if not years.
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