skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't find results for "paint guns" then it was clearly a ham-handed political change and not something driven or even vetted by engineering. Also, last I checked, Google returns results for "body disposal", "Anarchist's Cookbook", and a host of information useful for doing harm to other human beings. I don't see how that makes them complicit in anything.

Maybe they should change their mission statement: "To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, unless it's this month's politically sensitive topic trending on Twitter."
This is great news
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>GDPR will require developers to know the legal and policy landscape of their profession. (This has been the norm for other fields for centuries: how embarrassing for us.)

Favourite takeaway.
They did a similar thing with "confederate flag" not that long ago. I'm convinced Google Shopping is more for political PR than an actual place where anyone shops (Google probably knows this so doesn't care if they break their service to virtue signal)
210ms from South Africa, 91ms from NYC, 198ms from India, 360ms from Melbourne, 55ms from Morocco.

It's really not that bad...
Lighting alone is about 19-20% of US load on a historical basis.

The internet has clearly had an impact - given the timeframe of 1998 of decoupling from GDP, that almost has to be a big driver.

But the unexpectedly quick move to LED lighting also has had a big impact.

Just a decade ago, people were predicting much higher prices for LED bulbs. Now you can buy the bulb and the payback period is less than a year.
Oh god that was smooth as ...

I remember Bobby McFerring being capable of playing audiences in surprising ways too. (funny since Youtube suggested him on that HCJr video)
The title of the article glosses over one significant fact: You cannot know the pregnancy rate at the precise moment from (1) folks who do not know, (2) folks who will abort or lose the child (worsening economy, loss of job, stress...) (3) folks who do not report.
It can be argued that you can abstract those cases out, but the useable data becomes extremely blurry as the early months of a pregnancy are the riskiest ones for the birth.

In hindsight, looking at the recorded birth and subtracting 9 months will give you a clearer picture but by then better indicators of recession in progress might have been more readily observable.

Nevertheless - I find the idea fascinating as the birth of a child is one where individuals have to take into account a lot of things and internalize/assess the situation for the immediate future beyond what folks want to hear or believe.

What I wonder about is the impact of those lost births on future economies (20 years later?) and/or what the impact is on the recovering economy.
uMatrix is great for blacklisting by default and only enabling as needed for website core operations.

Also has a "don't filter on this domain" switch for things like bank sites and other fragile ops.
Ageeed. Also seeing as LED bulbs are ~10x more efficient per lumen than incandescent, people are not installing 10x as much brightness in their homes
Exactly what I came here to say. As electric cars become more common I wonder what that will do to demand. I can't imagine that in a future where almost every vehicle is electric that the demand will be offset by LED lightbulbs.
A vast majority of that content is dog shit. Losing it would mean a net loss of precisely nothing. My favorite sites don’t run ads, and either pay for access (NYT), accept donations, or do it for the love of doing it. I’m happy to lose the endlessly nested clickbait in favor of quality that doesn’t update every 5 seconds.
Solar energy that never ends up on the grid at all could end up doing that.
That's unbelievably unsophisticated. That combined with not using their vast ML resources to understand when something isn't a firearm (e.g. glue gun) makes me wonder how this feature has come about.
This just smells of a Scunthorpe problem. What about a nice DVD of Gunsmith Cats, or a watch with gunmetal finish, or maybe a burgundy sweater?
The same is true on the opposite end of the spectrum. Red state groupthink exists and is not exactly welcoming to outsiders.
Brilliant! This was my first time playing around with GLSL and I wasn't sure how to implement the buffer to do the blending.
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There's an in-house precedent too: https://web.archive.org/web/20110616041821/http://news.cnet....
I would bet they still burst-out to AWS.

For me the logic is more like: get cheapers machines (be it in-house or with cheaper alternatives), that run kubernetes for example, and monitor them with Prometheus.

If you run out of capacity, defined by whatever metric you fancy from Prometheus, start EC2 machines for the burst.

Every month, re-evaluate your base needs.
If by Europeans, you mean white, then that isn't true. The US incarcerates whites at the rate of 450 per 100k which is roughly double the rate of any European country except for Russia and equal to Russia's rate. It's triple or more the rate of incarceration in most of Western Europe.

If you are referring to people who are actually from European countries, then I haven't seen data on that, but Europeans in the US would be a very small non-representative sample of Europeans, so I fail to see the relevance.
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Wait, so even Google engineers are terrible at regexp-ing? I now feel less bad about myself.
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It is an advantage since they, and their competitors are not required to collect the sales tax. Therefore if a person is price comparing across two sites, 1 with an extra 6.75% and 1 without, the person is likely to choose the lower price, even if they are required to pay the tax personally down the road.
Also called "weighted blankets".

The rule of thumb for optimum blanket weight is 10% of body weight + 1lb.
How about the view of looking for exceptions and false statements and questions politician not by a party line nor a policy but by individual reasoning for said content? Being critical of all.
Honestly, the blocking doesn't make any kind of sense. You can literally create a vpn from within china itself on any cloud provider and surf on anything you want, in less than 10 minutes using softwares like algovpn.

It's now a moment of truth for internet in china : either they start blocking vpns for real (although good luck doing that without collateral damage to the economy, because that would mean shutting down a ton of services), or they just open it.

My bet is that they'll open it. They have services on the same quality as US ones, some even more advanced like wechat , they're already 1 billion user strong, i'm pretty sure they'll benefit tremendously from opening the gates.
Sorry, you're right, I should have been clearer. The bigger concern is that caching doesn't replace fault tolerance and rolling your own disaster recovery. I didn't mean to suggest that caching was not being done or would not be helpful. A million keys would be pretty uniformly dispersed; intuitively it seems like you'd need to have a lot more traffic than he's currently got to the point where caching reliably soaks enough load off of "a VPS or cheap dedicated server" that you can afford to have the server blow up--because servers blow up.

"A VPS or cheap dedicated server" is YOLO stuff. Not something you do when you want other people to rely on you.
I'm not sure. I think this is a very absolutist and probably naive way to look at it, frankly.

For a simple example, let's say you use an immutable data store. What do you do if a customer wants every info about them redacted, but you did something like store their IP, name, or email. All common things. Now you must build mutability into your store and all assumptions that used to be made can be removed.

This is just a very small piece of something that even a small or medium company may be using or doing.
:-( that's a shame. Can I ask how you found it? I've been researching this sort of thing casually and am not sure where to begin. I'm not aware of an EU-wide real estate search, aside from sites missing 95% of inventory like ee24.
Thats the point.
I see where you're coming from but it's definitely not that simple.

An extreme example would be "I carry my laptop with me because I need a clock, and I hate how bulky affordable laptops are because I carry it with me all the time."

Sure, I mean, your laptop functions as a clock. That doesn't make it anywhere close to the best device for the job. Is telling you to get a watch or a phone to tell time instead "duct taping over the things you don't like" about the laptop? No, it's suggesting that the real solution to your problem is to get the best device for the job.

Phones are similar. Do they work as fitness bands? Sure. But larger form factor phones bring tons of benefits, and their design shouldn't be constrained by the needs of those using them as fitness bands, just like the needs of laptop users shouldn't be constrained by those that use them as a clock.

I'm solution oriented, and waiting in vain for phones to suddenly become smaller again isn't a solution, it's basically just pouting.
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> And the German economy would crash
That will also happen if you remove any major industry. And that's why you plan that in the long term. You start banning some use cases, and you keep increasing it. That's what is being done with tobacco, for example.
But it is not a reason to not do it.

So I think that you both are right, and it is just a misunderstanding on the time-frame that this changes will happen.
I guess their hope with latency is that cases where they have an issue with latency and cases where they have an issue with the car behaving erratically in a way which needs direct human intervention won't tend to overlap. I'm not sure how good an assumption this is...
Deny access to EU citizens. If EU citizens then lie about their identity its out of your hands.
No, "staying out of politics" just means refusing to try to tip the scales one way or another and/or being indifferent the outcome.
Anybody want a mini-AMA? Worked with Chinese for bigger part of my career and did two long term on-site consulting contracts. I lived in both Shanghai and Shenzhen.
This is wonderful, thanks for sharing!

I know you're getting swamped by feature requests, but a button to swap the endpoints would be great. In searching for ever bigger degrees of separation I found myself manually swapping them a lot to see the difference. It could also lessen some of the confusion expressed in this thread about whether these should be different at all.

As for how far I've gotten: I've found finite degrees all the way up to seven [1] and also pages with no path from one to the other [2]. I have yet to find a doubly-untraversable path or anything with a degree between seven and infinity, and I suspect the latter to be impossible, especially considering Goldbach's Extremely Strong Conjecture [3].

[1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Ramjohn&target...

[2] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Coln%20Rogers&...

[3] https://xkcd.com/1310/
Yup, same for "water gun" someone at Google needs their head checking. This is incredible on so many levels.
The pretty text underline (https://atomiks.github.io/30-seconds-of-css/#pretty-text-und...) looks pretty awful on Chrome 63.0.3239.132 (Official Build) (64-bit).

I like this!
What militaries? Because France, the UK, India and China are all investing further in carriers. The broad consensus is demonstrably the opposite of what you're claiming.

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Afaik you can do that with "hard mode" [0].

[0]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
My firm’s factory switched to LED lighting in 20016 and, as projected, we’re already in the black. Provided MTBF rates are as expected, we’ll be in the black permanently. We’re saving up to 60% of our lighting costs (including capital expenses).
Is google at a position to do tests in traffic without a driver present?
That has interesting implications for real estate. It might singlehandedly revert the trend of living in dense urban areas.

It wouldn't be as bad if cars become fully electrified and cars become smaller as they shift from individual car ownership (where you buy a 4-5 seater for edge cases but only use 1-2 seats 95% of the time).

When you order your automated fleet car to pick you up you can say I only need one seat, which will massively reduce car sizes and energy expenditures.

Self driving cars can potentially link up like trains on highways to further reduce congestion and reduce energy use.
So here in Sweden (and I imagine a couple other EU countries) there is the Patient Data Law (PDL) that regulates the use of health data.

This will probably have to change a bit with GDPR but will still supersede GPDR when it comes to health data. Are you providing compliance with those laws as well?
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Google: "Okay, here's a bunch of technical interview hoops you have to jump through."

Candidate: "Hey remember when you returned zero results for any query containing gun?"
Or it could be handled as a Spike.

It's not perfect, but it captures the idea of uncertainty by having a time-boxed investigation, the end result of which is an estimate of how long it will take to fix.

https://www.leadingagile.com/2014/04/dont-estimate-spikes/
https://www.scrumalliance.org/community/articles/2013/march/...
Once self driving cars are a thing, won't the design change? No need for a driver's seat, no need to put in a gear stick or parking break partition.

If I own my own self driving car, rather than summoning one, I think you'll see a big shift in designs because it will be your or your family's space.
Google is supposed to be the data driven organization that changes things in a way that will minimize collateral damage. Even if Google Shopping doesn't draw much traffic in relative terms, at Google scale I'm sure it provides meaningful revenue to all sorts of companies that have products that include the term "gun" that do not include weapons. To make such a change and not methodically try to reduce the blast radius for these people effectively proves that whoever is in charge over there is not rolling out changes to search algorithms in the way Google is supposed to be famous for.

I worked on search algorithms for an ecommerce site that would kill for the kinds of traffic Google Shopping probably gets, and the idea that this would ever pass code review is laughable because of all of the blatantly obvious negative effects it would have on recall. At the very least, you would whitelist bigrams in query logs that go along with "gun" that do not include weapons. This is a truly amateur move, several steps away from what I would consider acceptable from the worlds premier search organization. I would fail a student taking an information retrieval course on a question if they provided this as a solution to removing a category of products from a search engine.
It's the same problem on all the streaming services. The deals are done with the labels, so even if the payment for each playback is reasonable, the label takes a huge cut.
That’s all in a hypothetical future in which autonomous vehicles work as intended, are well tested, and are better than people. We’re still nowhere near that kind of lvl 5 automation, and just testing on open roads.

Be careful of the utopia trap: “anything is acceptable now for the rosy future imagined.”
Just because it’s LED doesn’t mean it doesn’t use any power at all, so it’s still a waste of energy.

Every light in our house is LED and I still teach my kids about not wasting energy and turning things off when not in use.

Maybe it’s because I grew up with incandescent bulbs, but I can’t stand the thought of random lights being left on for no good reason, even if it costs 40 cents a year to keep lit.

EDIT- ADDITIONAL THOUGHT

I was going to add that it’s not like I went around my house adding lights that didn’t exist, but as I think about it... The house I grew up in was built in the early 70’s and every room had a single ceiling light that had two bulbs in it. The hallways had 1 or two ceiling lights.

My current house, built two years ago has 8 can lights in the living room, 6 cans in the kitchen and 3 pendants over the island, 8 in the dining room, etc... So maybe you’re on to something with the thought of putting in a lot more lights than we used to.
Is it possible to pay anonymously and ship to a non-home address (e.g., P.O. Box or locker)?
I'm not sure how it works in the US, but here in a situation like this, and assuming it's a significant amount relative your income, you'd ask for a payment plan.
That's probably not a direct apples-to-apples comparison because large employers typically subsidize employee health plan premiums.
The comparison to the convenience store fails because in the digital realm, the customer does not need to physically travel outside the EU to do business with somebody outside the EU.

Or, to look at it another way: If it weren't extraterritorial, ad providers (for example) could simply close their local branches, and EU citizens would not be protected from consent-less data gathering. To realistically be able to fulfill its mission, the GDPR _has_ to be global in scope.
I'm European and the above link for guns, germs, steel returns results for me. Does it not for you?
That depends strongly on your family situation and your job. For a single individual working in the city or a family with all their extended family nearby you could easily get away without a car.

But not everybody is that lucky and plenty of professions will require you to be in places where public transportation is not an option. An interesting reversal of intentions is happening between the cities of Almere and Amsterdam. Almere and Amsterdam are connected very well through public transport and many people will take the train into Amsterdam each day from Almere. The Amsterdam public transport system is reasonably good and services most of the areas with corporate activity. The fact that Almere has a large and skilled professional population caused some clever business people to move their operation to Almere. Initially those companies were staffed with people living almost exclusively in Almere itself. But now people from Amsterdam have started to commute to Almere in the morning causing a substantial amount of traffic the other way because the Almere industrial areas are not as well serviced with public transport as they probably should have been.

The best combination for such transportation that I've found is to take a small folding bike along on the train, this gets you within a few km of where you need to go and then it is an easy bike ride. But this option is not open to everybody, and it almost closed for me too due to a self inflicted bike accident.

Amsterdam is just about ideal for cycling, Copenhagen is the other EU city that really gets this right and Helsinki gets a lot of credit from me for being almost there. But the majority of EU cities have a very long way to go to make the bicycle the best form of transportation and even in Amsterdam bicycling is anything but safe (mostly due to scooters and taxis).

Amsterdam could probably get away now with closing off the center for traffic completely, say from Munt to central station and east to the Cruqius mill and west to Haarlemmer poort. They would have to build some more underground parking though because that would lose the main new parking garage at Oosterdok.

Maybe in a couple of years, time will tell.
> When the states first enacted their sales taxes, the tax was imposed only on in-state sales. There was no use tax. As businesses began to offer delivery services and customers realized they could avoid sales taxes by ordering products from businesses in a different state, the complimentary use tax was enacted. Currently, every state that imposes a general sales tax also imposes a use tax.
I just find it hard to believe that the law is a significant cost to companies already doing the right thing. Sure, there is a non zero cost to ensuring your existing practices are lawful, which everyone must pay. But companies already in compliance shouldnt have to modify or create anything.

The companies that have to spend significant coin are the ones who are not already complying.
It’s usually on your ID card and assigned at birth.
I'm not convinced about self flying drones either, we should just skip to teleportation.
The sheer scale of Wikipedia (5 millions pages, half a trillion links) made it difficult to make the searches fast. Simply downloading the Wikipedia database dumps and parsing them into my own database took over a day on my first successful attempt. The site returns most results in just a few seconds despite the giant graph size.
That seems... very politically active?
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As much as I love haskell and want to say I've had those same experiences, that hasn't been my experience. Haskell forces me to write better code so often that it's painful when bad code will do just as fine.

I'm always surprised how often bad code is the solution too.. And when I say the solution, I mean to all the points along the path that I may take to get to the final destination. And I'm not saying this because you can't write this type of code in haskell but because haskell makes it more difficult and that's not always a good thing
Subara City is nice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuwaki.sub...
I'm not just advocating for everyone to give money away on the street. Some of the worst poverty in the U.S. is in places with huge amounts of brain power (like SF). I'm sure those big brains could come up with better solutions than handouts. Like the countless charities out there that are far more efficient than government.

Do you think the problem is, or can be, competently handled by government? I think government can get results by brute-forcing with massive amounts of money, but history shows that it's still terrible at it (hello War on Poverty). Now, I don't mean to say government should have no role/do nothing. I'm saying that it should not be the -default- entity to take care of things because it allows the citizenry to absolve themselves of all responsibility. Government isn't some wise entity - it's just people. And oftentimes those people are thousands of miles away, working with incentive structures poorly aligned with the issue at hand.

One benefit of transforming this issue into a matter of personal responsibility is that the incentives are much stronger - if it's MY money being used, I'm far more likely to strive for efficiency. If your charity gobbles up my donation with admin costs, I'm "shopping elsewhere". A somewhat-related example of this strategy was a method used in Africa to combat elephant poaching. I can't find the reference now, but basically the government decided to "give" land areas to citizens, who would be responsible for poaching issues. It ended up working much better than when the government sought to directly reduce poaching.
Velvet Revolver too. All that money into DeepMind and this is the best they can do?
What I don't quite understand is that the binary groups in usenet seem to be exclusively used to distribute encrypted files, while the decryption keys are shared in invitation-only web forums and chat groups.

So, everyone who says they're using usenet for pirating stuff is in at least one of those as well? Wouldn't the fact that you have to, essentially, join "a conspiracy to commit copyright infringement in an organized manner" make the legal situation of even a passive consumer much worse compared to someone who goes to public sites?
Adnauseum is still a really bad idea.

Previous discussion:
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13222733
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