skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minecraft is an amazing ecosystem. $2B is nothing. I think it's one of the best Microsoft's acquisition ever.
And in a way it is justified, you need a warrant to wiretap a phone line but no such constraint on eavesdropping on TCP/IP communication.
Q U A D H A C K E D @ G M A I L . C O M.
I went on google in search of other means to take care of eviction report and late payments record from my credit report records and most people on different blogs kept talking about a professional . and how fast, affordable and reliable he is…I summoned courage to reach out to him, and told him my issues with my records. His response to my mails made me calm and optimistic about the whole thing. I made a down payment for the job and he cleaned my negative remarks in just a week and was approved by credit union in 3 weeks. that singlehandedly brought so much relief to me and its so amazing. Fix your credit report by contacting his email { Q U A D H A C K E D @ G M A I L . CO M } and by the time he’s done with your job . and when you get pleased with your job, you'll b willing to recommend just the way i am
Yes, but would the people Google wants to hire want to work in Marzahn or Wedding?
The Berlin housing crisis is very much happening almost everywhere. City-wide average rents increased 45% between 2009-2015. Rents doubled in some districts in that timeframe and even in the least affected areas (Marzahn and Spandau) rents increased by more than 30%.
Thanks for the feedback! I dislike the ripple animations, too. This is coming from Material design implementation in Polymer components 1.0.

Hijacking navigation wasn't very nice either, absolutely agree. Too bad we didn't have time to drop it.

All of this is going to be replaced soon. Codelabs site is moving away from Polymer. Working on the new implementation in https://github.com/googlecodelabs/codelab-elements. Contributions are most welcome, of course.
There might be transatlantic flights from Tegel, I'm not sure, but they're rare. Moscow and the Canary Islands are more or less the limits. I usually find myself going through Frankfurt, Paris or Amsterdam for intercontinental travel.
Can you substitute self control with shiny apps like this? I don't mean that there isn't anything that can help avoiding distractions, but (from my own experiences) I have doubts about the effectiveness of soft measures like this. Dismissing a notification about going to sleep or taking a break in the middle of a youtube-binge doesn't require much effort, and investigating what takes all your free time takes significant energy. A commenter mentioned a cron job that shuts down his/her laptop at midnight - this measure can be more effective, because it requires effort to continue what you were doing, not to stop it.

Not to mention the irony of using apps to make you spend less time using apps.
I feel the performance of large outputs (5-digit numbers of lines) got better with Emacs 26. At least since switching 1.5 months ago I didn't notice much lag anymore.

Right now I'm with "experimenting with shells in Emacs" phase, but I can already report good results. Most of the typical shell work I do in eshell now, but I also keep some shells (regular and M-x async-shell-command ones) in the background, to e.g. connect with openvpn or run node.js servers. I haven't seen any performance issues so far.
Amazing features
Conversions seems freely interpreted. In Gujarati it's `હોવેરક્રાફ્ટ`, transliterates to `hovercraft`, no meaning. In Malayalam `പറക്കും-പേടകം` translates to `Flying-vehicle`. In Hindi `ṃḍarāne vālī nāv` translates to `Floating boat`. In Marathi `माझी होडी मासळयांनी भरली आहे` it just says, `My boat is full of fish`.
The US has higher salaries across the board. But living costs are higher and you need to save more for pension, health care and education (if you have a family). Doesn't make salaries of SV comparable to Berlin but it's competitive vs most of Europe (and parts of Asia).
~20sec music play and then followed pause. Just not sure what to say about that. Even the guy narrating gets confused and almost clicks for the second time to start the music. Then followed menu selection, not as slow, but still noticeable slowness in response. Later one when he clicks other buttons action follow much more rapidly, which indicates to me a weak processor.
Munich is still the city with the most IT jobs and companies - I don't know if Berlin will catch up.
Berlin has this start-up flare image, but based on numbers that's just not true.
If I were to speculate: Decision making which takes LIDAR as one of the inputs.
Scheme is a Lisp like language, not a Lisp.

Parenthesis is probably the only thing they have in common.
Try namecheap or something because two letters works there but not on Google Domains. Btw, the domain name is already taken:

https://ov.app/
While I generally agree that neither are great (I prefer Torx), are they not designed to protect whatever it is you are fastening from over-tightening bolts?
The TV itself may be cheap but the space it requires probably isn't. How do you fit one 45" screen per person in a small appartment?

I genuinely don't understand why people put huge TV screens in their small rooms given that a smaller screen at closer distance produces the same visual effect.
We use Openfire, after running eJabberd for a while and having too many issues (I actually learnt some Erlang just to fix one of the bugs).

We have two uses. 1. Web based per-page chat for all our logged in users, then using Candy+ejabberd/openfire, but now using a custom node socket based chat server. 2. Internal chat still on Openfire. Have thought of checking out Zulip/Mattermost et al.

Never tried Prosody, and feel that xmpp never got the client thing quite right.
And for a typical solar panel you’d get what, 50m? Are you also not convinced about solar tech in general? Being able to cheaply produce hydrogen generating panels is a huge breakthrough, even if they do not yet have the efficiency or cost that would allow them to enter the market.
I do this, but it is the port scanning that I am tracking. It is hard to find your ssh port if you get banned port scanning.
Correct. There are several levels at which this applies:

Phone hardware (microphones, speakers) are only calibrated to detect 'useful' frequencies for human speech.

The sampling rate used by audio codecs tend to cut off _before_ the human ear's limits e.g. at 8kHz or 16kHz. They aren't even trying to reproduce everything the ear can detect; just human speech to decent quality.

Codecs are optimized to make human speech inteligible. The person listening to you on the phone isn't receiving a complete waveform for the recorded frequency range. The signal has been compressed to reduce the bandwidth required, where the goal isn't e.g. lossless compression; it's decent quality speech after decompression.

It's completely possible to play tones alongside speech that we won't notice, but in the general case, not tones that the human ear can't detect.
The problem is that herbalists are forced to go through trial and error to come up with this information (tradition just means that someone else already did), because they do not have a working model of how their herbs work. Modern medicine has a vastly better model of human biochemistry (although it obviously still has huge gaps), which allowed it to develop a ton of new drugs in a surprisingly short amount of time (around 100-150 years, which is nothing on the scale of human history).

Regarding leeches and bloodletting, of course it helps in some cases, in the same way that executing random actions sometimes helps: by chance. To get from anecdata to systematic application, you need scientific inquiry to form a model of why it helps.
Treating interactions with your child like it's they're a problem to solve means you're treating them like a pet, and I have real issues with that.
Oil hits $77 for first time since 2014 after Trump scraps Iran nuclear deal
Left-Right: Wait-Free Reading While Writing
I think all WaveNet speech is still being generated server side instead of on the client hw? So there is a cost to associated to it.

If Google Duplex is a paid product, maybe it just enables running WaveNet on Google Cloud with larger models and higher quality settings .

Speech produced for Assistant doesn't make any money so the server side cost has to be minimised.

One day we'll have all this client side, on specialised ML chips on devices.
It also looks super bad if you compare it to southern Germany salaries.

Based on my interaction with "top" recruiters from Germany, I figured that I can compare:
Senior SWE salary in the south with a CTO/Head-of salary in Berlin.
Yeah, but a huge problem with finding accommodation for it's recruits. In contrast to Berlin it's impossible to get a first hand rent contract. A second hand is going to be super expensive and buying somewhere somewhat central is ridiculously expensive.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nordics-housing/both-immi...
From the paper:

"Conclusion: In summary, we have developed a stable p-type LaFeO3 photoelectrode with a coral like nanostructure by a novel and inexpensive spray pyrolysis technique with a post annealing step, which yields a photocurrent density of 0.16 mA/cm2 at 0.26 V vs. RHE. Chronoamperometric studies showed that the LaFeO3 film provides a stable p-type response over a 21 hour period. Optical and impedance data showed that the material is able to straddle the redox potential of water, with the valance band at 1.29 V and conduction band at −1.11 V, and a bandgap of 2.4 eV. IPCE studies revealed that the photoelectrode had an APCE of 3.5%. Water splitting test was conducted in a custom made reactor vessel, where the working electrode and Pt counter electrode was connected by a single looped wire, without any external bias being applied. This in turn yielded 0.18 μmol/cm2 hydrogen after six hours during the first cycle with faradaic efficiency of 30%. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time hydrogen zhas been produced spontaneously during a water splitting test without any external bias being applied using LaFeO3 photoelectrode as a single material. These findings demonstrate that LaFeO3 is a potential candidate to act as a photoelctrode for unassisted PEC water splitting to generate solar fuel (hydrogen) cost effectively. However further work is required to investigate and improve slow charge carrier dynamics and low light absorption chal-lenges of LaFeO3 photoelectrodes"

DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21821-z
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The lack of direct flights is partly due to the short connection to Frankfurt from where you can connect to most destinations in the world. That's also why some other German cities (Hamburg, Cologne, Hannover) have few transcontinental flights, despite the demand. There has been an increase in direct flights from Berlin recently but towards the US, Heathrow and Frankfurt are on the way and BA/LH can price out competitors easily.

Berlin is certainly underserved given its size but that's just the Frankfurt effect (an airport with >60m passengers p.a. for a city <1m population).
I am not worried about people getting in via ssh, I am worried about some zero-day on some other service.
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Not trying to be pedantic or anything, but it's also extremely insecure, extremely unreliable and extremely hard to implement correctly when compared to a normal procedure call.

It just seemed weird to me to leave that out.
With More Streaming Consumers Flock Back to the Living Room for the Connected TV
You can solve this though a few user interaction metrics. I'm not active on hacker news thus I don't have privileges (karma) to down vote. A brand new account shouldn't be allowed to make a change such as this, getting enough reputation should require active involvement and code review of changes before they are accepted. Just as my karma can drop, people should lose privileges. That this is sensitive piece having high security requirements means that bar can be even higher requiring years of involvement before unverified commits can occur.
> You don't magically become enlightened after giving birth.

Given that no one even came close to saying this, this comment seems very disingenuous.
Who gets hit when US resumes Iran sanctions
How about something like "I'm an automated agent calling for a client" - correct, not misleading, but using terminology which isn't likely to be immediately disconnected _right now_.

Of course, if they screw it up, they'll burn that terminology too.
White House will host Amazon, Facebook, Ford to discuss artificial intelligence
Yes, I bought emails.app on 3rd may. They had different pricing based on how early you were registering as compared to public release date of 8th May.
I can't remember consumers demanding glued-in batteries. I think decisions like this are taken for all kinds of reasons (CEO preference, ease of design and assembly, lock-in, etc) and then presented to consumers as packages that they can accept or decline. But it's too simple to say that this is solely driven by consumer choice.
Ok, time to link a book :
Free to learn by Peter Gray
https://www.amazon.com/Free-Learn-Unleashing-Instinct-Self-R...

Or how and why parents and adults should really stop trying to control their children.
But one Thursday I don't pre-order, and I'm actively doing other stuff, maybe outside, phone slippery, need to check something and damn it... clicked on that suggestion, now have to wait to get to what I actually intended.

Just my experience with android.
Thank you very much for sharing that comic.
This is also Mutti Merkel's proclaimed goal, stated like 10 years ago. She is patient, but she usually achieves what she sets out to do.
Direct link to live Webinar about GDPR (from European funded EITDigital)
Crypto startup? The new blockchain-related role is within Facebook.
Part of the magic of eshell that can use elisp functions as if they were shell commands. So instead of C-x C-f filename, you can use find-file filename as a command. find-file in particular is useful as an alias.
> ThinkPad trackpad is no smaller than a MacBook from a few years ago.

Why would a comparison with products from years ago be valid here?
Your children are young, and the tools that are working for you now will not be as effective as they get older. In particular, if you are leaning on shame and restriction of freedom to punish, you are sowing the seeds of teenage rebellion. You can only restrict so much freedom from a teenager, and shame only matters in as much as your opinion of them matters to them; abuse either of these, and you will find yourself with a teenager who dedicates themselves to distancing themselves as much as they can from you.

In my experience, you should rather focus on building character by developing the intrinsic rewards for good behavior: we do the right thing because it is the right thing, even if it is a more difficult path. No amount of shame and punishment can get a child to do that; it has to come from something deeper and more positive.
I think people think at something like FRA or LHR when talking about an international airport.

Tegel+Schoenefeld have combined ~30M passengers per year.
FRA has ~65M, and LHR has ~80M.

Number of intercontinental flights from Berlin is just super low s.t. most business travelers fly do a stopover in FRA.
A designer I know IRL helped me with the design. I also had a professional copy writer I know IRL help me with the German texts (not the English ones, though). Paid both of them, of course, but that was not too expensive, since they only helped, and I did a lot on my own before and after their involvment.

The Artist is Irina Linuza. Found her on upwork, and was very happy with her way of working from the start: https://www.upwork.com/o/profiles/users/_~01678d123d582fc42e... That was more expensive, since the illustrations are so detailed. Simpler ones would have been cheaper, of course, but that's not what I wanted.
Even in Lichtenberg, certainly not trendy at all, rents have increased significantly (although not doubled yet afaik).
I'd argue that's a reflection on what I said before (prices normalizing from dirt-cheap). I do not consider these numbers a crisis at all.

Here is an example of why the Bay Area is in a crisis:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/san-francisco-resident-fights-sudd...

A San Francisco man had his rent increased from $1800 a month to $8000 a month. True, it is one of the more extreme examples, but this is what I would call a crisis. Can you show me examples like this from Berlin?
I agree with you, except that mostly everything you say seems to be applicable to individuals and not the society they live it.

You are far more better off than in the past, but maybe because of that you (and everyone else) sometimes (unknowingly) are performing actions that are degrading their society as a whole.

Maybe you're having children later, having them raised by a nanny because you're wealthy and/or are working more, maybe you're not allowing them outside to play/grow. Maybe because you're using Facebook you're connecting far more superficially with your friend circle. Your grandmother had the support of all her family, community and neighbors, whereas in the modern world we're going to be going through a lot of things by ourselves.

I think ultimately we can't really know if society is broken, we can only compare it what we had before and what we imagine it can be like. That maybe casts a very negative light on it, when in reality we're doing relatively decently.
You still need to spend a lot of time in theory, and especially in Germany you need your radio certificates in English and German (which themselves take a long time).

After that, you can only fly a very limited subset of aircraft during the day under a certain altitude (and possibly certain weather conditions?). If you want to fly at night you need to get a certification for instrument flying.
It's "poor but sexy".
Not even remotely. For one thing, it's not even that cold out there; average temperature out at the main belt is only around -75 C, based on radiative equilibrium with the incoming sunlight. (Obviously, the near-earth asteroids are warmer.) And then you've got the problem that you're surrounded by vacuum, so the only way you have to dump heat for further cooling is through thermal radiation, which is terribly inefficient. Not to mention, thirdly, the fact that there's no natural helium available on asteroids, so you'd have to ship it up constantly to replace your coolant as it boiled off.

Meanwhile, here on Earth, we have billions of cubic feet of helium gas underground with infrastructure for liquefying it, we have access to conductive and convective cooling for our heat pumps with the whole thermal mass of the Earth to sink heat into, and we have all the industrial infrastructure and construction and maintenance infrastructure right here.

Oh, and if your datacenter is in Palo Alto instead of on Pallas, you have the added bonus that you don't have to worry about networking with a 15-minute ping.

tl;dr space isn't cold, vacuum isn't a great cooling medium, and shipping is expensive.
Nah because with everyone using AR, Google Glass, and Snapchat spectacles, we won't even be able to trust what we're seeing isn't manipulated.
Or air pillow vehicle
"[Uber's] electrically powered [concept aircraft] with two rotors for vertical flight and one for horizontal flight [...] is reminiscent of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor, where the propellers transition from vertical flight to horizontal – the difference being Uber’s rotors are fixed."

Whut the funk??!? How is this in any way similar??? Uh, correct me if I don't see something, but to me this is like saying something like: "Tesla Model 3 is similar to the Caterpillar CS-533E drum roller [1] — the difference being Tesla has 4 wheels"...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_CS-533E

I'm in no way an aircraft person, but if I were to try to look for similarities to something, the following are more like what I'd think of:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro
The domains started getting sold about a week ago:
https://www.registry.google/
Humorless, apparently.
Well, I'm quite happy now: I just bought $FIRST_NAME.app. It was marked as a premium domain, so it was +$50... But the opportunity was too juicy to pass it up.

In case anyone is wondering, it appears their premium domains only have a higher price for the initial registration. I just checked how much it would cost to add extra years to my registration, and it's only $14/year.

[0] https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6010092?hl=en
To be fair, the only reason I knew of this at all is because of a brief patronage of a library in Belgium during a trip I took in the summer of '99. The computer systems of said library used a bizarre system of time-limited authentication tokens stored on floppy disks that were used during the Windows log-on process. I was curious how it might have worked.
Berlin has two airports, Tegel and Schoenefeld.
I count this as a proper privacy statement already :)
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Demis Hassabis is Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
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Nah, Bielefeld is where it's at ;)
I guess because they want to keep the actual OS locked down. This way you can run any kind of linux software and even pretend to be root, all without really having root access to the pixelbook.
Hey, would you mind sharing the extension you are using? This should not happen and I would like to help fixing it.
Is a program running in the early versions of the JVM really faster than JS on the current version of V8? Current JS engines are very fast.

By the way, Server Side JS was a thing in the 90s, though little used. On the other hand, Perl was quite common on websites, despite being much slower than C/C++.
I don't think that anyone is surprised here. The quote is:

> I think Google were surprised that they came up against opposition,” says Stefan Klein, a local activist with the GloReiche neighbourhood group at one of their twice-weekly open sessions.

So, one activist thinks that Google is surprised (which sounds quite naive IMHO).

Then later in the article:

> A Google spokesman in Berlin says that the company has spoken to residents about their concerns and is incorporating their feedback into its plans. “We live in Berlin ourselves, we understand the concerns of neighbours about gentrification and know how Kreuzberg has been developing in recent years.”
People who work in Tech usually love Google though. They produce usable software, pay well, offer real career opportunities. The only thing Techies don't like about Google is their very american way of doing work. Although the pay might be _much_ worse, the working conditions in pure German software dev companies is usually better.
In Venetian they translated it as "My boat is full of eels". We don't have a word for hovercraft. "Barchin" is actually a small personal boat.

Also, happy to see they have a Venetian version :)
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If Google is there, they would. And if not Berlin is one of the few cities on this planet where people actually live in the city center and drive outside for work.
I have nothing to say other than that I loved DL1 and I'll dive into DL2 right away. I really like the overall philosophy ("see DL is approachable and doable, just do it") and I love that they encourage you to read papers even if they seem hard and to translate math to code etc. etc.
Fantastic job fast.ai team.

It's pretty damn amazing that they build a library (and also the new fastai.text) that goes one level of abstraction beyond PyTorch with the goal of implementing interesting/helpful papers ASAP and because they wanted to make their teaching even more efficient.
The X-22 was in no way more stable or safer than the V-22 it had just as much problems at start and unlike the V-22 which was based on the XV-3 and XV-15 those problems were not mainly in manufacturing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XV-3
How self-driving cars catch on: the Texas Drive.ai experiment
Scots are definitely native english speakers, reluctant ones at that, but english nonetheless