skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely weeks: days and then moving is tiring imho. And not productive. Months I find too long. Probably based on personal taste a lot as well.

And for nomads perhaps taxes; staying 6 months can be dangerous in some cases; even 60 days consecutive for some countries.
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I once wrote a letter to Top CEO. And I got a reply from his Lawyer.
It's relieving to see basically all the comments here expressing how dystopian this is, and my opinion is no different.

As I read the article I keep asking myself what motivates these people to do such research --- they're basically contributing to the erosion of personal freedom and privacy. It's scary.
> so why not offering the timeline of places you visited on maps

Because I don't want them to store it. It's ridiculously user-hostile and privacy-intrusive that Google maps won't even save your searches if you have location history turned off.

If only my phone had some sort of area where you could store data locally, then maybe I wouldn't have to keep typing the same thing over and over again in Maps. One can only dream.
> I'm glad that google's internal culture is healthy enough for this. I wonder how the internal conversations about affecting politics, issues of privacy, etc. look..

Stymied, I suspect. Lest they end up like James Damore.
Don't even try to trade with this--you'll get sheared like a sheep!
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I didn't mean to imply hail corporate completely fixed anything, at its worst it's unsubstantiated allegations.

Just pointing out that true names didn't inoculate Facebook, which doesn't even get as far as that problematic response.

That's why I said anonymity is orthogonal--that was my main point.

For example, anonymity is easier on HN, and I prefer our comments to FB. On the other hand, I'm not typing this on 4chan. There are dozens of other examples on the spectrum. Anonymity just doesn't seem like the determining factor for culture everyone makes it out to be. Maybe it has some impact, but it seems washed out by the typical culture of the group, driven by that group's interests, style, and tolerance of
(or preference for) obnoxiousness.
At least that rule can be followed. In Fallujah, the US prevented military aged from leaving and then decided all males left in the city were combatants.
Yes, like "gender" climate is fungible and able to be described in whatever politically expedient manner is most advantageous.
That's a great find, but given your experience with the circuit, and the different diagnosis, how does that change the likely cause of the problem? Why did the sense resistor get toasty?
China now effectively controls half the world's lithium production
If you can get it, LTSB is your friend.
> It's none of <oversea corporation XYZ>'s business to know where I've been

Totally agree with you.

What I'm trying to say is that the `location history` as a feature makes sense in google maps, because, well it's a map app.

But the fact that FB knows where I've been even though I don't have the FB app on the phone, only the Messenger Lite, is a total surprise to me.
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Is not this anti-competitive? Apple prevents Telegram from updating while allowing it to competing messengers.

By the way legally Telegram is not a russian company (British company if I remember correctly) so Apple cannot get away with "who cares, they are from Russia". Is it ok that at Russian government's request American company is restricting a British company?
On a macro level, I don't buy it. If the economic reality is that you live in a food desert and you are bombarded by sugar propaganda every living day of your life ... sure, there is some kind of selection process of the most fit for that environment going on. Not sure it's a good outcome though, the optimal strategy seems to be get as many kids as you can before dying of obesity in your forties.
Why not unobtanium
Here, wait, let me type with proper grammar and punctuation on this one.

How depressing it is that the only response to my initial comment is talking about punctuation. My grammar is actually correct, too. Instead of using periods, I hit enter. Instead of capitalizing "I", I used "i" instead because I feel it is quicker, still readable, and unique.

I guess any publicity is good publicity!
Russia has no relation here. Apple now is imposing sanctions upon a British company (Telegram is registered there). By the way Russian users are only 7% of Telegram's userbase.
> Black children are born disproportionately to uneducated parents due to generations of denying blacks education

Not long ago the average white American had only a basic formal education.

My father left school when he was 12 and over half his class left at that age.

My grandfather left school when he was 10.

If that was a key reason then we would only have to have waited a generation.
> I can see how it has great performance on the plaintext and json benchamrks

I actually forgot the DB tests were implemented; when I was sending in PRs, I was mostly thinking about plaintext and JSON, not database stuff. Sorry about that!

However.

https://actix.rs/docs/databases/

> Technically, sync actors are worker style actors. Multiple sync actors can be run in parallel and process messages from same queue. Sync actors work in mpsc mode.

So, you're still getting some degree of parallelism here. I wonder if that's it?

(You're right about the fact that the DB APIs are currently synchronous.)
Dubai desert grows China rice world food security and adds Chinese contribution
That is like one Lord of The Rings or six 1984 every two years. A month and change for Animal Farm. Two months for "man bash".

It sounds like a full time job.
Yeah, that Gotham news happened after I made this comment. Good to know!
Like everytime Fabrice puts out something you know it is bound to be something interesting: https://bellard.org/

not driven by selling anything.
Weather prediction is constantly getting more accurate. And since it only really cares about what happens in 7 (now maybe 10) days climate change is simply not a factor.
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Not allowing them to update their app globally is truly evil. Apple has been positioning as a champion of privacy but it's all rubbish. They truly are as bad as Google.
For a cause of death affecting 40000/2700000 it could only reduce life expectancy from 79 to 77.8, even if all the victims were age 0.

EDIT: I suppose it could be lowered a bit more if all those who died were those who would otherwise have lived longest.
Did he fix it?
WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal
The metrics and the motivational features are really neat, and well thought out. Kudos!
My systems have

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=C

There is substantial disagreement among the programs that I use [1] whether this constitutes a German locale or an English locale.

[1] True, only those programs which are dumb enough to assume that locale is described by a single word like "German" or "English".
Developers can now upload apps to the GitHub Marketplace for free
While I’ll admit the current thrust is promising, a lot of it is extremely fragile. The electric vehicle push is completely incentive drive of course; e.g. why Beijing has so many Tesla’s these days despite the 2X markup has to do with the separate EV allocation in its plate lottery. Is that economically sustainable? Who knows. Solar is even more precarious as the country still lacks to the grid to move it from West to East where it is needed. LanZhou has cleaned up nicely, but it isn’t helping anything in Hebei much.

The current push to cleanup air pollution has hit some walls in being too harsh. China lacks rule of law at the local level, factory owners commonly skirt regulations, so what does happen is very heavy handed (close all factories that do X vs. just the ones that are out of compliance). They actually had to let up on the campaign after CNY this year because too much production was taken offline.
Companies like Google making company culture such a visible part of their identity strikes me as the kind of wise foolishness that you find a lot in mythical narratives. Sure, you will get some very motivated employees that swallow the kool-aid, but if you think those employees' loyalties are with you, you better think again. They're loyal to the idea that you sold them on, to the gospel that you preached.

Once they get it in their heads that the road you're leading them on is going to hell and not heaven, there's gonna be a reckoning. Now the faithful are going to start questioning things they wouldn't allow themselves to question years ago. Is making all this software so that Google can profit off of collecting people's data worthwhile?

I hope at least one Google exec is forced to sell a yacht over this. But what I really want is that we find a way to force more accountability onto these assholes. I'm happy it happened, but I think we're going to start seeing a shift away from companies making culture such a visible part of their identity as Google did.
Strangely, the desktop version in the Mac App Store seems to be getting updates just fine.
I never thought it would be possible for a buzzword to annoy me more than "cloud" did, and yet here we are.
In actual fact and science, yes, emphatically yes. Reef-building corals contain photosynthetic algae; these zooxanthellae are an endosymbiont that depends on and consumes CO2 for the direct benefit of its host. [1]

Up to 90% of the organic material photosynthetically produced by the zooxanthellae is transferred to the host coral tissue. "This is the driving force behind the growth and productivity of coral reefs." [2]

The coral polyps thrive when they have access to nutrients produced by their symbiont algae. These algae thrive when they have access to CO2, H2O, and sunlight. Thus CO2 does turn into coral reefs.

[1] Coral-algae metabolism and diurnal changes in the CO2-carbonate system of bulk sea water (2014)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034600/

[2] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_corals/cora...
So if you do not have a webcam, Chrome feeds a video of your desktop to the webpage ?
Sounds like an awful security issue!
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> Sure you can try to drive away the toxic users, but it turns out that those toxic users are also pretty influential in non-toxic aspects.

The problem with Reddit's toxic user base is that they're only concerned with blocking bad actors on one side of a subject. They've repeatedly turned a blind eye to the open doxxing and brigading from SRS, and the complete takeover of the politics subreddit by CTR.
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causes the same issue.
Yes, this is true. War has been a constant for all of human history, so practically any technological advance can be attributed to warfare. Anyone who thinks that war is necessary for technological progress in 2018 has been drinking too much US military koolaid.
Whats annoying you more than cloud?
Actix provides actor abstraction over synchronous code and allows to communicate with it in async manner. TechEmpower benchmarks uses sync actors for db operations and http part is async. I am not sure how this help though, tokio-minihttp also uses threadpool for db operations, results are not that good
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I wonder how would have Apple have reacted if it was a Chinese request considering they have blocked VPN apps from the China Store.
Interesting article, but I'd bet a big part of the reason physicians don't know it's that do much is dependent upon information that lives "out of the system".

How much time will a patient spend on rehab, and will they actually perform the exercises effectively? What's their diet like, not just calories in but in terms of individual nutrients? How active is their lifestyle?

Recovery time seems like something that should be knowable by educated doctors, but the best poker player in the world can't tell you what card is coming up on the river.
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FWIW, from the man/Durov himself:

"as a result, we’ve also been unable to fully comply with GDPR for our EU-users by the deadline of May 25, 2018. We are continuing our efforts to resolve the situation and will keep you updated."
And yet, assessing teachers reliably is a very difficult task.

As a teacher, the moment that a reliable assessment method is introduced there will be significant push back; however, it will also be the key to broad improvements in the education system and the further professionalisation of teaching (and, by extension, teacher retention/compensation).

I also believe that this starts by enabling classroom teachers to assess their students with the reliability of standardized tests but within their individualized curriculum. That's not an easily ask - but it is an exciting concept that I return to every few months.
Is there an awesome list for business that this can be added to?

--edit nevermind, here it is:

https://github.com/cameronroe/awesome-marketing

it's not added to the main awesome list, so I'm making a pull req for that too.
It's hard to flesh out self determination from ennvironmental factors. Not to sound overwhelmingly 'r/iam14andthisisdeep, but consider: 1) Nomadic hunter gatherers who have shortened their lifespans due to their lifestyle choices, or lack of choice/information in determining their lifestyle; and 2) App developers who may also have shortened their lifespan due to lifestyle choices, or even also lack of choice/information (ie sedentary lifestyle to afford rent/food/taxes/legal aid, sugar consumption due to inaccurate information from leading scientists regarding health risks).

I just think we can't really know which one we'd prefer had we not experienced both.
Also good about TI is they are far more willing to have a long term commitment to a particular chip or other component which is a must when you're designing something that you want to market for at least a couple of years.

There is nothing more irritating than to finalize a design for manufacturing and being hit with an EOL'd part with some ridiculously short deadline.

You end up with having to choose between to really bad choices: stock up as many parts as you can risking ending up with unused inventory (and still a fair chance of running out on the other end) and redesigning the product.
If you learn how to predict the stock market and reveal your methods then you no longer know how to predict the stock market.
Close to 60 Percent of Surveyed Tech Workers Are Burnt Out
It seems like Tensorflow 1.8 with CUDA 9.2 performs up to 37% faster when compared to earlier versions of Tensorflow as described in the post. (link below)
http://www.python36.com/benchmark-tensorflow-on-cifar10/
Wow, every post on that blog seems to be a wealth of data. This should be its own post.
>Whoever is paying for the newspaper owns the content.

This is also true of TV news. Last century, my cousin produced local tv news. They did a consumer report "lease or buy your next car" and the conclusion "buy". This did not sit will with the advertisers and my cousin was called into meetings.

Also this year the art non-profit I work for submitted a story to a free paper and it was published. It was more of a "here is an event thats happening", piece but still gives me a little pause.
Idealism isn't about living as a monk, it's about not compromising on the things that are often seen as "trivial" or "inconsequential". Most people don't jump from acting ethically to accepting work on that is obviously problematic. What actually happens is a long series of small, trivial compromises and other deviations that eventually become normalized[1].

Humans make mistakes; it isn't possible to live the "ideal monk" life. The real question is how small problems are handled? Compromising when the problem isn't a "big enough" ethical problem inevitably[2] pushes that boundary back in a cycle of normalized small, easily avoided deviances. Instead, if a hard line is taken against small problems when they are still small, a lot of larger problems can be avoided.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/Diane_Vaughan_...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
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I'm in favor of universal healthcare, but the state of our health is a holistic problem.

It includes our diet, restaurant culture, stress, play culture, misinformation, corporate influence, architecture, work culture, as well as our healthcare administration.
I agree. If we ever get there then this will be the way that top teachers finally start making the money they deserve. The caveat, of course, is that they will be in limited supply so we'll need a way to extend their influence.
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Not even Apple remembers the Mac App Store exists to interfere with it.
If I could offer some perspective from someone in the sales trenches:

Cold calling does not work. No matter how good your script is, your email, your personality, your talk track, your data sources, your persistence, cold calling does not work. It is a poor ROI.

All real sales are made either through the customer opting in to communicate (response to an email blast, inbound lead from the company phone, a referral etc)... or through nepotism and cronyism and ivy league networks of multi millionaires. Hint: this is how Oracle is alive to this day.

If I was in charge of selling a product over $100, I would create the most awesome, viral content you would ever see about our product. I would release a free version to 99% of the world that is truly usable and awesome.

This is what join.me did to compete with Webex and Skype for Business and GoToMeeting.

Remember: if you don't have an existing network, you don't have any business.

Start marketing before you start selling.
Putin does not care about middle-class iPhone users in Russia. Blocking Telegram is just another form of censorship for him. He got away with blocking half the Internet in Russia already.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-inter...
Not too busy to send letters to the CEO.

I never get this: you start a conversation and then when the other party engages you disengage. The CEO's response was about as good as you could wish for and would give an opportunity to influence the view of the company at the level where it matters. That's what you intend when you write to the CEO, you do that because they are the people that can make stuff happen, including putting you in touch with the right person further down the org, not because you want to chat with the CEO. They're just a very visible access point and writing them a letter is a way of saying 'this really matters to me'.

If you are too busy to follow up on such a response then maybe you could save everybody time by not writing the letter in the first place.
You don't need all that much power to toast such a small resistor. Looks like 0805 package, which would be rated for 0.125W max. Easy to burn.

It probably burned because of something causing higher current draw than expected by designers. Short or whatvever. If it failed open, which would be expected, it might have acted as a fuse.
An American Alternative to Europe’s Privacy Law
My thesis was exactly about this. We even had a lab course in which we used paper printouts of irises with holes poked in the center(so that light reflections on the cornea were captured) - that's how easy fooling those systems used to be.

The iris is constantly slightly changing its size, so with such contact lenses you can expect to be suspect no 1.
Who was operating the F-15E? USAF?

(The RAF doesn't have any F-15s, but routinely hosts visiting aircraft from other NATO air forces. One wonders if differing operational standards played a role in this airprox -- or if politics played a role in the incident being downplayed.)
In many security settings you would have to do more than train to not be recognizable as yourself, you'd have to train to be recognized as someone else.

Even a busy airport mostly already has information about who should be where.
>which uses artificial intelligence to interpret video images and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes.

Is that related to "select all tiles with X" on captcha?
It often had other labels..
https://twitter.com/lachrob/status/831691552028241921
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Pair it with video and stop everything that doesn't get recognized.
Thanks, the Ghost service was down. The blog's back up.

Regarding the RAM, I'll see how far I get with moving some services to Rust in the coming months, and what benefit I derive in the long run.
It ain’t politics; it’s a particularly aggressive form of argumentation that holds no boundaries. Even the most hateful subreddit enforces standards (no doxxing, no brigading, etc) because if they don’t, they know the Reddit admins will shut them down or force them private (invite-only).

The subject matter of the sub doesn’t matter, the toxicity is in the methods.
That's why there is the HSTS preload list [0], so that browsers can know this before making the HTTP request.

If you don't want to add your domain to the preload list, you will have to (automatically) redirect/upgrade users to HTTPS, or bounce them.

[0] - https://hstspreload.org/
Most of them exist in an echo chamber. It’s rare to see them talking to or having time to think outside the current situation. Especially if they are self made (meaning they are leaning closer to the control freak side). It’s rare for regular people like me get a blast of outside perspective on my day to day, let alone an evaluation of wtf I do at work or how I can do it better.
Angular and React both rely on Javascript and HTML, so you can't describe them as "designed to be great front-end technologies". HTML was designed for document exchange, it is a descendent of SGML. Javascript was initially meant to be a light weight scripting language that allowed dynamic elements in HTML. It's gotten better over the years, but it is still far from what you would expect if you were trying to build a great programming environment for the front end. As to the limits of HTML, just consider forms. In the last 20 years, there have been very few new form elements added. Compare the form elements available in HTML in 2018 to what VisualBasic 6 had achieved by 1999, or what Netbeans/Swing offered by 2003.
Adding "assuming the compiler is not insane and uses -fwrap" would be a bit cumbersome.

The fact remains that the checks looks correct to anyone familiar with 2's complement, yet unfamiliar with the intricacies of the C and C++ standard, which are not low level, contrary to what they were being told at school.

The resistance of the committee about this very issue, as shown by revision 2 of this proposal¹, is enough to make me hope C and C++ will go the way of COBOL.

That said, 2's complement guarantees that converting everything to unsigned before performing an operation, then converting back afterwards, is guaranteed to produce the same results as -fwrap (except for division and modulo). Source to source transformation tools may help us bypass undefined behaviour without resorting to non-standard compiler flags, or implementation defined behaviour.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p090...