skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hear about your woes. Google should be ashamed and embarrassed that they still haven't fixed this.

I ran into a similar problem years ago after they acquired Postini and forced us all to migrate. GSuite was called Google Apps at the time, and it cannibalized my personal email (which originally used my own domain, not GMail). Despite numerous contacts with various support channels and even nagging dev googlers at I/O about it I never managed to get it properly severed again. Wound up losing all my history from a lot of Google services linked to the original account.

Doesn't help there's also a bug in the Google Play / Android setup wizard where it refuses to recognize the me%olddomain.com@gtempaccount addresses (thinks % is invalid), presenting another impediment to trying to manually extract stuff.

Shame Google, shame!
How Blockchain Is Reshaping Our Economy
Good points, I have my own inferences too:

At the time of k8s inception GCP was behind AWS in UX and features. App engine had (very arguably) failed, if only from its well deserved high potential. The allure of kubernetes tied people over while Google played catch-up. Now many of Google's services are superior to AWS (very arguably). Developers notice the better network performance, the improved GCP console UI, the GCP mobile app, etc.

Now with kubernetes maturing to the point of production usability Google's sales team is starting to outperform AWS. AWS will have dominate market share for many years to come, but GCP is in the drivers seat.

The generous free tier of GCP (both the $300 credits and the free-tiers of various services) are a big help as well.
Holy shit! This is a _terrible_ user experience. What an absolute nightmare. I can't imagine some PM saw this and decided to okay it. Wow.

The only reason I can guess that it didn't pop up sooner is that no one uses this product.
Kilometers per hour is still not SI, meters per second are. Celsius?We should all be using Kelvins. Failing that, electron volts. The whole world is mad.
> Do you think people were terribly uncomfortable at ambient temperatures due to their physiology before AC was invented?

Isn't that like asking "Do you think people were terribly uncomfortable using the outhouse in the middle of winter before indoor plumbing was invented?"

Uh, yeah. Life before AC, indoor plumbing, electricity, refrigeration, etc. sucked hard.
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I searched the settings and can't find anything that seems related that isn't already set to ON. I'm the only user (Super Admin).
This is awesome! I dug up my old 2nd gen Kindle in the hopes of following along, and sadly the battery is busted :(

Instead, I'm currently in the process of making a macOS screen saver to replicate this!

I'm blogging my updates at http://jamesliu.io/posts/macos-screensaver/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/disposedtrolley/literary-screensaver
AI isn’t just for big firms. In fact smaller firms are under more pressure to be efficient. See: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2018/07/19/casetext-and-the...

Also many medium size law firms are using AI systems now. See: https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2018/07/03/tuesday-luminanc...
And,
https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2018/06/19/israels-tadmor-l...
Neither of those two firms are massive, but they both still see the value.
Also AI systems are not as expensive as you may think.
P.s. I’ve worked in the legal sector for 20 years. Well aware of how billing works, and things now are changing esp. re. Any process level work. May I ask which firm you work at?
I actually just created a new AWS account and changed the email on my Amazon account.
Having a lesser known TLD (.gd) helps in my case. I get spam email once in a blue moon.
Anonymous to the target website at best.

No one should be expecting privacy if proxies are the only solution you rely on.

https://www.whonix.org/Comparison_Of_Tor_with_CGI_Proxies,_P...

"Conclusion

Proxies have a high susceptibility of misusing and stealing user data: Many proxies (HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS) are PCs hijacked by hackers or criminals, or honeypots exclusively offered for the purpose of user observation. Even if they were legitimate, a single operator can decide to enable logging. Additionally, some proxies automatically give your IP address away to the destination server.

Proxies offer, at best, only weak protection against destination website logging, and they offer no protection from third party eavesdropping. Their use is discouraged"

A good starting point if you wish to appreciate privacy more is: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Security_Guide

Also look into Qubes OS: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes
Efficient where it has to be.

Plants only convert between 3 and 6 percent of solar energy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency
They are not SI base measurements, but they are clearly metric. Kelvin is quite impractical for common ranges, unless you like to operate with huge numbers all the time.
How to Install SSL on Blogger for Custom Domain – EarnGurus
YES! insta-star from me!
I auto-forward all my @gmail emails to my @owndomain one. This removes manual checking of multiple accounts, at least.
Location: Houston, Texas, USA

Remote: Only, but occasional travel is OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies / Skills: C#, F#, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, Batch Processing, Data Pipeline, Data Warehouse, Actual Big Data, ETL, custom systems / back-end development, project architecture

Roles: Technical Architect, Technical Project Manager

Résumé/CV: after we talk by email

Email: in my profile
Monsoon season during a heat wave in SoCal. I doubt that this extreme was unprecedented, we were just lucky enough to have gear on the ground that recorded precip.
That is a typical christian thinking where you try to think of humans as sinners. The reality is that modern human is far more sensitive towards wildlife, nature, trees and air quality. A typical modern human is having less babies than ever too. We are not damaging the earth.
> don't even know they exist
That's the worst part. In truth, the 17-year-old amateur has most of the same options (especially library and asking the author). But it might never occur to them that the library will have it, or that the author will happily email them a copy.
I have spend a handful of days over a decade and a half researching or experimenting with my family mail server config. Given that experience can be useful professionally, even if only to understand the services you are purchasing it seems like time well spent for an individual/family to me.

It depends what your focus is within the industry and how much you like to be hands on. If you are an auto mechanic you might service your own vehicle. If you sell vehicles or drive them professionally then perhaps not. It isn't like any single approach is right or any particular role is preferred.
"We" can start right now. The general populace however is pretty much subsisting at a level where that question wouldn't even be considered for a millisecond.
No, may be they will hire all the young ones and native born will hire the elderly. The idea is to unleash creativity.
The main issue with the second method, which isn't discussed at all, is that it's more likely to pick a direction towards the corners of the unit cube. You can even see that bias in the point cloud.

The problem with choosing d uniformly is also better explained by pointing out that shells of larger radius have larger surface, thus they'll be underrepresented.
I moved to the free version of protonmail. Having my gmail fw all emails to this account.

It was this or managing my own mail server.
For now I’m happy with thier service and their privacy policy of course. But, it’s not gmail or even close to it feature wise.
Companies these days spend like maniacs on UI, but can't even get the basic UX right.
Another option is to get a personal domain where the dedicated email provider can support. If you own the domain to your email, you can switch providers more seamlessly, of course you gotta back up your emails through a third party client. Maybe a third party web client you can host yourself that stores your emails.

Maybe something like Mailpile:

https://www.mailpile.is/
Community Lead of the project here. We’re always willing to fieldnideas of how we can make this project more accessible / useful to folks.
>Ask a Parisian what they would think about an apartment that didn’t have heat. Those Parisians are sure spoiled and fragile! My wife’s family in Mexico doesn’t have heat in their house. I guess they are less fragile than Parisians.

What an absurd comment to make. Of course Parisians have heaters - it reaches low temperatures there in the winter. It doesn't reach those temperatures in most parts of Mexico.

I've lived through 115 degree summers in Texas. Of course we have air conditioning here, because it's necessary. But we aren't talking about Texas, we're talking about Seattle, where the ambient indoor temperature is 78 degrees. I wouldn't say someone is fragile for not wanting to live in 115 degrees without A/C, but yes, if you think 78 degrees is "way too hot" as some of the comments in this thread say, you are fragile.

>People in the places you mentioned don’t choose to be without heat or air conditioning because they want to, it’s generally because either the climate is less extreme and more comfortable or because they can’t afford it.

No, you have no idea what you're talking about. I've also lived in Singapore where the temperature averages 90ish degrees every day with near 100% humidity. Even among those who can afford it, most choose to forgo A/C because it simply isn't necessary. Even those who do choose to purchase an A/C do not turn it on because most find the addition of A/C to make rooms uncomfortably cold. This also goes for the portions of central and eastern Europe that I've lived in, as well as the portions of S. America I've visited. The human body is perfectly capable of being very comfortable at 75-80 degrees ambient temperature.

Furthermore, your entire second paragraph hinges on the hypothetical "if cost were no object", which is absurd. The entire point of non-A/C buildings (like the one that this entire thread is about) is that they reduce cost (both monetarily and environmentally). The cost is the entire point.

My original comment wasn't referring to to the 'fragility' of being personally unadjusted to other temperatures. It was referring to the 'fragility' of a mindset that apparently cannot entertain the mere idea that it is possible to be adjusted to those temperatures, and are apparently so triggered by such an idea that they make comments such as yours.
I want to build web apps, do data analysis and publish on Internet, and most importantly it is most recommended language for beginners with lots of resources available online. Do you recommend any other language to start with? I am just curious to know how you learn the language, what you use books, videos, project, or blog post? How you take notes (my hand starts paining after sometime)? What is your framework of learning?
Any chance you could lend me a hand with some C++ code? If so, shoot me a message: ar@pm.me. Thanks!
This KB article might help: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6396995?hl=en
If you status, commit, diff often then you don't want to leave your editor, because every little things (switching to a terminal just to do git stuff) adds up in the long run.

Version control functions should be available right in your editor (e.g. magit) and you can't really beat one character hotkeys for version control stuff. It doesn't get more convenient than that.
> As long as you're legally responsible for the traffic coming out of your network, this is not a good thing to do. Unless people explicitly get the same protection an ISP gets, I'll keep advising them to not to share their connection openly.

That is obviously a jurisdiction-dependent legal question and anyone concerned about it should consult an attorney.

But if you're suggesting that, for example, the CDA or DMCA safe harbors only apply to Comcast and not book stores or auto shops or anyone else that provides public WiFi, I would be interested to see a citation for that.
I agree here. The article mentions ideological complacency, but complacency isn't enough to award 2 Nobel prizes. Loss aversion is, to my layman understanding, a well enough established principle that an article like this without some indication of widespread shift in expert opinion isn't going to change my view of it.
It’s funny, Python is probably the only language whose canonical “hello world” code had to change during the language’s lifetime.
>why not open source Spanner [or] BigTable?

Because it's genuinely difficult to open source things like that. They're way too tied to Google and have many closed-source dependencies on internal libraries and services. I think they regret missing the opportunity on some of these and that may reflect why Google has started open sourcing more 'core' things like gRPC and Bazel - it might make it easier.
I guess it's like watching paint dry in 100 sec.
I don’t get what you mean by 1D spaces but you could triangulate into tetrahedra and sample those[1] (taking their volume into account). You will write a lot of code and still have the triangulation approximation error.
For high dimensional spheres you can possibly subdivide the space in hyper cubes and do the in/out approach inside each cube that contains a part of the sphere to get a better hit miss ratio.

[1] http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/jgt/tetra.htm
Do you have raynaud's because that sounds exactly like it and my girlfriend says the airflow is definitely a big part of the problem (also stress).

If so, then I would talk to your coworkers to see if you can get switched to a better desk location for your medical condition.
He has spent time in jail. He seems like a hero to me.
What is `<esc>kF-aa<enter>`?
> People do not report their favorite sports team losing a game will be more impactful than their favorite sports team winning a game.

For fans of winning teams (Warriors, Patriots, etc.) I'm not sure if this is true. They're expected to win, so watching them win can feel like nervous relief or ambivalence but watching them lose can feel like disappointment.

I think we see loss aversion in soccer too where teams will often play "not to lose" and "park the bus" rather than risk pushing forward and trying to win the game but being vulnerable to counter attacks.

In video games however most seem to favor aggressive styles of play and loss aversion is likely an instant loss.

I'm sure as with most social behavior loss aversion varies and depends on a complex set of conditions. I'm sure in some contexts it's certainly at play though.
That tweet came this week. What-If is atleast 3 years old. There is a book published by Randall too.
Nearly every human being on Earth (exceptions being people with certain health conditions) is capable of being perfectly comfortable at 78 degrees, they just have to adjust to it. My comment isn't directed at someone who is saying "I'm used to being colder than 78 degrees and that seems a little hot to me". My comment is directed at the people who act like a room being 78 degrees is a war crime and, as originally quoted, "kills old people". That kind of perspective is narrow-minded and dismisses the billions of humans who don't live spoiled lives inside 65 degree buildings every day (I say this as someone who prefers my apartment to be an icy 68 degrees).
Wow this is the best TechCrunch article I have seen in a while that has reached the front page! Dude whoever wrote this deserves a big ass raise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg&feature=share
related
Do I care if "people were terribly uncomfortable at ambient temperatures due to their physiology before AC was invented?"... No, No I do not.

We have AC now, lets use it

I do not have the desire to Sweat all day every day in my office while I am attempting to use a computer or do my work

I do not have the desire to have my body be cooled by "natural airflow causing evaporative cooling" caused by my profuse uncomfortable and unsightly sweating over everything

I do not have the this desire, what I have a desire for is Air Conditioning, a modern convenience that human invented so we would no longer need to use "natural airflow causing evaporative cooling"
If you want people to read something providing a link and proper context is a good start. It’s obvious that you have familiarity because you’re posting about it.
If by 'sacrificing' you mean voluntarily letting go of some materal assets, then not for a long, long time, and probably never.

In the older, darker, and more fundamental sense of the word, I shudder to think that the way irrationality is growing, probably soon.
When Manhattan or Miami get hit by two mega storms back to back in consecutive years. When the damage is such that we can’t rebuild fast enough then it will be a wake up call.
Seconding the in-editor approach. Magit is wonderful (though I often do end up heading to the command-line for certain things out of habit).
I lived in a cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska with no indoor plumbing and an outhouse. My wife is from Siberia and her house didn't have plumbing until the 90's. Going to the outhouse at 50 below in the middle of the night wasn't terribly uncomfortable, because I put on a jacket and gloves. A bit inconvenient, but not terrible.

Neither me or my wife feel like that lifestyle "sucked hard", although it certainly had challenges. Now we have a nice house in an affluent suburb and have plenty of luxuries, yet this lifestyle also has its challenges. Whether or not it sucks seems largely a matter of mindset and perspective.
That is horrible. Also why I will likely never pay out of my own pocket for their services.
Some vps services block 25 as well but it is usually configurable. The monthly cost of a vps is a few coffees and you get much more robust hardware and environmental conditions for your server and much better management tools. I did the home server thing well over a decade ago with a commodity pc sitting on a small ups. The main concern was leaving it running unattended when away from the house for any time. Especially during summer heatwaves. I found it wasn't a sustainable solution if you do any amount of travelling away from home.
Economics as a pseudo science of emphatic statements about human behaviour is looking pretty tragic.
Always remember, with Google, you're not the customer, you're the product. As such, you have no power to demand anything.
Almost everything in your home, down to your throwaway plastic bags and disposable napkins, has massive supply chains that led to their production.
I wonder if there's some game theory at play where people know it's happening but if you can get by sacrificing the least while the majority sacrifices just enough to fight it then you've successfully optimized for minimal effort in a victory condition.

I know misinformation is a driving factor for non-believers but I still get stumped why people who believe in climate change are not always environmentally friendly.
It is even worse when the office is set to 75 because some people continually complain "its too cold" and you have a dress code of Long Pants, Collared Button down shirt, etc....

Like fucking roasting all day...
I’m usually a cold lover, but this summer I’ve had to suck it up. I’ve been working in London, UK in an office where it’s usually above 25c (no proper AC and south facing windows) and my apartment is often the same temperature when I go to sleep (one night it was 29c/84F).

A few observations I’ve made:

- Even when it’s this temperature, a fan blowing air over you really helps to increase comfort. Too much airflow is also uncomfortable (messes with the NC on my headphones), and most desk fans are too powerful even on their lowest settings.

- I’ve started eating less which seems to reduce my metabolism causing the heat to effect me less. It’s a trade-off as if I eat too little I can’t work as effectively, but there’s a local optimum vs being too uncomfortable from the heat.

- Shorts and t-shirt everyday. Even then I’m still sweating for the next hour if I do anything strenuous outside.

- People who are always cold don’t seem to understand the discomfort people experience from heat. In my home country in the depths of winter it often gets to 15c/60F or less in old buildings. I’d much rather that with lots of layers and hot drinks, than be too hot. Maybe they feel the same about the heat though, can anyone comfortably work in an office environment that is 35c/95F?
I tried to sign up but couldn't get past the street sign captcha. I tried three times... Google is making it hard these days.
Connect MySQL with Python
This article is essentially a press release for the author's own paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1047

Which itself is a part of a series of articles in JCP debating the issue: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1054

The definitive statement made by this article's headline isn't really supported by the evidence presented in the papers. Rather, the state of affairs seems to be that "loss aversion" has been the victim of incessant overgeneralisation. It's a very simple hypothesis about human behaviour that plays nicely into a lot of interesting (and therefore publishable) narratives. This has lead people to blindly accept the general hypothesis of loss aversion without enough critical investigation of its manifestation. The authors don't really refute "loss aversion" (i.e. they don't present an alternative theory to explain the papers that purport to demonstrate "loss aversion"), but rather they refute the pop-psychology belief that it's a general principle of human behaviour.
Hmm...

So here is an interesting thought experiment. Suppose you take a person with some appreciable intelligence (at least average) but no particular knowledge about a certain topic. In this instance, we'll let that topic be psycology.

Now we present this person with an unfortunate dilemma. For a particular hypothesis, they observe a significant amount of peer reviewed literature asserting empirical evidence in the affirmative. They don't have any real familiarity with any individual papers, but they can understand that there's an established consensus.

On the other hand they are given an article like this one, which mounts a critical refutation of all the established literature. Furthermore, this lone paper is presented to our stalwart examiner amidst the zeitgeist of a reproducibility crisis. Thus we have a mountain of peer reviewed but undigestible evidence on one side, and one readily digestible paper on the other which specifically rebuts the mountain of evidence.

The fundamental dilemma is this: how should this person examine the available evidence to maximize their chances of coming to the correct conclusion? Should they abstain from trying to discern the truth of the matter, and strike out any opinion they could have as unqualified? Should they read through the most comprehensive surveys of available evidence to come to a full understanding? Should they take the new, contrarian paper at face value?

There are a few dimensions here which (from my view) make the dilemma nearly intractable unless you 1) abstain from an opinion, or 2) become a subject matter expert. The cloud of the reproducibility crisis is a first dimension of uncertainty - not only does that muddy the waters for existig research, but we also have to be careful not take contradictory research at face value simply because it's contrarian. For another, we have to figure out how to weight the reliability of evidence against our own time. It's tempting to discount the evidence of existing research if an especially compelling critique is released, because we can more easily read it and follow its arguments.

It seems like this is enormously difficulty all around. How do we rate the critical correctness of differing amounts of conflicting literature published under academic uncertainty?