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Every month, I drop all of my Google files into my OneDrive using "Google takeout". I don't have to use my own bandwidth, just select all of the data I want (everything), choose to have it sent into my OneDrive, then once it's done (takes a few hours) I delete older backups if I need space (with 1TB of OneDrive space, I can hold about 20 of these Google data backups). That way I ensure I always have an almost-up-to-date backup of all of my Google data that I can use to re-start all of my accounts on another provider, if needed.
> it has been proven that asbestos fibers are directly responsible for the creation of cancerous mesothelioma cells.

This is also a claim you simply cannot make.

Every chemical has a toxicity level. A single x-ray could give you lung cancer if you're unlucky. Just because there's a claim floating around that a single fiber could cause cancer is meaningless. Was this in a test tube or a lab environment?

Every day, millions of your own body cells are developing cancer because the DNA is being misreplicated during mitosis.
But you have structures in your body that fight against this cancer and destroy those cells. You're saying, without any evidence, that your body can't fight a few microscopic fibers? Remember, any number of x-rays, including dental x-rays, could also cause cancer but you don't see people banning x-rays.
Visually nice but at least in the given example comparison lots of wrong data.

... apart from comments by someone who hasn't used either Apache or nginx for a serious project.
The best possible result of all the current furor would be a critical examination of voting machines that was actually visible to the general public. Anyone who cares already knows that there are major problems. The general public seems distracted from the issue.
(Where) do smartphones fit in the impact spectrum?
Ah, yes, cogsci studies, the ultimate source of truth.
You forget the other benefit, that incarcerating people makes the non-incarcerated feel better. People like to see other people locked away. It makes them feel safer. That feeling results in votes, votes for the people doing the locking up. It is unfair to blame the police or the courts, or even the legislatures. Blame all those voters who call for "tougher" laws.

Want to really reduce prison populations? Take a hard look at the drug and sex offender laws. That might mean not locking up the meth dealer or rapist, but that is what reducing the prison population means: living with the knowledge that such people will not be entombed far away. That fear is the real issue underpinning the problem.
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thank you for pointing this out. it should get more attention here.

for the last forty or more years, the biggest pressure against the use of asbestos has been lawsuits, not government regulation.

many, many US companies were forced into bankruptcy by class action asbestos lawsuits which attached huge liabilities to them, even though their use of asbestos may have been quite limited.

the asbestos lawsuit proliferation was such a strain on US industrial businesses that, in the early 2000's, the Senate almost created a huge asbestos trust fund, administered by the government, funded by these companies (and probably also government) to offload the liability from companies so that they could avoid bankruptcy and continue doing business, employing people, etc. (the legislation never passed).

bottom line: companies would want more than just EPA approval to start cranking out loads of new asbestos products. EPA approval does little to protect them against these expensive lawsuits. what they would need is a rock-solid lawsuit shield.
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I think this is a great summary of where we are at now, but I think stronger broad-coverage language models (=expectations for what people say, better generative models of speakers) are feasible (for a couple 10s-100s of millions in R&D) to bring ASR up to parity with people. It's pretty clear we are getting close to the limits of what acoustics can offer, and it's the language model that is the next frontier both in terms of accuracy and real-time performance.
It is impossible for fines ($ or €) to be lower than market share (% or number of users).

Also, what you probably meant is still not possible: As Instapaper was free under Pinterest, market share was connected to $0 of revenue. So any fine would be greater than the revenue of the app's European customers.
> If asbestos is enclosed, what's the point in using it? Why not just build the entire object using the material that enclosed the asbestos?

Asbestos is carcinogenic because it's extremely fibrous. By enclosing asbestos you mitigate its deleterious effects on human lungs. However, you do not remove its insulation properties, which may not be shared by whatever is physically enclosing it.

Simply put: all you need to prevent fibrous material from entering the lungs is a physical barrier. But a physical barrier is insufficient to provide insulation. Sandwiched asbestos provides insulation that the enclosure material cannot provide on its own.
I have no experience with Dart, other than having watched a livestream of Notch recreating Doom with Dart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-Z6TXoN10
In this case, you could loosely say that foreclosure was a direct result of the software bug. Suicide would be an indirect result. Where if a bridge were to collapse, then death would be a direct result.
You're talking about dumb phones, I suppose. I don't care, this market is diminishing every year and will be a completely niche market soon. It's bullshit to spend tax money on regulating a market that will almost cease to exist soon. The charger waste largely comes from old phones made pre-2010, as new dumb phones mostly have USB, but more importantly, are not sold at all.

I'm talking about PDAs (ancestors of smartphones) and smartphones as these matter - as was already clear around 2008, and it was clear since at least 2006 that USB is the way to go and the market has been following it.

If we spent the same amount of money we would spent on this regulation on cleaning the environment directly, we would get a much better result.
It's not. The bulk of charger waste comes from old phones. New dumb phones a) mostly have USB and, more importantly, b) are not sold at all - the market has became completely insignificant.

We would spend a lot of tax money on this regulation, and the money would be spent to regulate a market that barely exist anymore and will not exist almost completely soon. If we used the same amount of money to clean air or sea directly, we would get much better result.

Additionally, charger waste is not that big problem according to our national recycling agency and their experts. These products can be and are recycled. There are much bigger issues we should be looking at that are ignored or not given enough attention.
I had a look into it while Instapaper was down and couldn't find any send-to-Kindle feature - do you know where that's mentioned at all?
OEMs have phased out asbestos, but there's a serious risk posed by aftermarket pads, shoes and linings. Because asbestos brake parts are legal, there's nothing stopping a parts distributor from shipping in a bunch of cheap Chinese parts made with asbestos. If you operate on the assumption that modern braking systems are all asbestos free, there's a greater risk of accidental exposure if you do encounter asbestos. In many cases, there's no visible difference.
Conversely, this attitude is why I believe that humanity won’t make it.

Not be be all nihilistic or anything, but ultimately humanity won't "make it" and we know this. Barring some seriously sci-fi level developments, one or the other of two things is going to wipe out humanity:

1. The collapse of the sun (if we're still a single planet species when it happens)

2. The heat-death of the universe.

Unless we come up with some "Fringe* like technology, or repudiate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, human life has a fixed shelf-life.

Of course that doesn't mean we should stop trying to fix problems in the short-term. Even though death (both at the individual level and the species level) appears inevitable, we don't have to embrace nihilism. One can choose to find meaning wherever / however they want. As the old saying goes "the meaning of life, is a life of meaning".
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IMO, even if gerrymandering doesn't have a huge effect on seating in Congress (perhaps it has more effect on state level politics? I didn't read the other commenter's link so I won't make any claims) it makes a lot of districts non-competitive. The effects of this are hard to quantify and so we don't hear as much about it, but I argue that they are at least as profound as the numerical differences in congress on our national dialogue.
> Why bother with the extra security overhead for a simple blog

Even if it was a completely static site, I would still argue for HTTPS. It prevents ISPs from injecting tracking scripts or ads into the site.
> Also, after reading the vice article[1] in question, I felt its largely supportive of Naomi.

VICE's approval is irrelevant, and not a gift. You would hope, as journalists, that they would give an honest evaluation of her as they see her.

They're not obligated to like her, if the piece were negative it wouldn't reflect on their integrity. What reflects on their integrity is their defiant endangering of her after having been warned about the conditions under which she would do an interview. She didn't want to respond to gamergate-reddit's allegations about her, because they included personal information that she felt endangered her, completely consist of an allegation that would make her look like a danger to the PRC, and were totally irrelevant to her work unless you assumed them to be true.

It's like saying that I can't complain about an article profiling the work I've done dedicating a paragraph or two to a subreddit that accuses me of child molestation, as long as the article maintains that there's no evidence that I've molested a child, and that the people posting about it on reddit are terrible people.

Or imagine that some health care or second amendment activist were married to a Russian national (but didn't spread that information around), and there was a subreddit that trafficked in rumors that her husband was her KGB handler.
Humor on HN? Is this allowed?

Upvote deserved.
Case-by-case could be an industry wide standard with Operations & Maintenance requirements, which is what we currently have in real estate surrounding existing asbestos and lead applications. A similar protocol surrounding implementation of new "safe" installations of asbestos-containing-materials could be developed.
It'll be interesting to see how clear-cut this is. Do the rules actually require the socket, or do they say that if the socket is present it needs to be a certain type.

(Even in the former case, there'd be a much stronger "stifling innovation" case if you're proposing a fully-wireless device rather than just a slightly thinner incompatible socket).
In my opinion you should still have complete control over your health data. I'd rather propose that everyone is responsible to get all diagnostic data on their own health, especially if they plan to procreate. I dream of a world were it becomes common practice to do DNA screening before getting children.
I think that we aren't exactly in a Golden Era, mostly due to a strong perception of middle class economic stagnation. This is regardless of the fact that material conditions around the world are improving very quickly. I think the victimization infatuation is just one of the symptoms of economic anxiety. The "Elephant Curve" (ref. enlightenment now, or googlable) has more explanatory power for middle class economic stagnation than anything else. If you are rich, things are great. If you are first world middle class, the amount of economic stagnation you've seen over the last decade or so probably provides a lot of anxiety. If you are living in a third world country, things are booming. This boom is fueled by geographic arbitrage of wages that in turn leads to the economic stagnation of the first world middle class. These middle class folks are paying a not-too-terrible price to pay in order to raise billions of people from extreme poverty. In net, it's an extremely good thing.

But for the middle class at large, a lot of self-percieved human happiness is determined by the hedonic treadmill. If things aren't showing constantly material improvement, the feel like they are gettting worse, because humans are insatiable without progress. At an individual level, mindfulness and stoicism can help you get off the hedonic treadmill. At a societal level, the zeitgeist will become very anxious when this stagnation occurs, and if you let this zeitgeist infect you, you risk becoming cynical, depressed, and developing a victim mentality.
The skills (usually) must follow a specific syntax involving the word "ask". So, for example, if you're using the Domino's skill to buy pizza, you say something like "Alexa, open [pizza brand] and place my Easy Order", or "Alexa, ask [pizza brand] to track my order." which are significantly more unwieldy (and more importantly, hard to remember) than "Alexa, order a pizza."

I frequently have to chain several, distinct "Alexa" commands together to achieve my desired end state. For example, if I want to turn on all the lights in my house, set their brightnesses to 100%, and set their colors to soft white, I have to send that as three distinct commands. Being able to create a shortcut, such as "Alexa, Lumos" or whatever would save roughly 30 seconds per instance.

Edit: I forgot to mention that some larger skills are exempt from this, once Amazon has added additional integrations. For example, for my thermostat, I can say "Alexa, set the AC to 78" rather than "Alexa, ask [brand] to set the temperature to 78". I still haven't discovered the special syntax to set the AC to Away mode yet.
Not only that, but (according to a former senior adviser, who I got to know in the 90s) he was very close to supporting something like national minimum income. To replace welfare. As I recall, it used the income tax system. Below some minimum income, the tax rate became negative, increasingly so as income dropped.
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Costco is a wholesale market, not a supermarket. Not really a fresh food destination.
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HN is a weird place. People are queuing up to beat on GDP but everybody seems happy that market cap actually means something worth comparing.

Pension investment pools aside, the world would more easily weather the immediate passing of Apple than Amazon or WMT.

They're all made up numbers, Jim. Comparing them just amplifies the stupid.
> I have full faith life on Earth will eventually restore the feedback loops and get the temperatures back in the sweet spot.

Venusians thought that and look at where they are now.
Even here in rural Devon in England, nothing running in our libraries is particularly old, and there's nothing truly "ancient" left at all.
The factors in the data aren't just your voice but recording environment and microphone, and a recognition "engine" is really a combination of model architecture (sometimes separate acoustic and language models), training data, hyperparameters, and preprocessing. So the reason you don't see these is that there is an enormous hypothesis space, with only small regions that are performant.
How long does it take for symptoms of asbestos to show up? I grew up in a 100 year old house where it probably had very old insulation and such... we did all kind of house maintenance and now I'm terrified something in there had it. I have lived in fairly modern apartments the last 15 years so I'm hoping I'm OK?
Since there's so much competition in this area, hopefully this means Apple and Google will start to make this style of development a native part of their APIs and IDEs.
I use AdAway on my phone to blackhole ads and trackers. I've seen some weird behavior in certain apps I assume is due to it but I've never had any app not work.

Same thing on laptop. I use a combination of blackholed DNS, a firewall, and uBlock Origin in the browser. Some sites won't work due to poor error handling which is their loss. I've never had a native app not work.
As far as I know asbestos was often mixed with cement for insulating properties. And in this case was often deemed unharmful.

Maybe it'll find uses in locations that use cement that requires thermal insulation but isn't exposed to humans.
oh man, they were legendary for their use of the stuff. The negative association with Asbestos eventaully cost the owner his company in 1998. Raymark filed for Chapter 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raybestos#Superfund_site_clean...
In some countries like the UK there are modern banks with APIs like Monzo or Starling Bank.
I'm sorry, but unless you produce a proof of hypercomputation with models that have unbounded determinism, you're a crank.
"Customers also bought..."

"You might also like..."

"Customers who did not buy this bought .... instead"
Yes, that’s what I meant. And “sometimes” I go to bars, too. Just not very often. It’s not even about poverty, it’s about not being stupid. For the same reason I have a coffee machine at home. Paid $800 (+$200 for 2 burr grinders) once, saved thousands by now, and my coffee is better.
Software ad blockers don't block in-app ads. And I'm open to suggestions of how to use an ad blocker to keep my Nest thermostat from pinging Google's servers four times a second. Using Pi-Hole, it was a matter of, "WTF is that thermostat doing? <click "add to blacklist">. sigh, I'll deal with it later." [0]

[0] Yes, there are at least a half dozen ways to deal with this w/o Pi-Hole. But Pi-Hole: 1. brought it to my attention and 2. offered a (at least temporary) solution with the click of a mouse.
Plain text websites load just fine with HTTPS/TLS via very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) ISPs. This is based on my experience with 1024k/256k Hughes service in rural US.
This seems like it could be incredibly valuable.
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I believe that Google is now pushing Dart only for mobile development, and that the server-side Dart is dead on the vine.

I could be wrong, but that's the impression I got.
My guess is that because the accent was put on serial computations. I may be wrong but for for me the big selling point of a(n ideal) lisp machine is that if made right you could cut the machine in half and get two lisp machines. Conversely, two lisp machines working together are a bigger lisp machine, while two Turing machines working together are not a Turing machine.
Maybe now is the time for these machines, or better machine parts randomly assembled by the big blind watchmaker [0] over the web.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Watchmaker
> The other is an interesting quality-of-life change for Flutter developers, which allows creating an instance of a class without the “new” keyword. The goal of this change is to make Flutter code more readable, less clunky, and easier to type

Wait, not typing new accomplishes all those amazing things? Here i thought it was just three letters, which showed intent - hence easier to grok the surrounding code
Very comparable with node.
Ohio has 88 counties, Michigan has 83, etc. You know which ones to target in advance? You can't just bribe the Secretary of State or something, you need to infiltrate at a county level and modify the original results or it will be trivial to find out something went wrong.
>I think it's time we accept that most people are sheep that give in to even the most primitive forms of manipulation, even after being made aware of it.

So what? That doesn't mean that the campaigns don't work. There has been a decent number of people changing their lives for the better. The fact that there is a tremendous amount of variation on cultural and education levels in the States simply means that certain areas might lag behind in changes. That doesn't mean the changes won't eventually happen.
We don't even have 20 years' worth of data. As far as historical data, nothing at all.

"In 1999, to combat this lack of data, an innovative step was taken by scientists to greatly improve the collection of observations inside the ocean through increased sampling of old and new quantities and increased coverage in terms of time and area.

That step was Argo. "
No, I don't realize. And neither should you, because you honestly cannot. It runs closed-source software and communicates with servers out of your control. Unless you are an engineer who works for Amazon directly in the smart-gadget department there is no way you could positively know with certainty.

Amazon isn't providing these devices out of the kindness of their hearts. They are a for-profit enterprise, they do not care about making your life "easier" -- they want your money. They do not give a damn about anything else, and I do not believe that it's overly-paranoid to say that if you think otherwise then you're fooling yourself. It has been proven time and time again that if a thing can be abused by others for their own gain then they will be, almost without fail. Be it the government, a company, an individual, whatever.

Amazon has already done the hard work by getting the device into your home (which you paid them to do. and walked it into your own front door yourself). It's a marketers wet dream, and we all know -- or, at least we should know by now -- how sleazy marketing is. Do you really trust them to not use that always-on microphone? Do you actually trust that they are deleting any "non-relevant" data, or even keeping the 'relevant" data safe and out of the hands of others? I do not. You shouldn't either.

It has always baffled me the things people are willing to be duped out of under such a simple guise as "convenience". I've never been able to wrap my head around it. And I refuse to buy into the defeatist attitude of "privacy is an illusion" -- that's a load of crap.
I sometimes wonder who came up with the idea for Caps Lock anyway. I cannot remember ever using that key except by accident.
Please produce a proof regarding how this makes the Actor Model more powerful than the traditional Turing Machines. I suspect you're a crank.
Yes: the "loophole" you're referring to is no such thing. It's language directly aimed at enabling felons (white, black, or otherwise) to be put to useful work. That's what everyone, everywhere, was doing at the time the law was drafted.

Imagine if Britain had been the one drafting the 13th amendment, at the same point in history. Removing this language would have meant giving up on the penal labor colony known as Australia. America was—not as famously—doing exactly the same thing.
PSD2 is bullshit.

We technically have it in the UK already. The problem is that it requires a bunch of certifications (equivalent of PCI-DSS) to get access, so while you can get big companies can get access, you still can't get a personal access token for your own account.
Server side is not dead, just dont expect them to make a Ruby on Rails kind of framework.