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> It was amazing to see the AI learn to take advantage of winter conditions and produce colder than normal water, which reduces the energy required for cooling within the data centre.

Sorry, what? It must be more complex than that. That's something a basic multi-linear optimizer could have accomplished.
Try `PYTHON -m MODULE` as in `python3 -m pip` if you want to make sure to use python3's pip, `python2 -m pip` for python2, `~/bin/python -m pip` for a personal python install, etc.
I honestly don't remember anyone saying Musk/Tesla invented electric car, this is quite obviously a point argued by zero people.

Sure there was that Toyota with NiMH batteries. How many of them were sold for enirety of its production run.. 2000? 4000? With Toyota resources and vast marketing force?

My friend had a 1990 VW Golf electric smallseries with lead batteries. It was also fun to ride.. as an experience. Like a hot air balloon ride. But not a very practical everyday car. It was also so obscure it has no own Wikipedia page.

Tesla took the EV business from the dumpster and made it mainstream.
Is this the beginning of the end for x86?
Will the new CPUs implement DRTM (dynamic root of trust, similar to Intel TXT) for Windows 10 SystemGuard? This appears to be planned for Qualcomm Arm CPUs that support Windows 10 and x86 emulation.

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/04/19/...

> "Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, which is built into the core Windows operating system, will soon be delivered in all editions of Windows. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, like Credential Guard, takes advantage of the same hardware-rooted security technologies in virtualization-based security (VBS) to mitigate attacks in software."
You might want to take a look at [lnav](https://lnav.org), a sort of mini-ETL CLI powertool. Performance is fine up to a few million rows.

Edit: of course this comment (like many others below) pertains to tooling vs a particular project per se. FWIW I agree w/ others' sentiment about doing things "by hand" and working with data that holds your interest.
The climate change spin annoys me. Not because the research effort isn’t valuable. Not because these energy optimizations are unimportant. But because Google is generally a bad actor, with deleterious side effects on people, and this just distracts from that. Unfortunately, there is no time to celebrate doing incremental good when your company’s first order characteristics are, like Google’s, severely harmful and manipulative.
Rmmm does the math and DESTROYS headlines - Publishers hate him.
Abbreviating as lst is just bad. You saved one character. And now people have to guess whether you meant list, last, localString, or first.
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I don't know why this popped up on the front page of HN today, but for anyone who enjoys the history of audio recordings, I highly recommend checking out UCSB's cylinder preservation and digitization project:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
It is concerning to me how many people are deploying these techniques without first understanding the principles and limitations of multivariate regression and time series analysis.

I'm not sure why people are diving into modern techniques without knowing how to properly specify a simple (but powerful) regression model.
>That reluctance is a serious flaw in a general.

Agreed. But regarding your other point, it was actually the official position of the federal government (Union) that the South was still a part of the union, and that the confederate government was illegitimate and in rebellion. So, still fellow countrymen. And I imagine he still admired Lee greatly, many did.
I doubt it. But competition is sorely needed.
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The difference is that Facebook is not, and has never been, a common carrier. They are not obligated by law to serve the public.

Secondly, telephones, unlike Facebook, are designed primarily for person-to-person, not group communication. Communication dynamics are very different between the two models.
Hey, first off thanks! :)

1a) because faster was only one aspect, it also needed to be easier, even more pressingly that in fact.
1b) see answer by other poster (thanks!)
2) Not whitespace sensitive, no way to enter wrong types through syntax mistakes, hardly any learning curve for users because there is so little syntax to memorize, fully localized, hand written parser and validation errors (provided on the library side) ... and so on, check out the website for more, it's all there! ;) Thanks!
> Why do people assume China will be OK with Google notifying users results are censored?

That's what Bing does, and China seems to be OK with it. It's also what WeChat does when an article published on their platform is censored. (Censored chat messages disappear without a trace, though.)

Of course the rules could change at any moment, but it currently doesn't seem like the government cares very much about people knowing that everything is censored.
Fossil's fantastic. The next release includes (in addition to their extant version-controlled tickets, wiki, and blog) discussion forums. https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/forum.wi...
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The community talks explicitly about the value of being welcoming to newbies. I've drifted away but I suspect that they still live up to that value.
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> Liberalism and the word liberty in and of itself no longer means anything concrete

It means a lot to those who can understand the liberalism is the underpinning ideology of the west post enlightenment. All you have to do is understand russia and china's rejections of liberalism to understand that liberalism isn't just some buzz word that pops up randomly on left/right politics.

> I've disabused myself of the schpiel that is the concept of liberty. It means nothing today because is has been abused as a concept.

I mean I can help you understand liberty. Consider before the enlightenment we operated under a system of formal monarchism, where everything within the borders of the state were owned by the king who got his authority from the divine.

A liberal government does the complete opposite, it's authority in leadership comes from the people which are assumed to be independent sovereign agents.

The contrast between these two systems and the role of liberty should be obvious to most. While a formalized system of monarchy doesn't really exist today, countries like China don't fit into the liberal government category either.

> I like to think of it now as simply more state intervention vs less state intervention.

As a reformed Anarcho-Capitalist, I find such a view to be incredibly limiting. What about if the government classified social media companies as utilities?

It would be a large increase in government intervention, but those like Alex Jones and his supporters would see that as a huge gain in liberty while some on the other side would say their liberty is being violated by the existence of people like him on these websites.

What you could say contrasts the two takes is that one is valuing freedom from, and the other freedom to.
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> Good outcome for both fields.

Well that is what agriculture is all about.
Ah, then you'd probably want https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-SF/

They seem to have a meetup oxt Thursday.
Hey Zabana!

I noticed you were in the Europe area. We are looking for developers with interest in going into the field.

We produce a data pipeling/analytics platform for complex data to our customers.

If you would like to know more about our company! Position is in Stockholm.
https://gist.github.com/eleijonmarck/1b384480aaa3d22ab7e6ea0...
Whenever someone goes off the deep end making statements about how AI is going to take over the world and become an existential threat, one of the key things I point to is the lack of AI integration with control systems - those that regulate physical systems with digital systems (SCADA or otherwise).

This effort, while seemingly benign, seems to be making my argument more difficult to make - and I actually think this is a major step. They threw the Human Override in there at the end as a hedge, but the writing is on the wall.

I am a huge advocate for AI running the world, and don't fall into the AI fear mongering camp, but as someone who has been building and implementing ML systems for the past few years and working on AI problems for about a decade now, I don't have a ton of confidence in our ML systems to be able to autonomously control physical systems just yet.

And just to reiterate, DeepMind is explicitly trying to create General Artificial Intelligence.
>The lender is not guaranteed to be paid their principal back.

This may apply for personal loans, where real money is given up; but, it's not really correct to call a bank, the originators of most private student loans, as far as I know, a 'lender'; as, banks don't lend their own money, but create new money through promissory notes.
A couple thoughts:

Cultural relativism is amoral. It isn’t about good/evil, it’s about local norms. What is normal one place may not be normal elsewhere, from the national level down to the family level.

When paired with fatigue over the US’ complicated, open-ended interventions at home and abroad, you will often hear people provide a moralized version of cultural relativism as a reason not to engage. The real reason, obviously, is that these people no longer believe intervention will be effective and could even be damaging. In that framework, it’s understandable to have a “hey, it’s their house, they can do what they like” response.

I say all this as someone who believes it absolutely is the responsibility of liberated people to liberate others, while also recognizing how challenging it can be to achieve that goal on any large scale.

In conversations like these, I think it can be helpful to consider the context in which people arrive at their conclusions rather than casting ideas you disagree with as a “spreading sickness.” By that metaphor, we ought to focus on the cause of the disease, not the weakness of the ill.
Bringing to mind guys like:

Hannibal - amazing general from Carthage who beat Romans early on, mentioned in the article

Vercingetorix - beat Roman legions and used scorched Earth policy until Caesar’s sheer numbers overwhelmed him

Spartacus - beat Roman legions using slave armies that he trained himself!!

This is JUST the Roman empire. Napoleon the greatest general?

Sparta - Held off an insane number of Persians with 300 men, though a lot could have been a legend

Hey, so if Montezuma and the Aztecs were beaten by 20 guys with superior weaponry this guy would conclude just by the numbers that they were even greater.

Actually if this guy’s math took into account wins where the battle didn’t take place, Temujin (Genghis Khan) would probably be #1 as he built a larger empire than Alexander and many cities fell with ZERO battles due to his similar policies of sparing cities who didn’t fight, but utterly destroying cities that did.
I'm expecting first comments in spirit "without Windows it's dead on arrival."

To them¸ I tell that dozens of makers of ARM laptops in China could not be wrong manufacturing a product at huge profit for over a decade (yes, the netbook wave has ceased much in the Western world, but the need for cheap, near disposable machine that can send email and read simple websites is still around)

Cheap laptops made on prehistoric Via Wondermedia chips are made by tons and are flooding places like Africa and India https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product...
>> History always tells you as much about its author as it does about its subject.

I know it has been popular, but that is a dangerous line of thinking these days. It is totally fair to say that an analysis of a complex historical event will be tainted by the views of the author(s). But such pieces aren't all history. It is possible to generate bias-free history pieces. For instance, we shouldn't say that every analysis of tree rings or ice cores is bias. That makes it too easy to dismiss a valid representation historical data.

People who see bias everywhere aren't satisfied until they personally test the ice cores. They feel free to deny climate science because everyone with eyes on the cores is biased and untrustworthy. They also see bias in every record of a historical event, again proclaiming them untrustworthy. Since they didn't witness the event and all records are biased, the event either didn't happen or is permanently beyond any accurate understanding. As with ice cores, such people feel free to substitute their own version of history.

It is dangerous to see bias everywhere. Doing so allows us to selectively dismiss anything and everything. We have to agree that there is such a thing as historical truth. To do otherwise is to deny history and all the lessons it has to teach.
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`git gc` will garbage collect what is not referenced by a ref anymore, including arbitrary references. So it's fine !

As each bug reference the file blob needed, once your delete a bug, `git gc` will clean these blob as well.
Nope, the two are not even remotely comparable.
This is a nice idea, let me ask you a question:

One of the more interesting projects now a days is ForgeFed (https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed) which would allow for projects to use ActivityPub for pull requests, forking, etc.

This is important because so much of the value add of Github isn't in the git hosting (which one can do with Gitea or Gitlab) but in the collaboration.

This is also important because many Github extensions work through their API to glue functionality such as test suites and linting through monitoring a PR.

So where might your project fit in there?
Would be nice if there was a tracker done in all shell, or just plain text, so that we don't need to rely on go, or another program.

Maybe it could work to develop a core protocol and data structures that are usable by others, with your own go implementation to work with those structures and protocol.
You don't even need a proxy--just open up your dev tools and watch the network.

1. It does use HTTPS. It'd be insane if it didn't.

2. Individual strings from the page get sent to the translate API:

https://i.imgur.com/2nAlbp4.png
I found myself constantly copy-pasting the same utilities to make `history`, `react-router` and `qs` all talk to each other so that I could store state in the url (something I think not enough web apps do); so finally took the time to put a few of them into a library. Really these are just the basics but it would be good to get any feedback on what kinds of things people thing would be useful in a library like this
It is hard to apply terms like "liberal" and "conservative" to ancient societies, and I don't get at all how the Roman Empire cold be considered "extremely liberal". It was thoroughly militarized dictatorship and patriarchal slave society. The ritual you describe sounds like something from a TV-show, but anyway religious rituals are not "liberal". The emperor was also the high priest and religious rituals was considered necessary to preserve the state.

The Roman way of thinking was also fundamentally conservative in that they though everything had been better in the olden times.
Interesting that the project codename is “Honey Badger.” To me that connotes not caring less — you might remember this YouTube viral video from a few years ago:

https://youtu.be/4r7wHMg5Yjg
With 30k github stars and all those (automatic) integrations, including the backing databases you mentioned, it doesn't seem that niche.
Looks like it exposes a GraphQL API - should be able to pull all the data you need out of it. Sounds like an excellent contribution opportunity :)
I wonder if they (ok, maybe not them, they're ip only) will deliver the 7nm / 5nm processes
> Would we rather that Musk had just never founded Tesla and SpaceX, that the world didn't have any companies doing what those companies are trying to do, and that we were left to be content with the previous status quo in the automotive and space industries?

People have a serious messiah complex when it comes to Musk. Had he never been born, the automotive industry would still be moving towards electric cars. The first Prius predates Tesla by six years, and hybrid cars have done far more than Tesla has to push the industry in the direction of electric vehicles.

SpaceX has done far more than Tesla to push the rocket industry towards reusable launch systems but even then, had SpaceX never existed another company would have developed one within 5-10 years anyways.
1) Oil was pretty expensive since 2005. 2) Everyone could capitalize on that. 3) Existing big car companies could finance R&D themselves. 4) According to Wikipedia, incentives started around 2011, way after Tesla was funded and probably before other car manufacturers started moving.

The fact remains that none of the existing car manufacturers decided to even try to compete with Tesla until it was painfully obvious that Tesla's going to "make it" (i.e. Model S) and that consumers love their electric cars.

That happened about 5 or so years ago. Not 10 years ago. Not 15 years ago. It happened because of Tesla/Musk, and would likely be very much delayed if it wasn't for him.

They had a chance to improve technology, satisfy consumer demand (Apple showed a decade ago that consumers don't know what they want) and help save the planet, but they didn't. Shame on them.

Edit: I don't want to be argumentative, I think we mostly agree. I'm just saying that the rest of the companies all missed a huge market opportunity, same as I keep saying for all computer companies that make shittier laptops than Apple...
As a developer, my requirements are handed down to me from business. I have a small amount of power to suggest improvements, but largely, the design of the system isn't handled by me; I just implement it.

I'd agree that having different perspectives in the idea phase is very important, but when it comes to implementation, diversity doesn't matter at all. Get the data from database, stick it in the views. It's pure technical ability at this phase.
Desire to automate manual processes that take our team months to complete otherwise.
You’ve just describe the variant type in COM....
Why do you need to be the best?
Well to say the DNC is right wing is a bit rich i think. If your taking your localized view of right wing from a country which is not the USA then i would say your abusing the terms right/left which aren't ideologies in themselves.

At best they are meta-narratives about the potential of man (EG: The left focusing the moldability of humanity, and the right mostly focused the immutability of humanity) and at worst serve as a snapshot of a particular countries two competing power centers.

To apply left/right understanding from one country to another in anything but a meta-narrative level will usually be a fools errand.
> I agree with that: it's been my own experience of enduring severe burnout and coming out the other side in much better shape.

Just for an anecdotal counterpoint, I endured severe burnout and ruined my health to the point of almost dying. I'm still struggling to regain my health 3 years later.

To be fair, it's not 100% sure that the burnout caused my health issues (multiple pancreatitis attacks and major relapse of a dormant neurological condition), but some doctors said it was likely that stress had contributed. Personally, I'm certain that the two are connected.
Paul, the Left Hand's Milk Stout is one of my favorite beers. You were meant to try that beer that day.
The vast majority of phones, tablets, and IoT embedded devices do not run Windows and are not tied to x86 ecosystems. Achieving desktop-class performance on these platforms is indeed a major disruption and I don't see Intel being able to compete. Game over.
That's not what cultural relativism is and that's not why Google is thinking about taking this step.

They are thinking about taking this step because:

a) they are a business, China is a huge potential market they will lose if they don't try to compete for it, and

b) they believe their product does good in the world, and therefore they think a partial good (partial access to Google) is better than no good (no access to Google).

Whether b) is true or not is obviously in the eye of the beholder. I tend to think it's closer to a rationalization of a) than a sober evaluation of the objective truth.

For those wondering what cultural relativism actually is, it is a useful mental tool for thinking about the evolution of cultures other than your own. It is not moral relativism, nor is it a hatred of the west.
>>So why didn't Jobs do a better job of finding and cultivating a successor?

Because people aren't exactly replaceable like spare parts. If your biggest edge is a person, and the unique value they bring through their work. Then its almost impossible to replace them.

Apple is still one thing. I think something like Amazon will be far harder to imagine without Jeff Bezos.
"One of the thoughts I keep returning to is how little we know about the history of the peoples who were living more than 400 or so years ago."

I'm assuming you're talking about in America pre European colonisation. In the rest of the world (especially China, Europe, India and the Middle East) we know about as much as we do about the history of people currently alive. We can read their diaries, what happened in their governments, poetry, stories etc (at least for the literate classes, but this is again true in the modern world).

"Considering what traces of our own culture would be available to people 10,000 years from now, I occasionally wonder if we'd be able to detect our own culture at that time scale if we didn't know what we were looking at."

We would be able to detect really quite a bit, though less than we would like. Anything electronic would be gone, but the fact that we had electronics would be obvious. As would the vast majority of print. Some writing (especially carving) would remain, as would some pictures in lucky circumstances. Most tellingly our cities and buildings would still be around, and you can tell a lot about a culture by the way they order their buildings, and by what stuff they had. This is all assuming we some how up and leave for 10,000 years like in Göbekli Tepe[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
From the press release:

> Windows 10 systems powered by Arm-based Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs are already available from ASUS, Lenovo, HP, and Samsung have also announced they will join the mix as well.

E.g.:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/asus-novago-review/?gucc...
Not sure a buffer feature helps when he says he didn't regret his "funding secured" tweet. It may have prevented his tweet about the diver, but it's not clear he realized it was a problem until there was significant public backlash (which feedback wouldn't be present in some buffer).
Spaghetti injunction: Pastafarianism is not a religion, Dutch court rules
So, lets collect stats on interrogators who won the interrogation.
No discussion on why the cracks and sinkholes appeared. I'm looking around on Google but it seems there's very little information (in English anyway).
I think if you want anyone to even try to answer your question you have to list all the companies that qualify as major and innovative.

Otherwise someone responds with an example and you just say that it doesn't count.
Are there any active Fossil instances available for free/open source projects? I found Chisel, but am not sure whether many of the projects are active.

Also, the design of Fossil and Chisel is s bit difficult to read on mobile.