skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This came out the 25 August 2018:

"96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets"

https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-perv...

Google supported Clinton and threw resources behind her campaign:

"However, one can't help but be skeptical considering that just before the 2016 presidential election, among the many leaks published by Wikileaks as part of its Podesta email campaign was Google's "strategic plan" to help democrats win the election and track voters." from

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/google-responds-tr...

More at

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-01/wikileaks-reveals-...

I fail to see how that does not continue today.
Most of mining is being done using power that has no other buyers, with very preferential prices per KwpH in exchange for promise of taking all available power during particular hours. Also, mining is being done far far away from places where weather is hot. It is simply less efficient there.
Thanks, that quote would have been a nice response. Perhaps in a different forum it would even have seeded a sub-discussion by those who know about the details of that condition.

> This is literally in the article.

Noted. After about 2k words and a video into the article. I will no longer ask open questions out of fear of not having dedicating at least 30 mins of my life to each article.
Arguably, it consists solely of drawings that happen to be text.
Java is needed for the admin console. For the server itself, it is not needed.
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So "left leaning" meaning anything to the left of Breitbart and thus even vaguely fact-based?
Yeah, the idea is that at any give price, holding any bond or selling it and using the proceeds to purchase bonds at the current rate are equivalent from a return perspective.
Old and busted:

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If someone enjoys keeping their house cooler than absolutely necessary, long showers, driving instead of walking short distances, etc. then I don't feel like this is "overusing" or "wasting" anything - technology is supposed to make our lives better, and the solution should focus on working around these use cases existing instead of trying to alter people's behavior such that they're getting less personal value in their lives.
I'm always amused how true "free market" apologists argue that:

a) monopolies don't arise
b) are good
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LyX has been my go-to editor for years now. I like it's wysiwym approach and I get so productive on LyX that can amaze seasoned latex users.
Well, in the past we (a) died younger and (b) burned a lot of things for heat. I'd argue that literally nobody wants to go back to (a), and if every household in the world was still burnings a stove to stay warm we'd have an even worse global warming situation than we currently have.
I don't agree. It's like reducing your debt. Focusing on paying off the smallest debts first is most efficient. Always start with low hanging fruit. Knock those out, and you see real progress.
There's a dupe that got flagged here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858874

Perhaps this story will also get flagged - it seems there's a lot of people who don't like discussion of political bias in Silicon Valley companies on HN.

It's pretty easy to see why Trump thinks this. Just go to Google News and search Trump, then look at which news sources are selected. Or just look at this helpful pie chart:

https://static.pjmedia.com/trending/user-content/51/files/20...

The way News selects and ranks sources is even more opaque than web search. Web search at least has some papers describing how it works, but News searches only over a subset of the web selected by humans.

What policies do they use to decide what gets to be included?

https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/6204...

They state:

We do not allow content that sends messages intended to harass, bully, or physically or sexually threaten others.

We do not allow sites or accounts that engage in coordinated activity to mislead users

We do not allow content that promotes violence or harassment against an individual or group based on ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

Well, that's going to be a problem for Google because by now everyone got the memo that the student generation that Google has been hiring extensively from for years now is willing to define almost any kind of viewpoint that isn't extremely liberal as "harassment" or "hate". Including fairly anodyne policies Trump has, like there being limits on immigration.

How will Google credibly argue they aren't biased when their inclusion policy for Google News reads like a list of guidelines to a university safe space?
I find it immensely difficult to get back on a standard repayment plan after being on the extended repayment plan..
They (Navient) don't want you to switch to a cheaper plan...
This isn't necessarily true (and is very dependent on what your password was) - they could have iterated through lists of common passwords w/ special characters, hashed them, and compared them to their DB, forcing a pw reset for everyone that had a match.

edit - just want to state that if they disallow special characters it really is a terrible policy, my point is just that resetting your password isn't proof they are stored in plaintext
How Microsoft is cutting through the noise for a more beautiful 'sound world'
Seems like conservative news sites that are claiming this ought to be able to use Google’s own analytic tools to highlight any trends against them.
Nest’s door lock will soon play nice with Google Home
This is happening across all college school systems across all states. Kids are graduating who are functionally illiterate, or just quitting, and being burdened with massive student loan debt that mostly pays for school administrative costs and not professor salaries.
Are you sure 100% workers in these countries turn their home AC on immediately after returning home?
It's been a slow gradual boil since about the 1970's when college prices started increasing out of proportion to the cost of everything else, and no one stepped in to reform things since it mostly worked for the universities that could charge more and more, and make more and more money, except as the article notes - to make it possible for students to get more loans.
Combine this with healthcare costs in America rising faster than college and stagnating wages for the average American over the same period of time and the added debt of college crushes a lot of people as the individual examples in the article note.

Companies have not very often sponsored college students in America, except for some profession like rural doctors where it's local government choosing to help pay for an exceptional debt load for an unpopular lifestyle choice (being primary care physician for a large geographical area).

The other option off the top of my head for Americans is to join one of the military services to fund education.

How did you find the apprenticeship and how did you decide to choose that route? Not sure of much like that in America except some of the construction trades like electricians/plumbers.
> It is also cheaper because you spend far less time for system administration.

This is highly dependent on how much experience one has with Windows and Linux, as well as the specific workload the computer is running.

I've had both Linux and Windows installations that always worked without any issues. I've also had both Linux and Windows installations that break on a weekly basis.
I see. The difference in our views comes from me being a mathematician. Curry’s Paradox is not a paradox in mathematical logic due to my objections. In mathematical logic we don’t allow statements that don’t have a well defined truth value. The premise in the start of Curry’s Paradox is a statement without a well defined truth value.

Curry’s Paradox shows the limits if naive set theory. Thus mathematically we have to be OK with the idea that not all naive set constructions produce valid sets.

In informal setttings we can argue that

If this sentence is true then Santa Claus exists

can’t be false. But then one usually assumes it must then be true. I would argue this isn’t the case. There are sentences that have no truth value. For instance,

This sentence is false.
Yeah, poor wording on my part. That's why I said "best explanation", but I should have emphasized we do know the standard model is incomplete. There's just no simple path forward at this point.
Legislation is the only solution.
I do not believe Silicon Valley has shown thoughtfulness and care for the republic in a way that I would trust them to enact this regulation.

I trust Silicon Valley a hell of a lot more than I trust our government...
Plus a short video in the Go blog: https://blog.golang.org/go2draft
I moved to Seattle from the midwest...the crying for A/C during 90 degree days with 0 humidity are laughable.
It depends. In my article I pointed out that with Fidelity there are no commissions or markups on treasuries on the secondary market. If there were, it would definitely change the calculus.
I'd be interested in getting the ui/diagrams via an API, so I can integrate into our app, render in custom ways. Not using an iframe or embed, but just the structure of a diagram that was built earlier on your normal platform, maybe with the device icons as a png/svg url possibly.

Side question, is there currently a lighter weight embed avail, that would live update etc? or only the builder UI?
Honestly, I think one of the best things to happen for the rest of us is for a prominent Senator to have this happen to them. Then hopefully we'd get some legislation holding these companies responsible when they do that.
When you buy the bonds directly, you're choosing an explicit exit date and you know exactly what your return will be.

When you buy a bond fund, your principal is going to be reinvested, so there's a risk of interest rates going up right before you sell.

Some firms offer target maturity bond funds which will is the best of both worlds.
I am very skeptical.

Air conditioning has enabled large amounts of people to move from cold climates to warm climates (places like Dallas and Hong Kong basically wouldn't exist like they do without it). And there is a lot more energy spent heating in the north than there is cooling in the south. So on average, I would assume there is a net benefit if you consider the tradeoffs.

I think there is a stigma people have that heating is essential for life, but A/C is optional. But we should really compare them against each other.
Why would we look at the NY Times? They don't have a monopoly on national news. They have a small minority position overall and always have.

Google effectively has three monopolies (or near monopolies): search, YouTube, Android.

I include YouTube because in their user-video / amateur-video space they have an overwhelming position, there's nothing even remotely close (Facebook is still a poor competitor, and will probably never capture the higher quality amateur content).
> Let's focus more on the worthless wastes of energy like cryptocurrency

AC is one of the ways crypto currency wastes energy.

> But out of ALL of the technology to write about, air conditioning contributing to environmental destruction should be on the bottom of the list

It shouldn't be at the bottom, because there are easy environmental wins through efficiency without abandoning it, e.g., use of geothermal rather than air-source heat pumps. But there is a greater up-front costs, so even though it is both environmentally superior and cheaper on current market conditions in the long run, the reality of the way people make decisions means that mass adoption over air-source heat pumps will probably need a public policy push or take a very long time.
I believe the parent is considering that price to include housing and other necessities as well. I really think you'll have a tough time finding a decent University that would cost less than that for a year's worth of use.
It is worse than that, the republicans seek to actively destroy programs that help people out. There is no reason we need private loan servicers for example.
Or gravity, which is an even bigger open question.
Whenever I go to the USA, I just hate how cold (summer)/hot (winter) are the malls and other closed spaces. Why can't they set it at a reasonable temp? I'm sure that will help a bit to reduce energy waste.
> Without drastic improvements in air-conditioners’ efficiency

The biggest gain in air conditioner efficiency is not in the air conditioner itself, but in the housing it is used in. In Asia, lots of housing is built cheaply with terrible insulation, so the air conditioning is burning electricity in waste to cool the great outdoors.
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It seems that anyone who knows enough to find this level of 0day vulnerability has skills that people would pay for.
Huh I see Einstein and Feynman in the top few results. Again, if you just switch the term to start with "united states" there are literally zero black people in the top results so seems unlikely it's a conspiracy.
Because they know everyone that would have ever left them has already done so. Nothing to lose...
A bit of a pain, but you can do this by inserting the table, modifying the settings, and using the long table.

The formatting is a bit different, but I believe it will split the table across pages while supporting headers, footers, captions, and other options.
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Honest question: when should I prefer this over IPFS?
There's always the bid-ask spread.
You are looking at long-term risks, not "come home feeling sick". Playa dust is >40% silica dust, which has been linked to silicosis and cancer. It's also corrosive. I mean, you do you, and all that, but I wouldn't advise ditching the mask.

But let's ignore that, because the main point was that it's not that easily affordable if you just "work hard enough" - and in your cost estimation, you're conveniently forgetting the ticket fee of $425.

And not everybody can afford to quit their job in hopes they have another one when they come back. I'm glad it's worked out for you, but let's stop pretending it's this giant egalitarian thing available to all.
The also have important secondary uses for controlling humidity and air quality- I may add A/C to my house just to filter out the smoke that is increasingly common every summer.
Generative/algorithmic art:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/abstractusinterruptus
Yeah. Stubbs sauce was produced in Texas for a long time but they were bought by McCormick* (the spice company) a few years ago. They have the same global distribution powers of any other large commercial food business, so I'm sure they could get Stubbs in whatever country they forecast good demand.

* https://www.wsj.com/articles/mccormick-buys-stubbs-sauce-mak...
This might reveal a stingray was used in a certain location.

It would defeat the intent of police/Executive Branch to defraud and deceive Judicial oversight over the usage of the devices and their implication of illegality in the face of the Constitution of the United States of America
How do I know that?
Great explanation. One of the things I consider, as someone who will eventually find enough resources to do this, is the separation of individual economic activity into risk-reward segment tiers.

The first being direct trading of time for money, wage-salary work. Second is service, which runs the gamut from contracting to consulting. Third is deal-making, which composes together individual service providers, the value-add being management, to create business vehicles. Fourth being business, the creation of a firm that employs human resources to scale up a product or service. Fifth is finance, which treats businesses as the economic units, either through trading financial instruments or through acquisition of entire businesses.

At what point does the risk-reward profile start to favor investment into the next level of economic activity? Is it worthwhile to try to skip over a tier, how does one think clearly about the endeavor?

For example, I don't see financial investment as worthwhile for the career individual except in two cases, home purchase, and retirement planning. It just doesn't provide enough returns, and the time investment involved in trading saps quickly assumes second job status.

What amount of capital should you have liquid before you can intelligibly make a foray into a particular tier? Such that you can throw money at problems rather than invest more time into understanding the situation? I don't need two careers, nobody needs two careers. Smart people can make forays into segments close to their careers and move up that way.

The mindset for rational and sane upward mobility seems to remain stubbornly out of reach, causing many honest, decent people to save up nest eggs which are then extremely vulnerable to scammers. If we had a body of information available that's better than the current personal finance advice, which seems geared for retirement planning, then we could cut down on a lot of tragic outcomes.
Wanting to reform government institutions is seen as anti-government or anti-public service by a majority of people. My state spends $1k/per capita more on public services than a much more successful and well off neighboring state with much better services, but politicians who want to reform our public services to be just as efficient are seen as nutjobs.
That's how LaTeX tables work.

You can enable the "multi table" option in the table properties, which will use the longtable package to extend the table across multiple pages.
CNBC, Politico and the Atlantic being flagged as liberal is evidence of the bias in the study.
"Both the real world and virtual light rays initiate neural signals that pass from the retina to the visual part of the brain, creating unbelievably believable experiences."

So light?
I'm not sure that works universally. If you buy a bond with a 2% yield today that matures in 3 years and you decide to sell in 1 year instead and at that point the current rate is 3% the price you sell at will be lower than the price you paid so you won't make a 2% return in the first year...

Re: fees depends on your platform. Fidelity charges no fees or markups for treasuries but if your platform does it's something to consider in addition to bid/ask spread.
PRTG has a pretty good device map, that integrates pretty seamlessly with the monitoring data it collects, but it's geared for more traditional network/IT environments. They do have cloud stuff now, but I like that Arcentry is built from the ground up for modern tooling/cloud environments.
Not totally on topic, but the thing that shocks me as ridiculously inefficient is huge freezer aisles in grocery stores in cold climates. They heat the store and then cool the freezers. Can't they just pump in outside air? Granted this wouldn't work year round in many places, but I feel like there is a better solution.
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Phuket, Thailand – 200+ tourist boats found unsafe by Thai police
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I think this is a perfectly appropriate critique regardless of the newly constructed "fallacy".

If a problem is systemic, "whataboutism" is an appropriate critique (in lieu of being able to articulate the underlying issue) as it typically makes reference to something that is a populist concept, to be effective as a recognizable objection.

In this case, the objection is apt and needs to be addressed with more than hand-waving because it's troubling.

Saying "google is different because it helps shape culture" as opposed to Amazon's Chinese presence. Amazon's service is an opaque service-oriented mechanism...is an appropriate response.
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Why can't we focus on both? At very least A/C should be used during the summer to make indoor temperature merely "warm" instead of chilly. Acclimating to winter temperatures during the summer just makes the outdoors that much more unbearable.

“What happens when humans treat themselves like dairy products chilled behind glass? Civilization declines.” http://www.printmag.com/article/a_cold_day_in_hell/
Why would you take perfectly good code that works across many browsers and force breaking changes onto existing NodeJS/Browsers? WebRTC Condit, STUN, TURN, etc. do not require advanced language features.
No great surprise. The only people still using Yahoo aren't very tech savvy and don't know about the data breach, plaintext passwords, etc.. My guess is Yahoo can get away with this and they know it.
See also https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb for stuff that browsers should/could have that would make much better to write true decentralized applications.
Liability matching is strictly more optimal. If you know when you need money you can take that portion of the risk out of the equation. On the other hand, with reinvested funds, you are paid to take the risk of interest rates going up and the lack of a fixed maturity date, by the possibility that interest rates might go down (the so-called roll-yield).
Not everyone who uses a screenreader is completely blind. Vision impairment is quite a wide and varying spectrum. Also the person viewing the site might not be the person who will be using the software. Perhaps it's not applicable here, but imagine a scenario where the person responsible for purchasing the software uses a screenreader.
The Treasury lets you buy Treasuries directly [1]. No broker, no markup, no account fees.

[1] https://www.treasurydirect.gov
I was talking to my girlfriend the other day about this trying to wrap my head around what this will mean for the economy 20-30 years from now. We don't have student debt so we're in advantageous position. I keep wondering, what will happen to the housing market once the boomers die and their estates (and homes) are put on the market -- do prices drop because so many people have debt and can't buy homes? Do they rise because the gap is filled by foreign investors and those who don't have debt and/or have the wealth to scoop these homes up? I haven't been able to find any literature w.r.t to the long term impact of the student debt crisis.
It's very common in France for private school to advertise apprenticeship. Because it's a way for them to get more students, and more money, as the company pay the school + the student. It's hard, but not impossible for a student to find a company willing to sponsor them. In the end it can be a bit cheaper than a full time employee + you get a few state taxes cut if you have student/apprentice in your payroll.

For me, after college I was searching for that specific thing. That was my own requirement, I wanted to dev full time while getting a diploma as a "safeguard" and "to look good on my resume".

Actually school is more a side effect of me working. I continued school because it was possible to work same time, if not I guess I would have stopped after college diploma (BAC in France).
And your opinion is exactly why nothing ever gets reformed. Republicans almost never want to "destroy" programs, they want to make them more efficient. My state spends $1k more per capita on public services than Texas, but no one would ever claim we get $1k more per capita in public services. We do have many more per capita administrators for our departments.

But anyone who wants to solve this probably of deep institutional inefficiency is accused of "destroying programs".