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> I feel good when I help someone. I feel good when I have made a great project. I feel good when I made a good decision.

Those are all good things to feel good about. You're feeling good about the results, not the criticism. If you feel good about those results and NOT about the criticism, you will try to use the criticism to get those results and no more.

If you assume you'll get those results from the criticism, you'll just criticize a lot, without concern.

And generally, to get those results you need to be judicious in the criticism, because bad results are also possible (and probable, if you aren't considering the criticism itself before offering it)
I find these premises unconvincing: 'Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of information (cultural memory). ' There are other means of sustaining collective memory and attention, such as performative actions, rituals and beliefs (if you can call beliefs channels - I don't have a definition for channels).

If the first sentence is loose like this, I'm not optimistic for the modelling and variable construction for the rest of the work. I'll have a close read of it, but this is a disturbing sign.
Bad idea? What could possibly go wrong with abruptly breaking the worlds electronics!

I know HN can be a bit of a fun free zone, but I do genuinely hope you didn't actually take the above 100% seriously?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11772120

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11230877

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/study-finds-nicotine-sa...
Good on Der Spiegel for bringing this into the light. This happens in journalism and the best thing we can do is encourage this kind of truthfulness on the part of Der Spiegel.

The last thing we want to do is punish Der Spiegel for coming out with this information as it would only disincentivize them and other newspapers from doing so in the future.
And wasted trillions on trade with China too...
There is ansible-pull. It's not as useful as one might initially think, as there's lots of ansible code written assuming push mode.
I've worked on the email dev team of a mailchimp competitor and from what I've overheard, when a customer gets spam-flagged the first step is to help him avoid it in the future. A lot of small businesses using these tools might actually accidentally misuse them.
It is rising faster than any of those which is concerning. In terms of danger, it's hard to say since we don't know what the long term effects of vaping are going to be, and how many of these teens are going to consume other tobacco products in the future.
> 2) NYT seems to intentionally not elaborating on the "access to users' private messages" part and conflating app permissions to actually scanning, parsing, storing, deleting, modifying individual messages. Until disproven, it sounds like these are just standard app permissions needed to implement functions like song sharing in Messenger chat (in the case of Spotify), or sending payments over chat (in the case of RBC).

I find your argument to highly misleading. Facebook asked users for permission to grant the apps the permission to send messages, and then when the users approved that request, implemented that access by white-listing the applications to give them carte-blanche access to a deprecated API that included not just message-sending abilities, but full read-write access to their entire Messenger history, along with the rest of the deprecated Instant Personalization API.

Cambridge Analytica has already demonstrated how bad actors will misuse any access they have for profit -- granting broader than described permissions simply opens the door to further such abuses. It's utterly naive to believe that these companies would all voluntarily restrain their access to the subset users had been told about, rather than full suite of data they were handed access to.
> Umm, and the capacity of these tunnels is also orders of magnitude lower than a subway.

Even assuming that capacity/dollar is actually worse than subways, they can still be economically superior, for the same reason solar+battery is beating nuclear. The ability to incrementally build capacity relatively quickly and with relatively low, incremental costs beats any system that requires billions of initial investment and only comes online in the timescale of decades.

And I really don't think that capacity/dollar will be worse than subways, assuming that he intends to build off-ramps for leaving the system, as alluded to in the stream. Simply removing the need to stop at every exit greatly improves capacity, and while the capacity of an individual tunnel is still much worse than a single subway tunnel, they can just build more.

> Maintenance will be impossible. Breakdowns of any sort would go from being annoyances to a few to being catastrophic failures for the system. Even if the tunnels never degraded, even if no car ever had a flat tire in the middle of the tunnel, and even if you could actually achieve 150mph (which would be extremely unpleasant for the passengers anyway), you couldn't physically fit enough cars through the tunnel to compare to real transit system.

You seem to be assuming a single tunnel per direction. Assume 20 instead. Suddenly a car failing in the tunnel turns from a catastrophic failure into one that causes some traffic to have to take a little extra time as they back their way to the closest cross-tunnel, and a relatively minor loss of capacity until a recovery vehicle can come pull the broken one out.

And as Musk said like a dozen times in the stream, he intends to match a real transit system not by increasing capacity per tunnel, but by starting building tunnels and then not stopping until there are no more traffic issues. Since he gets to expand in three dimensions, he can just stack them on top of each other.

> Given that this thing requires rigging something up to your vehicle, the onload and offload points would immediately become major bottlenecks to any serious throughput even if you could cram them in bumper to bumper.

Their demo had the "subway wheels" deploy automatically, while in the elevator. For high-throughput exits, they probably need to bite the bullet and just build off-ramps.
Your suggestion requires a fixed-depth hierarchy (such as three levels in your example), and then it requires a lot of redundancy. Here, I want to eliminate the redundancy not primarily for performance reasons, but to make it easier to edit the data by hand, for example to cut-and-paste some lines to move them around within the tree without having to change the leading values.

To get a sense of what I mean, see this editor which lets you interactively construct a treemap: https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/treemap-o-matic
Or it blocked the fake news website URLs in the post. I mean the author says the websites are disguised and created to misinform.
I think if you stay logged out of Facebook and use a VPN it should be hard for them to figure it out. Even better, use Facebook only in incognito.
Potential Personally Identifiable Information (PII ) Compromise of NASA Servers
I switched from chef to ansible because in my opinion a DSL is the wrong way to go for this stuff. Granted I've only ever managed fairly small deployments. But so much more can go wrong when you are writing code vs writing yaml. If your yaml parses it will probably work. I write ruby application code everyday and I love ruby. But I hated writing chef scripts. I also ended up with many fewer lines of yaml than ruby.
Machine Learning Projects for Mobile Applications
How I'm preparing for CES 2019 Right Now
Just pulled my Mac SE out of storage. Great to see what the little machine can still do!
I think it's reporter misinterpreting what sources said.

Cause if there was indeed "backdoored motherboard", it'd be very easy to produce the said device and say "Look!".
Thats not really fair. Python 3.2 was release in 2011 and Python 3.4 in 2014. Only 3.3 was released in the middle, I would not say it is only "so often" compared to c++. To be more general, C++ had 3 major versions from 2011 to 2017, while python had 5. Its more, but not significantly so (especially since very little compatibility is broken between 3.4 and 3.5 for example).

And if you are talking about which version is shipped with a distro, then RHEL7 ships with gcc 4.8, which support only parts of c++14, while for example the latest Ubuntu LTS ships GCC 7,3, meaning you get full C++17 support.

Don't get me wrong, the Python packaging situation is not very clean. But it is far from being an exception, and people complaining about it are just spreading FUD.
Well, you would get broadly speaking a similar relationship. General error in the measurement would appear as a regression to the mean. However, Dunning and Kruger addressed this in their paper, directly, in section 4.1.3. The actual metric that the researchers measured was actual class rank and estimated class rank. Class rank is well-defined, and estimated class rank is also well-defined. That's not to say that class rank is a perfect choice of metric, but you are asking students to estimate something which can be exactly measured.

The paper showed a difference in the size of the error between top and bottom quartile students that was larger than you would expect if it were just uniform error. When you think about it, this seems pretty damn obvious... if you are bad at something, you are also bad at knowing that you are bad at it. But if you are good at something, you have a more accurate understanding of your own skills. In short, if you're good at something, you probably know that you are good at it.

This is what goes against the popular notion of the Dunning Kruger effect. Many people seem to use Dunning Kruger as some kind of twisted justification for impostor syndrome, where you are not permitted to think you are good at something because it would paradoxically imply that you are not good at it. I say this, just because I know too many people suffering from impostor syndrome, and this incorrect impression of Dunning Kruger seems to be a contributing factor.
Superb! ;)
Well, OP's business seems pretty typical to me?
The tunnels will be EV-only.
in a tight tunnel? unlikely.

if we go that route, the worst case would be use as sewers.

or for wiring, or package delivery.
Ruby has absolutely no process - not even an equivalent of PEPs. What corruption do you think there is there?
Most of the young people getting hired by FAANG are grads from big name schools so they've most definitely taken one or two ethics courses.

I think we're just seeing 22 year olds' ethics are collapsing when they're given $150k/year straight out of school.
This is absolutely true.
It's also a lot of work :)
Potential impact of two IoT security and privacy laws on tech industry
> Good criticism is a lot of work

Bingo - Good criticism is a matter of considering how it will be taken, because you aren't feeling good about the criticism itself, but rather the results you are trying to achieve. Bad criticism is enjoying the criticism itself.
Egyptian CURSE? Six archaeologists DIE within MONTHS of opening sarcophagus
lol nicotine is addictive as shit. I got hooked via ecigs, not that I'm complaining. Anecdotally I agree with the so-called cognitive benefits. It's similar to caffeine in many respects. But let's not be coy and pretend it's not an addictive substance.
Facebook is a blog platform that sells ads.

I some T.V. show last night with Media people decrying Facebook and then Facebook explaining how they were trying their best and helping the world communicate.

Both sides seemed so overwhelming full of themselves. They both clearly thought all of their customers were idiots. And neither had the dignity to come out and say that they though all of their customers were idiots.

This is all going to end with another set of idiots in government passing a bunch of laws that in 10 years half the country will say were a giant mistake and the other half will say "but imagine how much worse things would be if we didn't have these idiotic laws."

Ugh.
Is there one published? I‘m not aware of an English version of the whole article.
I wonder why I can't delete my account after 4 years ? Cannot login or delete.. when advertiser's start asking them about zombie accounts that fix they marketing analytics ?
'Clear History' goes against Facebook's business model. They will never release a genuine feature like this: the only thing user-facing will be something false only to serve PR.
That's a small part of the story I believe...
Being in Space Z and the market having a general understanding of Z is one thing. Me, a customer, understanding why you over A or B is another. If you're assuming anything then it's likely you're creating doubt. That's a deal breaker.
You can write YAML much more concisely though:

root
parent
foo: 1
bar: 1

Syntax details might be off from the top of my head, but the example in the tweet is a bit overblown.
I think it's an issue of really [deliberately] inconsistent messaging. The general public thinks e-cigs are harmless compared to tobacco and what little common counter argument (maybe the coils are degrading and leeching into the vapor?) exists is not particularly compelling to the average person. Thus we have a perfect storm where manufacturers have a literal chemically induced captive audience and we're starting to see how they're making use of that feature to make money. Most of us don't see it but if you go to the right communities, everyone and their sister is vaping furiously. It has a rather distopian feel to it...
Advertisers wouldn't want to hear that part of their campaign attribution (on-site conversions) were null because users have the option to remove browsing behavior. Facebook's people-based marketing is why advertisers use them.
Amen! I don't like FB, but I use it for groups I am part of and to stay in touch with a few friends. I also don't care and would love to see more relevant ads.
Sabrina Erdely wrote for perhaps the biggest market in the world, with near complete freedom to choose where and what to report.

It's unfair to malign smaller market journalists. Some, and I bet not few, journalists go into this profession to be propagandists for their cause, whatever it is.
If you print ABS or PC, look into proper ventillation. Known carcinogens present in the fumes.

Proper ventillation for my home-residing 3D printer is the bathroom. Close the door and hit the fan.

You can guess when the idea hit me... :D
works in china?
Thank you for the links. I did read them, but failed to reach the conclusion “pretty far from “harmless””.

It sounds like an understudied but potentially very safe mechanism for nicotine delivery. The big issue seams to be poor behaviour from companies like JUUL, and large quaestions around dosing for adolescents.

I honestly couldn’t tell you from those links if I should be more concerned about nicotine, sugar, caffeine, THC, or alcohol.

At this point I suspect that I should be more worried about soda than vaping.
It should be turned on by default then with an override option, so that the average home user can't install stuff that'll bork the system without being warned. Just like SIP in OS X or Developer Mode on Chromebooks (although that's more extreme).
Anyone from the US who has flown overseas to modern, industrialized countries in the past decades will note the aging look of the US.

Given overall industrial and cultural trends, why wouldn't everyone just keep building new stuff every 15 years? This would certainly fit the Chinese regime's policy of increasing GDP. (We'll have to crack the problem of carbon neutral concrete sometime.)
"However, we do try to make it as easy as possible to get Python 2 or 3 (or both) on to your system." - it just requires quite a long blog post to explain how easy it is.
This is generational decay. It happens on schedule. We always forget those who come before us when we can. Now it is extremely easy to do.
Dlang is better suited for that use case. Have you looked at mir?
“Service Xyz suddenly canceled my account and banned me for no reason and I no longer have access to critical data!”

How many times does this story have to be posted for us as a user community to get some sense and stop relying on unaccountable cloud services to host critical data or perform critical tasks? It seems like a similar story gets posted every week. Back up your data, people, and whenever possible, self-host.

For every online account you have, ask yourself: what is the consequence of me permanently losing this account and all data associated with it? If the answer is “catastrophic loss” then FFS do something about it!
Last.Back end starting beta 1 easy-to-use competitor of Kubernetes
Also an excellent read on the subject: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
Well, this was due to the fact that the dangers were recognized when adoption was already widespread and, as you mention, dozens and dozens of years of PSAs, bans and medical consulting were necessary to lower consumption rates.

Maybe this time it would make sense to start this process sooner?
fair point, i will add for USA only and think about the rest
DER SPIEGEL has a tradition of left and right-wing reporting alongside, but always critical of the people in power. Spiegel‘s founder Rudolf Augstein is famous for his proverb „Im Zweifel links“, though — which translate to: „When in doubt: left-leaning.“
Google’s Marketing of Kids’ Apps Misleads Parents, Consumer Groups Say
Yeah I think probably Wayfair might want to change their name since it’s in the same space and they released second.
You mentioned the $35k Model 3, which I think is the worst since so many deposits were collected on this promise. This spring it will be 3 years since those deposits were collected, including mine (since refunded at about the 2-year anniversary). He also keeps pushing back the timeline for deposit holders. It has been 3-6 months away for over a year now. And there are anecdotes (which I know aren't data) of difficulty lately getting deposits refunded.

Other things:

Battery swap - https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event (interestingly, NIO in China has this approach working).

Coast to coast autonomous drive by 2018: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teslas-autonomous-car-will-dr...

FSD (Full Self Driving) option in general is looking like vaporware. I'm wondering if Tesla is going to need to refund the money people paid for that option. It's no longer offered.

Here's the latest promise, about Summon mode with Tesla: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1057871356367269888

It was promised for ~6 weeks, ~6 weeks ago. So that should be out any day now, right?

He was also going to fix Flint's drinking water. To his credit, he recently made a charitable donation instead, but it was originally phrased as engineering help.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/12/elon-musk-fl...

And of course there's the whole Thai cave torpedo thing which was just... weird.

Edit: oh can't believe I forgot the solar roof. That one is perhaps the closest to outright fraud, since it was unveiled on a Hollywood set with FAKE shingles! https://mansionengineer.com/2018/08/10/elon-musk-tesla-and-t...

I get that we want people like Musk to push boundaries, but I think it's a fine line between what Musk does versus The Simpsons monorail guy.
> FACT: Prior to President Trump taking office, we have never built a border wall that high.

This is the end of government for the people and by the people. Homeland Security is for President Trump that was elected without a majority of voters support. A government agency is politically advocating for a president.
Not no process, since Matz is effectively BDFL, isn't he?
Correct. They have proprietary technology around nicotine salts.
The first level support person isn't lying if he/she doesn't truly know whether the data is recoverable. A manager higher up, who approved the script and knows better, is lying however. To the end user it makes no difference who the liar is, only the the lie is being told.
Yup. At least in the US we use our infrastructure. In China they build stuff just to build stuff.
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Hey, thanks for your feedback.

It was my idea too, to try to boot it from USB first, before removing Windows (i dont want to have 2x OS).

My colleague got the same notebook (HP Probook 650 G3) and he tried the Ubuntu 18.04 TLS and said to me that he got some problems with the energy management and the trackpad.
So i guess i'll try the 18.10 with the newer kernel
Wow I hadn't come across DeepL before, much more accurate for the languages I use than Google/Bing/Yandex.
The reason why China is spending a lot more on infrastructure than the U.S. is because they didn't have a lot of infrastructure to begin with and if they want some they have to build it.

The U.S. already has most (not all) of the infrastructure we need. A lot of what we need to build is to replace existing infrastructure which is getting old but technically still works.

Comparing Chinese to American infrastructure spend is comparing apples to oranges.

Furthermore, if you want to look at where America is wasting money, compare the percentage of GDP Canada spends on healthcare to the percentage the U.S. spends. The difference is likely larger than the 5% or so of GDP we've been spending on defense.

And keep in mind that most of U.S. spending on defense isn't warfare, it really is defense, partly because we have obligations to defend other countries, some of which might be at substantial risk right now (We have no obligation to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression, but we most definitely have an obligation to defend Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia).
Install instructions are right at the top and are typical `yum` commands that RHEL users should already know.
Maybe harmless is too strong a word. We don't have enough data to really know about E-cigs at the moment, but nicotine doesn't have any deleterious health effects, in fact, quite the opposite; nicotine is good for you.

When we are talking about E-cigs, it's good to keep in mind the alternative, smoking tobacco. Smoking cigarettes is absolutely terrible for your health, something like 2/3s of life-long smokers die of tobacco related issues. I highly doubt E-cigs are even 1/000th are harmful, in terms of long-term outcomes.
> Whenever you read articles that mimic a very literary, prosaic style I'd be very careful.

This rules out whole newspapers like ‘Zeit’. Also ‘Spiegel’ is known for its special style.
German is hardly a tiny little local language. Yes it’s not English or Chinese, but it’s big enough (as is Der Spiegel) that you can’t blame fraud on language barriers...
Did you continue to get billed for it?
That's...fascinating. While we have lots of corporate personhood, I normally disregard blaming specific actions on a company because at the end of the day a person makes the call. But here you've pointed out that a company, operating as a collection of people, can "act" in ways that may be unintentional or may be deliberate, but are hard to pin down to a specific person.

Definitely worth considering in more depth, thanks for the perspective.
Why would you assume it's better than people give it credit for?
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost, murdered by America's war machine in its lust for total military domination of its so-called enemies.

Its not enough that Americans' finally come to grip with the terms of their own scam. The American people must confront the crimes against humanity that their state has committed, time and again. With such human destitution in its midst, as well as at the end of its spear, America simply cannot consider itself such a great nation for much longer .. I mean, for a lot of Americans, the USA is a third-world country.
I've been using joplin for several months now and I'm loving it. The GUI client isn't perfect and there are a couple missng abilities from the iOS app (e.g. duplicate note), but nothing has been a show stopper and it's both easy to set up and very reliable.