skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propane technology has matured and stabilised; a 2019 propane tank is no better than a 2009 propane tank, it'll be the same size, supply the same amount of energy, and have the same connectors. A 2029 propane tank will, in all likelihood, be the same.

The same cannot be said of EV battery technology.

So why the Tesla demo video? According to [1] just doing the demo entitled them to $90 million of Californian "ZEV credits", and they never believed in or planned to roll out the technology.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Whatever-happened-to-Tesla-battery-swa... apologies for the Quora link
Wasn't there also an article recently about WeWork losing funding because it's basically a real estate company with a tech facade?
No, they don't own the properties outright. McDonalds operates as a franchise
Big hotel booking sites like booking.com/agoda already have the customers and the world wide logistics for handling this stuff, I can see them becoming direct competitors to airbnb in this space.
In Germany before that law, they made sure you wouldn't get the credentials to roll your own. There were some tutorials around how to extract your PPPoE credentials from certain cheap DSL routers, but many were fixed over time, so if you really wanted to do it, you had to open the box and read the EEPROM by external means. Cable modems always have a certificate baked in and were tied to your account, so just cloning the MAC didn't help.
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> the EU has more free trade deals than the UK will ever negotiate on its own.

It doesn't really matter how many trade deals or what the trade deals are when VAT, import fees are applied in such a way to equalize the costs of external trade, to the point there isn't much benefit of trading with outside the EU unless they're some how able to significantly reduce costs or pioneer an industry that doesn't exist in the EU.

Even with just the UK utiliziling only the WTO (which the UK has no control over in the EU), the UK could stand to get better trading with the rest of the world than it can within the EU. But, this is not just because it can set the WTO rates.

The UK is not obligated to apply VAT and other fees after it leaves the EU on any imports and it doesn't have to be concerned about applying protectionism in industries that don't even exist in the UK.

> Protectionism is what we like to think of as standards. It improves lives in Europe.

I'm not really sure about which standards you're talking about, but I'll take a couple of the earliest and longest implemented standards that the EU requires, something that Greenland left over in the beginning.

The standards of the common agriculture policy and the common fisheries policies that the UK farming and fishing industires have been lobbying to fix for multiple decades has only lead to the destruction of environments, forcing farmers on quotas who then can't sell their products being forced to then depend on EU subsidies and grants to operate, it has lead to the destruction of much of the industry in the UK which in turn has made in particular, numerous farming and fishing towns become welfare dependent... It's been over 20 years of consistent failing to address these issues.

The worst part of this all is that these issues were completely avoidable, the EU and UK could have actually solved these problems and not let the situation deteriorate to the point that people have become that unhappy that they just want out. I am interested though to hear an opposing view how this improved lives in Europe.
Close minded means you are not open to new impulses.If they are close minded they by definition is bound by something old which should make them harder to manipulate.

A person that does the creative arts is generally very open minded.
Again, nobody is really claiming they are an "essential force", only that they are a factor. Quit straw-manning.
The likely process at play here is cutting out the middle man from ad placement.

Before GDPR, a company would have likely contacted an ad agency to target the population that reads the NYT. Ads would then be sold to a pool of websites that included the NYT. After GDPR, this is no longer possible as the individual websites have stopped sharing targeting information with the ad agency. The only solution available to the same company is then to buy directly from the NYT (and maybe a few other big websites) rather than “syndicate” the ads through the agency.

It would be interesting to know how ad placements changed pre/post GDPR and how the ad revenue distribution shifted across different websites.
Digital tech use impacts teen well-being
"beyond my pay grade" is just an expression, it doesn't really refer to pay exactly, it just means it's someone else's responsibility
if u reduced it to a nice shareable pdf can u please share a link?
That's an interesting perspective for not following your passion. Could you elaborate on the experience as to how following your passion seemed appealing but actually wasn't?
The deal isn't satisfactory at all, as it offers no legally binding way for the UK to decide to leave without the EU's permission. The EU could string out border and trade discussions for years and the EU would be defacto in the EU but without a vote.

David Cameron tried to discuss reform with the EU before the referendum, but was rebuffed.
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Isn't the line bellow that line enough?
/* wordexp is also rife with security "challenges",
Very good comment about SW testing in general.

In my experience the only time when unit tests were useful was when they were integration tests at the same time.

For example when writing a data structure or algoritms or programming language/compiler. There is a clear boundary to such a system and one can reason about it in terms of input and output black box. As such the test for this system is an integration test, but due to its isolation it looks so simple that someone would call it a unit test. Second example would be all TDD blog posts, where the author tests some trivial entity with perfect isolation. That confuses integration tests with unit tests again.

The biggest mistake people do when they write tests (or library functions) too early is that they miss the target. The first part of writing code is not to produce a clean and maintainable system, but to get the requirements right. Listening to people seldomly works, it is usually better to observe people interacting with some prototype and infer requirements from that. In words of Henry Ford, the goal is to find that the requirements are for a 'car' and not just for 'faster horses'. People who fossilize the requirements too early miss the target completely in my experience.
This is what happens when you hire Windows developers
I hope that whole industry just dies and the hordes of wasted software engineers can instead be used on something that actually adds value to society.
I honestly would not be surprised if the difference in effectiveness of targeted vs untargeted advertisement turns out to be none, negligible or even unfavorable to targeted. Sure, NYT is not enough data to be significant, especially when compensating for my confirmation bias, but I would really like to see more sites stop tracking, at least from an ethical standpoint.
The Times has a large readership and potential ad draw in the E.U. Regulations would have to be ridiculous to make it unprofitable for the Times to abandon Europe. The Los Angeles Times, on the other hand, has few European users. The fixed cost of re-tooling (or, if already in compliance, even just accepting the regulatory risk) would be difficult to justify relative to other potential investments.
We all know the rhetoric used against the brexiters, and what I stated is representative of that.
Which happens to be the only option on future car driving technologies.
Not only today, not only Silicon Valley, not only startups

Check Carlos Ghosn's ongoing story for example
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The staging area is really an extraneous concept that isn't required. It's like a commit that isn't a commit.

In Mercurial, I much prefer to just make it an actual commit in the draft phase (the default phase) and just keep rewriting that commit. Mercurial provides tools for both selectively adding and removing hunks from a commit (both `hg amend` and `hg uncommit` accept --interactive for hunk selection). If you're extra paranoid, you can make it a commit in the secret phase so it's not shared prematurely by accident.

It's pretty much functionally equivalent and doesn't require an extra location in which your code can be. It's either in your working directory or in a commit.

A bonus of this approach is that now you have a meta-history, hidden by default, of what you've "staged" and "unstaged". It's kind of like a reflog but with, in my opinion, a better UI. And of course, the index/cache/staging area in git doesn't use refs, so there's no reflog there.
Or a better option - he leased/bought the building with interest X and sub-leased it to WeWork for X+50%.
From Adam N (We CEO) history, he is not common from such a rich family to afford buying building worldwide.
It sounds stupid but something that really simplified git to me as an absolute beginner about a year ago was the fact that it doesn't exist on GitHub. Knowing that git was just something that sat in the folder on your filesystem and monitored changes took away the notion that there is some kind of sync between your remote and local. Working just on my own laptop made me realise how intuitive all the commands and strategies for solving problems were. Then came pushing, pulling etc between branches and it all just fell into place.
AFAIK there's non-free repo in Debian. Not sure how they compared to main repo in terms of maintaining.
Algorithmic Poems
Not good looking at all but, latest commit to that repo is Updated on Oct 11, 2012.

So how well does it reflect reality?
Text Processing in nutshell
Debugging Go Error
Cleaning restaurant floor for $1000 per night
Also, the L input on the board is connected to the N input on the meanwell power supply module.
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80% of McDonalds are franchise, so it’s often a similar situation. 2/3rds of locations are owned by McDonald’s and leased by the franchisee, who also pays royalties and purchases from corporate affiliated suppliers.

Ripe for abuse if McDonald’s were too short term focused.

Source: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/03/what-perce...
Watch the the founder. Real estate is where they made their money.
The ad industry mostly already knows that. I would pay $4-6 CPM to run a behavioral campaign that barely filled and rarely performed. It was almost always more efficient to be at $0.75 cpm with simple contextual targeting, ie. publisher reported content category against a tight site list. The data is pretty much shit, and the way its sourced is fully opaque to the advertiser. It was pulling teeth to even find a one-sheet describing most data sources.

Few pubs can afford a direct sales team facing the EU, but I think most publishers would jump at the chance to have direct revenue and pull ad exchanges in a heartbeat. Policing exchanges for malware and junk creative is a full time job publishers shouldn't have to do, but ultimately they are held accountable for whatever the exchanges pushes their way.
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It’d give even fewer incentives to take a company public.
So, as an academic myself, I have been wondering. Why don't some tech-savy people (the kinds that roam around HN) create an open-source publishing platform and offer journals to use their services for free / cheaply? Something like a GitLab for publishing papers. I wouldn't be surprised if the German government would agree to fund such a thing these days. This would make such a jump for willing editorial boards much easier.
"The building’s value, meanwhile, has gone up, and the owners have been able to borrow more money by refinancing the property’s debt. Late last year, Messrs. Neumann and Tahari took out a $77.5 million loan, according to loan adviser Meridian Capital Group, $7.5 million more than the prior loan to buy the building."

I'm amazed. When does this information about self-leasing show up in due diligence by investors? The prospect of return to the investors must overshadow such data? Is the real-estate market just so inflated at the moment that if you can play it why not do so?

The self-leasing strategy + WeWork makes the property value higher (presumably because the rent-ability of the property is proven when a WeWork tenant moves in). Then the property owners can leverage the property. Others have raised the point of conflict of interest and fiduciary responsibility and the not-so-sound financials of the business (e.g. Softbank backs down from $16B to $2B in new investment (still a big number)). I'm curious what is going on here or is it obvious?
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> and if I mess up, quitely crawl back to the peaceful place.

Ok, but getting to THAT level of comfort takes a long time and many failed attempts.

While I understand why folks may want a GUI for git, I am continually amazed that there hasn't been an effort to "refactor" git commands so they're more consistent, easier to remember and easier to discover. It's a miracle that git has taken root so strongly, given it's shitty user experience.

I've been using git for years, and STILL, I need my cheatsheets and google far more than I would ever admit in person. Anything that's outside of heavily practiced workflow-- and I'm in a world of confusion.
I disagree, but that wasn't my point, anyway.

My point was that you cannot invite real interest-driven negotiations and then complain about red lines the other side draws in the sand.

It's either a real negotiation or an agreement between friends.

The latter would have been preferable, but all the hatred towards the EU side made that an immediate non-starter.
Apple expands its reach with free Apple Music on Verizon Wireless
In a way they did just that. David Cameron negotated some changes to EU law (minor tweaks), and said to the British people: "I went to the EU and got these changes, shall we stay in or leave?"
From what I've heard, the easiest way of turning a stolen painting into cash is by, in effect, selling it back to its legitimate owner. You do this by using a trusted agent who collects a "reward" for helping to recover the painting, but in a manner that does not reveal who stole it in the first place. It's not easy and it can go wrong, of course, but it's presumably easier than finding a real-life James-Bond-villain to buy it from you.
No, it's when you get the right answer for the wrong reason, like a math problem solution
that has two mistakes that cancel out in the end result, but are still incorrect logic
Apple used to have a few of these sorts of effects scattered throughout iOS back in the skeuomorphic days; the volume slider in particular made heavy use of it

https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3082329/ios-6-button-tilt...
That was my point. The rest was extra.
Evaluating translation systems
I find it hard to believe that there's any software out there that doesn't, eventually, invoke Perl as a subprocess .. I mean, its Perl.
ML definitely works better on good data. If you have bad data, putting some effort into turning it into good data can get you a lot of decent results very quickly. Whenever you hear a ML experts talk about 'feature extraction', they are talking about turning unstructured data into more structured data. With unsupervised learning, you rely on this happening automagically.

I've seen some naive approaches struggle to get good results when all that was needed was beating some sense into the data. This typically requires domain knowledge. IMHO most of the engineering effort in ML is not tuning the algorithms but moving data around.

A little practical example: consider a dataset containing POIs and a ML based search ranking algorithm that is struggling with correctly ranking airports. Do you 1) spend a year trying to get your algorithm to work better using examples of 'good' results, or 2) figure out a better source for the limited number of airports that exist in the world with better metadata. Turns out a ~day of sorting this out with a few good open data sources gets you a lot further than months of trying out different ways to extract features that aren't there.

We had a whole team of ML PhDs. on this and they couldn't get it done. A single engineering intern came up with the obvious analysis: this data is shit, fixing that is easy, lets fix that. Problem solved.
It is the upstream vendor that issues fixes. What RedHat does is that it takes the commits that fix the bug and merge them into their forks and release.
Biggest Open Problems in NLP
Lurk would be what I actually mean. I cause no harm and never post, only envy in entertaining myself of maybe someday buying one.
Yes, that is exactly how it works. Provided the bug reporter has a support contract and enough clout.
No, they really were not a specific group. There was eventually an organization that organised some of the biggest groups of mujahideen in Afghanistan into a couple of alliances (the Peshawar 7 and the Teheran Eight being two of them), but there were many other groups as well.

The Taliban did not in any case organize until after infighting broke out again among those groups, and the Taliban's growth came in large part exactly because these groups were far more disunited at the point the Taliban was rising than during the war against the Soviets.
Is there a reason for keeping the specific place secret?
As I said elsewhere: Yes, the KGB defector Yuri [1] in 1984 said as much that there is manipulation. He describes a slow distruption they started of America by infiltrating the education system. This attacks the weakness of a democracy, which is the fact that it’s run by people for the behest of itself as a system and does not answer to an estate that would otherwise check its malfunctioning.

However, that doesn’t mean the movements of dissent is caused by this. They could be, or they could be a symptom of the problems not solved by a long term malfunctioning Democratic system. And the malfunctioning could be some other more major political ideology.

[1] https://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA
Now I see why you can't change /usr/bin on macos. actually there is both perl5 and python2.7 in /usr/bin, libc does have a choice (that is if the tweet is true)...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
They have the core repo and other less/un-supported repos/channels. They'll support everything in the main repo.
Committing to version control is one of the ideal uses of a GUI. You can skim your eye over the files you've changed, and flick between their diffs by just clicking on their file names, before going ahead with the commit. You can simultaneously cast your eye over recent commits in the revision history. Of course these are easily accesible with git status and git log (|less) but it's not the same as dealing with the information graphically.

I would posit the ed text editor for comparison. Why bother with a graphical text editor (including terminal editors like Vi and Emacs)? After all, you can look at the context surrounding lines you wish to edit by entering the appropriate ed commands.

I think it comes down to developers being so used to working with command line tools that they don't give GUIs a proper chance - ironically the exact objection they have with less experienced users not using the command line.
Because the EU has a lot more to offer than the UK alone.
>The Tor Foundation itself could also have been founded by Mork from Ork to hide his pornographic consumption from Orson.

No, "Mork from Ork" is a fictional character, while the people who started the Tor project and the Tor foundation are real people, and were funded, since the beginning, by the Office of Naval Research and the NSA. In fact, the article goes into this extensively, and these facts are not in question:

>The technology was funded by the Office of Naval Research and DARPA. Early development was spearheaded by Paul Syverson, Michael Reed and David Goldschlag — all military mathematicians and computer systems researchers working for the Naval Research Laboratory, sitting inside the massive Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling military base in Southeast Washington, D.C.

>But in 2002, seven years after it began, the project moved into a different and more active phase. Paul Syverson from the Naval Research Laboratory stayed on the project, but two new guys fresh outta MIT grad school came on board: Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson. They were not formally employed by Naval Labs, but were on contract from DARPA and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Center for High Assurance Computer Systems.

>At the very end of 2004, with Tor technology finally ready for deployment, the US Navy cut most of its Tor funding, released it under an open source license and, oddly, the project was handed over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

So creating bizarre strawmen about "Mork from Ork" and using weasel-words like "conspiracy theory" doesn't add anything to the discussion.

>I imagine the bulk of Tor traffic is DNM trade which intelligence agencies just aren't going to care about some 17 year old ordering MDMA for his friends with bitcoin.

This is also a strawman, no one (except for you) was talking about "17 year old ordering MDMA for his friends with bitcoin."

It's interesting that there is so much ostensible "faith" in the Tor Foundation and a seeming emotional reaction to questions about it. I say "ostensible" because my suspicion is those reactions are feigned.

The job of the NSA is signals intelligence; the Tor network is a juicy target for signals intelligence; NSA has been involved in not just the foundational technology of Tor, but the various Tor research projects.

If the NSA does NOT have "back doors" into the Tor network, they aren't doing their job.
I think it's important to consider list lengths; the people on the list of people on short lists are going to have a lot more abnormal things happen to them, good and bad, than the people on the list of people only on long lists. I do wonder which is the longer of the two lists, though.
Markov chains explained
Not just in silicon valley by a long way.

MG Rover: https://insolvencyandlaw.co.uk/why-didnt-insolvency-service-...

BHS: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/mar/27/philip-gree... / https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/28/philip-gree...

Maplin: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2018/02/28/40831/

(fundamentally in a capitalist society that recognises no moral restraint on money and it's not illegal ... why not? Surely you take as much money from the investors as you can and pocket exactly as much as you can get away with without being prosecuted? Anything less would be economically inefficient! /s)
Although it doesn't sound right, on the other hand why would Neumann rent his commercial real estate assets to WeWork competitors?

Maybe the question should be, why the hell Neumann bought properties directly instead of using the WeWork vehicle?

We all know the answer to that I think.
BBC News website spoofed by Bitcoin scammers
the author can license his own source code however he likes. only, when distributing the compiled binaries, you're required to provide the whole sources under libre (gpl compatible) terms.
The Brexit promise was that there would be no downsides, that there would still be frictionless trade with the EU (which so much of the UK economy relies on), that nonUK EU citizens in the UK would have to leave, but UK citizens in the EU27 would be able to stay there.
When I was first learning git, I found an online visualizer like this [0] that really helped make make concrete the ideas of git history being a graph, and what different operations did on that graph.

There was still obviously the issue of memorizing the commands, but at least I knew what the commands were doing on a deeper level.

[0] https://learngitbranching.js.org/