skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hybrids are "mainstream and unremarkable" already but non-hybrid cars are still sold. Pure electric vehicles today are at the same place that hybrids were at in the late 1990's.

It's not like mobile phones where the existing market is going to disappear overnight. Cars survive at least 20 years in many cases, meaning gasoline infrastructure is going to be around for a good, long while.

And if you project over the next 2-3 decades it's going to require for electric vehicles to become a majority of the market, it's increasingly possible for the underlying market dynamics to change even more. There is a ton of credible doubt for a future of, "every household has two cars just like 1960's American suburbia, except those cars are electric now".
From a security perspective, the OWASP top 10 is required reading if you don’t know it yet. More generally, always assume your users are hostile and don’t trust any input that comes from them (this may come across as harsh, but really: if there is a loophole or data that you don’t validate server-side, someone will abuse it).

If you need to support a variety of clients, especially older ones, stay away from fancy js stuff and focus on vanilla html and server-side rendering. Invest in a way to test your website from different clients (this can just be a few VMs running different OS/browser versions). Fun story: after launching a new SPA website, extensively tested in Chrome, FF and Safari, our first user complained of seeing a blank page. He was using IE11...

Scalability is pretty much a solved problem for websites: load balancing and auto-scaling will take you a long way; you may eventually encounter a bottleneck at the database layer for which mature solutions (e.g. read replicas) exist.

Invest in monitoring your app, both from a technical standpoint (response time, % of 4xx/500 pages, etc) and from a functional perspective (e.g. set up a script that simulates a login, fetching a document, filling out a form... and send an alert if the script fails)
This is another issue, everyone's definition of "privacy" is different. I want total privacy, which I can't have. That said, you're correct to say that there are some people out there who just want a little privacy.
It's a hodgepodge.

Mostly Matlab, Python, and R, with a few things that have tight time/memory requirements in C++. Matlab was really popular in neuroscience for a very long time, so we still have a lot of code in m-files, but most labs are moving towards Python (and a few towards R).

The code quality varies a lot. Some of our "core" stuff is great, but there's also a lot of stuff that was written quickly and meant to be run once ("let's just try it"), which is cold comfort when you find it years later.

People also come in with varying levels of programming skill. I'm going to try to do actual code reviews with the undergrads this summer to see if we can't make our stuff a little less embarrassing.
It isn't just the US, it is everyone in some form. The only people who understand an topic well enough to regulate it are insiders to the industry. The rest of us have opinions that are often misinformed.
Tumblr is just lazy nowadays. There are many fandoms being active though. The spark is long gone since Yahoo got their old shaggy greedy fingers on it. Pornography aside, it is a great place to host a blog. Nice template, can support many types of media. The disgusting part is the 3-4 pages of other filthy fingers (ads-trackers) that welcome you every time you go to <insert-name>.tumblr.com
Thanks for doing this Admiral_Cloudberg, you have definitely opened peoples eyes in ways that the FAA and Boeing have not.
On the Significance of Gwern’s Poem Generator
Both WAPO and NYT have a clear editorial and political agenda against Facebook.

To add two datapoints to your observation above:

"Facebook’s top executive in charge of all products, Chris Cox, the longtime confidant of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company, the highest-level departure at the social media giant amid nearly two years of sustained crises." (WAPO) [1]

"Two Facebook Inc. senior executives said Thursday that they would leave the company—surprise departures that come days after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major shift in direction for the company." (WSJ) [2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/14/faceboo...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-top-facebook-executives-lea...
Facebook opens up its internal AI training hardware and custom-built chips
And now, tooltip previews on that page for browsing convenience.
> There has to be something to that.

Well, no, there doesn't have to be something to that. Random data often exhibits clusters.

However, it is unwise to assume that there isn't something to that. It just also is unwise to assume that there is. Keep an open mind and investigate.
I wonder what the dollar value of that is. I know that even fairly recently Tumblr was valued at $0
Just a month ago there was a HN thread about sex censorship killing off safe spaces for LGBTQ folks and more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19061135

Tumbler really didn't do anyone justice. They're clearly reaping what they sowed. Unfortunately it's a lose/lose/lose situation for all.
Not at all. If you walk into a bakery and say "I want a wedding cake" they will immediately sit you down to discuss what type of custom cake you want. You would have to explicitly specify that you wanted a pre-made, off-the-shelf cake if that is what you were looking for.

It was not even a question in the lawsuit that a pre-made cake would have been an acceptable substitute.

I said "most people" because I'm sure there are people who have less formal, low-budget weddings where they grab any old cake from the grocery store. That is not what is understood when someone says "wedding cake".
In case anyone hasn't heard of Mr. Hands and is wondering why syn0byte didn't provide a citation...

It's extremely NSFW. Suffice to say, a man and a horse are involved, and the man did not survive. Google/Duck it at your own risk.
I've had problems with Google putting their own messages to me in the spam folder.

The Gmail spam filtering is totally hit and miss - I have had a number of Gmail/Gsuite accounts and the level of deliverability is all over the place. When it's good, it's great. When it isn't, no action you take will prevent it from sending important messages to the spam folder.
They’re very publicly pivoting to /claiming/ to take privacy seriously. I don’t know why anyone would believe them, given their track record, continued willful ignorance about the actual definition of privacy, and vested interest in mining every detail about their users to achieve better ad targeting.
You just proved my point.
I read "best" as "most talented", not "most moral".
When we burn fossil fuels a huge volume of hazardous waste just goes into the environment, and we know what it does then. With nuclear there is also a huge volume of hazardous waste, but at least it remains spatially consolidated and in our control. The consensus best solution is deep burial. Sure we might run out of space and create nuclear "landmines" over the very long term, but it's a preferable tradeoff to the much more imminent threats of the global warming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#High-level_w...
Gmail does know which messages in the thread you've already read, though; it'll leave the unread messages uncollapsed, but the ones that were already read will be collapsed.

The problem is that the first message is also uncollapsed, so the user has to know to scroll to the bottom.
For what is worth, this does work on Twitter (by straight blocking the account which posts the ad). I started seeing noticeably fewer ads after doing that.
I don't believe any rights or privacy is being violated. That is the difference.
Doing the nerd's work. Thank you! <3
I would hire you.

Maximizing efficiency, prioritizing, creative thinking, solving real world problems within short deadlines — these are all super important for any business and within your proven abilities.
"Best" part of the first article:

> Aero Mechanic, the District 751 monthly newspaper, accused Boeing of “essentially masking defects,” by pressuring inspectors to not record defects when found but instead to simply have them fixed, then afterward produce data to the FAA showing a big decrease in defects as a justification for cutting out inspections.
not entirely true... you can pair a new device which shares the decryption key. hell, you could even do a p2p sync so the server stores nothing... there are plenty of options that get technically harder with each increment (perfect forward secrecy gives you some limitations), but you can absolutely backup and restore, or even live sync conversations between multiple devices even if it’s e2e
Maybe you are reading between the lines too much. Maybe he really just wants to do something else or spend more time with his family, and if he felt like Facebook was bending things the wrong way he'd say so. His point is more that progress in the right direction requires effort, and that instead of complaining we should take up our banner and work to make the future what we want it to be.
The benefit of open source is that it is verifiable by peer review.

I would take an open source and peer reviewed voting system that was originated by the NSA and CIA and every other spook organization over one that was closed-source and hand-coded by Larry Lessig or whomever is your favorite person of integrity.
Could be a good application of hash chaining as it has existed since the 80’s. Block chains wouldn’t add much value over that here, however.
You know that wiggle room I described? It's quoted right there in the linked document.

1) Yale - "The Admissions Committee then factors in student qualities such as motivation, curiosity, energy, leadership ability, and distinctive talents."
[Ed. Note distinctive talents - includes being related to someone who paid for that new building on campus. Having your family name on a campus building is quite distinctive, or so I presume]

2) Stanfurd - "Remember, however, that our evaluation goes beyond any numerical formula. There is no minimum GPA or test score; nor is there any specific number of AP or honors courses you must have on your transcript in order to be admitted to Stanford."
[Ed. Note: the evaluation goes beyond a numerical formula because it also includes who your parents are and how your enrollment will affect football season ticket sales]

3)G-town - "Georgetown maintains a holistic review process..." [Ed. Note: because holistic includes the whole Legacy thing]

4) UCLA - "These select applicants are the ones who would contribute
the most to UCLA’s dynamic learning environment;" [Ed. Note: Is that a double entendre? You be the judge!]

etc., etc.

In summary, this lawsuit is DOA.
Sheryl-driven development?
I dunno what AWS cells are and if the terminology matches, but Google's Borg already has a concept of cells internally, a cluster can hold cells, and each cell can represents a kind of job.
Huh? I don't know what that means. Talented in fucking up the public perception of Facebook? Yeah they were good at that for sure.
Tumblr has a fantastic community of cartoonists, I have actually asked some cartoonists to put their designs on other platforms just so I can buy a t-shirt with some of their cartoons. Of course it is just a platform to showcase the free stuff and then pull people to their patreon, which makes perfect sense. Free blog hosting with X million teenagers.
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
You are not their target market.

Most of these companies make all of their money from "whales," people who play around the clock and spend a significant amount of money per month on in-app purchases and/or subscriptions.

They have optimized their experience for finding and landing whales, and at the end of the day, you are probably an irritant to them, walking around complaining about the game while contributing so little to the developer's revenues.

This, by the way, is why I don't play very many mobile games.
Check out Ted Chiang. He did technical writing for programmers, and science fiction writing for the public. His famous piece, "Story of Your Life", was turned into the film, "Arrival".
Sony’s PlayStation 5 Might Use AI to Learn from Players. Is This Skynet?
I feel like advertisements ruin everything. I remember driving onto the my air force base and being thankful that all the visual pollution was gone. It was like stepping into another world. Now the internet has ads everywhere. I find the attention economy awful and dystopian. I'd gladly pay to never see another ad.
Wow this is really useful.
You're thinking of classes of vehicles. Where what I'm referring to is major components, engines, transmissions, suspension, structural design. Those designs tend to be very long lived on the order of 15 to 30 years. Designing from scratch takes a long time and results in teething issues as the design flaws get worked out. The expense and time it takes stretches the ROI out.

Tweaks involve modifying already well understood systems. Risk is limited, return on investment is quick. Allows you to keep making money.
Why do you distinguish lewdness and pornography from fake science. Your metric for classifying various forms of content honestly just renders your argument rather hypocritical.
This is fucking bananas. For nearly a decade, Facebook has been at the forefront of innovating how code is deployed at global scale. They presumably have gradual rollouts, automated rollbacks, anomaly detection, not to mention (I assume) loads of organizational safeguards in place to ensure this sort of thing never happens.

Something else happened. This was not a configuration issue. Edit: If it was, I'd expect a post-mortem post-haste.
In addition to what other have said, I think the part mammoths play in pop culture plays a huge part here. Nobody would be (or rather is as those already exist) interested in some worm frozen worm or even the equally interesting woolly rhino, cave hyena or giant elk. I think its a combination of our fascination in elephants as huge animal with an astonishing social structure very like us and the fact that mammoths once not so long ago (once again, egyptian pyramids are older) played an important role in our (northern europe and asia where most of the research is coming from) history, after all there are many cave paintings depicting mammoths. As such, I think this research is not so much biological research but rather a big social historic project where we recreate what once was.

That, the point that the involved techniques may prove valuable in other projects and because mammoths once played an important role as mega herbivorous in steppes of the northern hemisphere (which were once as species rich as the African savanna and we know the touristic attraction of that)
LCOE estimates for at least the short duration gaps has solar+ batteries beating nat-gas peakers. This is pretty recent, in actual construction bids for IIRC < 4hr capability. Expect more encroachment onto basically mature nat-gas tech space as batteries and solar continue to get cheaper.
Also from Pittsburgh, and my wife lost her dad in this crash.

The top comment on this thread (re: "acceptable loss"), is infuriating.
> Over the past two years they've published ~14,000 articles each on FB

That would mean publishing around 19 articles a day. So, uh, [citation needed].

I'd say that both WaPo and NYT have a clear editorial and political agenda of questioning those with/in power. Silicon Valley companies like Facebook and Google (who have had their own fair share of bad coverage) are enormously powerful, rich companies that own a huge amount of data about all of us. It's only right that they are held to account when they do things with that data that users don't want. It's something Wall Street banks and oil companies have had to bear for a long time.
I’m not big into insta, but I don’t get that impression at all. Tumblr, sure.
Is it capturing and saving the video you take?
I think you are missing the point. There is something in the Chinese genetic profile that increases the chances of a specific type of cancer. This is useful on it's own. Just because the different "races" converged again before geographical separation was maintained long enough to make them genetically incompatible doesn't mean that some differences haven't already propagated in these populations. The increased risk of cancer is exactly a result of being a member of the specific genetic race and thus carrying said gene, not the other way around. There is clearly a causative role, even if we don't know what it is step by step.
The problem with Tumblr is that they could never figure out how to make profit from it. Yahoo just made things worse by giving full access to so many advertisers and trackers. Think Cambridge Analytica x50, but at least they have do documented it.
All Silicon Valley companies are like this. Do you really think Chris Cox was better at feeding people kool-aid than Steve Jobs?
Out of curiosity, does Imgur not allow you to modify the text passages in the album after you create it? If it does and I was the author, I would certainly be putting my name/username and a link to the Reddit post in there!
In his book, Andrew Yang points out that one of the major factors damaging Social Security right now is a sharp rise (like a doubling) in disability cases. And the amount of people on disability maps directly to areas of economic depression and underemployment. Basically, it's become an alternative form of long-term unemployment for people who are unable to find work. And worse, since getting a job will likely lead to losing benefits, it actively discourages employment and makes people think of themselves as broken failures.

That all said, what is your alternative? Let huge swaths of the country degenerate into poverty and despair? Wait for them to vote an actual fascist into office? Or riot?

Given a choice between higher taxes and civil war, I will gladly choose higher taxes.
It's a common game of cat and mice, still "played" to this day. When they can be bothered enough, authorities will fill a section of a gallery with concrete. And, in turn, when cataphiles can be bothered enough, they tear down a piece of an adjacent wall and dig through the dirt on the other side to go around the blocked section. I've also seen crawl holes dug under 1m-or-2m-thick rubble walls.

Amazing to see the length people will go to :')
What are the tiny details?!
How is that contradictory to what Toine said?
In addition to the issues of vote buying described in other comments, you’re also amplifying the spoiler effect to a massive degree with a real time vote feed.

Anyone in later time zones will be less incentivized to vote if they can see the results of all the votes that came before them.

IMHO even exit polling should be outlawed. This day-long televised circus during elections is really damaging to democracy...
There's plenty of corn in the midwest. Also Brazil is the largest ethanol producer, producing from sugar cane. I bet because of this we may see more corn this year and less soybeans due to the trade war.
Hmmm... I lost his point at chores.

People do chores to make our lives simpler, not harder. I do chores so that I have clothes to wear next week.

If you don't like chores, simply don't do them. You're an adult, its your responsibility to figure out how to spend your time. For the most part, chores enable you to live better, more fruitful lives. Chores are 100% my freetime. I don't like chores either, but failing to do chores means failing to have clean clothes for tomorrow.

I understand this is a reddit for rants and stuff. But dude... no one is forcing you to do chores. Just stop doing them if you don't like em. You'll find out that life is better when you do chores though.
My understanding is that the people working in that industry prefer to call it "sex work."

"Prostitute" has negative historical connotations. For example, we will say that Mitch McConnell has prostituted himself to billionaires, but we would never call him a sex worker.

/ducks
Extraordinary claims like this (being the only human ever reported AFAIK not requiring sleep) need extraordinary evidence, which likely are unobtainable for this anecdotal case.

> His wakefulness caused headaches only when he didn't rest his eyes for at least an hour a day

That seems like a loophole big enough to drive a Medium Mark C Hornet Tank through.
What is this scattered design about?

https://tomverbeure.github.io/assets/swerv/slides/13%20-%20S...
> A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

- Narrator, Fight Club
Not a web dev. Is there a way to force U2F with firefox for google accounts? The lack of (obvious) U2F support in FF for Google accounts is one of the things holding me back from switching back to FF from Chrome.
Elizabeth Warren got her wish, she "busted" big tech and she didn't even need legislation or executive authority to do it. :)
Doesn't sound much like a financial advantage compared to the (presumably) more predictable and stable prices for nuclear.

Reactors that are already built and in good operating order provide very predictable electricity at low-moderate costs.

Building new reactors is much less predictable. France's latest reactor design, the EPR, is many years behind schedule and many billions over budget at both French and Finnish projects to build the new reactor. It was even years late when built in China, where presumably no lawsuits/activists/excessive safety regulations were ever allowed to get in the way.
I gave money to Yang for this because I think having an Asian American on the stage would be a good thing for the debate.
Hm, they must have gained a shit load of new content creators. Porn and <shitload_of_letters>+ was not just 30% of tumblr, it was like 80% of it.
The only thing predictable about nuclear construction prices and schedules is that they tend to go over by 2x-4x or higher (but they tend to get canceled at that point).

The 3% difference is a reasonable criticism, meaning that they're basically at parity cost wise in this comparison. But then you really have to add the 1000+ year waste storage costs - which even if not ignored, are ridiculous to estimate costs for.
It sounds like this public report may just be using the word "configuration" to mean anything other than the software itself. I imagine that what really happened is they got alerted to high disk usage and the operator issued a major compaction which took out the bigtable. That's caused numerous Google outages and is consistent with the report.
Tried:

regex = Regexp.new '\b\w{15}\b'
IO.foreach('logs1.txt') {|x| puts x if regex.match? x }

... but performance and RAM usage were identical.
> Parents shouldn't be allowed to harm their children.

But not getting them vaccinated doesn't harm their children...

...provided that everyone else around their children is vaccinated.

But when that population drops low enough...then herd immunity stops working. Then their children get sick, and other children may also get sick, etc.

So a parent not harming their children is increasing the risk to other parent's children that they will be harmed. Should parents be allowed to stochastically harm other parent's children?

Nobody can prove it in the individual case - but statistically it can be shown to cause such harm...

None of that brings into the discussion that such unvaccinated children could become sick and pass it on to other immunocompromised individuals (adults and children)...
Soft foods helped humans form 'f' and 'v' sounds – study
I remember the speech. It had no effect on how much I looked forward to waking up in the morning to go work there.