skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking as you say a doubling or tripling of demand for electricity in that case.

The costs to replace the current transmission and distribution grids in the US are estimated at $500 billion and $1800 billion, respectively.

So we're talking ballpark $5 trillion to enable a tripling in electricity demand. Over a ten year period, this corresponds approximately to the entire US defense budget.

We're literally talking about digging up all of the streets, everywhere. I don't want to be negative, but that's what we are talking about.
Original blog post link: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak

Mods, please update or flag as dup if it is so
Why is 'totalUpToPrevious' better than 'sum' or 'total'? I could see it being good for explaining what a reduce does, but once you know how they work, 'sum' tells you exactly which argument is the accumulator.
Not surprising given that they don't tax electric cars and that normal petrol cars have taxes that can be around 100%, doubling their value.

Also, electric cars in Norway have lots of other incentives: reduced road tolls, registration fees, and petrol is heavily taxed.
Small note: my company is a quant hedge fund, where all researchers are technical.
Yeah that one. Was internal code (well derived from code off stackflow) but completely harmless. The response - GS getting the FBI to go after him was wildly disproportionate.
Turkey’s marriage of F-35 and S-400 ‘absolutely unsustainable’
And Now for Something Completely Different
12Gw == 12,000Mw. Off a quick lookup, 2Mw of wind requires 1.5 acres of land. A little arithmetic, some rounding up, and we need, say, 10,000 acres of wind power, around 15 square miles. But you'll raise an objection, so double that. And then you'll raise another objection, so double it again, and sooner or later, we're up to 100 square miles of windmills.

The city of Moscow alone is 970 square miles.

For point of comparison, Minnesota produced 3500Mw of wind in 2016, from wind farms mostly in the southwest part of the state. There's lots and lots of land left for more wind farms.
Yes, messy codebases are the norm. some places even have broken build systems, broken configuration systems, that make even the simplest things incredibly difficult to work with. sometimes you have to develop remotely, making everything much harder.

It's pretty normal for work to be No fun. That's just the way it is. Save up as much money as you can. Live as frugally as possible. With the savings you can retire early and never have to work again.
Humanity’s long, strange quest to build a war-stopping death ray
I put together a little demo looking at the impact of using fmt vs os for Hello, World.

https://github.com/allingeek/fmt-vs-os
> So you can take away the data but you can't take away the fact that they had the data.

I know and that's my point why it can't be considered as a payment.
Fascinating. Feel free to email me to followup later (info in profile); might be relevant for a study some colleagues are working on this space.
I agree with all of this.
Keep in mind that "FOSS development model" does not equal "bazaar-style" development. Case in point: the *BSDs follow a more cathedral-style development model.
I fully agree with the author's first point ("A coherent vision requires centralized design"). Reusing my previous example, BSDs are shipped as operating systems, not a kernel and a hodge podge of packages. There's a bunch of things that are half assed on Linux distributions and I partially blame the bazaar style. It's not that it's a bad way to develop software, it's just that it's hard to make sense of the whole mess that comes with the bazaar.
And where are you getting those number from?
mailbox.org - it allows you to have up to 25 aliases so you can use it with multiple domains
Go Fmt vs. Os in Hello, World
Matt Levine's take on it (tl;dr: "I don't know!") from March 1:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-01/insura...
I wonder how much time will pass before using a debugger becomes illegal unless you have a license.
WhatsApp's New Tip Line Is Apparently “Not a Helpline” for Fake News at All
That one was a Boeing 737 MAX 7 "Boeing 737 MAX 7 (twin-jet)".

Isn't it only the 737 MAX 8 + 9s that are grounded?

According to this article it is just the 8s and 9s.

> The United States will follow much of the rest of the world in grounding Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 jets after the models were involved in two deadly plane crashes in five months.

The Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 9s are the ones with the bigger engines and single sensor MCAS that is essentially a single point of failure.

The 737 MAX 8 and 9 are essentially new planes, they should have just made new versions but they wanted to squeeze this into existing certifications and training to cut costs for Boeing and airliners. No idea why the FAA allowed them to do this. It has some blowback for Boeing as now people think all 737s are bad.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/13/18264348/t...
IMO, pension governance would be a better place to reform policy, as opposed to at the central bank level. I mean, should economy-wide monetary policy be changed just because of the arguably foolish behavior of some VC funds in SV?
It's a malicious takeover of a domain due to a process oversight from GH. They should check if a person actually controls the domain before letting any GH user host a GH pages site on that domain.
Relevant stories:

Even though Curve25519 is built to be easy to implement in constant time, there was a non-constant time bug in a Curve25519 library: https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2017/01/16/when-consta...

Basically the compiled code ends up using a run-time Windows library for 64-bit multiplication. That library decided to skip the upper 32-bit multiplication when the operands had 32 all zero MSBs. Oops.

ChaCha20 is also easy to implement in constant time. Which tends to be true. But most ChaCha20 implementations have other side channels. Turns out, when CPUs access non-register memory, the EM and power characteristics of that access are dependent on the bits of the data being accessed. Which means you can perform power or EM analysis on a CPU running ChaCha20 and extract the key. Oops. (Search for bricklayer attack)

In other words, become a cryptographer because you'll always have more work :)
And Model 3 deliveries started either at the end of February or early March, meaning a lot of pent up demands/orders are being satisfied all at once.
Half of that is from the chemical transformation of limestone to quicklime, and half of it is from the fuel energy currently used to drive the transformation:

https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/05/09/emissions-from-the-...

So if carbon-neutral fuels or clean electricity were substituted in the calcination process, the CO2 burden would be reduced by half without any additional downstream changes.
The cutoff switches actually disconnect the power to the trim motor, so this is unlikely unless Boeing changed something else they've told no-one about.

More likely is that the pilots turned the electric trim back on because as the aircraft gained airspeed (a normal thing when dealing with unreliable airspeed indications), the manual trim was not effective enough. This has been tried in the simulator:

https://leehamnews.com/2019/04/03/et302-used-the-cut-out-swi...

Generally, the manual trim and elevator can both overcome a nose-down trimmed stabilizer at the speeds seen just after takeoff. But if you don't rapidly trim back, and you let the airspeed build, you're now in a tricky situation. The manual trim is now too hard to move, increasing back pressure on the yoke is needed to counter the trim, and you don't want to throttle back, because the pitch up from the engines is all that's keeping you from diving. At this point, really your only course of action might be to re-enable electric trim.

This does lead to the worrying question as to whether a runaway nose-down trim in an older 737 just after takeoff could result in the same outcome.
Let's be honest, it's also a big way they build data on you and show you targeted ads so I'm sure it pays for itself without direct revenue.
You're not missing anything - it's 100/200 level computer science. (Freshman/Sophomore)
Wait, how the heck did "At the Pool" get plaintext fb passwords?
Facebook Records Found on AWS
So they'd have to let the plane nose down towards the ground for a bit to then be able to trim back up. This sounds like a cascading failure to me.
Probably not much. How many are actually impossible if you factor in pawn promotion though? The only one that comes to mind immediately for any individual piece is pawns on their own first row and a board without two kings.
An illuminating exercise: in any sentence where "political correctness" appears, replace it with "treating people with dignity" and re-read the sentence.
Like Sidewalk, Mungo Park, and any number of initiatives it was managed into extinction by political ineptness.
Privacy and Civil Liberties Organizations Urge Google to Suspend Gmail (2004)
I would bet it is 100% about property values. If yourview has the disruptive harmony of hypnotically rotating windmills or solar panels lazily soaking up the sun embodying a rebellion and rejection of the economy you exploited to make your money, well, what rich people would want to buy your view that has such a noxious interjection into your narcissistic self-contained idyll?
ok while we're playing "ask a hedge fund guy"

Say I set up a fund holding a low cost s&p500 index ETF, but at the end of each year sold naked puts with a ~1/25 risk of ruin to earn ~4% return. Therefore my fund consistently makes 4% over the market index, except for 1/25 years when it explodes and loses everything. Because the volatility is low, my sharpe ratio is good (until it explodes), correct?

Assuming it can stay in business >10-15 years won't I be a billionaire hedge fund manager by then and then change to a low risk strategy that only makes 1-2% more than market index with very low risk of ruin and just let my investors lose interest and quit the fund over the next decade while I continue to earn fees from them?
It is written in a very unambiguous way. Pretty much exactly what you might expect.
Nope that's never going to happen, Gmail is the cornerstone of G Suite. As of January 2017, G Suite has 4 million paying businesses, and 70 million G Suite for Education users.
That's how it works in the FDA regulated medical device and medical software industry. We had a woman who could shut us down on a whim. (And she would, from time to time.)

That said, in the FDA regulated industry, every change was signed by not only the engineer, but by the QA person, by the engineering manager, and by her. So in fairness to her, SHE would have been one of the people going to jail if the software told a doctor to take out the wrong kidney because of a bug in the calculation of an ortho normal basis or something. So I didn't blame her one bit.
> Neither article has an answer for how auto-trim was re-actived, be it the pilots or something else. The answer to that question may have wide reaching implications.

I can imagine that being irrelevant in this case: Even if the pilots activated it, it doesn't mean they must have made any error, see my other comment here for the details.

In short, if the pilots turned the switch off, turning off much more than just the MCAS (as there's no switch "just turn MCAS off, keep the rest on"), but then the plane was already not possible to save (it was only 1000 ft above the ground!) and they turned the switch back on, hoping for obtaining more power/possibility to trim, and the faulty MCAS kicked in again (despite being the reason for the switch cutoff before) and even sped up the crash, then the pilots in fact did absolutely all that was possible to do.

And I can even imagine that the code which included the promised "fix" by Boeing until just a few days ago still had the built-in "obvious to implement by default" logic: "oh, I'm booting, now I can point the plane to the ground again because the sensors say so and I'm completely ignoring the fact that the pilots already turned me off shortly before" and that that was the reason the fix release is now delayed. But also note that that plane, the way it is constructed, certified and sold simply needs the MCAS and can't reliably fly without it, otherwise Boeing's fix would have been turning the feature off completely.
No it's not. Peer review is often done by people have have no clue about what you're doing. And even if they do, not many are motivated to make effort to provide a good review. Source: I received comments from 4 reviewers for my last paper, and not a single one provided any useful feedback (paper's accepted). Two of them simply copy-pasted sentences from the abstract and called it a day.
CDs are, in a way, just better cassettes. The exact UI is different, but in both cases, you have a physical storage medium which you play back using a CD/cassette player.

Watching a movie in a cinema vs watching it at home are different experiences. Its not just about what it was made for.
The goal is to snoop and spy on every move everyone makes online.
What do you think about Popper's paradox? The reason I ask is because even the philosophers behind free speech didn't see it as a blank check for every expression, and agreed that there are situations where a free society benefited from speech being curtailed.
After watching Mentour Pilot's demo correcting for runaway trim in a 737 simulator, it seems like a switch that cuts out computer (autopilot, auto-speed, MCAS) control of the elevator trim motors, but keeps the column switches working would be nice. Consider how cumbersome & slow the manual wheels are: https://youtu.be/xixM_cwSLcQ?t=1129

It would be one more layer of complexity, but perhaps when the column trim switches are operated, all computer control could stop until it (autopilot, etc) is re-enabled by a human. The cutout switches in the center are still there if two column switches short out (used to be a single up-down switch, but it was single point of failure to runaway so now there are separate enable and direction switches).
Mother sues over daughter's suicide attempt in school isolation booth
Now you can have your own matrix inside Facebook to keep your data private
You might be missing the point. AlphaZero is a research project, not a commercial project.

The most interesting result is AlphaZero's playstyle. It's a lot less robotic and something that humans can actually learn from compared to Stockfish's.

Here's a coverage of the Dec 2018 paper: https://www.chess.com/news/view/updated-alphazero-crushes-st...
Yo, their example has multiple stages.
Eh, I didn't see any substantive treatment of one of the most disruptive aspects of solar: personal power generation that brings over-100% independence from the grid and can power local grids with surplus.
“I love cryptography, it tells me what part of the system not to bother attacking” -- Dr Andrew Gross.
Springer Nature publishes its first machine-generated book
Cog: Use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files
I'm puzzled why Facebook is getting the blame here. If you are seeing toxic content in your feed, it's because your friends put it there. It's not Facebook's fault that your friends suck.
Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on Amazon cloud servers
Apple and Google being allowed to act anti-competitively does not imply that they should be, and it does not mean that Hollywood should be.
The Incredible Shrinking Apple
No. The "ownership" goal should be within the company. Does Legal own it? Does so-called Product own it? Does Engineering own it? Data Science? Ad clients? Without better governance, you will have misuse.

And at some point you have to ask yourself(Zuck), is poor governance on data ownership a bug or a feature?
> Of course, some things like slander are illegal

Specifically, to prove slander, the defamed party has to demonstrate intent and damages. Same with fraud. Both of these are cases of "your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose."
I'm right there with you, seems extremely routine.
>Maybe even a pre-heat element on a stove top.

Going a little far there. The preheat loop would have to survive regular heating element temperatures, and most common refrigerants decompose above 500C.
Don't forget the mighty spreadsheets, the only software deemed as useful in finance :)
You can turn off that useless feature btw
Ok but then you have the same problem
"proliferation of cheaper electronics"

Electronics use very little electricity.

The biggest users of electricity are things with motors or heaters. Washing machines, dryers, ovens, kettles, etc.
Electronics by comparison are a rounding error.
It's all unjustified outrage... right up until it's an issue you care about. Then it's just outrageous.
Also in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's opening night this year will feature the newly restored The Cameraman. It's at the fabulous Castro Theater, with live accompaniment by the SF Conservatory of Music, on May 1.

Also, as it hasn't been mentioned, Keaton's The General is generally considered to be his masterpiece. If you see a picture of Keaton on a locomotive, or with a very fat, very blunt cannon, it's from this film.
I haven't seen serious blowback on our wind farms, and I live in MN. It's generally well embraced by the vast majority of the public and the political system.
Yeah I'm just getting "if the loop can be expressed as induction you can... write that in a comment, for some reason". Alright, that's nice. Could we express that as tests instead plzkthx?

So I thought I must be missing something.
If company A is selling hot dogs and ice cream, and B is selling hot dogs and C is selling ice cream, does that mean A has no competitors?
It’s interesting that Low income people are the ones disproportionally hit by the number of tickets, but I guess the question that needs answering is: are they in fact breaking the law?

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a parking ticket for something I haven’t legitimately done wrong, they suck, but if you break the law you get a ticket. So I’m just curious is the map supposed to help us understand that the police are disproportionately ticketing in low income areas, and by that reasoning less in higher income areas ?

Just trying to understand what’s the lesson we should take away from this. Should we forgive tickets to people who are low income?
Because candy doesn't solve problems like makeup, garcinia combogia or other weightless gadgets do.
"Zuckerberg deserves a hearing, but it's rarely a good idea to outsource regulation to the enterprise that most needs to be regulated."

This sentence implies there are instances (albeit "rare") when it is a good idea to outsource regulation to the enterprise that most needs to be regulated.

Can anyone cite a few examples?
That is not a given. Plenty of people ignore easy modes by choice, either because they prefer harder games, or because they sneer at the "plebs" playing "their" games
https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/virtual_machines/index.html
Yeah, you're right, I was misremembering the behaviour of `null && null`. At any rate, still clunkier :)
It’s a sad bit of economic reality to me that you can relocate computers with a good bit of flexibility, but you can’t afford to have them sitting around doing nothing for half the day.

If I built a data center near a wind farm I couldn’t afford to just turn the servers off when the wind dies down. I have to run them all day and site based on average cost and availability.
Fair point, I was too hasty in replying there.
You can't fix a hardware problem with software.
Well there isn’t a meritocracy to begin with, so that’s not the choice we actually have here. But no, I’m not a purist, I think as a practical matter the majority of choices we make have externalities or trade-offs and sometimes you weigh the good versus the bad.

Society is certainly worse off as a whole by not taking the $70 million donation and maybe there’s one rich kid who doesn’t get in.

Obviously this approach has its limits and can go terribly wrong. Would you let one die to save a billion? Would you shoot down a plane that’s been hijacked?

I don’t think it makes sense to be moral absolutists when the world is filled with practical choices that have to be made that will save some people and hurt others.

Is it really ethical to fail to provide full scholarships to let’s say 1,000 students because 1 student’s application got fast tracked?

My two cents are that “legacy” students are real (probably pervasive), and so is the benefit to pocketing their big fat donations.
Depending on the scale of the backend... If it's such a mess perhaps there is a business case for you fully understanding it with the intention to design and build a better thing? One that is very well documented and fit for purpose?
Facebook used to be much better at locking down third-party exfiltration. But back in the early 2010s, the zeitgeist was against it; there were countless articles in the genre of "I'm a random third party developer, and Facebook is trying to stop me from exfiltrating massive dumps of my user's data! How anticompetitive!" So they decided to start being more open.
You mean the skype dumps? https://pastebin.com/8DY2Rzuw

Essentially their strategy was

a) dox the doxxers and hope to scare them off to other chans

b) wholesale ban everybody involved

c) evac and sell the site to somebody else, which moot did end up doing
I agree that it would be nice to get 'real' number on this, rather than relying solely on empirical evidence. But given the nature of it, I don't see how that's possible.

When I mentioned other stories and comments, I wasn't only referring to those by people with "notoriety or the ability to get noticed" - indeed, I was mainly referring to randoms (such as myself, and BTW I have no notoriety and am an introvert).
>Completing a sudoku on software which gives instant correct/incorrect feedback on digits isn't as fun as puzzling it out together. Part of the fun of sudoku is going through the mechanics, fairly.

That is entirely your subjective opinion. I would likely still have fun playing sudoku where my guesses had instant feedback
Article is about the web. Clicked it because I thought it's about the early Internet.
I've heard legends about entire ETL processes being coded in Excel, but I haven't encountered them (yet).
Reported too...
Maybe it's that facebook encourages the content from your friends that is toxic, because that toxic content leads to more clicks, engagement, and ultimately revenue.
This other article that got posted today might explain why this happened in more detail: https://medium.com/@six4three/deceit-by-design-zucks-dirty-s...

Seems to suggest that FB platform apis were designed to not share any privacy metadata with devs. Maybe not the same as how apps like At The Pool stored that data, but might explain the firehose of data that FB gave devs and now they will point the finger and say it was their fault for these leaks/breaches. Food for thought.
It might not stop those people from doing whatever it is they want to do. But it helps us to be more informed. And when we're more informed, we can write better laws.

For example, it used to be perfectly legal to lie in advertising. But we became more informed, and we enacted new laws, and now you can't blatantly lie in an ad without risking being sued for it. You used to be able to say things like "Coca-Cola will make you slim." But since there's no actual benefit to drinking Coke other than quenching your thirst, that's the only benefit they'll ever promote anymore aside from taste.

Likewise, greater exposure might lead to laws that, say, require that Facebook only accept ads from companies who have a license to advertise. (I'm not advocating this, I'm just using it as an example.) Or to prove they're American if they want to advertise in America. Or something. Lots of possible ways to approach it.

But it starts with being able to see the problem clearly. And we can't do that when the data is hidden, obfuscated, protected, or simply doesn't exist.