skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've been asking users for feedback for 20+ years, I hope we've shown ourselves to be good actors!

Not sure about the Azure team (since my experience with Azure is limited to a one-off project that required a SQL Server instance to test compatibility with some client's legacy DB, plus some very recent dabbling in VS Code and Azure Data Studio), but whichever team runs Windows nowadays, for example, hasn't exactly "shown [them]selves to be good actors". Or is preinstalling Candy Crush even on "Professional" versions of Windows 10 considered being a "good actor" by today's standards?

(Sure, even the first versions of Windows had games preinstalled, but those were first-party instead of third-party, they ostensibly existed to help users learn how to use a mouse, and they didn't plaster themselves front-and-center on my Start menu like seedy massage parlors in a Bangkok red light district)

Needless to say, "we've been siphoning your data for multiple decades, so you can trust us to keep doing so even though we're actively betraying that trust at this very moment" is cold comfort at best. I would hope that the New™ and Improved™ Microsoft™ would at least have some self-awareness about that.

I'm sure your intentions are good and pure. I hope they stay that way. I have no way of knowing whether or not they will, and historical precedent says they probably won't. It shouldn't be surprising that I and plenty of other tech-savvy users would take such claims of trustworthiness with a baseball-sized grain of salt.
Is there a list of devices regular graphene has made possible?
> I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an evolutionary explanation for its prevalence.

It's kind of a corollary to the No Free Lunch theorom, really. The genes that cause autism in one configuration are probably vital in most other configurations and turning them off willy-nilly would likely be bad.
Not really. Neural nets are good at detection and classification problems for objects in the environment but they are not a panacea. Assuming a neural net is good enough to detect everything a car will see (for pedestrians this isn't the case) path planning while predicting behavior of other actors is still a very difficult unsolved problem.
World Video Game Hall of Fame Inducts Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Solitaire
Forget about PM, Even state leaders are abusing this and getting opposition sympathizers arrested in India for a while.

This abuse is most common in State of Andhra Pradesh (Whose chief minister claims he invested IT and claims to have influenced Satya Nadella enter into software :) ).

1. https://www.mirchi9.com/politics/one-case-abuse-ysrcp-social...

2. Another Arrest Video in local language (telugu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osWZE0-cQ1g
That sounded like an observation, not a judgement.
While the prosecution was dumb (it was clearly a joke), he did turn out to be a huge right wing racist anyway
I use Sheets for work and increasingly a bunch of personal stuff. I wish Google would invest more in customization of visuals and such with charts and allow for better pivot functionality, but otherwise it is pretty solid.

I can't see myself ever paying for Excel for personal use at this point.
Here's a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid:

https://www.toyota.com/priusprime/

Not much pure electric range but 640 miles total driving range.
Pardon my interruption but I searched for 'use' or 'usage' and came up empty. Anyone can tell a regular guy why it's a big deal and what are the applications? ta
Might I ask the use case. Didn't even realize that HIPAA compliant transcoding was a thing
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation – TDCS
This is only for going through customs, and controlled by the government, not a private company.
Example usage on some code with interesting pipelining + resource contention properties: https://godbolt.org/z/11oyav

(The code is from the stream vbyte repo; see https://lemire.me/blog/2017/09/27/stream-vbyte-breaking-new-... ).

Edit: Example interesting fact: the first iteration takes 35 cycles before it finishes; but the reciprocal throughput of the loop (assuming it executes a few times) is 5.3 cycles.
Alex Jones knows he's wrong from the start and does it anyway until he gets to a point where he has to either apologize or make excuses. "Can people not make mistakes?" is such a horseshit question when you're talking about Alex Jones or any of his ilk.
They went public
Everything you described is a physical trait, not something deeply intertwined with your personality and identity.

For people with mild autism, a closer analogy would be an aspect of your personality. Do you like to travel and explore new places? Imagine it was a major aspect of your life, to the point that you'd get uncomfortable staying in one place too long. How would you like it if someone told you that you should be cured of that, and you'd be better off able to settle down and be "normal"? Do you feel that you would still be you after that kind of change? If it helps, take the exact same question and reverse it. If you were told you had to be "cured" to love travelling to that degree, would you consider that a major change to your personality?

I'm purposely not speaking for severe autism here. I think the big problem with this debate is people arguing past each other, both sides saying "autism" and meaning wildly different things. I really wish they had different names.
My father is homeless. No matter how much money you throw at him, he's never been able to be self-reliant. He has not had his own place for over 20 years (I'm 31 years old). He has problems with alcohol and can never stick with anything (jobs, education, trade schools).

I think my father's homeless situation is very similar to 95% of the homeless population. They can't break their old habits or just don't want to. It takes a very competent person to stick with a job, make sure all your bills, and to acquire the skills needed to make someone want to pay you more than minimum wage.

If someone has drive and is competent, there is no reason for them to be homeless. There is so much free information out there or very cheap courses to learn many skills that are in demand.
Here's your answer:

There's no such thing, at least at scale, as sharing your information without also storing it. Not if you want the system to be reliable. So in order to make Google share your location with others, you have to give them permission to store your location. This should be self-evident enough if you take a moment to think about it.

As for lumping web history together with location history, it turns out you can derive the latter if you know the former. There's been a lot of fuss and breathless reporting about that fact. So authorizing them to know the one without the other is a bit of a fiction, especially in those cases that get written up by tech journalists. Best not to pretend that it's possible to keep them separate.

This new thing is an acknowledgement of the fact that the whole point of using Google services is sharing information with them and asking them to hold on to it, at least for a bit, at least until you've gotten the desired use out of the service... but also of the fact that a certain kind of person, the kind you often find on HN, would sleep better if Google deleted that data after it had served it's immediate purpose.
The post is about the US, your link shows the right exists only in about 6 countries, none of which are the US.So it's irrelevant.
At least in theory, it shouldn't be necessary to go to such an extreme, considering that VS Code is ostensibly FOSS and thus readily auditable for this sort of thing: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

This assumes, of course, that y'all aren't doing any weird code-injecting funny business when packaging it up for installation :)
Beyond Machine Learning Pipelines
The article doesn’t mention directness or confrontation. When your people do great things you need to openly celebrate that and advertise it outside the team. When your people do bad things you need to be confrontational, mentor your people with a path to success, and put all that on paper. It is much easier to separate that bad apple when you have paper.

The article does mention leading by example, which is important. Taken to another level let it be known that you will never ask your people to do something that you are not willing to do yourself. You cannot lead by example if you don’t set boundaries and goals for the team and heavily enforce such. When everything is nebulous and the standards are not defined your people will do what they can get away with like children running the day care.
How come IE7 plunged nearly as severely at the same timing as IE6? Was the banner shown for IE7 too?
"sea ice extent" shows up 3 times in that 400 page paper, and those phrases where it's mentioned don't support anything related to your initial claim.
Larry Page get some vegetables in Google
I recently rented a u-haul that had this and couldn't believe all cars don't do this. It is very useful having the camera and the mirror viewable at the same exact time.
Very few people want absolute free speech. E.g. "Fire" in a crowded theater, or "Give me your money or I'll kill you" are things that most people agree should be restricted.

As I've mentioned the purpose of free speech is not to allow any person to deliver any collection of words. The purpose of free speech is to allow people to discuss different ideas. When, and to the extent that, you prevent discussion of ideas, you are opposing the moral principle of free speech.

If someone were to insult my daughter they'd be communicating the idea "Let's fight". If someone were to tell me that they discovered my daughter were engaging in prostitution, not as an insult, but to talk about it with me, of course that would be very different. I'd want to know so I could talk to her about it and find out what was going in her life. The issue is not the words, but the intent. Insults aren't welcome in my home. Sharing important information certainly is.

I would have no complaint if insults were banned on Facebook, or people were prevented from being mean to one another. I would also have no complaint if larger accounts were subjected to harsher scrutiny than smaller ones. That's not what's happening though. Some people, with certain political ideas, are punished for nominally violating rules. This is an effort to prevent discussing these ideas and is, as I mentioned, absolutely a violation of free speech.

Facebook is, of course, legally free to violate free speech. That's their choice. Likewise, it's my choice to criticize it and point out hypocrisy to the extent that they claim to support the free exchange of ideas.
Huh? I did not have to look very long to find evidence [1] of rather sobering issues with IBM "Cloud". In fact, that article reported IBM as dead last in the 2018 Gartner's Magic Quadrant ranking of IaaS cloud offerings.

What are you trying to say exactly? And why should customers turn their attention to IBM?

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/04/ibm_cloud_outage/
If the database of photos has a business value then they will be looking for loopholes to store them. It would be stupid to spend money on new equipment and not maximize the returns.
How would you compare coding the matrix to strang ?

I'm going to be starting out on one of these and coding-the-matrix is very python centric (which is super helpful and practical) versus MATLAB in Strang's book.
I believe he is being sarcastic
Tony Seba has an interesting perspective on "Clean Disruption of Energy & Transportation", with one of the main takeaways being as options like solar become more viable, their takeoff could be exponential rather than moving up gradually in a straight line.

https://tonyseba.com/portfolio-item/clean-disruption-of-ener...

Also, more immediately interesting is how first world reliance on the grid could be changing.
"Distributed Energy Poised for 'Explosive Growth' on the US Grid"

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/distributed-ene...

In third world countries, there could be a complete bypassing of the traditional grid; e.g., consider Zola Electric.

http://zolaelectric.com/blog/zola-electric-announces-infinit...
The quantum computing gold rush
It can be. It can also be more serious. This is the whole point of the article - everyone is arguing about two entirely different things, a most extreme version and a least extreme version, which need different ways of thinking about how they should be approached, and in some cases treated, and in others accepted.

Arguing in absolutes only serves to enflame both sides.
That link is to a comment on the post

The new features of Fortran 2018 [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19705561
This is great, succinct advice.
Given their electricity projections are so awful, why would we trust IEA for energy or anything else? They consistently underpredict renewables each year.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/06/iea-gets-hilariously-sl...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/05/iea-accu...
A king's court, then.

Even worse.
New York's Undercover Police Taxis (2016)
Well GFW used ML model trained from side channel information to infer the gist. Pretty scary
Why is this named Risp? Lust is much better...
>So in order to make Google share your location with others, you have to give them permission to store your location.

Sure. I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is, why is google insisting on storing all the locations that I am not sharing?

I only want to share this current location. So yes, that will have to be stored somewhere. But for the love of everything I don't see why sharing my current location requires saving all my future locations.
I had a visceral reaction to that sentence too, but read the rest of the paragraph. It's not wrong in the way the author meant it. The author is saying that OpenGL is like JavaScript because it's high level, it's open and supported everywhere, it was designed in the 90s in a very different ecosystem to what we have today, and even though it's been updated and the old versions are no longer worth using (ECMAScript 3 and OpenGL 2.1,) the new versions still have a bunch of weird historical baggage. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Very misleading headline and article. Wind and solar are hardly renewable. Most of the time they produce zero energy and are backed by gas turbines.
Yeah, the moment you have a heart attack is not the time to start comparison shop. This is the argument everyone always brings up all the time, because it's so obvious.

An because it's so obvious, people will want to be prepared for it. By having insurance (real insurance, not the bizarre "health insurance" construct we have today), or subscribing to some service like you do for when you car breaks down etc.

I'm not sure what exactly would happen, but I'm certain it won't be that people will just never think about this until they all, one by one, have a medical emergency and have to unexpectedly pick a hospital on the spot.
The direction of lift does not change at all. It still is UP. That is the point.
Freefillableforms has an option to file an extension as well as a full return, for future reference.
It seems to have a very real potential to help us learn a great deal about superconductivity.
That's essentially the worst thing you could be doing for your long term health and happiness. I suggest starting with sleep, moving to exercise (compliance is better than difficulty, i.e. better to start walking and follow through compared to saying you'll go to the gym 5 days a week and go 0).
So there's a robot who can tell before it answers the phone if the person is a potential customer or not? Cool! :-(
The extremely strong freedom of speech laws we have in the US is definitely something we got right. Reading things like this make me really grateful about those protections.
I would also like hard physical disconnect from the car's essential motoring functions and from it's auxiliary and entertainment functions. You would think that would be a no-brainer but it has been demonstrated how many new cars can be shut off or have essential motor functions remotely changed by hacking in through entertainment/media systems. Not sure if it is because of ignorance, penny shaving, or intentional implementation, but I don't see how I can trust a car that some punk on a laptop can disable or crash at will using simple scripts someone could post online.
Concrete example. I am a Marylander. We recently decided to raise the minimum wage to $15. Over the river in Virginia, it's just $7.25. Even if Marylanders are willing to shoulder higher prices in order to get a higher minimum wage, we can't make that decision in isolation. We have to worry about businesses crossing the border into Virginia and--because the Constitution prohibits internal tariffs--still being able to freely sell to Maryland customers.

Or, consider guns. Most Marylanders support gun control. But Virginians love guns. We have no border so whatever gun laws we make are easily circumvented.

Likewise, we signed up for ACA expansion (extending Medicaid to poor adults) when it was first offered. Virginia didn't get around to doing it until many years later, and even then put in various additional requirements. If we were a country and controlled our own politics (and we could be--we're bigger than Norway, Denmark, or Finland) we'd have universal healthcare. Instead, we have to accept whatever we can get after compromising with Alabama, Mississippi, etc.

Borders enable self determination. When you’re a political unit and you control your borders, you can have your own laws and own institutions. When you tear down borders, you eliminate the ability of smaller political units to control the flow of goods, capital, and people. But those things must be regulated. So there is pressure to push power up to higher level political units to regulate those things. And in the process that pushes politics and political accountability further away from the people. And because it expands the polity, it forces compromises among people with different values and priorities.

A concrete example is guns. Idaho has lots of guns (57% of people own a gun). It also has low homicide rates (lower than Belgium). But because of the lack of internal borders, there is little ability to have different gun laws in different places. So there is a huge push to regulate guns at the federal level. So people in Idaho have to fight federal legislation that is proposed because people in Chicago are shooting each other with guns streaming over the border from Indiana.

You’re seeing that happen in Europe right now. The EU started by tearing down trade borders. But once you do that, you needed EU-wide rules for regulating the economy. That pushed more power to the EU, and now you’ve got bureaucrats in Brussels who can override popular law in Sweden.
A few years back, some software is banned from Chinese internet because its release number is 6.4
Cloudflare: Might consider having a subdomain redirect “browsercheck.cloudflare.com” to this deep link.
Yes. There’s not applicable commercially viable things based on graphene yet. But superconductivity will be a revolution in many ways and especially in computing.
> I will never buy a car with leather seats

Autogefühl [1] is a great YouTube channel for finding out if a new car is available with non-leather seats.

They also made an interesting video a few days ago [2] saying the leather industry is trying to pay YouTuber's to recommend leather seats in their car reviews.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/autogefuehl

[2] https://youtu.be/nP_CvLlaFlI
Ha. My brother knows I like civ so he's using that to lure me into playing Polytopia.
I've had a Google-branded phone since the original Nexus and I used to agree with you, but their support on the Pixel 2's extended warranty (which they offered because of early problems) has been a game of passing the buck with Verizon.
Research. It's a relatively simple setup with relatively easy to control properties, that does something really fucking weird. It offers a window into the behavior of other poorly understood superconductors, and that offers the eventual chance of higher temperature or higher magnetic flux superconductors. Either would be revolutionary - room temperature superconductors have obvious applications, but higher flux superconductors would allow better, smaller, cheaper stellarators and tokamaks - opening the door for fusion power.
That's… one of the more interesting things I've read today.
Rats. I got excited for a second.
Still is, on moto's at least not sure about other.
"as a joke"
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Amazing! This pretty much enables clothing brands to generate extremely targeted ads on the fly. Models can have similar body shape, hair style, skin colour to the user. Based on past photos the advertiser can figure out preferred colours, patterns and possibly even styles.
Generally agree on your broad point, but not on the architecture. I'm biased, but I would suggest that if you follow GitPrime's lead, you architect with OSS components that you can deploy on-prem as it was crucial to their success: https://blog.replicated.com/gitprime-enterprise-saas/
Acronym (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me)
It's used in the title of this submission, however
For example, here’s the CAISO report for today (there are other reporting options as well):

http://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.aspx
This is what transmission planning engineers do for a living. Distribution planning engineers do it on a smaller scale.

Back in the day, the utility would look at population growth which correlates well with electrical demand growth and did 1,5,10, & 20 year projections which told them if they needed to build new generators or transmission lines. They looked at expected fuel costs and federal/state policy changes too. One common simulation they run is called "contingency analysis" or "CA" for short. You start with a model of your grid at peak winter and summer loading. You then take each transmission line out of service in the model (1 at a time) and then run a loadflow calculation for the modified model(basically solving a massive set of nonlinear equations) to determine the amount of power flowing over all equipment. Any overloads are logged in a master list and studied to see if they can be fixed. There are also studies to look at voltage and many other things.

Today, studying the grid is a lot more complex and time consuming due to things like renewables and energy markets. For example, a long time ago before optimization software was available for large models, you would probably most likely have a list of which resources to run when and it didn't deviate much throughout the year. You would simply call on a gas plant to help you get over peak and that is about it. Now, things like probability are becoming very deeply ingrained in planning in a way they never were before.

In essence, folks working for utilities, government entities, state commissions...etc do this all the time.
Is it an American thing to not care if someone is a “______” when talking about their protected rights?
I certainly hope not, after using GitLab since day 1, I'd immediately start migrating customers off.
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I think the regular prices for cloud services are super high. a1.xlarge has 4 vcpus and 8GB memory for $500 a year? They can afford to give a lot for free.
It's also funny that people who ostensibly hold the conservative viewpoint that the government should not regulate corporations at all suddenly want the government to force companies and individuals to give away their property rights and host hateful speech.
You're math is fantastic.