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Most rooftop solar installations don't work if the grid is down. Yes, it's doable but costs more so the vast majority of installations skip that part.
Glass towers are, if not beautiful, a status symbol. Especially because brick looks stuffy and traditional whilst concrete invokes 80s brutalism. If you want a modern looking facade, glass is an easy choice.

Moreover, if temperature is properly controlled, a working or living environment with a lot of sunlight is actually very pleasant. Most people prefer sunlight over artificial light.

I guess this combines to suppress demand for the style shown here. I recall seeing similar attempts to make skyscrapers more passively cooled. They seem popular, but are quite expensive.
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> was a retrospective on how it had gone wrong in notable cases.

> highlighting that even sympathetic coverage thinks the approach is a mixed bag in practice.

You mean "how a statistically non-significant number of cases lead to the usual results in our modern outrage culture"?
You will always have cases where it doesn't work. That's why statistics are important. But statistics don't sell, what sells is "SEE, WE GAVE THIS GUY FREE HOUSING AND HE DID THIS HORRIBLE THING"
email and video calls every now and then.
People prefer happiness to freedom. I don’t think that democracy is vital to the wellness of a society. It’s just that until now all autocratic societies were ruled by shitheads and they inevitably collapsed. Now we’re seeing an autocratic society that is working fine because it’s being led by intelligent, not-too-selfish people. This is a breath of fresh air since in my opinion democracy is well past its heyday and we have to explore new options.
No black bar for this guy?
I started with 25mg years ago (hard switch in April 2012 from a pack a day) and nowadays I happily vape at 3mg
ArangoDB is open core. The best open source graph databases available now are Fuseki and JanusGraph.
> We begin at zero. As a baby with zero biases and zero personality.

No, we don't, there is a significant genetic component to many elements of personality. Using this line is a pretty clear signal that the author is just making most of the stuff up (except some of the background on research identifying the Big 5 traits.)
There's quite a trend for new 'Corporate HQ' buildings to incorporate this kind of stuff to burnish their environmental credentials - e.g. Bloomberg's new London HQ [0].

If you're just a development company building offices to rent, you'll include anything your prospective tenants are willing to pay for! A lot of those will simply want climate control to be as cheap as possible, so it'd boil down to whether the aircon / energy savings outweighed the extra capital costs incorporated in the rent.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/company/announcements/bloomberg-mo...
The better solution is to regulate it. And fortunately governments everywhere are down that path.
> GNOME decided that GTK+ must not support MDI (as in the UI paradigm where you have a container window with subwindows floating around inside it), and moreover the same kind of user interface should be implemented at the top level because a good window manager should be able of keeping an application's windows together.

This is what macOS does, and does it well. Aqua/Quartz (is it still called that?) doesn't support (or at least doesn't encourage) MDI either, but unlike Windows it's app-centric instead of document-centric, which can annoy some Windows users when ALL of an app's windows come to front when they click on its icon in the dock.
Any other form of communication – email, IMs, phones etc. If you're not having a conversation but just "like" each other's photos it's not "maintaining a remote friendship" anyway.
I find this passage resonates most when drawn against my living relationship with the rest of the text.

As for the thread, a very straightforward quote:

~

So the unwanting soul

sees what's hidden,

and the ever-wanting soul

sees only what it wants.
So even 5 years ago they weren't using basic hashing to store the passwords...

Good to know
There are some things that money can accelerate and some things it can't. Building a balanced, effective team is not a clear linear function of money.
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There’s a website called Carbon Culture which shows the energy use of a building, and they have a page for Portcullis House which uses the same chimney method. Although I doubt cooling in London is as much of an issue as Harare.

https://platform.carbonculture.net/places/portcullis-house/5...

Portcullis House Wikipedia entry, though doesn’t seem interested in its energy use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portcullis_House
You're right to be concerned. But the linked article shows what happens if you have socialised medicine that you then starve of funding.

The US is already paying far more for healthcare than the UK, and that stays true even if we only consider government funding and ignore insurance. There's no reason something similar would happen in the US.

Also, that report mentions macular degeneration, and this is a problem mostly caused by terrible pharma practices.

Avastin and lucentis are very similar. Avastin is older, and is much cheaper than lucentis. They can both be used to treat AMD. The owner has licenced lucentis for use in AMD, and has chosen not to licence avantis for AMD. This means that doctors can use avastin "off label". The rights-holders decided to sue the NHS to prevent this off-label use.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30138097

https://www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-efficiency/breaking-nhs-wi...
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> is there an obligation to give them housing in that city center, or even in the city limits?

Obligation? No. A good idea? Yes. Support services are in cities, especially centers. Half of this comment page is full with "housing alone doesn't help, we need support structures for the people" - doesn't mix well with the "hey, let's just put all the undesirables on a bus and give them housing in the middle of nowhere".
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It’s easy to sit in the ivory tower until the practicalities come banging at the door.

Just wish that those organizations would be seen as the screaming children they are iff they don’t come up with solutions.
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Then I have to deal with FOMO
About 11 years ago, Dr Corbato was invited to speak at an ACM meeting in the computer science department at Uconn.

He came, but he was, seemingly, too elderly to actually speak. So he stood up, turned on that video on YouTube, and then sat down, ending the entirety of his interaction with our students.

I was thrilled to become aware of the video and have watched it several times since, but I feel the physical appearance was not a great use of Dr. Corbato's time.
You're supposed to go through a lawyer when dealing with the police otherwise they just brush you off. Said lawyer will tell you not to escalate (like sending embedded payloads), and to document everything for the future. You went to the cops twice and gave up, imagine how many times this harasser has tried to screw you over, probably phoning in fake harassment claims to every police station they can dozens of times in hopes you get screwed over somehow by them. That's the petty game harassers do all the time. Should this person ever confront you in the physical world, and you do something violent to them, they will absolutely be lying to the police about it trying to put all the blame on you.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynastic_cycle
It is just a matter of time for the corruption to set in again.
> […] the mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by Nature, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.
Venezuela's problems are very little to do with oil and very much to do with mad Marxist style economic policy. They still have perhaps the world's largest reserves and oil prices are high. Saudi without oil would probably be more like Appalachia without coal. Or maybe Dubai.
Kids really shouldn't be smoking e-cigs either. E-cigs are only better than cigarettes because "cigarettes are so legendarily bad for you".

I can accept them as cessation devices, but all their value in this realm should be weighted against the new users they introduce, chief among them: Kids.
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I wish the Wikipedia article had more information about the drawbacks of such a solution. The main ones I can think of are cost of design, limited sunlight, and that it's only a viable option in temperate climates, but I'm sure there's more.
Are smartphones the new 'opium of the people'?
Does this 'IPTC' tag survive common image editing? Or are they targeting it towards an external application?

If it was just for recognizing re-uploads, they could have just stored the sha-256 hash serverside..
Passively receiving some updates, i.e. where they've checked in, some new photos, posts/comments, etc... is also useful I think.
Steam does have that - kind of. There's a "servers" window, which you can open from the View menu. It lists multiplayer servers for lots of different games - mostly Source engine games like CS:GO and Team Fortress 2, but also games with Steam matchmaking like ARMA2/3.
Facebook also compresses your pictures, and I don't think anyone would seriously consider this as an infringement on your copyrighted material.
It's bizarre that the digital stores of multi-billion dollar corporations still can't seem able to get discovery down perfectly.

Steam seems better off than the rest, and I can't comment on Google Play or Xbox Marketplace but on the App Store, Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Store, it's still hard to discover what you're looking for if you don't already know about it.

For example, all RPG games like Baldur's Gate, or platformers in a pixel-art style with chiptune music. The best way that I know of for discovering all such games is to search for a name that I already know, and look in the Similar or "Also Bought" list on its product page. Of course even then their algorithms don't list all relevant games and are often swamped with microtransaction-loaded crapware/copycats.

YouTube suffers from the same sickness, and Google Search itself has been dumbed down over the past few years.

Is it deliberate? Are they afraid that rivals and "researchers" will get too much information about their business if their search and filter functionality was "too" powerful, or that users might leave sooner after they get exactly what they came for?

(I know I can use third-party sites like itch.io to discover games, but this is about the app stores' built-in functionality.)
> actually demonstrably committed crimes

Which obviously would never veer into "there was some crime .. it probably was this guy over there" "We have no real proof" "Yeah, but who needs that? Let's spin a few tales for the jury/judge, his look does the rest of the job." .. never happened before, won't happen this time.

If your policy is prone to abuse you better have a few ideas how to make sure this abuse won't happen. People don't want homeless people in their vicinity, so the abuse of any such system without extreme high safeguards is more or less guaranteed. And if you install safeguards you are back at square one: Someone will slip through, bad things happens, articles get written, people cry that safeguards should be lowered .. and so on, and so on. It's not an easy problem. Even if you agree that the basic idea is good.
TLA+ is great, but it struggles so much to handle lots of states...

Maybe that's a good thing since it encourages very symmetric designs, but it bothers me
> I'm pretty sure it would still function. If nothing else they aren't a drag on societal resources anymore. If society is so useful, it should only be better off when people leave for the greener pastures or Siberian tundra.

A lot of these people would come crawling back to the civilization begging for help if their life depended on it. Which it probably will as they get older and sick. On a large scale, millions of people who contributed nothing to the society, but then demand expensive medical help would not work well.
Not only about FB. Yesterday it was about MSFT ad farming in Windows. The one MSFT, which also invests a lot in open source/-ish tech.
yeah it's called unsupervised learning
That freedom can only be granted by the copyright holder, however.
I believe a basic understanding of statistics is a good life skill which everyone should know.
It sounds like the reason here is that unlike your home staying somewhere else has a pretty high chance of not being permanent. It's probably a good idea to not state "we have zero homelessness" and a month later people run around "How can there be all these people on the streets?! You said we have no homelessness!"
Right, the dataset is not remotely useful for commercial use. For one thing, the license prohibits such use.

Yes, it's certainly not yet clear if the dataset is large enough to capture useful variance. But unlike kitti or cityscapes, it's large enough to present a computational challenge to most of the machines & budgets in research use today, so there's a pretty good chance it'll help push the state of the art... Perhaps for more than one art. The API code itself has a lot of low-hanging fruit: https://github.com/argoai/argoverse-api

nuscenes is good too https://www.nuscenes.org/

Waymo will have one as well some day https://waymo.com/open/

One attractive aspect of these datasets is that they help open up the question of safety for public discussion. For example, now anybody can throw off-the-shelf object detection at these datasets and see what a realistic F1-score looks like for objects at 30m, 50m, 100m, etc...

In argoverse and nuscenes, you have track labels, so you can furthermore factor the velocity difference into how you weigh the error. Have you ever been hit by an Uber? Even 5mph can cause a lot of damage.
Well, I was very curious to see what made a building in Zimbabwe remarkable. Usually you only hear of Zimbabwe because of inflation.
The company doing this went bankrupt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
They shouldn’t be eating chips, breads, candy, soda, and sitting around watching garbage YouTube/Netflix media and superhero shows. Solution isn’t always to ban something. They shouldn’t be marketed to kids, just like sugary snacks in my opinion, but education is better than banning it for all adults. Just slap the same 21 year old restriction as alcohol and move on.
You can crop the ends of a ride, but not the middle. My guess is OP was cycling to the train station, took a 60mph train ride, then cycled the rest of the way. Wanting to clip out the middle bit. And I don't think Strava can do that. But to be fair, technically that would be two distinct rides .
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I’m considering to start using Go. So, is it will be helpful If I do?
So the article identifies a software bug and a software/config bug as the root cause. That sounds a bit shallow for such a high visibility case - I was expecting something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys method with subplots on why the bugs where not caught in testing. By the way I only clicked on it because I was hoping it would be an occasion to use the methods from http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/ - alas no - it was too shallow for that.
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Yep, the certificate trade is a trick to sell green energy twice.
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Certainly. I'm a non-native speaker myself and although the end result looks somewhat convincing, it takes me an inordinate amount of time to write, look up words and proofread the text. I'd guess a native would come up with a comprehensible text at the first try, and it'd take a few tweaks until it looks immaculate. The reason non-natives seem to write better is that we simply spend more time working on it, and fix a lot of mistakes.

Just now, writing this, I had to look up if the saying went "inordinate amount" or "unordinate amount". The difference between "pristine" and "immaculate". It really adds up when writing longer texts.
Looking at the code, it seems tightly coupled to Google's offerings: just for fun, it'd be nice to have it run against NextCloud/OwnCloud.

Sure, if you host those, you might as well host a proper database (you already do), but for quick prototyping might be useful, or as I said, just fun :)
Apart from looking nice, I think I understood the program even less afterwards.
I'm guessing years of A-B testing has led them to believe the currect way maximizes profits.
> I think we can once we build purposeful infrastructure (think cars "on rails" with mesh-coordinated intersections).

In that way, surely, but you will need to build a purpose built road network for that. Some self driving buses in China work like that.

New, growing cities with centralised planning can afford that, others not so much.
Agreed, cant even count the amount of times I have searched for $VERY_SPECIFIC_THING on Google, but got 10 pages of completely irrelevant references to something that has close to matching keywords and is way more popular.
Thanks for the suggestion we don’t provide that exact interface but we do allow querying over all the universes with a graph query language. In the paper we detail how to get the shortest path to all the end states which makes it a bit easier to debug.
These definitions are rather vague.

If the car is able to function even when noone responds to the request for intervention, how is that different from level five? Does it mean that it safely pulls over, where level 3 would just drop control of the vehicle in a dangerous scenario?

Also, does level 5 entail general intelligence, in order to do things like follow the instructions of a traffic cop or parking attendant?
Large scale health studies are going to cost a lot of money since they use up a tremendous amount of human time and resources in short supply.

If we want the data, we have to pay for it. One option is to pay for it with tax dollars (which already happens).
>> We will not see any real self driving in our generation,

I agree.

But we'll be driven a large percent of trips, in the near future.

There's on-demand shared(few people in a vehicle) riding - which can be quite cheap AND fast. ridewithvia.com seem to scale with that model pretty fast. A combination of that with strong public transport systems and regulations may beat cars.

But also, a combination of partial self-driving(highway, etc), with remote control driving, could work.
I don't use any of their services myself, nor do I suggest infringement.

I ask what is the legal situation for a copyright holder, given users likely are not aware of this data being added to a file; what the data exactly is, where or if this data is kept by them independently of the file itself, what is it used for, GDPR implications, etc.
A dozen years from now, I'll be reading on HN(Health insurers' New - or a message board for professionals of some other parasitic tumour which still has a few years of decent living in our economy) a comment about how the consolidation, commodification, and semi-automation of programming is here to stay, and that not just software engineers - but all of us, in fact - need to be very careful to learn the new skills it takes to compete in an increasingly automated world.

Why one of those new skills is never 'march your politicians out, and make them mandate a 25-hour work week, to guarantee that anyone capable of working is able to find moderately dignified and remunerative work', is a question that will continue to haunt me.
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Hawa Mahal in India uses venturi effect for cooling.
> Because being homeless does not mean that you are suffering from mental issues.

A relevant part of them do, or we wouldn't have this discussion. That all sounds like "we have good help systems for some homeless" at most, which then somehow gets generalized into "we have good help systems for homeless" when this obviously isn't the case for a part of them.
Ask HN: What’s the legality of web scraping? Part 2
Part1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20256681
(closed to new comments)

What (legal?) trick allows search engines to crawl(well, we know that "crawl" is synonim of "scrape") and index content protected by terms of use?
Is it "fair use" or something else?

One example: Craigs List!

In their terms of service:

> USE. Unless licensed by us in a written agreement, you agree not to use or provide software (except general purpose web browsers and email clients) or services that interact or interoperate with CL, e.g. for downloading, uploading, creating/accessing/using an account, posting, flagging, emailing, searching, or mobile use. You agree not to copy/collect CL content via robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, or any automated or manual equivalent (e.g., by hand).

On the other hand:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asfbay.craigslist.org+couch&oq=site%3Asfbay.craigslist.org+couch

Google is able to index CL and you can query the google index specifying "use only this CL city" and you can see the ads, and we know Google making money with it (advertising for example).

I can not imagine google obtaining "written agreement" from CL ))
It's up to the editor to keep metadata. In Gimp you can choose in the advanced export settings, but I don't know the default. Re-encoding will definitely change any hash, but editors may (not sure how commonly) keep these tags. You'd have to do steganography if you want it to be more persistent than a metadata tag.

Edit: I just saw it's not a normal EXIF tag, this is something else. I'm not sure how this is handled, might be interesting to do some empirical testing!
It was a great online community!

It was weird how shared content (what we think of as a wiki today) and discussion ("talk" pages on wikipedia) were all mixed together, and it somehow worked. The only Wiki I use these days that still does this is EmacsWiki. Google Wave felt like this in reverse, starting with discussion as default but you could edit everything into a document.

Also: hi Sunir!
This is a really weird question. If it's not prohibited, why shouldn't you be allowed to do something by default? Isn't that a basic thing in all(?) legal systems?
> 1000 driving hours is ok'ish for research

Wouldn't it be better to use a simulated environment first. Maybe something using pybullet[1] and a script which maps real world to STL or OBJ files[2]

1. https://pybullet.org/wordpress/
2. https://github.com/mkagenius/osm2maya
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Thank you, had no idea about ProRender and haven’t thought of offloading the renders to EC2. Looks like using a spot P2 instance could be really cost-effective (if prices keep at reasonable levels), definitely worth trying first.
You make it sound like arresting the person is doing them a favor.
The DiffEqTutorials has a tutorial which covers how to use statically-sized arrays to optimize the simulation of dynamical systems.

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That’s a simplification. The events leading up to a crash are important. The spatial understanding of the situation on the road, the behavior of other drivers and other factors all play a role in the seconds before a crash.
It is not that simple. I do not use it. Yet someone can upload an image I send them, or my photograph without my knowledge. It needs to be strictly regulated.
Yes, if we ignore all the other effects (e.g.: financing of organized crime, bringing people in contact with said organized crime) then sure, the prohibition was a sounding success. If we include all of these it doesn't look so great anymore.
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