skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a sustainable middle ground between a one-man show and a multinational hundred billion dollar conglomerate fueled by VC money.
This article is probably intended as a jab at Google for having a Privacy Policy that is absurdly long.

However, this is also proof of how far we've come in regulating how personal information is identified and stored.

For example, the data comparison between 1999 and 2019 - Simply saying "We collect personal information you provide and clickthrough information" is certainly not enough nowadays. A short and generic policy lends itself to legal abuse, whereas the longer and specific policy tells you exactly what to expect from using the service.

Can things be made more clear? Always. But I think this trend is generally for the better.
Reading the FTC's definition of monopolization is strongly encouraged. It's more nuanced than is generally understood:

As a first step, courts ask if the firm has "monopoly power" in any market. This requires in-depth study of the products sold by the leading firm, and any alternative products consumers may turn to if the firm attempted to raise prices. Then courts ask if that leading position was gained or maintained through improper conduct—that is, something other than merely having a better product, superior management or historic accident.... Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power.... Exclusionary or predatory acts may include such things as exclusive supply or purchase agreements; tying; predatory pricing; or refusal to deal....

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Temporary/incremental bike racks are common? I've never seen this before in any US city. Pretty cool idea.
There is a system in place to account for atmospheric effects on radio signals. Here's one example at the Very Large Array, which uses the GPS to measure (via interferometry) and correct for disturbances in the ionosphere: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2001/06/aa10277.pdf
It's a heading copied without formatting.
To each his own I guess. As far as I'm concerned, I'm mainly interested in the one-column spreadsheet, tweaking a few input rows and checking how it impacts some other rows. I still use instacalc from time to time, but now I often reach for vim instead.
But that's exactly what you are doing...
There is also Calca on the Mac.
The only thing I can think of, is the ability to share the same account with my wife. It would be great if we could see the same budgets / transactions
google employees listen to the recording made with the smart google home speakers and via the google assistant app on smartphones as well as worldwide in belgium and netherlands , people listen to those recordings to make the search engine smarter. VRT NWS was able to listen t more than 1000 tracks these are pieces usally spoken conciously.
>There's a reason Bing and Yahoo are treated as a joke.

Just in case you weren't aware:

>On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would henceforth power Yahoo! Search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
> ask people for permission to send in mis-heard commands

Note that you also want the "correctly" heard commands, because some of them will have been incorrect. It's frustrating when an assistant gives the "I don't know how to do that", but it's even more frustrating to get "OK, doing (the wrong thing)".

Also, another alternative: provide an actual bug reporting channel. "Hey Google, report that as a bug" "Would you like to attach a transcript of the recent interaction? Here's what the transcript looks like." "Yes."
Motor vehicle deaths are on the rise again, mostly due to distracted driving (phones) and larger vehicles on the road (SUVs).

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/01/pedestrian-deaths-rea...
Then you can't use it across apps, though.

Say for example you have a web front end, a mobile app, and a service receiving web hooks that all want to execute the same action. If you have that in a client layer, you'll be writing it 3 times.

Moving logic to the client comes with pros, too (like being easier to work offline), but it definitely has downsides as well.
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> If a parent is capable of filtering out internet traffic at DNS level, then they should be capable of doing the same on top of DoH.

Home filtering solutions using DNS either tend to rely on being the DNS server, or upstream filtering (e.g. the filtering ISPs provide where the parent gets a web interface with their subscription). In either situation they're sold to parents as easy to use solutions, not as things they build and install and understand underneath.

That kind of filtering over DoH can be harder because there's plenty of edge cases when DoH is thrown into the mix that complicate things massively.

It's also worth bearing in mind that swapping DNS interception at the ISP for DNS interception at Cloudflare can be more displacement than improvement (where the ISP isn't screwing with people's connections, for example).

Finally, what's being talked about with DoH is going to be baked into browsers, not into the OS. This is the biggest support headache for ISPs and probably the source of that support argument. It's understandable to be concerned about variants of "My Apple mail is working but I can't see Facebook" support calls.

Sure, ISPA are utterly tone deaf and deserve to be shot down for targeting Firefox this way, but DoH isn't the panacea some people are making it out to be and there will be lots of edge cases dropping out if browsers start ignoring OS settings and doing their own things.
That can still bankrupt the person on the receiving end of the lawsuit. Just because damages don’t necessarily fully compensate for the loss, doesn’t mean it’s not a massive deterrent to the behaviour.
No, group 4 is "we must collect training data, how do we get arround the ethical questions"

Group 5 is "We must be ethical, can we still collect training data"

Different priorities, different outcomes.
https://inhabitat.com/what-happened-to-los-angeles-streetcar...
> Face coverings are not legal in public in all countries,

And that of course is the point.
Voting machine companies: the names of our parent companies are trade secrets
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> In conversations about this with engineers the response I've gotten is essentially: "Just trust that we [Google/Amazon/etc.] handle the data correctly."

No one is afraid of power when it's in their own hands. A common failure mode is that people assume a given power that's in their hands today will always be.
I certainly hope that's where we're headed. The more we can tell the compiler about our code, the better.
It might also be interesting to provide hints like "this int should only ever be in the range 1-30" :)
Thank you, Simone :)
If he’s going offline from search, he should create an rss or mail list. I didn’t see where to subscribe, so honestly I will probably forget his site exists in a week...
Yeah the monopoly case is difficult and probably a distraction. We need to give their competitors more attention - most of their competitors have given up through the years, especially in the ads space.
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I'm really curious about the volume of tech-bashing opinion pieces that the NYTimes (and other corporate media outlets) publish on a daily basis.
It's starting to rival the volume of Trump-bashing articles they used to publish at the peak of the US election cycle.

Do they have an entire department devoted to churning out this content?
Are they hiring freelancers are paying them by the word/click?
Do they also pay people to post them and upvote them on reddit/HN etc?

In the last day alone (from a search on HN):
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/opinion/email-tracking.ht...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/10/opinion/googl...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/internet-democrac...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/books/review/the-code-mar...

Most of them are just rehashing the same "big tech bad. media is freedom" spiel.
>Tech workers have a responsibility not just (to) understand the technologies that they work with

Ok, I agree completely with you, 100%. However, based on my limited worldview, tech workers barely understand the tech they work with at all [0]. Asking for the ethical implications to be mulled over is unlikely to happen considering the near-weekly HN threads on "interviewing sucks, heres how to fix it, lol". We can't even figure out how to hire someone let alone how to impedance-match with them on deep issues like ethical implications of ML/AI.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/
RockPro64 also has 4x low power A53 cores up to 1.5 GHz and 2x A72 cores up to 2.0 GHz. Big-little style. Just for the curious, so don't need to look it up.

SoC: http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399
Crook's Radiometer
I never knew about the YouTube RSS feed. As someone who watched 36 hours of YouTube last week and has hundreds of subscriptions, this combination of RSS aggregator + MPV looks like the way to go.
From Their Site:

What is the Life Cycle Analysis Costs of CO2 Incurred in the Mining, Milling and Transport?
The Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of the release of CO2 from mining, milling, and transport of olivine creates an approximately 4-6% loss on CO2 removed. We will always work to minimize the transport distance from the source of olivine, and utilize low impact transit such as rail and boats. Further, many tons of olivine are already mined because the deposits are found above other valuable minerals, such as diamonds (found in a rock formation called Kimberlite). Utilizing these piles of waste rock, known in the industry as tailings piles, will allow us to harvest olivine without causing a significant CO2 output. Further, the dust from mining itself can contribute to the offset of the entire mine, as well as the very ground where the olivine is exposed. It starts weathering right away, and many ultramafic mineral mines, abandoned or active, eventually offset their own footprint and even go towards negative emissions. On of our olivine weathering rate sources is actually these tailings piles. See these studies:

Carbon Dioxide Fixation within Mine Wastes of Ultramafic-Hosted Ore Deposits: Examples from the Clinton Creek and Cassiar Chrysotile Deposits, Canada

Integrated Mineral Carbonation of Ultramafic Mine Deposits—A Review

LATERITIC EVOLUTION OF THE JACUPIRANGA ALKALlNE COMPLEX

Koornneef JM, Nieuwlaar E (in prep.) Environmental life cycle assessment of CO 2 sequestration through enhanced weathering of olivine. Working paper, Group Science, Technology and Society, Utrecht University
Yes, valid, but unspecified. Typically what I've seen is that a move operation is effectively a swap between the source and destination. I've also seen where a move leaves the source in effectively a default constructed state.
And replace all American suburbs and infrastructure, because that is what you are asking.
> I seriously doubt a talented teacher could get away with something like that today.

That's so much of the problem right now. My wife teaches and to be blunt, she is not treated as a professional. She is subject to the exact same kind of intrusive rules that minimum wage phone reps are subject to.
I'm a little surprised so much of your 8gb went away using Safari if you don't keep too much open. Safari is generally great, but I've had to deal with abysmally large Google Sheets and had it reload every time I switched away even though it was the only window/tab open--Firefox wasn't too much better, it would constantly recalculate formulas. I feel like I got that behavior in Safari one or two other times with heavy SPA, but normally it uses much less battery and seems to use much less RAM than Firefox or Chrome.

I also haven't seen much of a need at all for regular rebooting. Looking back it seems like I'll reboot my laptop every 2-3 weeks, usually for an app that has a kernel driver, to boot into Windows, or to troubleshoot an egregious problem like my sound or bluetooth breaking. I've never done it for RAM, but I have closed browsers to save battery/RAM.
I'm sure Stripe could have decommissioned equipment (if there was such a need) without a downtime in the middle of the day in the US.
Yeah, just reject any access from their subnets
I replied this in other comment, but here even that got google enroached...

The magazine that is popular on my field now focuses mostly on online ads, and they use adsense, so to buyads on the magazine you need to use adwords platform to do so.
Got a 404 when clicking invite a coffee shop in Android app
seems like an ok and relevant time to plug your own project IMO. If not now, during the moment its use case is happening, then when?
Google Translate links have been blocked for a long time because translate.google.com can be used as a proxy.
But Google isn't owning the billboards. The billboards elect to choose Google. Why is Google being punished? Shouldn't the billboard owners instead be fined?
Firm claiming to have built highly scalable blockchain with sharding solution
Exciting to see this. I was involved in the design and implementation of GROQ, and I've been really looking forward to the day when it could be turned into a real specification. Kudos to the Sanity team for doing this.
Mac only? Really.
Weak References and Finalizers in JavaScript
Yeah, we have a few of these in downtown Boulder, too. Most are permanent, but I think they put up temporaries during popular summer events.
Update: fixed - thank you!

Thanks for letting us know! You can refer a shop using this link - https://www.cloosiv.com/invite-a-brand
Easier said than done. Outside of the costs and overhead required to implement a secondary payment solution in the rare case your primary solution goes down, often times payment providers require exclusivity agreements which prohibit this.
> Release notes of 4.4.53932.0709:
Remove local web server
-We are discontinuing the use of a local web server on Mac devices. Following the update, the local web server will be completely removed from the Zoom installation
Option to uninstall Zoom
-Zoom users can now uninstall the Zoom desktop application and all of its components through the settings menu
Google is losing value as a search engine. It's great for finding facts but its shit for finding fun. That's really my impression of the internet as a whole lately - there's nothing left of a noncommercial nature.
I've gone through three Samsung EVO sdcards in an Intel NUC. I was using it as a boot drive. All were replaced under warranty. But they each died, becoming read-only, within about 5 months of use.

I don't think these cards are designed as random access devices. I think they're for cameras: video and photos, and also for cell phones, also mostly video and photos, maybe some app offloading also.
That makes no sense.

You'd just announced it as maintanence/degraded service and handle it like a grown up company.

If you lie and it gets out you trash your credibility and for a company like stripe which handles money and is taking on some ancient and major systems credibility is pretty important.
I believe the complaint was about the disingenuous denial of the plug.
If you have super high throughput, it would be worth temporarily (and very securely) caching transaction parameters to handle downtime.
Seems like a good way to regulate escooters. Better for cities than sidewalks, better for companies than permitting the construction of infrastructure. Flexible enough to adjust to demand.
Please stop spreading these conspiracy theories. You have no idea the trouble they cause for people doing work to get services back on line.
Hopefully not so light that a thief can load up the whole thing and steal all the bikes.
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On the other hand, the first 256 integers are singletons in python, so they aren't duplicated.
Never said it was easy, but if it's bad enough to make a post about how "painful" it is and "losing revenue" it should be a consideration? Yeah?
Original paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098221...
I understand the downvote, but I also agree with the statement.

IMHO money, markets, even democracy seem to me to follow directly from the challenges of living in a complex society which follows from the benefits of working at large scales.

They even seem to me to be simply abstracted versions of more naturally evolved systems baked into life on Earth a billion years ago, i.e. ATP metabolism and multi-cellular life
Doesn't asyncpg require asyncio? That's a fairly niche market, especially given the alternative async libraries even in that space (twisted, trio). Why would it be faster anyway, on a use case like this?
Address Space Isolation and the Linux Kernel
how many generations will roaches have passed through within the space of one year? tens? hundreds? thousands?
Regulating Genetic Biohacking
To clarify, it currently shows it like this:

> Google’s Policy Google’s policy on our wholly controlled and operated Internet sites...

This is what it should look like formatted:

Google’s Policy

Google’s policy on our wholly controlled and operated Internet sites...
Facebook currency project 'cannot go forward' until concerns addressed: Powell
They're people who value the rewards reaped by working there more. The prestige from working at a business like this can make positive impacts far beyond the period of your employment there. Heck, just getting to in person interviews are statistically rare and an indication of exceptional ability.
The 12" MacBook just made absolutely no sense in their lineup.

It was lighter and thinner than the MacBook Air - so why was it not the MacBook Air? This is the lack of product logic Jobs killed when he returned to Apple.
Ten years or so ago I recall a story about some guys in Eugene unbolting an entire rack full of bikes from the asphalt and loading it into a truck. Can't find the story now.
. . . and the marketability and prestige of having Google on your resume.
Except that I don't know what that sound means. I know what the one my device makes is, but I've never heard the others. Unless it's a human voice saying, "This conversation is now being recorded" I can't be expected to know what a random beep from a device means. It could just mean the person got a notification or something. (And even if it is a recognizable sentence, it assumes I understand the human language the device is set to.)
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The innovation is that these are temporary, and are an experiment. If the temporary one attracts significant usage, it's replaced with a permanent one. If not, it reverts to car usage.
The reason companies use lots of live data is because people get upset when facial recognition doesn't work on people with different skin colors, voice recognition doesn't work for people with accents, etc. Doing #3 is literally the result of #4.
Slightly off topic:

Back in the early days of the Newton, there was an app that let you manipulate algebraic expressions by dragging and dropping individual elements of the expression. Think factoring out a common factor represented by the expression sprouting parentheses with the factor out front.
There was a later effort called MathDrag'n but that seemed to run out of steam.

Does anyone know if a similar thing exists and is maintained now?
Haven't had any issues. Plus on top of that I mostly buy warehouse deals - i.e. open box/returns.
So true, the difference was monumental. Pagerank was a huge breakthrough that seems so simple and so obvious in hindsight, it's clear why it changed everything.

The popularity of a website shouldn't be based on the number of times they can stuff keywords into a page, it should be based on the number of human beings who used the site and determined it was valuable enough to link to.

I don't know if pagerank is used anymore, but at the time, with the state of the web then, it was an incredible breakthrough.
My money is on the fact that their teacher was managing some other student doing something stupid.

So much of our school problems are rooted in insufficient resources for classroom management, and an unwillingness to impose significant consiquences on the student and their guardians.
Anyone who's worked in a photo lab before will tell you that "norm" gets ignored all the time. Some people just do not think about the fact that an actual human is going to see their BDSM photos with the secretary.
"owned by the German publishing house, Axel Springer SE." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Insider )
I'll give you the other side. Think of this from a developing country perspective - we don't have enough teachers. But we have a billion people. We need to educate them.

We can't train teachers fast enough. Not to mention the 20 different languages that India has.

We need this to work.
It seems like you didn't read the paper, or really anything on this.

But, to make it easy for you:

* 1 ton of Olivine will absorb 1.25 tons of CO2[1]

* Transportation cost is 161.8 grams of CO2 per ton mile[2]

* They are looking at mines within a 300km[1] (or ~190 miles) radius. That's a maximum transportation cost of ~31kg CO2. That's a rounding error.

* Mining cost for a ton of Olivine is ~$30/ton right now. Let's say it's all for hydrocarbon fuels, and they're cheap, so 30 gallons of fuel. Let's make it 50 gallons, because I'm lazy. A gallon of fuel produces 20 pounds of CO2[3], so 1000 pound of CO2. That's half a ton.

* Let's assume for reasons beyond our ken we'll spend another quarter ton of CO2 on this. Likely due to people arguing on the Internet.

That still leaves us with half a ton of CO2/ton of Olivine.

Maybe do at least back-of-napkin calculations before claiming things will certainly fail.

[1] https://projectvesta.org/
[2] http://business.edf.org/blog/2015/03/24/green-freight-math-h...
[3] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/contentIncludes/co2_inc.htm
I'm surprised at the downvotes considering this link is on the HN frontpage right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403570
https://projectvesta.org/
> What could possibly go wrong?

As the water level rises we're gonna need to lose some of the cynicism around geo-engineering.

Unless you're convinced that society will somehow value the stability of our climate over economics? I feel like there's more evidence (given our snail-like progress over the past few decades) to demonstrate that's a not gonna work out compared to attempting _some_ form of geo-engineering.
this functions u will also see in the case of JAVA s well.this problem arises due to large no. of objects are active in RAM durig the execution of a progrm especially if there ae restrictions on the total amount of availablle memory
Second to Brave New World. It's startling how much that book seems like a map to where we're headed.
I don't think this is just a ML issue. Any device with a mic and connected to the internet could at any time be updates with new code that send audio back outside of what is needed for ML.

I think that issue is much bigger than just training ML based off real world data.

Laws might give you some recourse if you can prove this is happening or not. But really we need to start thinking about ways we can ensure the entire stack is under the users control.

I have said this in the past. Free software and open sourc movements have worked decades to open up software and hardware for greater transparency and user control. Yet within a few years we have wiped that out with all the closed hardware and software we happily hold in out hands and place in our homes.

We need more open source hardware and software projects offering alternatives to these systems that have become a daily part of our lifes.
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