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We've banned this account for serially posting corporate propaganda for Google, which you've been doing on HN for years. Since banning dozens of your accounts hasn't convinced you to stop, I'm going to post about this increasingly loudly until you do stop. You should think about the many Google employees on HN, who overwhelmingly use this site in good faith. They represent Google the right way, by participating honestly in threads and commenting about what they know. They will cringe when they hear what you are doing—which if you keep doing it, they will. The agenda you've been propagating is a way to hurt Google, not help it.

We ask HN users every day not to accuse others of astroturfing or shillage, but the other side of the contract is that when we find real evidence of it, we crack down.

Edit: I should add, for those who are worried about bias, that we have nothing against Google and are only interested in protecting HN against abuse. People do that for other companies too, not just Google, and we're just as against it in those cases.
This will improve with more automation and cut-to-fit boxes.

For now, every human shipper cannot have access to an unlimited number of box sizes. It's possible to route orders to shipper lanes with the optimal box size stocked, but daily demand and product selection may not allow.

I can't comment on every single 'box is 10x the size of the product', but most likely boil down to the largest dimensional box size by order weight.

For example, given standard FedEx DIM Factor, it costs the same amount to ship an 8lb order in a 15x5x5 box as a 44x5x5 box.

If the shipping lane(s) w/ the optimal size box (15x5x5) are too busy to get the order out, nothing is lost by sending through a less busy lane in a box up to 44x5x5.
I clicked on the first one with her name, and the main conclusion was that AI needs more workplace diversity.

I clicked on the second one with her name, and the main conclusion was that AI needs more government regulation, labor unionization, and yes, you guessed correctly, workplace diversity.

I begin to feel that AI is only a red herring here.
I don’t know why apple assumes they will be good at making creative content. Podcasts, TV, video games...

They might be. No reason to lean either way. But it’s expensive. It feels contrary to the desires of people who invested in apple, the hardware, software, and platform provider...
To get a proper SLA you need to pay for SLA.
What SLA google, azure, aws have is useless, some service credit proportional to the outage duration. Totally nothing to cover lost profits or direct damage.

For the last gcloud outage, i think you have to talk to people and APPLY for a credit, obviously very few did that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20078296
All data is fragmented and encrypted, so it's impossible to know whether a particular host is storing a fragment of illegal content or not. I suppose if you somehow _did_ find out you were hosting a fragment of illegal content you could breach the storage contract (and pay the resulting penalty) but that's very unlikely because, again, all content is encrypted.
The energy stored in the part of the Earth's magnetic field above the surface is about the same as the yield of a 100 megaton nuclear bomb. This is about 4e17 J, or about 13 gigawatt-years.

Mars is smaller, and so the volume of the magnetic field would be smaller, and a lower field is probably enough. Since stored energy goes as B^2, maybe this energy could be reduced by two orders of magnitude.
We see evidence of increasing ability to build larger and larger pyramids over time in Egypt.

The construction method is pretty well known by now, big ramps of gravel to roll/push stones up. Gravel spread around, contruction times vs. number of people on site, well known.

Another example a group of university students hauled a Stonehenge sized rock from a likely quarry to Stonehenge site in a couple of weeks.

We forget what human labor can do.
It doesn't. The last real application of Sia that I heard of during the previous crypto boom basically sounded like renting your HD space out to people who would potentially use it to store illegal content.
I use a very similar launcher called "Doorways Launcher."

This looks much more refined with extra features.

Thank you!
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Why did you put 'anti-trust' in quotes?
Nope, you've made yourself a straw man. I hope you did not do it intentionally because it's plainly disgusting. Please don't do that again.

You've said that she didn't just leave Google instead of protesting because she didn't 'want to see the thing you [she] worked so hard to build misused to build killer robots and "war minds"'.

You was asked what she actually did at Google and you've come up with 'her work on AI ethics was much appreciated and celebrated' as a response.

Looks like she was not working 'so hard' on anything that can be of any use for building 'killer robots and war "minds"'. In fact, for building anything.
And what is that person responsible for? Is it AI ethics?
A Behringer UCA202 or UCA222 will admirably handle line-level ins and outs for about thirty dollars. If you're just mixing voice for a podcast I would start there. (In terms of audio quality there is a lot to be said for using an external USB adapter)

It's Linux so the setup is a little fiddly (or at least it was with piCorePlayer) for reasons that have nothing to do with the hardware, but it works fine with the Pi.
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At our company, we use an ETL script to suck all our Google sheets into MySQL then we run queries for reporting. It's pretty nice, we'll probably open source it.

The worst part is that as a database, Sheets is not one-tenth as good as MS Access was. You can't enforce constraints or even disable certain people from editing the format of a cell. There's lots of things you can try but you are just one inadvertent copy-paste away from losing formatting/validation rules you had set.
It looks like these were the smaller models that only deploy a streamer rather than a full parachute. They still got pretty tangled together.
> Was it mindful meditation? Not really. But the effects were the same or similar.

I do have a suspicion that a not-small portion of the benefits of a meditation retreat is more about the retreating than the meditation. I'd probably feel "OMG I haven't felt this good in years" amazing after 10 days away from electronics and family & work obligations, even if I just read books and napped and took nature walks the whole time. Meditating instead would probably work too.
I think when someone see the new note, they will realize a terrible crime was committed by society based on whom he loved. They will leave that path of unrighteousness and follow the path of peace and understanding. So yes, it is useful.
You could store your Sia seed for free on Google Drive. That way you get the benefit of Google being "liable" for your data and credentials, but with the much lower storage costs of Sia. Yes, it's a centralized third party, but you already implied you have no problem with that.
There have been many reconstructions of global temperatures before 1880 using a variety of temperature proxies. A nice summary in one image is given on Wikipedia [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#/media/File:A...
Area 51 was moved some time ago, but the land is still federal property, still has sensors and people will still be detained. That is a long way to travel to be detained.

I watched the interview with Mr. Lazar and my BS detect went off continuously. I believe that Joe should have also invited Brian Cox to co-interview Bob and that likely would have preempted some of this.
GP can take the structure of the space into account (you just need to take it into account into your mutation and crossover functions) and algorithms are typically compared on enough runs to provide statistically significant results (29 runs might be far from enough if you have high variance...) but you don't need reproducibility when solving an optimisation problem in the real world, you just want to get a good result in a reasonable time. The fact that you can use GP to optimize about anything (both parameters and structures) makes it a good first approach (where it fails is that it tends to be slow and have way too much parameters for a casual user).

(I did think that your paper is interesting in that it invites us to think about non-GP based approach to symbolic regression)
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>You are entitled to the software provided with the vehicle at time of purchase, no more.

Is this actually true? I'm entitled to a working product, so if a future update fixes bugs, am I not entitled to it?

Also, specifically in Tesla's case, they advertise that their cars are "capable of providing Autopilot features today, and full self-driving capabilities in the future through software updates". If that does happen, am I not entitled to that update considering I bought a Tesla with that in mind?
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> and their prices are suspiciously similar at about $20 per TB per month. Today it is possible to purchase a refurbished 1 TB hard drive for about $20 — so buyers are essentially paying Amazon each month the entire cost of the hard drives used to store their data!

Really? That's the argument? That you could store your files cheaper on a single, refurbished disk without considering the cost of housing, electricity, network, physical security, redundancy, management etc.?
Ok now give me a text file (or some kind of image file) that contains its own md5/sha1/sha256 hash in the text (or in the image)
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Second thing that's felt like a genuine, useful, innovation coming out of the last wave of AI hype. (The first being deep-fakes.)
I agree. I have seen enough HN climate discussions to say that a "tech will save us" mindset is quite common around here.

Where do you buy your offsets from? Any problems or complaints about your offsetting "experience" so far? I'm trying to come up with creative ways to add value and make it a more attractive investment for people.
Parts of the Marshall Islands now more radioactive than Chernobyl
That's the biggest risk of permissionless / decentralized -- you learn quickly why permissioning and centralization are important.
What is the difference between exclusive podcasts and making a website that only runs on Safari?

In both scenarios it is a company giving their product an artificial advantage. There's no technical reason that a website should only run on one browser, it kind of feels the same way with podcasts.

Then again Netflix makes Netflix originals, which are only available on Netflix, and I don't mind that, so I guess my viewpoint is contradictory.
I don't think it changed the way I relate to music at all, it was just one more step in the ladder. I had a walkman before I had CD player before I had a MiniDisk Player before I had an iPod before I had Spotify.
full title: "Parts of the Marshall Islands are now more radioactive than Chernobyl because of US nuclear tests"
> So how do you guarantee that the caller invariants are upheld

You can't, you have to trust the user. That's why one tries to minimize calling non-@live code.
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That language seems very odd to me. What's the difference between "defining someone's identity" and "having an opinion about someone that is contrary to how they view themselves"?

The difference is that once you establish that it's "defining someone's identity", then disagreement with that person is "denying their right to exist", and so basically violence, from which the person you disagreed with deserve protection. These are the lines along which this kind of conversations typically proceeded inside Google.
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Personally, I think this is good. It allows more people to make a living off of podcasting, and will hopefully keep Spotify from taking over the market.

At minimum it helps the medium gain a wider adoption.
The only way this gets solved is through cloud consumers providing streams of telemetry (sanitized of any data of value besides success/failure metrics of the underlying cloud primitives) to a central reporting uptime stats broker (Speedtest.net meets DataDog meets the Internet Weather Map). The incentives to fudge or exaggerate you uptime claims as a vendor through sales and marketing is too high; let the data speak for itself.

Do you trust AWS' status page? Or are you coming to Hacker News to ask why your network latency between instances has skyrocketed unexpectedly?
There was nothing to fix. A model rocket that flies is a rocket.
That would only be bad if Apple had a monopoly or the other platforms all copy Apple and it cannibalizes the freedom of podcasting in general. But if it’s limited to a few ‘premium’ shows/platforms - while 99% of other content is open - I don’t really see it as a problem.

Particularly if the only way they can finance the shows is by limiting it to their platform, then I’d rather have them still produce that content than not at all…

Sometimes it’s the only way it makes sense as a business, there is no open alternative.

Spotify, Netflix, and every other streaming service functions this way with non-portable content and providing clients on every platform. While piracy fills the void for those who can’t pay or access the platform (for geographic reasons or w/e).

But I have to agree with the OP, it isn’t really a podcast anymore if it’s tied to one platform. It’s more like an on-demand XM radio show than a podcast.
The government money monopoly is mandated by taxation, a defining feature of government. Without a money monopoly of some kind (including a demand that taxes be paid in a certain currency), there would be no government.
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I'm reminded of Paris Syndrome, which is phenomenon common with the Japanese, where they assume Paris is something it is not, and get angry and frustrated upon visiting.

https://grapee.jp/en/99643

I'd say similar things about Texas, DC, and NYC, for that matter.
This shows that they are probably not even doing stemming which shouldn't be that hard to implement and could have great benefit/cost
People call 911 in domestic abuse situations. Those should not be made public record. Doing so will give an abuser more leverage.
https://shells.aachen.ccc.de/~spq/md5.gif

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704
Microsoft's words vs. actions on DACA and other issues
The implication is that with Sia you can get those same benefits without having to essentially pay the entire cost of a new hard drive every month. (Sia's rates are much cheaper.)
> How is this possible? By removing intermediaries

> [Sia] makes a small transaction fee from each file contract.

Am I wrong in observing that the number of intermediaries between hosting data on AWS == the number of intermediaries oh Sia == 1?

What exactly is this doing? Blockchain contracts to rent out your hard drives?
Do you have any other employees in your consultancy company other than yourself and your spouse ? If yes, only then you can get "Group" Insurance i.e. through the company. Otherwise, you will have to buy insurance personally through the obamacare exchange etc.

If yes, then find an insurance broker who can help you with a Group insurance. One such online broker is ehealthinsurance [0] but it is better to find a local broker whom you can talk to in person. To find those, you have to go to healthcare.gov [1] and click on local help. You can then get a list of brokers in your area.

Overall, this is a very exhausting process especially as a small business because most insurance companies are not interested in group insurance unless you have at least 3 or more employees (in my experience). Not worth their time otherwise. And your spouse doesn't count as an employee when it comes to health insurance even if they are employed by the busines

[0] https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/small-business-health-insur...

[1] https://localhelp.healthcare.gov/
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> Unfortunately, reddit's never been very good at just seeing some new popular thing as a novelty and moving on.

So very reddit.

Do you know what year that was?
Yeah, I wish he was on the way out. I don't agree that his poll numbers improve with every controversy, but they don't crater the way they should.

But maybe that's understandable, too. "The squad" has become the face of the Democratic Party, and the squad and Trump are neck-and-neck in a race to appeal to two-year-olds. Seems like both sides forgot that two-year-olds can't vote. If the Democrats had the appearance of competence and sanity, they should easily beat Trump, but at the moment, they look equally insane.

If the primary process produces someone who is not extremely left, someone who can look "presidential" rather than getting into a name-calling war with Trump, and someone that actually sounds like they care about the blue-collar voters, Trump should be gone.

Take Pelosi, for instance. It can't be Pelosi, nor someone like her. Pelosi seems to stand for Pelosi being the speaker. She doesn't seem to stand for any particular policies, other than "not Trump, but not something that's going to cost me the speaker job (even if by killing the Dems in the 2020 elections)". That doesn't win many votes in the Rust Belt.
I assumed nothing. I used the word "odds". Probabilities, what have you. And if one is posting on HN, "odds are" you and everyone in your household consume a disproportionate amount of the world's resources. And if you'd like to drill further into an off-hand comment that might have taken a few liberties with the demographics of HN readers, then let's simplify it: your kid isn't going to cure cancer or fix global warming no matter who you are or your class status.
Haskell solution:

uncurry $ liftA2 (,)

edit: just noticed the other comment mentioning the better solution:

bisequence
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They could do what startpage does and cache google results; if something isn't cached, do a pass-through so Google does still get the search but doesn't get the user's specific information
The video, running at 60fps, would have to be 38996161157 years long for this to be a possibility
Even if you predicted the first 3 symbols of the id, you'd still need a 148758 years long video
I'm sure China would be very interested in anything that advances AI in any direction. The motives can be economic too.
Also military people need to be educated and trained.
The difference is that movies & TV shows aren't typically given in open data formats - podcasts, or more specifically RSS feeds, are. By announcing Apple exclusive podcasts, they're stating their intent to create a silo around a data format that historically has been open.
Yeah, I have a tub with random springs, brackets, spacers, clips, and odd metal bits pulled off of devices I threw away. It's surprising how convenient it is when you need something.
This is pretty awesome, to say the least.
I'm actually with you on C. C has the excuse of being portable assembly and from the dawn of time. Javascript is just the result of shoehorning something into the browser quickly.
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The server doesn't do any rendering before serving the page. All the "SSR" is done exactly once at build time. To the server it's no different from serving any other site.
Well.. it is complicated. Depending on what exactly you want to know, you could look into the concept of "Transient Climate Response" (e.g. start at [1]).

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08047
You can also permute your ID space using a block cipher.
No, Mars is pretty easy. Materials are there, solar works as an energy source there, and it's just an extension of known tech. I bet if - for whatever reason it became an existential issue - humanity could have habitable base there inside of 10 years.

The deepest hole ever dug is not even to the mantle and is less than a foot wide. We could all live in a (modestly) deep cave no problem, but navigating lava is beyond the properties of any known material.

It's literally impossible to reach the core. No nanomaterials, no carbon nanotubules, no fusion reactors, no superalloys. I am 100% confident saying that human kind will never reach the center of the Earth.
Agreed. I was planning to set up a pi as a media server sharing out a synced Dropbox folder, but the long term reliability of the storage made that impossible. Sure, you can attach USB storage (and that should be pretty fast with the Pi4) but then the tiny form factor is lost.
In the spirit of blockchain and decentralization, I think you're right. But practically, explaining that to the authorities will probably not be a pleasant experience if they manage to find cp or other illegal data on your hard drive.
> A good UI library should definitely be accessible once it's in a mature release

I doubt that you can add a good accessibility layer after everything else is done and the absence of a plan is telling. Which is fine, if the author doesn't know or doesn't care, it's ok, it's his time and his project after all. But if you plan to build something with it you should question yourself: "is it accessible?".

In my opinion the parent question was perhaps a bit harsh but legit.
Does the new podcast mac app allow you to see the RSS feed like iTunes? If so, I wonder if you could extract the exclusive podcasts' feed URL and use it in 3rd party apps.
Why not Percona?
> My experience, though, is that it takes about 4-5 days for all the "noise" in your head to start fading away, and then, boom, it's over. ;-)

I used to know someone from France who claimed that the French don't consider any amount of time off under a week to really be a vacation, for exactly that reason.
Given the relatively low cost (I imagine), Apple could instead fund regular podcasts, but buy out their entire ad/placement inventory, and continue to make the podcasts available to everyone.

Given Beats 1 as "platform exclusive radio" hasn't made much of a splash (is it still going?), maybe audio content is better thought about as extending awareness as opposed increasing stickiness.
This doesn’t seem to be true (at least for all vendors). AFAIK, Google Cloud has per-customer SLAs, though you might need to have enough traffic for statistical significance in some products.
On that note it would be paradoxically a conflict of interest for the CIA/NSA to investigate Google and yet of course they have because of their working relationship. So any penetration from China should theoretically be detected by them anyway or at least on their radar.
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Global warming is bad.

Few seconds later - let's generate mountain of trash so we can burn something for a second without real reason behind it.
I feel like I see alot of articles about SV and tech in general that seem to harp on stuff like apparent high levels of "toxic masculinity", which I find pretty ironic because isnt the whole "techie" stereotype the exact opposite of the "bro"? theres not really any fields I can think of that would immediately occur to me as "more inclusive" besides something like medicine.
+1 for ayuhuasca retreats
I've been on 2 10 day Vipassana meditation retreats (as taught by SN Goenka).

I had bad OCD that was entirely cured after 2 10-day courses + an average of 2-3 hours of meditation practice every day for 1-2 years.

However, even 2 hours of meditation practice for 6 months after the first retreat got my OCD to a very manageable level.

Really recommend going!
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Yep, pretty much!
In the event that you'd prefer a mouse for standard pointing, I do think the Magic Mouse is equally good at horizontal scrolling. One could quibble that the Magic Mouse offers less room on the surface for horizontal movement, but in practice I don't think this makes much difference.