skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This spec unfortunately does not appear to be alive and well.

https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-apply-rule/
https://www.xanthir.com/b4o00
Good point. This was indeed at 5V.
Well, in the grand scheme of things, photovoltaic cells were developed back when nuclear reactors began to appear as well. They are not a new technology, just something that is getting optimized diligently now. In that regard, the parent post is technically correct. But that view is focused too much on big shifts in the market, if you ask me. Smaller, more incremental steps have added up to amazing things around wind and solar power.
in python:

def getSocketAPIPort(defaultport):
try:
return os.environ["socketPort"]
except KeyError:
return defaultport
There are no mods above us and no one intervenes in that way.
They do already. I once got a $260 AI round trip from Newark, NJ, USA to Cologne, Germany. There were only a few seats per flight available at that price and I got it at 3am.

It was part of their usual shady promotions where they say "flights from $199" and there are really only a couple of seats available at that price, and they go fast.
I am especially infuriated by how it repeats a common misconception of infrared light as the epitome of "heat", as if it was some kind of separate particle.
Unless you live in Estonia, where each citizen has a private key (on a smart card) and can electronically sign things to prove identity.

Governments could work with big tech players to confirm that certain Gmail/Facebook accounts are linked to one, and only one, national identity. Then through OAuth, you could use that to login anywhere else, proving you are a real person with exactly one ID (which needen't be revealed, just confirming you have exactly one account)
Let's also ban bug bombs. Maybe canned raid too. Ever get that stuff in your face? Hooo boy. Cant have that now can we
Very cool! Let's see if it reproduces experimentally, and then let's see if it scales.
Maybe you can require this long process only for people that aren't in your country.

I don't know where you live, but here in Brazil having to get documents and signatures verified by a notary is super common (and super hated).

For example: I once wanted to unregister a domain I had. The only two ways of doing it were: don't pay the renewal fee OR get a paper form verified by a notary sent over snail mail to the registro.br office.

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Also, you may give your clients the option of verifying their signature at the embassy of the company's country in the client's country. This would skip on that whole Ministry of Foreign Affairs non sense.

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A hacky way of avoiding this "excessive burden" problem is to offer all your users the possibility of linking their public gpg key to their account.

Almost no one would do it, but you gave them the opportunity to do so, thus you cover your ass at least a bit.
But is there any truth to it?
I’m sure if some energy saving tech was commercialized and reasonably cost effective local municipalities could update building codes. LEED standards could be updated as well. What goes into a building isn’t entirely up to the developer.

But right now most of this stuff is just in a lab. Frankly the tall cooling towers you see on some buildings weren’t in widespread use until at least the 50’s even though they were invented at the turn of the century.
> changing heat into light

It's not actually doing that though. It's changing one set of light-frequencies into another.
Why don't we do online learning? Each failure is a new training sample.

Why dont't we do active learning? Or adversarial networks, or....

Sure it is easy to fail in machine learning. But it doesn't mean that we need to undstand how and what our models learn. That's the only big advantage of machine learning: the model learns, so I don't have to.
> I don't think there are any good indicators of someone lying.

Some people are much better at lying than others. I know because I am absolutely terrible at lying and anybody who knows me reasonably well can tell when I'm lying. And I've come across plenty of people who are great at it.
You might say "pop" instead of "soda", but you will never escape your Louisiana history. No true Midwesterner grows their corn and soybeans anywhere west of the river.

It's not our fault that true Midwestern culture is so rich and interesting that the folk of the Great Plains were compelled to emulate it. But to be fair, you are the second-best completely-distinct-and-separate cultural region in the US, so don't feel too bad about it.

~

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

"The Midwest" is poorly-defined. Most polls conclude that Midwesterners believe that the Midwest is at least their state and neighboring states, and non-Midwesterners have basically no idea where it starts or ends.

The census region more or less covers the Northwest Territories plus that part of the Louisiana Purchase that became Missouri Territory. Largely settled by Germans and Scandinavians, and mostly free states (except Missouri itself).

I refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States#Cultu... for further info on how the definition of "Midwest" differs depending on what part of the Midwest you're from.
ive always wondered why leaves all generally evolved to be green instead of black. wouldnt black be more efficient?
The trouble is finding someone to bribe who won’t suddenly start buying new things.
If a woman seeking an abortion has to drive 4 hours to the next state because protestors stormed the abortion clinic, would you tell her to "have some empathy" for the protestors? Or how about a bunch of white and Asian tech workers disruptively protesting women and URM ERGs in objection to discriminatory hiring processes (e.g. diversity quotas). If not, then you're at least conceding that only some protestors are justified in causing "extreme inconvenience" and that others are not justified in causing inconvenience. And in my experience, whether or not a person feels a protest is justified in causing inconvenience largely correlates to whether or not they agree with the protest - a pretty hypocritical position in my view.

Empathy works both ways. Protestors that lack empathy for the people they're disrupting aren't going to get good reactions from most people because most people don't like to be disrupted.
I was going to say it's for sure not the single largest voting block (but don't eat your hat! that can't be good for you). But I suppose it depends on how you define "block".
Unless you're going to put chip readers in every place of public accommodation, this won't help much.
These weren't all that long ago. Someone claimed that there are people walking around today that went to one of these events. I couldn't corroborate that claim but we're talking less than a hundred years ago. While the Middle ages were some 5-900 years ago.

Also what makes these public killings so notable is the fact that it was a deliberate effort of an entire society to instill fear into a minority. That you don't see very often. There wasn't even an attempt at justice, they didn't even try to make it seem like these people weren't being killed just because of the color of their skin.
I'd love a sequoia forest, but:

Not suitable for my climate.

Planting trees isn't the problem - the challenge is having them live to maturity.

Bigger trees store more carbon more rapidly, as they perform more photosynthesis (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...) so work to preserve existing big trees.
TLDR: hacking and data leaks are the new Valdez.
> and it's also quite surprising AWS have yet to correct the design. 90% chance it is mostly a UI problem -- there are no warning labels around snapshotting in the EC2 UI

Snapshots are private by default, you have to actively make them public (impossible if encrypted) or share them (which also requires sharing the associated keys if encrypted.)

Now, AWS hasn't wrapped the extra layer of “by default, reject any setting or policy allowing public or cross-account access unless separate additional default switches have been toggled off” thing to EBS that they have to S3. But people still expose stuff via S3, so that's hardly a panacea. At some point, one has to conclude that customers are responsible, in many cases for giving too many(or just the wrong) people admin access to their accounts.
I think anyone who pays a lot for barber or hair stylist is paying for both the experience and the knowledge that they'll wind-up looking like all the other people who pay a lot and that others will know this.

I suspect that styles shift subtly over time and a person's stylist give advice about what might look best on a person. And you might even want to seen by or see other customers of given a stylist.

Which is to say, I'd say absolutely, relationship with stylist matters but that relationship isn't just an irrational attachment to chatting with the person - it can extend to the finished product, how one winds-up looking.
Certainly not. They need to be independent on US threats. Like the ones coming from Qualcomm or Google.

There are some good OS micro kernels, but writing one is trivial. The problem are the services which the kernel does not offer anymore. And keeping compat to existing apps. Java would be easy, but C not so. You really need a POSIX translation layer, even if it's horrible.
Emotional Support Animals aren't a regulated thing in most states, and even the few where it is semi-regulated so far it's mostly more "homeopathic medicine / food product" ("generally regarded to be safe") than "FDA regulated" (scientifically tested, strictly licensed).
IE: your model gains so much impact that it starts to impact the model itself.
No one was punished for the many Wells Fargo scandals except for the low level people who were fired as a sacrifice. No one will be punished for this.
This does seem quite explicit - "If you have some reasonable means of confirming someone's identity in response to a request under GDPR" then you have to use them even if they're not your preferred means. In the scenario proposed above the company wouldn't have to confirm the identity only because they can't.
Having two 0-days for one of the most popular browsers tells me they probably have access to whatever they want.
I'm really curious as to what this will do for waste heat from other processes.
The short answer is that absorbing a narrow band of energies is more efficient than a wide band.

See: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=4979
What are they going to sue for? "I can’t identify myself but still want the data of some random person I claim to be"?
If putting your money in crypto prevents you from paying taxes, it's you who'd go to jail. If any government saw a dip in taxes, they'd just pass a law requiring an "internet driver's license". Then require your wallet number. Such licenses are already common, outside the US.

So, less anarcho anything. More jail time, and then forced labor, and then one again paying taxes.

Sorry.
The feelings of contempt are mutual, which is fucking stupid.
That depends on where you are. I asked around a bit, and solar is a net negative for me (cost-wise). The only option one company gave me required converting the roof of my garage to a flat surface (from a standard peak), which is utterly impractical around here.
Which totally makes sense. There's way too much liability or risk of negative PR in carrying pets in the cargo hold.

Airplanes are for people anyway.
Where did I do this?

When I get something wrong, I'm happy to admit it and correct it. At the same time, people make all sorts of claims about horrid things we supposedly did, and most of those leave out important information.

Either way, if you're going to make claims like this, you should supply links so readers can make up their own minds.
The original wikipedia article is about their use by the government on public lands, not their use by citizens on private property. The original article also has a list of cases where these devices have accidentally harmed humans and pets. If that's happening I assume it's also killing animals other than coyotes but there's no one to document those events. That's why I call them indiscriminate.

Regarding private property, what guarantees that people will remove these when they move? Or remember where they put them? I remember finding old school traps on my parent's land growing up, left there by a previous owner. Most were not loaded or rusted beyond operation, but some still snapped when you hit them with a stick. From the pictures, I'm not sure I'd spot one of these devices while running around in the woods...
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Well, for S3 buckets, Amazon has made it very clear when it is public. It also used to be pretty clear.

For EBS - nothing is public by default, so customers have to willingly decide to click buttons to make it public.

By default, if I create a snapshot, it is NOT public...
None of those other sites are even similar to Ashley Madison. There is nothing morally wrong with dating using apps or being gay. But I expect most people to agree that cheating is definitely not morally clear.

In fact, the latter ones are so ubiquitous, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a person in a major US city in their 20s who was single for a period of time in the past 5 years and haven't used one of those apps.
They do that too, with large commercial users with loads that can easily be shed for short periods such as blast furnaces, aluminium smelters, refrigeration systems etc.

With car charging, they're doing one better, and can feed power back into the grid: https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/vehicle-to-grid-char...
Someone should go in with fresh install of 2009 Windows 7 and see how long it lasts.
There are many types of fuel cells.

I am talking about the kind of fuel cells which can be used by wind and solar to store energy and distributed economically feasible.

We are not even close to that. If you know of anything, by all means, please let me know as the group I am part of would invest in it in a heart beat.
But is the flawed system design here the automated system at AWS or the human-in-the-loop systems by which companies are providing admin access to IT resources, including AWS accounts?
For anyone curious: Carbon Nanotubes, so this will likely not see the outside of a lab any time soon.
I did this a few weeks ago. I just quit a long tobacco habit, so I might have been a bit impulsive. For the most part, it turned out fine. I needed a second person to help trim the back, though. If you like a clean neckline, that's hard to do yourself.

Anyway, I rather have a 1990's Flowbee (https://www.flowbee.com/) than a robot. I've played Fallout 3 and know what can happen.
The apps alone are not the signal. The app data combined with other data sources is the signal. It can demonstrate intent.
That's not a random price spike, that's a sale. Customers love sales and hate random price spikes.
This article describes a situation where a bad person did bad things, and was eventually stopped.

You are saying: "That was not the solution. But I don't know what the right solution is".

How can you possibly know that there is an alternative without knowing what it is?

I think what you are really saying is: "I have an ideological opposition to violence-as-a-tool which I cannot rationally explain". Or, "the consequences of violence-as-a-tool are so unthinkable that I choose to stop thinking."

Your line of thinking is responsible for the fact that this guy wasn't dealt with sooner. Maybe you should visit some of the victims of his behaviour before dismissing the seemingly-helpful vigilante justice in this situation.

The black-and-white line you're drawing between "blind justice" and "angry, vengeful townspeople" is not so clear in reality. Do we have AI algorithms for implementing first-principles justice? Are you so sure that first-principles justice doesn't include strategies which look like retaliation and revenge?
I constantly request connection with other engineers and entrepreneurs in my city who get automatically suggested to me by LinkedIn. I pick those who have at least a few years of work experience. Every now and then some posts of these new connections appear on my feed and I learn a few things what moves those people. Occasionally I even personally meet fellow engineers and founders which were kind enough to reply to me. These meetings over lunch or dinner were really inspiring and I learned a lot from them.

If you happen to be a software engineer or tech founder in Berlin, please connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsalexanderblumberg/
It's ridiculous because they don't need your location history to search for static content that they already have saved in their databases. The exact same behavior happens with maps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19809432

Google is shameless about gimping their services unless you hand over gross amounts of irrelevant personal information.
Fine-Tuned Constants
And installation costs, which are enormous.
Forecast was doing that, quite successfully (115 m$ exit).
Thanks - its helpful to understand how this resonated and how it's perceived at different sizes of companies.
I see, okay, that was my engineering brain considering spikes to be either negative or positive ...
I love this! Nanofabrication was one of my favorite classes and even with fancy equipment and worked out ahead of time instructions making a transistor took a huge amount of time and a good number of missteps. Can't imagine the amount of work required to do it all from scratch. Though I also think the safety lectures scared me sufficiently that I wouldn't want to touch HF acid ever again.
This seems like something you could easily cover in the terms of service. Remember that law doesn't really work like programming does.
Sounds to me like the parent isn't anti-nuclear, just that there is some agenda downplaying the role of nuclear in fighting climate change.
That's not a perfect example or even an example at all. The comment explicitly broke the site guidelines, as I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20648370.
s/politics/ethics/
Why is it “materialism” when it’s rappers but “capitalism” and “disruption” when done in Silicon Valley?

At least they are producing something at a profit unlike almost every VC backed company being subsidized waiting to be acquired or pawn their money losing business off to the public markets.
> nobody has a clue

The "arrow of time" is commonly explained as an effect of thermodynamics, i.e. increasing entropy.

I always felt this to be a deeply unsatisfying explanation that implied "nobody has a clue" (a hot, expanding ball of quarks is a "highly ordered state", orly?) but I'm not a physicist.
> In the US, the police kills more than 1000 citizens each year

In case anyone is curious to see a source, the Washington Post attempts to collect data regarding police shootings: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/four-years-in-...
This won’t survive a Supreme Court challenge. Red Lion Broadcasting Co v. FCC (1969) was upheld primarily because airwaves were limited. The Internet is not limited, so this revival of the “fairness doctrine” has no foundation.
I posted it as they looked interesting not my field so wanted to get opinions. The charging speed looks good would be good for toys and drones etc. Though from what I understand you wont be able to detect the battery power is finishing and crash your drones when you loose power suddenly.
Haven't used VBS in years, use to use it daily.
this is exactly the point, most of the times people just assume harshest weather condition and think we are asking them to support that the moment this argument pops up.
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This is a great start but $220 seems expensive for this type of project. Isn't there a less expensive setup possible?
The creator of the first Ubuntu distros for EC2 wrote about the dangers of public EBS snapshots 10 years ago:

https://alestic.com/2009/09/ec2-public-ebs-danger/

He just got notified by AWS a couple days ago about the public snapshot he mentioned in the article.

But at least AWS is trying to make things better here by proactively checking for public EBS snapshots and notifying people.
"a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" - Douglas Adams
I really didn’t expect folks opposing Citizens United to get their shouts of “corporations don’t have free speech rights” thrown back in their face quite so quickly.
The first and last meat in the economy is human. What we need to do, is limit emigration and stabilize crumbling economies that incentivize high-reproduction for subsistence labor.
The guy that produces that last line definitely wears a suit.
Oh, it's definitely amazing relative to where it was, just not to where it needs to be to compete.

Solar and wind is less than 1% of world energy consumption and is not expected to be more than 3-4% in 2040.

Energy is not a product/market problem it's a physics problem and we haven't had any major breakthroughs in that space for a long long time.

https://www.iea.org/weo/?fbclid=IwAR3eH1AFcRSPSEit8JINLCMvE_...
Though I did find my comment amusing, I do believe there may be something to it.

It is a fact that redheads have higher pain tolerance and respond differently to anesthesia compared to the rest of the population. Considering these phenomena are related to drug abuse, I feel like the downvoting is a matter of ignorance.
China tends to create absolute garbage for the chinese market. Huawei's reputation outside of china has taken a massive hit, even though they were considered industry leaders this time last year, so that's not helping. Add to that the fact that they seemingly pumped this out in about 4 months and skepticism is warranted.
+1

If good scheduling is necessary for a mentoring program to be successful (I'm guessing it is), then you shouldn't withhold the feature unless you intend to make lower paying customers less successful with the platform.
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This is pretty damn impressive - I'll definitely have to give it a deeper look later.

On seeing the name, I had hoped it had come out of Udacity and their Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program; I was a "beta-tester" for that course (read: in the first cohort of the new nanodegree), and the self-driving vehicle that was being developed as a part of that course had the same name.

As far as I know, the simulator and code and other stuff we used is all available on github:

https://github.com/udacity/self-driving-car

https://github.com/udacity/self-driving-car-sim

Not as advanced, of course, but still another open-source avenue with a similar purpose. As I recall, it wasn't very difficult to work with, and even with a GTX 750 TI/SC GPU I was able to both render, train, and run models and still have 3D acceleration using CUDA on my Ubuntu install. Of course, that maxed out the GPU and put the fans on high, but it still worked fairly well at a decent resolution and level of detail settings. Just to show you don't need an expensive GPU to play around with this stuff...
Probably both! But I would argue that below a certain size provisioning things by hand probably makes sense. A UI that makes it too easy to make a private thing public is never ok.
Fortunately, that VP (or anyone else) doesn't control what I do in my free time.