skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, when you value Chrome's market share in terms of traffic acquisition, it's pretty straightforward. Especially since they designed it from the ground up to do more searches.
Google Cloud as a package is different.

But since I started to use GCP 2012 a number of services has been left to die by abandonement.

Most of the times you get a clear migration path to a new service, but sometimes you dont such as when they kill the devserver for appengine standard in go 1.12 without giving a proper migration strategy. Everyone I know dread when they decide to deprecate go 1.11 support.
The Economics of Kenneth Arrow
The constitution in general limits the government not individuals.
Would you prefer if he just called him a jerk? Telling someone that they're being mean or inconsiderate is not the same thing as censoring them.
Don't worry, a 60 year old will be along to correct you soon enough :)
Having worked on WebKit performance in the past, it's great to see more of this knowledge being pushed out to web developers.

These are things browser developers have known about for a long time, but we generally always tried to "just make things work" in the browser instead of asking web developers to help out on their end (and making tools to assist with that.)

Great post by Benjamin and Simon :)
Most sites will show a custom box first, and only if you agree to that box, will they ask the browser to enable notifications. They do it so that they can ask you again if you deny, because responding “deny” to the real browser prompt blocks any future attempts.
Technically, releasing methane into the atmosphere also requires no combustion. That seems like the wrong criterion in this thread.
> Basically an indentured servant

… or a young graduate paying back a university bursary.

Not always evil.
Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 (1993)
Seriously. A friend’s father told me that his favorite movie was “Chase a Crooked Shadow.” I tried to watch it online and couldn’t find any place to buy it (I would have paid up to $50... the guy was visiting and wanted to watch it with me, and probably doesn’t have much more time to live). I could have gotten a DVD, but he would have left my house by then, plus I don’t have any disc readers in my house. The solution was a Russian guy who had posted a terrible screenrip on YouTube.

Just take my fucking money!
Have you read FDA regulations on food labels? Flavor has to be at least printed in a twelve point font.

It may be started by lobbyists, but bureaucrats while drafting something will come up with some good ideas of their own.
This is entirely unsurprising. Facial recognition for personalized (in public!) advertising is already a big market, and oh, various US localities are using facial recognition. This is, of course, on top of other tracking methods like ALPR and vehicle recognition, credit cards, cell phones, and so on.

It is no longer possible to be "off the grid". And that's quite scary when you realize that every single adult has committed many crimes (however minor) in their life.
The one graph missing from this is the workplace participation rate for women which increased rapidly from an average of 47% to 65% between 1972 and 1984 for OECD countries.

A large number of households would have gone from having a single breadwinner to two as more women entered the workforce. The expansion of the pool for workers would have had a supply-side impact on wages.

Initially many households would have seen their joint income increase substantially but most likely resulted in downward pressure on wages that saw that gain eaten away.

Two wages then became the new normal for later generations.
North Korea does it, too.
I could get behind this idea as a privacy compromise.

The government can collect any data it likes on everything, but any data it then looks at must be published to the world. Ie. The government gets no privacy when looking through its big database.

The simplest approach would be to livestream every screen owned by any government agency.
its pretty bad. Its all in bold.
Artificial intelligence lab co-founded by Elon Musk informed the world that its latest breakthrough was too risky to release to the public - A report How AI in IoT Grows - https://straitsresearch.com/report/ai-in-iot-market
It wouldn't make sense to log most of these events outside the context of the http request -- it makes sense to smash it all into the one log line. Otherwise you have no simple way to tie everything back together; you could make an id for each request and tie everything back to that, but that is inconvenient, slow, and mostly a way to justify a Hadoop cluster you don't actually need.

That's not the key insight though. The key insight is not to try to log the time something took -- instead, log the beginning and the end, and calculate the duration later. This makes the logging apis much simpler and enables measuring times between events in different scopes without coupling the different scopes.
- During the fasting I don't take the Fish Oil, I haven't read anything about it specifically, but just assumed Fish Oil was fat that would break the fast. Do you have an opinion on that?

A fish oil pill has around 14 calories and most of the times will break your fast -> Take it after your first meal.

Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin and you should take it only after a meal containing some fat. Taking it while fasting will just not be absorbed.
Please add your own implementations in other languages here and I'll add them (with credit if desired) to the post.
There seems to be a subtle distinction: The point is not that mainlanders can't or won't see the truth, but that their ability to make informed decisions is being undermined. The article argues that many mainlanders are doing their best and making good decisions despite being undermined by their government... but there's certainly a lot being done to stop them.
Excellent question. As with many minerals, uranium-bearing minerals are found in various parts of the world in various grades of ore. Some areas have high-grade ore, and others are more diffuse. The best information on this that I'm aware of is at world nuclear [1]. In summary, there is a whole lot of uranium.

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

At the diffuse extreme, there's nearly infinite uranium in seawater, and lots of research has been done recently to extract it passively with special polymers. In 2016, this special edition journal summarized the progress [2]. It's still more expensive than conventional mining, but not so much that it's unreasonable to think we'll be able to economically get uranium from seawater. Then nuclear is renewable for billions of years, as uranium in seawater replenishes via runoff and plate tectonics faster than we could ever imagine using it.

[2] https://pubs.acs.org/toc/iecred/55/15

This is all further complicated by the fact that conventional nuclear reactors burn about 1% of the nuclear fuel pulled out of the ground. More advanced breeder reactors with recycling facilities can get up to 90% of the energy (there are always some process losses). This extends known resources by another factor of 90x.

There's also Thorium, which can be used as nuclear fuel. There's a whole lot of that too [3].

[3] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu...

Regarding power to enrich, France and some others uses nuclear power plants to power their nuclear enrichment and reprocessing facilities. In the USA, I believe there's still lots of coal and fracked gas powering enrichment plants. The gas centrifuge enrichment plants are so energy efficient that this matters much less than back in the day when we used gaseous diffusion. In the end game, the plan would be to do as France does and make the whole fuel cycle ultra low carbon.
Major first step for OCaml Multicore merged to OCaml trunk
> How is this different from a police officer walking by and scanning your face?

If facial recognition were widely deployed and the data matched up, it would be more like a police officer following around wherever you go, 24/7.

The fear is that you could use the tech to build ultra-detailed activity profiles of any person
Personally I would say being barred for what someone else said is worse than being barred for something that I myself did/said.
I would have never predicted this from a western country to act like this. But I guess the Anglo-Saxon countries were always leaning on the controlling side.

At least EU still has some sort of values.

I won't be traveling to the US soon, unless I really need to.
10-Year Government Bond Yields Around the World
Also this quote was about the cited reason for FB preferring Haskell to Clojure generally, not about this project specifically. IME it's common in big organisations to prefer stuff that has controls at the cost of productivity. It's probably harder to ship buggy Haskell code even if it's harder to write.
That's a lot of steps for something that might not help you at all. You can be asked to list your social media accounts during the visa application process, not at the point of entry. Step six, especially, where it becomes quite obvious you are trying to 'hack' the process is probably worse than not doing anything. The bizarre thing about this story is that the student was stopped this late - getting a US student visa, especially for someone from that part of the world involves a fair bit of scrutiny.
> The US doesn't need a protector, because the US has immensely large natural barriers (the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean) that protect it from any other country in the world, except from Canada and from Mexico. Unless you think one of these two countries is an actual threat to the US, then I think in general you should be safe.

And if the US was willing to cut itself off from the rest of the world, this might be relevant.

But I don't think that's the case.

> Now, obviously, there are intercontinental missiles, but why would anyone employ these against a nation if they would not consider that nation a threat?

Um. I can think of a ton of reasons? From "they're not a threat now but give them 5 years to retool and they'll be really fucking irritating to deal with" to "they keep providing military and tech support to countries on our borders we want to omnomnom" or even "this will help with domestic political issues".

"Don't bother hurting me, I'm defenceless" works when there's a cop standing over your shoulder. Not so much when you used to be the cop.
I dont see why it should be difficult to debug unless you think this is all some kind of conspiratorial plot by white people or the "white system" who are all secretely racist against black people and that's why the detection rate was purposefully kept low by these evil people.
And implying that we have to be irrational to be ethical is also pretty weird.
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I only delete all cookies in Firefox about once a month - probably not nearly often enough, even using containers.

I recommend Cookie auto delete if you haven't considered it before: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
New Candidate JEP: 360: Sealed Types (Preview)
This is a very narrow view of potential applications of facial recognition. I take it for granted that this technology has enormous affordances for social control. "Criminality" may be an out-of date notion of the kinds of behaviors that governments and other institutions like those in workplaces (e.g. the academy, employers, corporations). Surveillance has major political implications and we should not treat the advancement of technology as independent from the society and the political economy.

Surveillance is the key concept in a major design of social control, Bentham's "Panopticon." When anyone may be watched, people must live expecting that they will be watched, and the will of those with the power to create sanctions will enacted. This will be a historical novelty if facial recognition systems become widespread. Historically, only limited public venues were subject to effective widespread surveillance (except in extreme authoritarian cases like East Germany). Increasingly, online spaces are subject to surveillance that is limited by browser instrumentation, with facial recognition it will be possible to track people offline as well, if you have access to the cameras.

Surveillance is the twin of transparency, which can be thought of as possible tool for democratic control. I do believe that transparency i.e. through freedom of information acts has some positive characteristics for democracy but has a weak empirical record compared to panoptic control. Facial recognition might have affordances for collective action, such as making it easy to produce evidence of excesses or corruption.

That said, maybe we should not give the authorities the power to implement technological changes without the consent of the governed? Technology moves faster than policies can adapt to them, but old laws and institutions like the police evolved in times when the tools of day could not have been imagined.

Edit:
Regulating technologies like facial recognition popularizes the control of social systems which counter acts authoritarianism and high concentration of power and resources.
So I think we basically agree ... except for the interest in building more fission nuclear plants. ; )

You've suggested it's close to zero carbon by selecting the median value in one meta-analysis. Specifically the 3.7 / 12 / 110 figures for min/median/max.

The mean wasn't supplied - I presume it's substantially higher than the median -- so I'm wondering how much credence you have in those figures, and why we should be ignoring the large disparity in those figures?
The guys over at GHGSat in Montreal are doing great work. They take satellite imagery of methane releasing sites and model their output. Not perfect but for a broad estimate it’s not bad.

When I worked in energy we took part in an investment vehicle called the OGCI to invest in them.
Camscanner app adds trojan and malware
Yeah, I have several friends who were at the real SCO. They had nothing to do with this.
China is actively checking people's phones at airports and land/sea entrance points for evidence that the person attended or supports the protests in Hong Kong. People have certainly been denied entry and held for a few hours, and may have been taken into longer-term detention.

The fact that the US has been doing similar for a long time has been widely used as justification for China's actions...
I have trouble understanding the need to transition as a close friend is just undergoing it. Though I support him/her, I cannot bend my mind around it? What are the perceived benefits? In what way is it that different from using different clothes without the (not sure if small or big) risk of health? Is it not enough to know oneself is X or Y or Z identity-wise? Why is there a need to externalize it and externalize it in this particular way?
At risk of sounding condescending, one particularly hard thing for me to understand is the need for the rest of her friends to call her appropriately especially since she is just beginning. If someone called me a girl or a woman (common childhood insult where I grew up, and very bad in its own way) I simply could not care less.

What are the benefits of putting oneself over such a hard (at least it seems socially and medically) ordeal to change how others perceive one? One thing I know is that expecting others to perceive us in a certain way is a losing proposition. We can only change ourselves and it is unreasonable to expect it from everyone else I think.

Once again, sorry for being so extended, I just would like to understand better my friend. I have tried asking her and she seems to have a block around it, saying that I would not understand. At a certain level I feel this is only a superficial change I think but then if it's that small then why bother? (I mean my friend still has his same personality and mind)
And you’d be suspecting 20-30 spies coming on the same plane?

This is not how spying has been reported to be handled, the CBP has been known to be fishing for the FBI, but the foreigners did not spend a long time in secondary, the FBI handled them pretty quickly.
Nate - why do you think Google shut down Hire? When it launched, did you see any path for it to become a major ATS player, given Google's impatience?

Thx & hope Lever scoops up a bunch of customers from the transition (if Hire even had a bunch of customers!).
Methane is CH4. Carbon from Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Hydrogen from Water (H2O).

Stoichiometrically, CO2 + (2)H2O -> CH4 + (2)O2

The process is performed via the Sabatier Reaction, which someone else linked to.
you might be underestimating your skill level.
> "Theft of trade secrets" is how Silicon Valley was built.

However something was "built" doesn't mean that those practices are ethical or should be continued, or be imitated by others trying to catch up to that thing.

For (an extreme) example, many countries were built on the massacre of indigenous peoples. Most of them have stopped doing that now.
It is always the consume who pays, never the producers, any proruction expenses are factored in the commodity price. The revenue margins do not change all that much in a competitive industry.
“You can do everything an iPod can do with a _____ for a fraction of the price.”

I can’t even remember what the competitors were, because none of that matters if it’s not effortless to use.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to say you were mocking. But the whole narrative on HN does feel like that and is essentially a tribal, condescending thing.

I would think differently if I saw the same amount of criticism towards other products which commit similar if not worse “offenses”. MacOS does a comparable amount of telemetry. Ubuntu does telemetry (albeit presumably less).

If telemetry as done by OS providers is an offense, then half the tech industry is built on top of even more severe privacy offenses. Can you imagine any serious digital product NOT doing what is essentially telemetry? Imagine online ad companies NOT spying on you? I mean, if it offends you, then sure, voice your discontents. But if a collective in aggregate constantly criticizes minor offenses by one player but lets other players off the leash for way more, it’s not about privacy, sorry.

Also, I don’t agree that people are ignorant. Most of media coverage about Windows 10 revolved around its telemetry. It’s asked when you install it. It’s in the settings. I mean, if you don’t care about it after that then you don’t care.

Personally, I think telemetry is OK. So I’m not bothered, as long as it’s not outright spying. I’m also OK with paying more for Windows 10 Pro to not have the stupid ads.
>The administration has given the UPU an ultimatum, that they: either allow the USPS to set rates for China mail that arrives in the U.S., or the U.S. will officially leave the UPU on October 17th.

(Emphasis mine)

why "for China mail" ?

why not "no exceptions: all over the planet everybody pays the same local rates, or else we leave the UPU" ?

This smells like hidden import taxation, but I hope I am wrong. But then why insist on phrasing the ultimatum with referene to "for China mail" specifically ?

EDIT: adding another gem:

>Global Supply Chain News: After Three Years of Secrecy, Amazon Starting to Ramp Up Global Logistics Services

>they are actively looking to compete in the shipping industry

...

>The project’s name: Dragon Boat.

>As part of that strategy, Bloomberg reported Amazon had plans to take on freight forwarding and brokerage services directly, eliminating a set of middlemen.

>...

>Among the most important ramifications from Amazon’s vision: small Chinese manufacturer will be able sell to American consumers with no one else than Amazon between them.

So if an American company (in this case Amazon), will perform transport within China, does that mean that reciprocally, Chinese companies can also become a mail service in the US? They could be paid a low wage, and eat cheap food that is shipped internally. Is this really about balancing trade or about big corporations doing to mail, what they did with manufacture: export jobs to China for increased profit?
The cortana process includes elements of local search indexing. Part of the cortana 'integration' included rebranding existing local functionality as cortana.
Being gay in the US is about as blackmail worthy as being left handed.
I think it could be argued that they ran out of indigenous peoples or those people have formed their own country.
Engineering Special Report: How to slow a supersonic car with a parachute
Canon announces 32-megapixel 90D DSLR and mirrorless M6 Mark II
It's kind of funny that you should mention that.
You can call a lot of things "critical infrastructure" but it doesn't mean we can't phase out many of those those things in an orderly fashion. It just means dependencies we've added to our life, many of which are very recent.

We have to make compromises, unless we prefer to lose the global warming battle. Humanity's benefits from cheap air travel are much less than losses from unchecked climate change.
> force you to think about what data you actually need where, and often lead to a cleaner design.

This is key. Because you have to be explicit about what state is retained, and how it is passed, you are forced to consider it more carefully. For most software, operating on data and storing state are the most important things -- it feels right to be forced to focus on it.
I agree with everything you said but on the last point I was thinking along the lines that if there's more underground parking, then street parking can be become dedicated bus and bicycle lanes which one would hope decreases less car usage. The infrastructure for bicycle usage sucks right now because of all the cars on the streets so moving them to dedicated structures would help.

I re-read the article and you're right it addresses pretty much everything there is too discuss about parking.
> I remember in my 20s I had this constant anxiety about running out of time. That if I didn't accomplish whatever I wanted to accomplish soon I'd never be able to do it. The emotion gradually disappeared during my 30s.

I had the same feeling in my 20s.

I'm now in my 30s, and the biggest regret I have in life is that I lost a relationship because I needed to "accomplish something before I ran out of time". Even though I had no absolutely idea what that "something" actually was.

It's a horrible, depressing realization.

To anyone reading this - please, please don't jeopardise a relationship because you feel unsettled or anxious about the future. You can backtrack from most mistakes in life, but a broken relationship is not one of them.
I see that link about nuclear safety a lot. It's worth pointing out that it's explicitly not comparing with wind or solar:

"Here we limit our comparison to the dominant energy sources—brown coal, coal, oil, gas, biomass and nuclear energy".

There's another similar, but bloggier, link that only includes rooftop solar but excludes grid scale.

So it's basically saying fossil fuels suck, something I'd agree with.

I wouldn't consider myself anti-nuclear, but think it would still get beaten pretty thoroughly on price in a market with carbon priced in.

Yes it's better than coal and fracked gas, and a carbon price would help existing plants compete with those but anyone pushing nuclear because they think renewables are hopeless are likely to be angry right-wingers looking for a convenient scapegoat for the fact that they repeatedly voted for conmen in the pocket of big oil.

If you genuinely want to change minds here, then show how nuclear could be rolled out on a global scale starting today cheaper than renewables.

Which I don't think it can, and don't think I've seen anyone try to make that claim. They usually stop at "it's better than coal" and "baseload!" and "you know who is responsible for climate change? Anti-nuclear hippies" or my favourite "if climate change was real, then the greens would support nuclear".