skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not "engaging" because I'm not taking any specific position. In my experience debating moral values is about as productive as punching yourself in the face. These are issues that people should come to their own personal conclusions on. But as mentioned the issue I saw here is that many people were seemingly not even considering the underlying moral issue here before racing to condemn.

Online 'accountability' often heads directly into the domain of mob mentality. I think if more people stopped to ask 'hey is our outrage even really justified?' that the world be a much nicer place for everybody.
see https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
A modern smart trainer will continually vary the resistance level based on software cues to simulate inclines, head/tailwinds and the effects of drafting. If your Zwift ride arrives at a steep climb, you'll need to downshift and get out of the saddle to keep up, just as you would do in the real world.

Peloton has a mechanical knob that controls the resistance.

It's clear that a lot of people love the Peloton experience, but it's a pretty lousy training tool for any kind of real cycling.
That's not the right analysis at all. Imagine if you did the same math for avgas in a world where some other fuel does 100 MJ/kg. You'd declare "We're not there yet to propel airplanes with avgas, not useful ones, anyway".

You don't have to outperform existing solutions to have a viable product. Price and other factors can easily swamp a particular performance stat. Different performance will lead to different use cases, but that is in no way the same as zero use cases.
> From a strategic standpoint I had no idea why they pursued this particular product

A manager wanted a promotion
I've never heard that use before either, and I was surprised to find that according to both the OED and Webster [1], "nuke" can be a shorthand for "nuclear power station". It doesn't really work for me, either.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuke
It could significantly impact the prices of the electric cars by giving same range in half the batteries.

Reduced weight will also help in increase in speed.
Google's side projects keep being joke and untrustworthy, not even newsworthy material.
newsblur!
If Fairphone 2 is any indication on how things will go then you will have no trouble installing whatever software you want on it. Not sure about instructions on how to compile AOSP, but I don't think that it will be impossible as LineageOS has managed to support the latest version of Android on Fairphone 2.
https://www.wired.com/story/atmospheric-methane-levels-are-g... is a somewhat older but a much more informative and balanced article.

The td;lr version is that there is a minority that blames fracking, but most have concluded that it doesn't fit the data. There are a bunch of other theories as well. And the isotopes are not definitive. The fact that someone recently wrote an article concluding otherwise doesn't actually change this since neither data nor the line of argument are particularly new.
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but most lack the financial stability of google and could disappear rather quickly because of that.
Were you trying to parse nginx, apache or haproxy logs? I believe it depends on your logging strategy and then in go access you need to define the log format.

It will parse according to the log format [1].

For example
$sed -n '/'$(date '+%d\/%b\/%Y' -d '1 week ago')'/,$ p' access.log | goaccess -a -
$awk '$8=$1$8' access.log | goaccess -a -
$goaccess access.log --log-format='%^[ %^[ %^[%x.%^] %^ %^/%^/%^/%^/%L %^ %h:%^"%r" %s %v %^ "%u|%^" %^ %^ %^ %^=%b' --date-format=%s --time-format=%s

These are just some example but I feel using sed or awk for text processing you can feed most of the common access logs with goaccess.

[1] https://goaccess.io/man#custom-log
Thanks. In the industry it's common but glad to hear this feedback. I edited above.
>The only metric that matters is how many workouts did you do today, or this week.

Not if you're actually serious about going faster on a bike. Power data (as provided by basically any non-Peloton smart trainer) is incredibly useful in maximising the effectiveness of workouts and measuring your fitness. A high-end smart trainer like the Wattbike will also give you data on power delivery through the pedal stroke and left/right power balance, which has real implications for performance.
We have no idea how much it will cost. The same range in half the batteries might not save any money. And while performance would improve a bit, the main limiter right now in electric cars is price, not weight.
> There’s a reason we don’t implant GPS trackers into babies at birth just because they might get lost one day.

What reason are you thinking? I wouldn't support it myself, but I don't usually represent public opinion.

GPS didn't really burst into the public imagination before 2007 and the iPhone; in a sense the technology is only about a decade old or so in the public sphere. Prior to 2000 the US government's official position was something like "this is a military technology".

As the cost of sensors and radio chips goes down, we might reach the point where we do put a GPS sensor on everybody. Law enforcement would love it and on the small scale it would probably save lives and reduce crime.
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> For ordinary people we will only extract their data when they need our help.

> When they don't need help, we won't gather their data and it remains only in our big database.

In the same sentence:

"We won't gather their data"

and

"The data that we gather remains in a database".
A government without the support of its people generally gets removed by the people.
I think the clearest distinguishing line that can be broadly drawn, is between followers of theistic and non-theistic Satanism.

The latter do tend towards being the awfully nice people you've been describing, who are always making sure that everyone is fine in the mosh pit.

The former, however, can conversely tend towards the type of person who is far too enthusiastic about the technical details of the blood gutters in their unnervingly large collection of ceremonial knives.
The judge from the Google vs. Uber litigation referred the case to the US attorney. Looks like they found enough evidence to charge him. Not sure how Google is involved in this "harassment".
So I've been reading about this dude, and apparently he started _several_ technology companies _while working at Google_, and sold a couple of them back to Google. Clearly his Google employment contract terms weren't the same as mine. In fact "normal" employees would be fired the same day for some of the things he did even before he copied off a bunch of Google IP.

I kind of wonder what's so special about the guy that Google wanted him so bad that they let him basically write his own employment contract, allowed him to have huge conflicts of interest, and then also paid like tens of millions in bonuses per year.

I also wonder what else he wrote into that employment contract of his. You can charge anybody with anything, doesn't mean it'll stick.
What would realistically be the point of that?
Doest that defeat the purpose of "locking" a bootloader, if it can be unlocked with a hardware switch?
Strange they call it "illegal bird killing," not "poaching."
Probably you can since you are not setting up any cookie on user's device. But most likely you are using some web fonts or CDN which might set some cookie. So for modern web application it will be really hard unless you host everything yourself and rely on server logs for any analytics.

You have to be careful though if you are processing API request and capturing personally identifiable information. Your logs also need to be GDPR compliant.
> you are doing stuff on the GPU on day one, you can do bayesian analyses in some cases thousands of times faster than Stan etc

I am curious. Could you please elaborate on it a bit more? Thank you!
The situation in China is dire. USA is not far behind. Does your neighbor have a Ring camera? Well, that watches the whole street and it is connected to a massive corporate data processing pipeline that is used for persistent tracking of advertisement subjects. Only need to tweak it a little bit for vastly different purposes. Oh, and we work hard to improve our far-field microphones connected to the same pipeline. To offer you a better service [TM].

You make a critical point. Technology itself is always amoral. We are enamored by technology for technology sake, while we drifted away from our moral roots.
The current Clojure version is quite stable, we used it at wit.ai/Facebook for several years before moving to Haskell.

I'd love to see somebody taking over and resuscitate it! One interesting direction could be to remove Java dependencies (mostly to Date) so that it's usable in ClojureScript. It would make a great JS library.
Would love to get one, but it's not every time that a company actually discourages buying a new phone if your old one still works: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2019/05/20/the-most-sustainable...

Really appreciate what they are doing here though, simple to repair phone with a sensible price tag.
I bet it is down to 2-3 minutes now.
I have been on MacOS for a few years now and I have never received a notification about safari.
There seems to be a large concerted effort to make the browser the platform of choice for building apps, I see arguments all the time that web apps can be made to do what native apps can do and so forth, and that even if there is a lag in the development of web apps that lag will be covered in time and the network effects and ease of discoverability of web apps will triumph (I am stuck for time here so I had to summarize various arguments I've seen, I suppose others have seen them as well)

Your argument here is that there are classes of application that can never be built on the browser platform, based on you saying "You're trying to shoehorn something to do something it wasn't intended and then causing noise because it doesn't do what it wasn't intended."

That argument may be correct, however then Apple should make an open statement saying hey, web apps just won't do it. Otherwise people might mistakenly hear the arguments that they will do it and think I will make a web app. And the people making the arguments for web apps should be hit about how do you handle getting the app to work in the background when it is something that absolutely needs to like a radio station.
That's right. The Chinese government and the 90 million Party members are drawn from the people. It's easy to dismiss all of them if that makes someone comfortable, but reality is rather more complicated than either "China is full of Communist drones, all of them" and "Government and people are on completely opposite sides one oppressing the other." It's a symbiotic and pragmatic relationship.
I challenge the claim that nuclear (fission) reactors are carbon-free.

Like coal, many of the costs are externalised or simply ignored by advocates, especially the decommissioning and waste disposal.

Getting good/accurate figures for lifetime carbon emissions from nuclear power plants is very difficult, as this [1] article concedes, but quoting from same:

"The conclusion from the eight most rigorous LCAs is therefore that it is as likely that the carbon footprint of nuclear is above 50 gCO2/kWh as it is below."

They touch on build costs, and the likely correlation between larger CO2 emissions compared to similar power generation from hydro structures. I can't find good data on manufacturing and embedded energy costs of the vast quantities of concrete needed to construct a nuclear power plant -- I suspect it is not flattering to the industry.

[1] https://theecologist.org/2015/feb/05/false-solution-nuclear-...

[EDIT] improved the politeness of the first sentence.
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It says 51% of their revenues come from the US, but I only gleamed one US subsidiary (Pilgrim's Pride) that sells poultry. What are the other subsidiaries in the US?
It's because they don't care enough about being accurate. Maybe you're right, and that carelessness is a byproduct of speed. But, it's not like this was breaking news. They had enough time for a technical editor to have a look.
The idea nuclear plant cutting costs scares me, especially if it comes from the safety budget.
I just have the worst nightmare: Google abandons Photo. I have all my photos synced in Google Photo and remove duplicate in my iPhone. If they shut it down, am I screwed?
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Poaching is usually hunting on someone else's land. More about land use and hunting rights than illegal killing or taking is it not? Which is probably why poachers often get a far better press from history than burglars and robbers.

A gamekeeper or farmer illegally killing protected raptors is never described as poaching them. I'm not sure you can poach on your own land.
I was working on a SPA that needed to ask location information to tell the user service outages in their area, we spent a lot of time optimizing the permissions asking flow, making sure we didn't ask too often etc.

So I think companies with scruples, not malware oriented, or just possessed of good common sense will ask only when necessary.
To be fair, even with the facts I doubt the average person would ever be well-informed enough to make a proper decision. Governing should be a full time job done by professionals. Imagine if Apple were run by its users...
I mostly dislike operating devices with unlocked bootloaders because the boot process can then possibly be changed without my knowledge. Ensuring the boot process cannot change without a massive error being thrown helps ensure security of my device. However, it would be nice to easily disable the bootloader lock, make the changes I want, and then just hit a switch and it commits the latest changes. If anything changes in the boot process from the first way it experienced after the physical toggle, refuse to boot until I physically do something about it.
I tried to go the other direction, from Linux to Mac, years ago. The two complaints I clearly remember:

- I couldn't figure how the heck to open a web browser, apparently it's a completely unlabeled compass icon.

- You have to use some non-obvious, secret combination of keys while clicking on an application icon if you want to open another instance of that application.

I never did understand why people will pay so much more for Mac machines. I tried it, hated it, could only get things done by opening a terminal and treating the Mac like a generic UNIX system. Went back to Linux as quick as I could.

I'm not surprised this guy's happy to be switching away from Mac.
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Agreed - up to some breaking point at least. As long as they can reliably put hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets, they are almost invincible.

China can handle thousands. Tens of thousands becomes a real problem. More than that and it’s impossible without serious damage.

HK would never be governable again after a bloody crackdown of that scale. It would either descend into hell and come out worth nothing, or it could spread into the mainland.

Both are unlikely events - I think China is simply waiting it out and ramping up the pressure. Visuals of army training and troop transports are having the desired effect.

I think the likely next steps would be to cut services and if that doesn’t work some rationing/price inflation of food and water. Start making the poor resent the rich, and ramp up the propaganda.
I suggest that it’s pointless to compare entire countries, since stats would vary by region wildly (at least, in China). Here is a recent comparison by city: https://www.comparitech.com/vpn-privacy/the-worlds-most-surv...
This opinion piece doesn't read like public interest advocacy.

It reads like a lawyer for a company trying to kill public interest regulation.

(Though the writer says their organization is not involved in this case, they are in the business of related cases.)

I suspect that an impartial scholarly article, written for the layperson, would be much more useful to HN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VbTe7U-bo4
Let's finish the first topic before moving on.
Nuclear Weapon Design
No. “Centum” means one hundred. Of course, the SI prefix “centi-” does mean one hundredth, but “cent-“ can mean one hundred in other contexts. Consider a century is 100 years, a centurion commands 100 men, etc.
In case of MUMPS (or M, these days) it seems to live on as Cache and GT.M, among other things, and is used not only in healthcare but in finance as well.
Before I abandoned the Windows ecosystem, I loved Ninite (https://ninite.com/).
It repackages most well known free software creating a single installer which will contain all of them, minus bloatware, adware, toolbars etc, so that one can replicate identical installs of the same software on several machines very easily and much faster.

Another interesting repository was http://www.aplusfreeware.com/last_freeware_versions.html
It contained the last free version of lots of well known software before their makers decided to turn them commercial, add adware or discontinue them.
To be fair, even with all the facts and being well-informed, I doubt a mainlander would risk all the trouble
they'd get into for supporting HK.
Just an anecdote. I went to Beijing to watch the Olympics while I was in high school. During a volleyball game, I sat next to a local Chinese boy about my age and started talking with him.

Apparently, at some Chinese schools, they give all of the students an English name. Kind of like how American schools give you a Spanish name for Spanish class. His name was Adolf. I asked him if he knew any other famous Adolf's. Of course, he did.

I asked him about why the Chinese cheer so fervently against the Americans, even when they're not playing the Chinese. He said it was because Americans were friends with the Japanese. To play devil's advocate, I told him that the Americans fought the Japanese in WW2, significantly helping China, and dropped nukes on the Japanese. He told me it wasn't enough, the US should've eliminated Japan from the map.

I don't think my sample size is representative but I think it's a warning of how strong nationalism can be. In the US, we have relatively free flows of information and we still have a dangerous nationalist movement. I imagine it's much stronger in China where the government actively encourages it.
Absolutely and thanks, I didn't realize it was so common, but sounds like it is very widely used within the industry.
If you're trusting the network to be "secure", you're doing it wrong.
Instead of $1,995 up front, it's $3,783 over 39 months due to a subscription contract bundled with the financing. This is a very clever way to claim "no interest" but actually charge 27% APR. There are absolutely customers who buy this but can't afford it.
Yes you are, if they do that. This is why I manually export everything off my phone to an external hard drive once a month, to make sure I also keep the originals. Google Photos is very searchable & easy to use, but not a final long term storage option.
Ninite also has an updater.

It checks for all apps (that it knows about) and if they are out of date can silently install the latest version of all apps at once in 2-3 clicks.
Is the unit a “Levadownski” which is perhaps a deliberate corruption of his name?
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IMHO, publicly gathered information should automatically be made publicly available. That should give people something to think about.
There's quite good consensus on the low-carbon nature of nuclear. 12 gCO2-eq/kWh is what the IPCC group of scientists recommend [1]. That's the lowest of any form of energy, except for wind, which is at 11. Solar PV's around 40. Coal is 820.

Waste disposal and decommissioning are factored into this number, of course. It's lifecycle analysis.

Recall that the beauty of nuclear energy is energy density: there is 2 million times more energy in a uranium nucleus than in any chemical's electron shell. An average american can get 100% of their total primary energy for an entire 88 year lifetime and only use 300 grams of nuclear fuel. At that kind of fuel/waste footprint, it's relatively easy to have a low carbon footprint. And the data is in. The number is 12 gCO2-eq/kWh.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
Since I can read Chinese, I've been reading news coverage as well as opinions from both the English-speaking and the Chinese-speaking media. It is quite depressing to find that both sides are obviously biased. The Chinese news would emphasize isolated incidents of violence by the protesters during the protests, pontificate on it and publish op-eds analyzing the cause of the protests ranging from the failed economy of Hong Kong to the profound corruption of its youth. The English side of course would illustrate the use of tear gas and facial recognition technology by the police and paint the protestors as victims of an unjust and unsympathetic government whose independence and autonomy is chipped away little by little. Opinions aside, even just for the facts I'd like to think there's truth in both, but it really depressing that neither really wants to report the truth and the whole truth.
Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”
Most of Freemasonry's really useful secrets got revealed during the enlightenment, I suspect.
Well Google might be very kill-happy with their own products but at least they always give an early notice so everybody can at least take out their data and move to another service.

So even if they shut down Photo one day you will probably have time to download all your photos. Even today you can just download all your photos at once if you have already deleted them from your phone/computer.

Btw you should be aware that if you bulk-download your photos from Google they might be in lower resolution and they will be missing some information (e.g. the geo-coordinates). So it might be a good idea to also store your (original) photos on your own devices.
I used to believe that. These days, I'm certainly happier making art than whatever it was people wanted to pay me to do on a computer.

Why can't happy people make great art? Do we also think that sober people can't write great novels, or people who survive past age 27 can't make great music? I can think of countless counterexamples to all of these. Just because there were miserable great artists in the past doesn't necessarily mean you have to be miserable to be a great artist.
Tangencial to your comment that is pretty much the spirit of the Dutch 16th century 'Vanitas' paintings.

Wealthy patrons would comission art to act as a memento of their own fragility/mortality.
Postulate: how does the US being able to more accurately track people via facial recognition make me meterialy safer as a US citizen?

Because for me, that argument has a whiff of 'think of the children'. I don't think the NSA has done anything to make me safer, and I haven't seen any convincing proof to show they have done anything to help my safety.

At this point, what is actually accomplished by the US military getting even fancier ways of killing people? From how things are shaping up, even if things come to blows b/w US & China it won't be a shooting war. It's looking like it will be similar to the cold war: neither adversary can dare attack the other, so we end up with a series of proxy wars and nitpicking at the adversary.
here's a more recent example than redlining https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/sausalito-school-segre...
Could you please explain what you mean when you say diversity is a fad du jour? I'd like to believe you didn't mean to say something this ugly.