skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence "if it happened as told". These kinds of allegations are tough because while these things do happen, they're also strong enough allegations that they require serious proof, while also being essentially unprovable. I never know how to feel when something like this comes up since on the one hand I don't want to discourage victims from speaking up, but on the other hand, no good ever comes from them.
It was clear when HPC was given the go-ahead that it would be expensive, and that renewabales would rapidly overtake (ok, undertake) it in energy cost very soon. So I'd like to know what Ms. May was thinking when she approved it. She must have been given some plausible reason(s) to proceed based on long term estimations of something, what were they? Reliable base supply maybe? But what else?
Yeah, plus they have period revolving discounts, where you get it for 80% or more off.

I must say I started listening to The Great Courses way before Udacity, Coursera, EdX, and so on, and back then it was really a good and competitive source (and, at discounted prices, reasonably priced) to get a variety of professionally produced audio courses. Nowadays of course there are more alternatives.
Here in India, if you have cellphone signal, you have people near you.
Right, this doesn't mean that time was reversed, it means a phenomenon was created that would be different if time were reversed (unlike most physical phenomena, which work the same both ways).
Thanks for sharing; to me it sounds like a successful project which management/customer made feel like an unsuccessful one due to unreasonable demands. Way to ruin morale!

Well done for at least attempting to introduce some flexibility. One lesson for the future might be: how to more forcefully stand up for what you believe is the right way to go - but of course this is easier said than done!
To expand on your software point, I genuinely would say that the quality of software on Windows is all-round lower. I don't know what the reason for this is - whether it's because developers prefer the tools available on macOS or if it's simply because Mac users are more inclined to pay for their software, but the quality is clearly higher.
Let's address the elephant in the room: the problem lies with Google.

Prior to this recent NY Times article, why is a family brawl with minor injuries and no charges that took place in 2008 shown on the first page of results when someone is looking up a man's pizza and seafood restaurant? Is that really the most relevant result that is in the public interest? I would bet money the original story didn't even have any backlinks.

Bing and other search engines are not nearly as awful, but Google in particular has a notoriously bad habit of promoting defaming content to the top of its search results. And right now, they absolutely dominate the search market.

It is my belief that Google's AI is optimized to prioritize "scandalous" content, because it grabs readers' attention, in the same way National Enquirer headlines at the grocery store checkout lane do.

Google does the same sort of thing with YouTube, promoting extremist content above moderate content, and it has a real effect on people: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo...

There is a real problem with online harassment and defamation, and Google is contributing heavily to it by rewarding sites that peddle defaming content.
Fun fact:
I have the MacBook Air 11" Core i7 from 2013 and Apple does not produce that small, light and powerful laptops anymore.
If I want an i7 15 Watt CPU in a 2019 refreshment (it was nearly as fast as MacBook Pro 13" in 2013) it has to be larger and heavier nowadays, haha
Can't help but think the way that Wong is talking is just a bastardisation of Moore's law. I know everytime it comes up we have a bit of a kerfuffle around what Moore's law really states, but the technologies being described here essentially say the transistors are going to stay the same but we'll scale down all the peripherals. This may be a functionally good future for the industry but it's really not Moore's law.
Does the price for wind power include the cost of storing that power for when it is actually required including the losses in the process?
This is going to get rammed through a bunch of projects that are either sympathetic or apathetic, the same way all this code of conduct business infiltrated through everything.
Of course, Linux could do what Solaris did decades ago and define the directory order in which `rm -rf /` works to start with `pwd` - and thus fail immediately. That would fix that problem completely.
> The costs of nuclear power have never appropriately included the costs of disposal and handling of wastes

Of course, they do:

- Hinkley Point: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Hinkley-Point-C-contrac...

- France [French]: http://www.sfen.org/sites/default/files/public/atoms/files/n...

- Switzerland [French]: http://www.swissnuclear.ch/fr/couts-_content---1--1050.html
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Equating this to a "life sentance" is a strawman argument. It's a matter of factual record. Opening up the door to allow people to erase facts (of offenses) about themselves will be exploited, just as it is being done in this article.
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Not only does my corporate environment only support IE, but if I change my default browser to Chrome or FF (thank <diety> I have local admin rights), then the default security policy will revert the default back to IE11 whenever I reboot.
Oh sorry I did mean Edge
What I read says water dispersion. For example

https://www.ivl.se/download/18.343dc99d14e8bb0f58b4ff0/14431...

I'm no expert. The pfoa risk to humans is plastics in food prep and storage mainly. Most reports say the traces from pfas foams at airports is an unquantified risk right now. Farms are finding they can't sell produce.
Mh. I doubt this could work.

First, it is unclear if the Declaration is "the way to go", i.e. if its violation is the only way of violating the license (how do I interpret the commas, the verbs, the and/or in the 2nd bulleted point)?

Second, the scope is too broad. Any software (or business!) will harm somebody or some group. Are you creating a new software for making underdeveloped countries better? You're threatening the well-being of employers relying on cheap labor!

We shouldn't bind our software to ethics more than what we do with other things. We don't stop selling food because criminals could eat it; should we?
If you consider other factors, there is a reasonable case that Moore's law isn't as directly correlated with end user experience as it used to be.

Single thread performance is flattening out: https://semiengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Rambu...

And, there's also the "good enough" angle. At least for desktops, laptops, and phones, people are upgrading less often. What they have is good enough for a longer time period. Lower demand, I assume, would eventually affect the pace of innovation.
I just recently published a blog post on this topic: https://www.mcherm.com/unique-ids.html

Sadly, I am still getting pushback from others at my company who are either not convinced by the math or for whom any such analysis doesn't matter. "Yes, but there is still a chance of getting a duplicate, so I don't think this can be safe."
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It’s not the brokers money! When did it become the brokers money?
How do I travel with my parrot on Indian Railways?
That's what the gas plants are for.
It's not cross compilation in Docker because Docker on macOS is literally just a VM running a Linux kernel.
XnView MP is another option.
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I park to optimize my exit from the parking lot. Pull-through spots to avoid reversing, avoiding needing to perform left turns, things like that. If I'm at the food store I'll also try to be near a cart return area, if possible.
Jawas and moisture farmers!
Can someone explain the appeal of this to me? I love playing with fpgas but if you're not working in an hdl then what is the value? Typically you'd use an fpga as a dev tool to design an asic or maybe even use the fpga outright if it's fast enough at your task to make it worthwhile. By issuing commands via arduino scratch code, you toss all practical value out the window as far as I can tell.

Looking at their example code it just seems so far removed from hardware that I am stuck scratching my head: https://github.com/sea-s7/spartan-edge-ioex/blob/master/exam...
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I think that’s 100 per 100,000 per year.
Just to put it in perspective, the same model of EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) being build at Flamanville in France is 10 years late (x3 vs 5 years initial estimate) and €8bn over budget (x3.5 vs €3bn initial budget). The Finnish one is also massively struggling.

Fortunately the Chinese ones in Taishan were delivered quite on time & budget this year.

It's sad to see all these issues with execution, doing a bad press for nuclear - while we really need more of it to decarbonize our electricity (at least in the mid-term).
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With "Right to be forgotten" now applying to proper news, I think it's great that this Orwellian rewriting of history is spared on most of the world.

I'm sure you've seen news articles from 100 years ago describing relevant aspects about history, with lessons and describing how we became the society that we are. "Right to be forgotten" wants history to be ephemeral.

You have no right (in the EU) to write about true facts from your life, for future generations, if anybody finds that truth embarrassing.

I think that's scary as fuck, and a greater danger to freedom and democracy than Trump, Johnson, Kim, and Putin combined.
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Gnome Foundation Facing Lawsuit from Rothschild Patent Imaging
Finally JS finishes reinventing the benefits of imperative programming.
Indeed! These native ads are getting more blatant by the day. I know times are hard for print media but this doesnt help with the perceived credibility or lack thereof.
Does the iwatch track cadence?
Rule of thumb (useful for cryptography, among other things):

If you draw randomly (with replacement) from N numbers, you'll need to draw approximately sqrt(N) times until the probability of a collision (drawing the same number again) rises to 1/2.

For example, if you generate random keys with 128 bits, then after generating 2^64 keys you have a good (50%) chance that you've reused a key.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_attack
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There are lot of examples, studies and experiment on retro causality in the field of Parapsychology. So this is not at all 'the first'.

"Time-reversed human experience: Experimental evidence and implications" by Dean Radin is one that happens to be laying on my desk right now.

A new book by by Theresa Cheung and Julia Mossbridge, "The Premonition Code" gets into some of the science.
Ms. Mossbridge has published several papers and a few YouTube Videos about 'Time'.

The field of Parapsychology generally gets dismissed to easily. The top people know they will get criticized, so they tend to design their experiments and statistics to standards higher than most if not all fields of study.
If Parapsychologist presented the data that was given as 'Proof' of the Higgs boson, as shown by a small statistical bump in the data, they would have gotten their ass handed to them had they presented the same data has proof of any of their experiments.

Optical Phase Conjugation is also interesting in that it involves apparent negative time. Let you do things like a see through frosted glass. True Hacker material...
Think about what the papers would print: "Nuclear plant construction abandoned after 10 billion spent on it. With this money we could have built 20 hospitals.". It would be a PR disaster way bigger than sending them a few billions more.
Yes, it’s fine to skip ads in magazines or change the channel during commercials.

It’s not OK to get a robot that changes the channel for you or to have your magazines sent to a service who cuts the ads out and forwards them on to you.
Historically I've kept SIP disabled to be able to use Dtrace, which was neutered by it. Sure won't be installing any Google software though...
Any non-volatile memory is characterized by a "retention time" after which it may loose the information stored in it.

The retention time depends on the storage conditions, especially on temperature & humidity. For ancient flash memories, with large cells and 1 bit per cell, the retention time can be of 10 years or even 20 years. After that the capacitor will discharge, because the insulation is not perfect.

For modern flash memories, with much smaller cells and wit 3 or even 4 bits per cell, the electrical charge variation that will lead to wrong bits is much less, so the retention time can vary from a few years for a new SSD stored at low temperature to a few months for a used SSD stored at a higher temperature. At a high enough temperature (not impossible to reach, e.g. when forgotten in sun light), the retention time can be reduced to days.

When a SSD is used, i.e. it is powered, the microcontroller inside it rewrites its cells from time to time to avoid losing data. If you store it without using it, after the guaranteed retention time you may lose data. Consumer SSDs and memory sticks are guaranteed for a retention time of 1 year, so you should not expect more than that.
Guessing the LifeLock CEO might be the distant #2 on the list.

https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/
The idea is to make artificual human intelligence so that it can help with tasks that humans can do. If we make rabbit AI, it's not particularly useful, and while I am sure it can be a stepping stone (but we already have plenty of those, starting a model of a neuron), the goal is a human AI (and beyond). The human AI is one of the most important steps and points on the jorney, much more so than a rabbit AI. So not misguided at all.
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I go by hypermiler advice, optimize distance traveled by car.

Choose spot closest to entry-exit path of car park. Park closer to exit, and so that you don't need to reverse out, minimize inefficient slow/idle movement with cold engine.

And any additional walking is a bonus as mentioned by several people here.
These numbers are misleading, because wind energy is highly volatile and often goes to waste if unbuffered, which is often the case, because buffering is expensive.

Case in point, wind energy makes up 17% of production in Germany, whereas nuclear makes up only 11%. However, wind energy only accounts for 3% of consumption, whereas nuclear accounts for 6%.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
I was considering to mirror my cold storage backup (12 bay NAS with a few hours uptime per week) to tape for long term archival of private data (e.g. photos) or stuff on the internet I think is worth having a backup of (e.g. the http://unrealarchive.org).

But the tape storage requirements and danger of running into trouble with the reader (especially considering I could get a misaligned one when buying used, and if that one breaks => tough luck) convinced me this isn't a good choice. [edit] For the same money I can just get a bunch of additional disks, and use two for simple, redundant, offsite backups; and the remainders to swap out old disks in the NAS pre-fail.
Most developed countries don't do BG check's for tuppenny ha'penny (trivial jobs) jobs in the same way the USA does.

In the UK its only for working with kids and jobs requiring a proper security clearance.
>Such a system will make it difficult to get above a certain percentage of renewables because of the need for gas backup

What a lot of people miss is that wind can be overprovisioned thus reducing the instances where it undergenerates.
to me this stands out

>But Vittorio Pecoraro argued that his privacy had been violated. The article was easily available and searchable online, and he had not been convicted of a crime. Yet because of PrimaDaNoi, what he considered a humiliating family argument had become the first thing that many people knew about him and his pizza and seafood restaurant, he said.

>“I have a reputation, I have been here for 50 years, I am known all over,” Mr. Pecoraro said in an interview at the restaurant, Positano, where the 2008 fight had occurred.

This situation has apparently threatened this man's business and it's not clear to me that there is a case for public interest.

This journalist is literally a guy sitting in his apartment digging up stories on private citizens. I actually agree with the court ruling here and I'm glad that we have the right to be forgotten. I don't want to live in a society were the commercial interests of paparazzi can destroy entire existences of people even if the people in question have apparently moved on long ago.

I don't want to live in a society where people's careers or personal lifes are ruined because someone at gawker or buzzfeed gets paid by clicks.
I think Graal and Graal EE on Oracle Cloud is one of the smartest product moves out of Oracle in .... idk ... forever?

However, it seems like a knifes edge to walk on. If Graal CE gets uptake, are there enough compiler folks at Redhat, Azul, Google, et. al. to shrink (or overtake) the Graal EE performance edge.

Graal CE must be “good enough” to get people hooked that they then want to hold their nose enough to engage with Oracle (through Cloud or license).

Maybe the management and visualization advantages are enough? I don’t think so though.

I also don’t think it will pay off (despite the incredible technical achievement that Graal is).

I was just talking with an ex-Oracle SMB sales rep, and they left because they would persuade businesses off SQL Server on technical merits, only to see their clients steamrolled by the Compliance Department a year later.

Larry is, 75 years old or so? I think recent Microsoft history can show goodwill can be created quickly, but it must be done from the top down.
I used to work at Verafin (no current affiliation) but a pretty amazing funding round by a company in Newfoundland, Canada (population ~500k).

Other news posts related to the financing - https://business.financialpost.com/pmn/press-releases-pmn/bu...
> No "war on meth" was ever declared. No huge increases in law enforcement funding arrived in the rural west.

Half of my family goes back to Appalachia, used to very several times a year. I can tell you anecdotally that there very much was there, though I doubt anyone would say "War on Meth" since there's already the "War on Drugs." Legislations, penalties, etc. increased in that neck of the woods. I've had junkies in my family (meth, heroin, oxy, etc.) in and out of jail most of my life. Hell, one of my buddies is an old meth cook. Man never graduated high school, but if you talk to him about the chemistry you'd think he was a university graduate.

Hell, one time on my way to school we couldn't get out of the neighborhood because someone discovered a shake-and-bake setup and the police, (fire) HAZMAT trucks were blocking the entire road. Everyone had to call off work or school that day while they cleaned it up.

I don't mean to be needlessly curt, but if you think there is something magical about the opi(ate|oid) crisis it is because you weren't well aware of preceding ones.
Authoritarian works pretty well.
Same here, but I add advertising to my personal list of sectors to avoid.
What kind of person would get emotionally distressed to the point of chest pains requiring an emergency department because they didn't get some avocado?
Thanks for mentioning my collection of Kubernetes Failure Stories! I'll use this opportunity to encourage everyone to submit their own postmortems :-) --> https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories
I'm not clear on what these people were doing. $40k is probably more than you can make in fast food in SV. I would expect any programming job in the US would start at (just out of college) 60-70k, with quick raises to around 100k - if you are not making that much you can find a different job or work from home to pay that. Based on that (and other comments here) I'm guessing the people involved are not programmers and so not worth as much.
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An interesting fact from that study that gets often overlooked is that the female monkeys spent as much time playing with the "boy" toys as the male monkies.

They only had a stronger preference because the boys didn't play with the cuddly toys as much.

A subtle but important distinction.

This is similar to studies that show women's favourite colour is actually blue. But what gets reported is that they have a stronger preference for pink, because, compared with men, more chose that and that somehow gets into the consciousness as "girls prefer pink over blue".
This is true, the car park has a ramp system that is all in one corner of the car park but I guess most places make you drive to the other side to go up one
Gates Foundation employee quits in protest against award to Narendra Modi
There is nothing to suggest an ME backdoor. I’d call it unlikely.
This is a legal nightmare. Whether you agree with the goals or not, this is just about the worst-written license I've ever seen.

In legal terms, you want to avoid ambiguity. Otherwise, you have litigation (which the party with the deepest pockets wins). This license has incredible ambiguity.

A (non-legally binding) declaration is fine with ambiguity -- it's even desired. It's a starting point for a conversation and interpretation. That's not true for a license or a contract.

Lawyers often do leave ambiguity, but that's usually when the ambiguity is removed otherwise (e.g. by law). This is just an incompetent mess.