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This sounds like another silly conspiracy theory to me, what is most likely happening is the exact opposite.

These cheap news websites will take some term relating to Boris Johnson, like Bus or Model, and engineer articles that will get clicks in order to generate advertising revenue.

It's the cheap websites doing SEO based on popular Boris Johnson terms, and not Boris Johnson's team.

I mean the risk of someone in his staff of multiple people that would have to know about this to leak that he was doing it to the press just to push down on google searches unfavorable news would be huge.

One leak and his career would be over, I mean come on it does not make any sense.
The media could probably recognise this tactic and refuse to support it, by paraphrasing that part of his quote, e.g.

PM emphasises his "restraint" amid Parliament language row
> In addition, many people hate highly-energy-efficient washing machines, as the washing cycles takes hours... efficient in energy, but inefficient in human life.

That's literally the reason for governments to regulate this kind of thing, though. When everyone looks at things through the lens of their own personal life... what's the big deal? Just one person using more energy. But when every person does it, it is a big deal. So government acts to force a level playing field for all. Everyone ignores the cumulative good and instead focuses on the inconvenience to their personal life.
> I have a suspicion that none of them would want to be the "guilty" party that kept polluting.

Russia really doesn't care, they see AGW as unlocking the potential of their great north and screwing their geopolitical rivals.

China is kinda adopting "greener politices" in the sense that their mix strongly includes nukes and renewables. That's in no small part because they can't ramp up production fast enough even firing on all cylinders. And they are much more threatened by AGW: the North China Plain in particular is extremely low lying, and both a major population center and a bread basket. The Yangtze delta has the same issue, Hefei (some 400km inland) is only 37m above sea level. Now the seas are not planned to rise that high (probably), but sea level rise means more saltwater infiltration into arable soil, and more climactic issues reaching further inland.

Plus much of China is dependent on himalayan glaciers for its water.
The issue has become heavily politicised and even worse, is now a fault line in identity politics. This is the death sentence for meaningful action. If only publishing journal articles was enough.

I'm not sure that we are hoping for the right category of solution. All countries and people in the world uniting and making sacrifices... has this ever happened for anything ever? I am hoping there are examples, I just can't think of any. Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but I just can't see the 'Unified Earth' solution happening, at least not because everyone just agrees to be that way.

Maybe the right analogy is something like the internet. If you were concerned about tyranny and oppression of free speech in the 1930s, it is doubtful you would ever conceive that the internet could be one 'solution' to that problem. It isn't a perfect or complete solution, and it actually makes the problem worse in some ways, but nevertheless, on that particular issue, the internet has changed the landscape completely. Maybe this category of solution is the best we can hope for. The trouble is that it is very hard to conceive of how it will look or what we should do.
> I have been concerned with the environment since before Greta was even born.

Great, so hopefully we can have a substantial discussion on the topic at hand.
I'd disagree. Lots of small and medium shops can mass-produce appropriately twisted pieces of metal (or appropriately enough) once you give them the specs. One just need to allow for third-party parts and repair.
maybe motor-wheels are bad for normal cars but maybe it's still a neat devices for simple setups, carts, or whatever rover that doesn't go super fast.
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John Oliver mentioned this in his show, Last Week Tonight a couple of months ago [0]. Boris is a snake with a smart team behind him. He wants to divide and he creates more tension and hatred instead of providing solutions. He follows the steps of the Oompa Loompa across the pond.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyO_MC9g3k

Edit: this post will be sooooo bad for the "karma points" but it's 100% accurate on BoJo the Bozo.
the company is dissolved, when it lies. bad for shareholder value, and a very good incentive to be honest, but this doesn't seem to fit too well into todays corporate scheme.

If there's reasonable doubt (ie a large number of complaints about the kettle failing), the manufacturer has to provide sales statistics and test results and will be judged accordingly. As for the consumer advocacy groups: it's pretty standard in Europe to have these (and they are the only ones to initiate something like class-action). As for the metrics: everything is measured, I'm sure, we can come up with a sensible metric?!
Not sure what you read or why bother commenting when you didn't but this sentence was in the article:

"But slices have mutable indexes. and many functions mutate the slices they're passed."
Nice article and nice visualizations.

The problem I usually run into is the complexity - examples of event flows almost always look super cool, but in real life scenarios, the complexity is usually huge and complex flows are very hard to visualize in an organized manner.

Whether you are talking about Event flows, BPMN or TOGAF - if your workflows reflect all the real-life complexity (e.g. booking cancellation, editing, extra charges etc. etc.) it will get almost impossible to visualize them concisely.

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- Visualizing large workflows using D3, React and Clojurescript

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> In my understanding China doesn't care about the climate as much as about the air their people have to breath. Their environmental policies seem to be targeted exclusively at public health issues, and then only the more serious ones.

Public health issues like air pollution. That might be the reason they're investing so heavily in renewables, but it doesn't change the fact that they are. The percentage of renewable energy in China has steadily increased over the years. They are now at 25% vs just 11% in the US.

I'd have to look up their nuclear numbers though.
I have a story on this. Our teacher in electronics was constantly heckled by us to do a multiple-choice test "just once" for us. So he did! But with the caveat that we had to show the work. Negating the whole reason why we wanted that test. The bastard.

Comes the test and one of the questions required calculating total resistance of a grid of resistors. The way the resistors were arranged made it impossible for the result not to be an integer. Except there was one tiny half-ohm resistor in series. And there was only one answer that was not an integer.

So I wrote two steps: The reasoning that the result can only be an integer plus 0.5. Then the reasoning that only one answer was left. I likely spent more time on that than I would have on the calculation. Still I got full points and an extra smiley so it was worth it.
I think the UK has an extraordinarily bad track record of allowing freedom of expression. Regarding ofcom though, they actually perform very little regulation of accuracy and impartiality, most of their work is as an ordinary utilities regulator, much like the FCC. To describe their regulatory action of section 5 of their broadcasting code (the part related to accuracy and fairness) as “working fairly well” is generous. I’d say a better description would be “not really functional”.
I don't know who OP is referring to but I would argue against the notion that there are a couple of players who are clearly the best to ever live. The edges between the top players are way too small to determine this especially at the small sample sizes that they play against each other.

And the question becomes more complex when you realise that poker isn't just one game and you need to consider NLH vs PLO vs mixed, heads-up vs 6-max, cash vs tournaments. Some people specialise in a variant, others just play everything.
There is a much simpler explanation. It's actually these cheap news websites engineering articles targetting Boris Johnson popular terms (like Model or Bus), in order to generate clicks and advertising revenue.
You can store encrypted information in a blockchain.

Or you can store non-personal information, or non identifiable.
Linus Loeliger (llinusllove) and Jonas Mols (OtB_RedBaron) are probably some of the best online players currently.
It is a very complicated issue because nobody has the perfect birds-eye view and objective moral standards needed to assess what trade-offs are truly optimal, all things considered.

But a key issue here is that the workers aren't busting their butts digging holes and filling them in again. Instead workers are generally working hard to provide goods and services that other people want.

There are real questions about whether it is the best way; but if someone is going to succeed in life they are better off succeeding in America because their success will be better rewarded; other people will work hard to make them comfortable and give them things they want. That is probably a contributing factor to why America has an easier time setting up a tech hub and attracting global talent.
At least you can rejoice that Austria was selected as the testing grounds for 5G before Germany. I was at the event where T-Mobile renamed themselves to Magenta and the CEO of Magenta "interviewed" the right-wing chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz as they laughed and announced Austria will roll 5G out before poor Germany. The audience didn't seem all that enthusiastic with the announcement, then again in Austria getting crowds really excited at business events is quite the challenge...

A friend of mine also has a map of 5G hotspots in Switzerland, and there are already quite a lot, e.g. in Geneva, for such a small city and they have at least multiple tens already installed.
Thanks, that really means a lot. This really captures my imagination and it’s hard to put into words.
one (i think the only, unfortunately) example of global cooperation due to a major environmental threat was the ozone hole and worldwide ban on CFCs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion so it's not unthinkable, but that was a piece of cake in comparison: replacements readily available, low economic impact, etc.
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What is pro-Brexit about my post though? :~)
They didn't say anything about Germany being perfect, they said, well, implied, it was better than Italy for software developers.
Wars... may be slightly exaggerated. There are many causes of wars, and I am very conservative about identifying any big factors. Even when people say "it's about the religion" or "it's about democracy", it's really not, most of the time. To me it seems like it's mainly people fng up, internal politics, miscalculations and the sort.

Invasions for the sake of conquering resources is increasingly rare. And illegal under international war (as much as that's worth). That's why the invasion of Crimea was such a big thing, these kind of things don't happen anymore. Also Ukraine miscalculated the risk of Russia taking Crimea (or was too paralyzed to prevent it) and Putin probably miscalculated the backlash.

On a smaller scale it will be hard to tell why certain militias try to rule/conquer certain regions. Lack of resources may contribute, or not.
Author here. The original inspiration for this came from working remotely for 7 years and feeling occasionally lonely and isolated.
I wanted to create a frictionless, always-on video room for your team to hang out in while you work. But I've found that so far most teams use it for stand-ups.

Feedback is much appreciated!
The first sentence of the article:

Scientists can’t agree on how the intelligence of our primate relatives, but [...]

What does this even mean? Is editing just not done any more? Something like this as the _first sentence_ of an article make me doubt the quality of the entire article, in fact the entire publication.
Quantum material goes where none have gone before
I've had some reasonable conversations on the topic here but I do feel it in downvotes (which I'm not interested in anyway)
"Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it."
At the moment the traditional ways of fighting carbon emissions seem to be more practicable...

And who is going to pay for those infrastructure? Are the rich countries paying for them to be build in the poorer countries?
You don’t need perfection. As long as you look for obvious objectively false statements you will reject quite a bit of propaganda / disinformation etc.
That helps, but a) review are gamed extensively, b) a review usually can tell you that something has worked for a few days to a week after buying it.

If you want to know whether a product has an high chance to work in 2-3 year time you are out of luck, especially with SKUs changing all the time.
I think it stems from the fear of this representing a missed opportunity for them to make it, closed by regulators.

I believed that once, but companies show over and over again that the lack of regulation comes at a greater cost than their gains, and the gains for the society - and I, as a tax payer, am not willing to see the shit I help to pay for getting abused.

For example, Peter Thiel idea for the monopoly argument makes sense, but he doesn't account for (or doesn't want to): government pressure and greed.

The idea that the monopoly is the dream for tech development keeps showing it's no dream at all in the end, it's a nightmare with massive costs: mental health, international policy, environment, cultural, etc.
It is likely that Google is surfacing the matches it empirically considers more relevant to you.
And I was merely providing an example where your comment was wrong. Nuance is important if we want to have a constructive political discussion.

Beyond that, I often feel like most people on HN are hugely privileged when it comes to job hunting and working conditions and it shows in the discussions. It's easy to lose track of the difficulties the majority of people experience when it comes to finding a job when you have half a dozen recruiters fighting over how much money they're going to throw at your face at any given moment.

"I wish those recruiters would stop spamming my inbox" is not a problem the average human being has ever (and probably will ever) experience.
Device Restores Visual Perception to the Blind So They Can See Light and Motion
I still don’t understand what you mean by “fouled up his room?”

Do you mean he messed up the furniture? Spilled tomato sauce on everything? Overflowed the toilet?
Talking C++: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup
I think GP's point is: productivity is not the priority of these societies. So they could be more productive but enjoying life is more important for people living there.
Apparently there is an ongoing Stack Exchange sites' moderator rebellion: https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-... https://cs.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1650/i-am-resign... https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...
This - it may be the case that Wikipedia was discussing this, but mainstream society was just the same as now.

The episode of Brass eye lambasting the scares about it actually came out in 2001, so the assertion is nonsense.
I will also tell you that research shows that the vast majority of sexual harassment and bullying complaints against powerful men go ignored for years. Then something happens that attracts wide public attention and some action is taken. At which point there's the usual choir chants of "witch hunt", "PC mob", and "this could happen to literally anyone" (the fact is that it rarely "happens" even to very real harassers), but invariably you find that the trigger, which may not be disastrous on its own, usually follows years of not decades of issues.
Good point that there can be misaligned incentives between searcher and search engine.

Is it really the case here though?

Most people would be running this search because they heard about the story elsewhere, so they will consider the search engine less useful when they see a completely different (non-)story.

If it was a bizarre tale about a prime minister making bus models, maybe, but "Politician praises himself, more news at 11" in place of a story hours earlier doesn't appear to help Google.
No one gets to be a Telegraph columnist without doing a ton of work, never mind Prime Minster of the UK. Being unwilling to do work purely on other people’s say so is a separate trait from being lazy. He also has a much better command of Ancient Greek than anyone unwilling to apply themselves could acquire however wonderful the teachers the were exposed to.

This is quite apart from the question of whether he’s a buffoon. If anyone but Corbyn was in charge of Labour the Conservatives would be cruising to a large electoral defeat soon but we don’t live in that world.
Designing the child funeral fund service
Show HN: We made a simple and enjoyable landig page for furnitur businesses
What happens next month?
As I said: I don't want to be at their mercy even if they handled my case well. What especially bothered me is the fact that among the parts changed was an item (the controller) which had 250€ on the price list. It apparently had not been sealed water tight although construction wise it could be exposed to hot vapour. For that price point I expect everything being IP67, parts and connectors. It's not exactly hard, I've done this myself. The parts are only protected by a cooling fan designed to keep also the moisture away. For some reason, the fan did not work at one cycle. There is no detection in place to detect this, leading to a bricked oven. In my book this is engineering fail on many levels.

Edited to add: Miele offers a 10 year warranty extension, at roughly 20% of the original price. It is left as an exercise for the reader what such a premium means for the expected failure rate...
But Johnson still seems to deliver suitable quotes on cue. As much as I prefer explanations that involve less assumed cooperarion between actors, I don't see how yours can hold up in this case.
Jagmeet Singh Says He Hopes Donald Trump Gets Impeached
WeWork used the same passwords and outdated Wi-Fi system in all its branches
No. My teacher was very explicit that it was typically used to refer to pregnancies in animals, like the person you are replying to has stated, thus it was considered to be especially egregiously rude (to talk about a human that way).

Though I'm sure this was more than forty years ago considering I'm in my fifties and my teacher was older than me. Times have changed and all kinds of things that were horrifyingly rude in, say, the 1960s are no big deal today.

When my father was in the military, he was promised at some point that he would not be sent back to Vietnam for a second tour. Then he got orders for Vietnam. He fought it and went up through the ranks with his appeal until a General denied it.

The General told him "You are going to Vietnam." and my father replied to that with "The hell I am." and dropped his retirement papers.

This was utterly shocking behavior. It was an anecdote told to emphasize what a huge deal this was to him that he would use such harsh language.

My father never swore at work. This was simply not done by any sane person anywhere in the US at that time.

These days, the F word gets used by some people like the word very (me, for instance). The word hell doesn't even raise any eyebrows in most circles, sometimes even if children are present.
I love Derren's shows, he's honest about his methodology and eminently entertaining. This show exposes some of the scams run by "faith healers"[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuP5uOI7Xwc
How So Much Information Is Getting Free?
I wonder if there is a way browsers could preemptively “compress“ (I doubt that’s the correct terminology) prior to downloading? Like somehow grab every nth bit, combine, render and then allow for further requests to refine at user discretion. Wonder if anyone has ever tried something like that.
That sounds like any radio frequency though. Alao a great way to get the FCC knocking on your door sooner or later.
Not that much of an idiot as I thought.

On hiding criminal behavior at least. Normally it means a lot of experience in that.
Curious how you feel about GDPR (the EU asserts its authority to bind an American entity with servers in America running a service targeted at American consumers so long as a single EU citizen chooses to visit the site).
He was so good with counting cards that he had full situational awareness of the game.
True, but Barcelona has been improving the last few years.
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The main issue is that the new star ratings can only be applied to new appliances. Does the right to repair law also include a clause making it easier to repair? If my new dryer has a fried chip, how much will that chip cost me? Can the 3rd party repair service fix it for cheap? The other big issue we have other than planned obsolescence is that new electronics are chip driven and these are proprietary which means either you go to the original manufacturer and pay quite a bit for the part or throw the damn thing away.

I hope these right to repair laws are solid and also allow the manufacturing of third party parts. But what I would love to see is an upgrade system for older appliances. Like a program where you can buy newer more efficient parts for your appliances instead of buying a whole new one.
> In addition, many people hate highly-energy-efficient washing machines, as the washing cycles takes hours... efficient in energy, but inefficient in human life.

Actually this can be a feature. Often enough I fill the machine in the morning, set it up to start in 3 or 4 or even 6 hours, go to work and when I come home the machine has just finished and I'm ready to put the clothes up for drying.

It's more a question of planning than anything else.
Workers are not responsible for productivity in the workplace; managers are. Enjoying life should increase the workers happiness and thus increase productivity. This is why these same workers are as productive when they move north.
Or perhaps after 10hs the older news articles faded out. Occam's razor.
Great to see interest in the Indaba from the HN community! This year was a lot of fun; we had some amazing students, speakers, and tutors.

While the practical notebooks we used in 2018 were already amazing, my colleagues and I worked hard on expanding and improving them for the 2019 Indaba. In case anyone wants to check them out, here's a full list of the practicals (the links go to Google Colab notebooks)

1a: Machine Learning Fundamentals, http://bit.ly/2nfeu4W

1b: Build your own TensorFlow, http://bit.ly/2obD1rK

2a: Deep Feedforward Networks, http://bit.ly/2oQSjSQ

2b: Optimization for Deep Learning, http://bit.ly/2nqkyHB

3a: Convolutional Networks, http://bit.ly/2nqdQRX

3b: Deep Generative Models, http://bit.ly/2nnkisU

4a: Recurrent Neural Networks, http://bit.ly/2ncgYkx

4b: Reinforcement Learning, http://bit.ly/2oO4lMK

They're also available on the official github page: https://github.com/deep-learning-indaba

We'd love any feedback on the practicals to improve them for next year!

If you have some ML expertise and would like to volunteer to be a tutor at next year's Indaba, which will be held in Tunisia in late August 2020, drop me a mail at contact (at) taliesin.ai. I also encourage anyone to apply to attend as a student!