skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Non-exhaust PM emissions from electric vehicles" study had a Corrigendum because of fake attribution and conflict of interest with a motor component company.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135223101...

> The authors regret that as Victor Timmers did not carry out the research under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh, nor in collaboration or consultation with any personnel at the University of Edinburgh, the affiliation of “University of Edinburgh” has now been removed from this work at the request of the Institution. In addition, subsequent to the publication of the Paper, Victor Timmers has disclosed a potential Conflict of Interest with regard to the work, namely: “non-financial support from Innas B.V, during the conduct of the study”.

Other studies show real benefits https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/9/2/84/htm
Don't think the privacy people who have gone to great lengths to be off the grid will be first on the list of suspicious people?

And if there's no data available on you, don't you think they'll charge the highest rate anyway?

For the concerns you have, it'd be far better to maintain a socially-optimal profile with data collection, to show what a normal/happy/healthy/productive member of society you are.

I do support regulation on how companies collect and assemble data, but while they're doing it, your best bet is to have lots of uninteresting data collected on you.

Nothing is stopping you from having multiple identities for specific purposes.
Who knows, maybe they want to take advantage of cheap unskilled American labor.

Seriously though, countries with labor shortages will allow unskilled people to visit and work for awhile at least (eg Australia).
You are Thomas, a wizard living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a staff and
a spellbook. You finish your long journey and finally arrive at the ruin you've
been looking for. You look around and see that it's not much different than
when you left it. A few rocks here and there, but nothing out of place.
As you approach the ruins, you feel an odd sensation
> eat a rock

You turn to the nearest rock and begin eating it. It tastes awful, but you can't
help yourself. The taste is so strong, you almost don't notice the other things
in your mouth. After about half a minute, you stop chewing and start spitting
them back up
> poop

You sit down on the ground and begin to **** into a nearby pail. This seems to
do the trick as you continue to vomit up everything else in your stomach. Eventually,
you stop shitting and just lie there, panting heavily. Suddenly, you hear a
voice
> run away

You look around and see a man with a long beard standing over you. He looks like
he has been crying for quite some time now.

"Who are you?" he asks. "I'm sorry I didn't come here sooner".

> run away

"No! No! Please! Just let me go!"
The man stares at you for a moment before speaking again.
"Do you know where your parents are? They're probably worried sick".
You nod slowly.

> run away

"No! No! I'll tell you later! Now get out of my sight!".
He begins walking towards his house while you crawl away from him. You run through
the forest until you reach your home. Your mother is sitting at her desk when
she notices you
> stab her

You quickly lunge forward and stab your mother in the chest with your dagger.
She falls backwards, hitting her head on the table. You then grab your father's
sword and rush outside. As soon as you open the door, you slash your father
across the face, killing him instantly
> devour his soul

You turn to the nearest tree and begin to eat it. It tastes horrible, but you
can't help yourself. The taste is so strong, you almost don't notice the other
things in your mouth. After about half a minute, you stop chewing and start
spitting them back up
> absorb father's energy

You feel a surge of power flow through you. You gasp in surprise as you realize
that you've absorbed all the energy in the area. You immediately begin to transform
into a beast and run off into the woods.
Years pass..
> ascend to godhood

You've ascended to godhood. You've become a being far greater than any mortal
could ever be. You've conquered the world and made it yours.<|endoftext
We need a smarter search.

One that is based on analyzing the content of a page then on it's page rank.

Self speaking that it has to be open source.

Apache SOLR would be a good starting point.
Looks as if you're receiving a decent number of downvotes (I upvoted) for expressing some truthiness mixed with too much vitriol.

>Who cares about unintended consequences if you're
>the first person to study them?
Everyone with a sense of ethics, morals and humanity. But that's an answer to a useless question. Are the expected costs of unintended, likely or allowed consequences less than the expected benefits? If so, then states and societies will press ahead as was done with nuclear weapons, bio-weapons, aircraft, rocketry, etc. With exploration comes understanding and sets of ethics for each were developed to guide those inventions.

>China gets to deal with a novel problem
Maybe. I don't think we have 100% certainty that positive results will ever be obtained. Millions of years of evolution have not eliminated harmful mutation from reproduction: mutation has been reduced to a low enough level to allow ongoing propagation (birth defects) and survival (cancer) but is certainly not as low as (Western human-judged) ethical and moral values would like.

>China will get novel rewards eventually
>because the west let itself get soft
My inclination is to agree with the sentiment (if not the vitriol) of your statement but I'm wavering a bit as I learn more about the complexity and messiness. Of course, the US "pushed" ethical and moral bounds when exploring nuclear technology, chemical warfare, bio warfare, missile technologies, etc. Some of those turned out to be existential threats and loosening ethical and moral values might have been warranted by guaranteeing the existence of our society. But most of them turned out not to be existential threats but instead reasonably nice long-term economic benefits.

While I don't think every child should get-a-trophy-for-participation, I'm not sure we should loosen our ethical and moral standards to pursue genetic engineering. A legit question is: other states will pursue genetic engineering aggressively and how do we respond?

And the result is likely not binary: winning this race does not produce world domination; winning is likely a temporary (10-50 year?), slight technological advantage. Even serious existential threats, such as nuclear weapons, were leaked and duplicated by competing states. And those were rare, easily identifiable items (big atomic or nuclear bombs). Exfiltrating a key genetic engineering masterpiece can be done invisibly with a comb or razor in a checked-bag...

And being a second-mover can be a huge advantage. Just ask Japan (PHS), Africa (mobile-first/only), Hong Kong (cable internet), Chattanooga (utility internet), etc. First movers can over-invest in being the first mover and suffer when advantages of scale, learning or technology kick in. The "center" of the tech world (Silicon Valley) had the worst Internet service in the developed world; but we had the best 1970's phone and cable service on the planet.
Appreciate the honest review :)
> I want to be able to open a jupyter-like notebook with the start of my search query, and the first step should be to show me the available eigencontexts

AltaVista used to do this. I miss it terribly.
Understanding Dynamic Time Warping
This. and: It really helps if you work in a culture that values critical feedback on thinking and writing. Too many readers will pass on an opportunity to offer critical feedback, either because they don’t want to offend or because they didn’t read it carefully and critically enough. Having someone read a doc and tell you it’s good feels good, but in general doesn’t help you improve (and is actively harmful if the document is mediocre).

One way to encourage this helpful criticism is for authors to accept feedback gracefully and have a policy to ask questions only for clarification of the feedback (to understand the feedback better) and never to engage in the debate response of explaining why what they wrote is good enough.

(The minute you debate them on the first of seven points they have, they’re going to deprive you of much of the value of their feedback on the next six because you’re seeming defensive at worst or exhausting at the least.)
FinnAPL Idiom Library
> The Snowden revelations are up there with 9/11 in terms of American history significance, and when they happened, barely anything changed, especially in the general public.

I'm not sure the American people have the ability to change it at this point. We elected Obama when he campaigned on a promise to end the mass surveillance of American citizens, but once he was in office he expanded the NSAs ability to do just that. James Clapper repeatedly lied to congress about what was happening and has publicly confessed to doing so, yet he faced zero consequences for it.

At this point it doesn't seem like the US government represents our best interests and we have very little ability to change that. We've got actual research showing that:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

In this kind of environment what exactly do you expect the general public to do? We have no power or representation in American government.
Which existing means-tested government benefits are capable of paving over a major illness such as cancer?
This looks super cool, and I can immediately see how it'd be immediately useful in production apps both because of potential use-cases and how straightforward it seems to integrate. Is there anything similar in development within Vue land, or is this intrinsically tied to the React render model?
The title is misleading. This isn't about Big Tech. It's about Google specifically. Why not name them?
It's not fixed. What gives you the impression that it is? No update has been rolled out with a fix.
Maybe it is just you. For me, it works. Not sure why it does not load for you.
Add on the stress of wondering where your next meal is coming from, or how you're going to pay rent this month... every day, for the rest of your life, and your quality of life sinks dramatically.
Correct. Room for improvement would be giving users the option to see this and select/approve it.
You're treating this as evidence the location services indicator can't possibly be inhibited currently, laughable.
A "killer" product isn't for everybody. Not everyone needs all the options that Google Analytics offer, plus there are some people concerned about privacy, and products like Fathom and Simple Analytics are perfect for them.
Some of us don't want to be isolated. I have the choice of working from home, with complete freedom, but mostly choose to work from the office.

I don't look to annoy others at work, I just don't like to be at home (unless I really need to focus on something, which can happen).
I wish I could understand what's going on in this article. Besides a magical Swede impressing some normie in a hoodie.
As the author of a postgres-specific schema inspection tool, I found I very quickly ran into limitations of information_schema. Many of the critical details are simply not there.
I wonder what could be done to combine this with the structure of a typical game, to allow for more persistence over time.
English started out life as a Germanic language but has changed somewhat over the last 1500 years. For example scir gerefe which becomes shire reeve and eventually sheriff. Yes, Rosco P Coltrane and company have a job title that is over 1500 years old. A shire is roughly a county in modern terms. For example Devonshire, Lanarkshire, Sir Fynwy etc in Britain. That last is Welsh.

Look at words like day, tag, dag and so on in the various Germanic languages. When you see that in English, the letter g morphed into y in a lot of words, it makes sense and of course we have to allow for some rather random spelling in the past and a great vowel shift or two. I live in Yeovil which was recorded as gifle (a fork in a river) in about 900. The nearby river Yeo seems to be named after the town which is named for its location on a feature of the river ...

These islands from 55 BC to 1066 AD became a revolving door to various invasions, some of which included Swedes and Danes generally as vikings, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Italians (Romans) and any other tom, dick or harry that could find a boat and fancied duffing up a few Britons and settling down and raise a few apples and chickens! When the Northmen - Norsemen - Normans ie Duke William of Normandy turned up in 1066 they eventually did the job properly and ... eventually became English themselves and simply gave the language a bit of a twist. For example we have both Saxon and Frankish (French) words for many things eg meat: cow and beef, sheep and mutton, chicken and errr chicken, pig and pork.

I think that because English has had so many influences in the past that it has developed a certain flexibility that many languages do not. It is also a relatively new language - only 1500 years old! I learned Latin at school for several years, along with French and lived in Germany for 10 years (off and on). English can be warped and twisted and generally abused and yet the meaning remains intact better than some other languages.

The ultimate irony here is that I am talking about the new kid language on the block on HN!
Awesome game! works incredibly well!
> Haskell is the worst language you could choose to learn FP.

Why?
Many localities in the US have instituted higher minimum wages. In DC, the minimum wage is $14, and I can assure you that a burger and fries is not $20, the local McDonald's have not automated, and they seem to be doing fine.
I agree in principle, but it's because it seems to run as an iPython notebook in Google Cloud Compute or something.
Well, I think they're right (American here).
The reason I bought an iPhone was that in my eyes I'm picking the lesser evil: only Apple is spying on me. While in Android's case it's Google, the smartphone vendor (Samsung, Huawei etc.) and hell knows how many others.

I of course don't have an irrefutable proof but judging by circumstantial evidence, news and PR, it's the best conclusion I can reach for now.

But I'm pretty sure my iPhone is spying on me anyway.
Estimote have an indoor location SDK that uses bluetooth beacons which is remarkably accurate (like ~15-20cm position accuracy in some of our testing).

https://developer.estimote.com/indoor/map-your-location/

Interestingly, it's room mapping tool is iOS only. Which seems odd given the FIND approach of being Android-only because of OS restrictions on 802* access?
This might be fixable with the kernel's VRF functionality:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Java for Back end?
> it is overkill.

> It definitely is.

It is not, you pay $14 and you get basic analytics and this https://usefathom.com/news/anonymization that's worth the money for me.

> It's cheaper, faster (by a 3-4x margin), and simple.

What about user privacy? are you anonymizing the users?
True, although that software now runs on an specialized secure coprocessor
"core cell phone functionality" includes making a call. Has the official update with a fix been sent out yet?
Yeah they come from what spotify considers a related artist, usually 10-15 artists that appear as suggestions
It applies to big tech.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches
etc.
Driven stick my whole life. Maybe it's just that I have large hands, but I don't need to put stuff down while shifting.

The hard part of texting while driving stick is taking your eyes off the road, not having three things to manipulate with only two hands. That's like saying it's impossible for humans to drive stick because there are three pedals but only two feet.

What's your driving style like? I imagine the people who accelerate as quickly as their car is capable of, consistently drive 15-20 over the speed limit, often have to speed up and slow down and dodge between lanes will have to shift a lot more than the rest of us.

It just strikes me as weird that other people think it's impossible to drive stick and text at the same time. Sure you can't do it safely, but that's nothing to do with the transmission.
Teams suffer tremendously when they are forced to include lazy people. You get the additional Mythical-Man-Month complexity without any gain in productivity.

Society would be better off if lazy people were excused from the workforce. The weird obsession with forcing everyone to run on a treadmill has got to go.
Close; there's a precedent for it having been subverted via firmware compromise:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
No, they're saying that this is evidence that it is currently not inhibited, and even called out that this may not always be the case.
Climate policy needs negative carbon-dioxide emissions
If you are going to make a new search engine, you need to attack a problem that people have, like Duckduckgo solving privacy issues.
I don't want to install something that collects a bunch of personal info about me.
A better idea is to search bookmarked sites and the cache. And do it locally.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.
That's fair, but it doesn't really change the main point that you're looking at a stupid amount of hours equivalent to get to break-even while adding hundreds of charge cycles to an already-degraded battery. I can't really see this being a positive ROI purchase unless you want to use it for a vehicle. Used battery prices need to come down another 20-30% before it will make sense.
> Criteria: Raised under $10M total investment funds, last round being over 3 years ago

> Offer: The total purchase price of the deal, paid in cash, will not exceed $1M and will be the total and only compensation. GitLab stock will not be offered as part of the deal for the assets sold.

Yikes. That doesn't make sense if you've raised over 1M. That seems strange to have such a low cap on compensation.
Google is only offering gigabit plans to new customers
Did you get them in volume or just the one?
Quick searching looks to be between $8k-$10k
I'd expect a volume discount could bring it between $6k-$8k
I think about this a lot. I’m not a web developer but the accessibility of the tools for web development (an RPi, a keyboard/mouse, and wifi), the democratization of learning materials for web development, and the commodification of dev services (even through platforms like Fiverr and Upwork) make me feel like it could be possible to set up people of limited means with all they need to self-teach their way to a better career. I know not everybody has the knack or inclination for development work or even autodidacticism, but for those that take to it, $45 worth of hardware and a few hours of pointing in the right directions could be life-changing. Am I wrong about this? What significant barriers am I missing?

I envision an open-source disk image (likely a NOOBS) with learning materials, support resources, and community tools built-in. One could sell pre-loaded SD cards and/or full hardware packages to make it turnkey, or as turnkey as RPi gets, further reducing the barrier to entry. Perhaps even donations and grant money could subsidize hardware.

Has something like this been done? Is web dev a good fit? Thoughts?
What next for Google's parent after its fathers depart?
For decades we have used lead-acid batteries in close to every backup power solution of any size, plus at least one lead-acid battery per vehicle. Of course we expect lithium-ion to surpass lead-acid in market size and number of deployed batteries, but the amount of lead-acid batteries in the world is nothing to sneeze at either.
The higher I climb the corporate ladder, the higher my salary goes. This is all well and good, but the expectations and stress climb with it too. I like working and applying my brain to solving problems, but I sometimes pine for a job that pays little and expects little. I can’t afford to make that change now and there is a good chance I wouldn’t actually enjoy bagging groceries at the store again, but it’s nice to dream about every now and then.
A question I have asked myself a few times as the guy who has to work out whether to invest in the guys hiring McKinsey: if you need McKinsey to do "technical" work for you then why am I giving you money?

Strategy is very useful...but, again, McKinsey know almost nothing about this too. In my experience, capital allocators are born not made. The idea that you can be a strategic genius without ever taking any risk yourself (i.e. the kind of person who goes to the colleges McKinsey hires from) is just wrong.

And the funniest thing about McKinsey is they are, apparently although not so much anymore, arch capitalists but largely exist to milk money from the principal-agent problem. McKinsey is the problem.
You definitely could: writing ability comes with practice, just like programming ability. I recommend trying to get a solid pace with it!
We rely mostly on email. Probably 90%. The best part about remote, I believe, is asynchronous communication. Email forces people think harder about what to say, vs trying to fill gaps of silence with nonsense during video calls. This makes for a more effective and efficient exchange of ideas.
I think you and I are talking about different things when we say "integration test".
I don’t install any addons on my browser. Wish Firefox worked just like others.
My boss' (we were internal consultants) mantra was "we can accomplish anything if we don't get hung up on who gets the credit". She is one of the best I worked for.
I like Cliqz and am already impressed with the results for several of my test queries, though they certainly have a ways to go.

But what I would really like to see, as has been mentioned in other threads, is an open-source or community-funded search engine. Something that "belongs to the web" itself, so to speak, and not to any particular corporation.
I would love to get that from PG&E in California. As it is, and with the high cost of energy in datacenters (because it's triply redundant, etc.) I've been researching natural gas power generation at home to power my render farm, instead of putting it in a datacenter.

I can do it for about $0.17/kWh, which is cheaper that the energy I get from PG&E. Fixed cost for the generator is about $7K to power the farm.
New book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB
It’s been hardwired for quite some time. There is still firmware on the sensor controller but it’s signed and verified now so you can’t just flash whatever you want to it.
Cliqz nearly made me stop using firefox a while back https://www.heise.de/-3852129 (german article)

Tldr 1% of german firefox installations automatically uploaded search queries to cliquz. I wont trust a search engine like this with any of my data.
Static analysis is great here — it’s definitely a constrained domain where it could shine w/o many of the issues that defined it a decade ago.

I bet you could take this a lot further by incorporating a runtime component as well. I mean it’s a container — it’s meant to be incrementally built up and destroyed.

By looking at the state of the container before and after a line you could do so much.

i.e. This innocent looking apt-get install has the side effect of making X directory writable.
I think the idea is that preloading wouldn't be feasible with arbitrary unrestricted HTML because of security concerns, which is why they created this restricted subset in the first place.
There's been a lot of discussion about how US-centric the internet is in general even discounting how many massively popular internet companies are US based. I don't think it's unreasonable for Europeans or other nations to try to be less dependent on the US and US based services. As an American, I think it's the smartest thing they can do and I welcome it.