skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m talking about an individual, not a business scenario. Your papers in your custody in your home are only accessible via warrant, as opposed to your online stuff that requires as little as an administrative subpoena.

Your doctor and attorney are unique in that professional relationship is legally privileged.
This is yet another reason why for profit media should be taxed like cigarettes and liquor. People like it, it's bad for them, and it costs money to undo the damage it causes.

Plow the money into courses on basic reasoning, civics, and grants to non-profit, independent media so that the people benefit when for profit media pushes a war for profit or racial divison for more ad revenue.
Not the parent but I get this. Some things can inexplicably open your eyes to how valuable life is; a cursory study of Buddhism and later Stoicism did it for me.

I'm convinced the secret to happiness is simply reminding yourself how much worse life could be.
The concepts behind this essay have helped my career more than any other besides the gervaise theory.

No one cares or gives a shit about how good you are if they can't understand it.
The energy cost to freeze is similar to that of the multistage compression/expansion cycle. All the solid state cooling mathods are even less efficient, and you need a cascade.
The only way this works is when the excess energy has to be sold at a loss due to baseload excess, and this would allow the power to be time shifted. This, as would other ways of load shifting, would work. Vertical storage via a gravity pond is far better as all stages have high efficiency. Battery storage also works well at high efficiency.
https://www.csemag.com/articles/implementing-energy-storage-...
Sure, after you have skimmed 2 or 3 other books, go back and read the first one more carefully again.

* * *

I strongly endorse this method. Doesn‘t have to be books either. Want to learn about some cutting edge research topic in a highly technical field, but don’t want to first go through 3 years of grad-student-level coursework?

Jump right in, but don’t start with a textbook or a survey paper. Start by skimming 10 or 20 (or more) arbitrary papers about related topics. Don’t worry that many terms seem like nonsense. Try to get the gist (to the extent possible) of each paper quickly. Let the methods and terminology wash over you. After that go back and read the survey paper, which should hopefully start to make sense after prior exposure to some of its ideas. Then if there are parts of that which still don’t make sense, go find the relevant textbook(s).

It’s not worth reading research papers in an unfamiliar community too carefully right off the bat; most of the papers are garbage and without some exposure/context it’s sometimes hard to tell which ones. Sweating all of the details before you have the right high level impression is going to confuse you and waste your time.
I think changing the way you think has more value than anything else - trying to get better at thinking by optimizing your biology is like trying to become a better programmer by buying a faster computer.

Read about mental models, read about meaningness, and learn to view the world as a fractal system of systems. I find that reading about ecology, psychology, and sociology to be particularly helpful in building/debugging my mental models, especially my models of other people’s models.

That said, getting enough sleep and exercise wouldn’t hurt.
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I don't see how the context of his alleged crime (he's not been found guilty of anything) is relevant. Beyond a felony/misdemeanor the means available to the state to build a case/prosecute should be identical regardless of the specific crime alleged.
Yes, absolutely. They are trying to do what’s best for journalists as a class.
We are using D for high performance computational biology -- I brought a Go dev and a python dev both onboard with minimal learning curve. Even the powerful template metaprogramming seemed really easy for the team to pick up. I believe this is because it really has a nice design (compared with, say, C++, which I would never, ever use in general bioinformatics unless team had specific past expertise)
What if it comes out that he was coordinating with the Harris campaign to help get her anti-lynching bill passed which had been dead before the incident due to extremely low rates of lynching in modern America? They attended protests together and were at least familiar if not friends.
That guy was 'controlled opposition', just like most of what you see promoted as 'flat Earth'. An attempt to make someone look foolish, therefore making the general public disinterested in looking any further into it.

"Oh, there's some wack job shooting himself into the air to prove the Earth is flat"

Just like the picture of a flat Earth floating in space. THAT IS NOT THE MODEL

The simple reality is there is no curve. It's a deep rabbit hole, but I'm not here to lie to anyone.

Do your own research, be honest with yourself, and you'll see we've been fed a lie about where we live
Doesn’t seem like the issue is with the state, it’s that we’re entrusting third parties with enough information to paint an incredibly intimate portrait of our personalities and proclivities. This in turn is available to the state at essentially zero cost, which may then be leveraged heavily to ensure compliance.
New Cambridge Analytica files to expose “industrial scale” voter manipulation
This is all fine in theory. But why this guy? With limited prosecutorial resources, why are they doubling down on this guy? That is what I am always suspicious of.
> not just emails but also drafted and deleted messages; any files in their Google Drive cloud storage services; any Google Voice texts, calls and contacts; search and web browsing history; and location data.

I've always assumed my email, Drive, Voice info, calls, contact lists, etc would be obtainable by a warrant.

But I wonder if Google would turn over things like browsing and search history, even if you never browsed while logged in to Google or searched, and also had explicitly turned off storing of this data in your Google privacy settings.

There is no doubt in my mind that Google, through the use of 3rd party trackers from "partners", analytics, and correlation can easily match my non-logged in web history and searches with the same computer and IP used when I log into Gmail or Maps.

Supposedly they don't tie this global "advertising profile" to your real identifying Google account, at least for the data provided to advertisers, but I would think it'd be trivial for Google to collect it all - every web page visited and for how long, every search you've made - and turn over the vast majority of it to the government, upon request.

In other words, Google probably does know nearly everything you do online, logged in or not, at this point.
Daughter of Deceased GOP Strategist Releases His Hidden Gerrymandering Files
Pricer https://www.pricer.com/ is the company that most retailers utilizing e-ink price tags are utilizing in Sweden (They were founded there) along with other retailers (Best Buy). Those tags utilize near Infrared communication to update.
Using ~/.local gives you all those things without giving root access, there is no good reason to stick everything in /usr/local especially with something like npm which is wide open for anyone to publish anything instantly.
From what I've read, winter heating consumes 40% of American households' energy budget. (A seldom-mentioned part of the big picture.) The heat extracted from liquifying air might be used for home-heating in a place like Vermont.

I recall walking by a city telecom building getting rid of excess heat, in the winter, by opening big vents in the wall. Meanwhile, apartment buildings around it were burning fuel to keep warm. There are many ways we can do this stuff better.
> What's funny is Iran wants in on this propaganda game now

Now? You might be missing some context on the whole Middle East conflict.
One day several years ago I found a ~15 year old laptop on the side of the road and wondered what I'd do with it. 300MHz processor, "what's Ethernet?", and I didn't have the little pile of flaky USB Wi-Fi dongles I have now.

And it was only through attempting to actually install from the Slackware CDs I'd burnt several years earlier that I discovered the scratches on them were unfortunately not just decorative scars.

So: gcc, corrupt. g++, corrupt. Python, corrupt. Perl, corrupt. sed, ...not corrupt. grep, also not corrupt.

I love working on little projects. At one point I noticed that installing specific packages quickly and easily wasn't straightforward because I couldn't see what was already installed.

dialog was among the uncorrupted, and I wondered if I might use this to show installed and uninstalled packages side by side.

That was when I discovered the info pages were also intact, and that sed and grep both had excellent info documentation.

Unfortunately I deliberately gave up working on the project after a few days, as I developed headaches from staring at multiple ~5-6 line (ie, ~480 char) monster regexes over the course of a week or so. (Imagine multiple blocks of modem line noise each 2-4 times longer than http://bash.org/?464385 and you're in the ballpark.)

I do plan to finish that script at some point though (when I regain access to that laptop's HDD). It was only 5 sed commands and 4 grep commands...
It's speculated in [1], that agriculture selected evolved humanity towards both long term planning and docility

[1]Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution. Basic Books, 2009.
> They (the State prosecutors)

With a warrant they convinced a court to issue. This is totally different from e.g. dragnet surveillance.
The State has always been able to look up phone records, bank records, land records, criminal records, medical records etc etc as in order to pursue justice and prosecute.

This is a necessary "evil". We give up some freedoms so that we have a civilisation and an orderly society.

And this isn't setting up any precedent that is egregious. This is on the front page of Chicago Tribune newspaper and on the front page of HN. This is not some shady in the shadows invasion of privacy.

Those things do happen and I think we should preserve our outrage for those moments. Otherwise it just becomes background noise to be constantly and without context offended.
I guess that makes sense. But if that's the analogy, there's a significant difference between the situations. In that example, there was nothing inherently wrong with the journal's size, other than it not matching Bell Labs' arbitrary choice of shelf layout. Git, on the other hand, would be inherently a better tool if it had better performance on large repos (without sacrificing its suitability for small repos).
You're listening to your own engine yes, but a car control system presumably has more direct access to that information. You simply can't hear sound from outside - and car makers advertise this as a feature! - to say nothing of the fact that many or most drivers will be playing music by one or another means.
IBM’s Quantum-Computing Service Tops 100 Customers
NY Times was so sad that WW3 didn't pop off this morning. Better luck next time, assholes.
About the same you need to stock the shelves
I wrote this comment elsewhere below but it still applies

The State has always been able to look up phone records, bank records, land records, criminal records, medical records etc etc as in order to pursue justice and prosecute.

How is this any different?
> but people basically have no idea how courts work and that discovery is a thing

are you saying that courts have become so opaque and inaccessible to voters that they exert their power as an impenetrable cabal ? Or that people need a PhD to assess whether the law or its enforcement is good or bad?
I am not sure this is true. Meals in other countries are not getting bigger and bigger, and so the reason is likely to be something particular to the US and not universal human nature. So we have no reason to think that human nature incentivises needlessly large meals/books.
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>Without even a spare moment's thought to the residents in Pittsburgh that are stuck there.

I wouldn't expect anyone to subject their children and family and themselves to something they believe is unhealthy if they can afford not to. And I don't see what else this person could do other than support politicians who will empower the EPA.
I own an onyx boox and I can't emphasize enough how much I don't recommend it for anyone. If I had known the company was a serial GPL violator, I would have never purchased it in the first place. My recommendation would be to wait for the refresh of the ReMarkable Tablet, as it runs GNU/Linux and there is a healthy community of people who have made a ton of applications and tools for it [0]. This will likely never occur with any Onyx products and you will be stuck with a device running an old version of Android with SELinux disabled, on a vulnerable kernel, that constantly phones home to Chinese cloud servers.

I explain it all in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041543

[0]: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
It is a heat engine, forward and reverse = Carnot rules.

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Carnot_efficiency.

He essentiallt states that you can only get a certain maximum % out of exnapsnio engines if you expand them to absolute zero in a vacuum.
Since you expand to room temperature and pressure, the equation determines that efficiency. That is why car engines are 35% or efficient. Specialized constant speed diesels a bit better and turbines close to 60%
Pantomiming the lie isn't being socially responsible
Then they would seize his phone and use that to decrypt the email.

Or order him to turn over his own email.
> there was a period during which SAC had their bombs set to an arming code of all zeros, so that they could drop them without authority from higher.

Did they know that the codes were all zero? I mean, terrible security either way, but...
That looks interesting, I hope the company succeeds and we see more of this.

Side note, the article has a comment about peak summer power usage that made me laugh out loud:

> For example, Mumbai hits peak consumption in the summer when air conditioners are on full blast, whereas London peaks in winters because of household heating. Ideally, energy captured in one season could be stored for months during low-use seasons, and then deployed later in the high-use seasons.

It seems hilarious to talk about storing power to run AC in order to solve an excess of heat problem. I honestly feel bad for people who die in heat waves in large cities, but it seems pretty absurd that we’re not already running AC cooling on solar like everywhere.
Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
Obligatory

https://github.com/cabellwg/exit-vim
I don't think this scenario is realistic. It would almost certainly be easier and cheaper to use mechanical automation over human slaves.
That is what they call multiple stage condensation/evaporation - gains efficiency, but Carnot still wins.
I think part of the thing that people complain as complexity is the fact that there is too much choice in the web world and no one framework/tool/language is dominant and clearly better than the rest.
Not the guy you're asking, but you can check D based Mir GLAS library as an alternative to the usual suspects, and it performed best of them all [1]

[1] http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
Unless you lived in a cave in Afghanistan for the entirety of 2019 there's no way you don't know what I'm "implying".
I'd add to your list the increasing disconnect between wealth and quality of life. Economists and politicians will tell us how much richer we've become, how much our GDP has grown, etc, but so much of that "wealth" is that we have ipads and flat screen TV's. The things we actually need for a better life like housing security, social opportunities and stability are getting more and more out of reach. I think this is the main driver of populist politicians, they've tapped into this growing discontent quite literally because being content is getting harder.
So then take some sample where the other commenter is at and compare.

This isn't a court of law. We don't need to crucify people for providing their experiences...
Are you suggesting people who currently have lives built up in Pittsburgh also leave instead of improving the situation?
Well, after...Googling...it, there's a little more to the story. It was actually a fight with Oracle about the usual stuff (Java patents), and the email itself was covered by attorney-client privilege, and therefore didn't have to be shown to the other side, but the drafts slipped through by accident because, you know, the subject didn't actually say "Attorney work product - confidential" until almost the final version. And although there is something called a "clawback", the judge ruled that their attempt was too little and too late. "Your honor, it's devastating to my case!"

Basically, Google relied on an algorithm/search engine to screen for privileged documents instead of having lawyers review things the old-fashioned way and they got bit by that.
How to best monetize a website: Cost per click VS cost per lead VS annual fee?
We've done a basic MVP in Squarespace for a software comparison site.

The plan is to build a proper comparison site once we get some traction.

From your experience, what's the best revenue model to monetize it?

Is it:

1. cost per click with a bidding auction, e.g. Capterra

2. cost per lead only: Software Advice

3. or annual fee with cost per lead: G2

My gut tells me that it's CPC with bidding - similar to Google Ads.
They Made a Movie Out of It
Very impressive research
In my early days I used to sit out behind the office and burn cash in a barrel where the Japanese business men took seemingly constant smoke breaks - this was before I asked my boss for a bizdev position
> as bad as coal for climate

This statement incorrectly implies that increasing Earth temperature is bad for climate.

A warmer climate has both advantages and disadvantages for humans. The advantages of a warmer climate are more significant:
1) Easier to grow crops.
2) More comfortable to live closer to the poles (Canada, Siberia, Iceland, Greenland).
You are correct my mistake.
I still wonders what happens to the MEMS display Apple bought from Qualcomm

https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/15/apple-has-taken-o...
This suggestion befits an authoritarian dictatorship which seeks to control the press and muffle its critics, but it is ill-suited for a people who wish to remain free.
Reminds me of when I was younger, and I crunched census data to locate the city with the highest percentage of single women.

Turned out to be a random suburb with a female prison.
I'm not suggesting anyone do anything, but expecting someone to not move their family out of harm's way is unrealistic. This is not a situation that can be solved in the short term, nor with any decent chance of success. Therefore if you believe you are subjecting your family to a hazard by living there, the only option is to leave.
But if there were no lasers I would have probably been paying my monthly tithe to HP forever.
Don’t read the article. I wasted precious minutes of my life on it and learned nothing of any value.
There is no way in hell an intro to regression analysis class is going into things like TMLE.
Learning html css and js was the best decision I ever made for enjoying projects, life, and my career.

Download notepad++, open google chrome and w3 schools, and learn how to display text on a page.

Shortly thereafter you will be qualified for web dev positions if you are motivated and practice self-learning techniques :)
Fair. I didn't think too much about those points as they're basically footnotes, but I don't know about them either.
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Before laser printers, I believe line printers were the printers of choice for high throughput. But the noise they made would have been incredible.
> and I want to future-proof my work (if at all possible in the JS land).

how often has this panned out for you?
> Companies are handed a certain amount of certificates depending on their size (prone to corruption).

Seems like it would make sense to replace the "hand them out based on size" step (I've heard "based on historical emissions" before as well) with "auction them off to the highest bidder".

This isn't revenue neutral, but you could make it so by then simply cutting some tax (personal income tax, most likely) until it is, if that's the goal.
What the author says here is better said by a dozen others. I just had an overwhelming feeling of no shit sherlock when reading this -- yes, it's obvious our media is polarized, for obvious reasons.

I'm going to guess his next chapter is about how money ruined the media and politics, which is "why you shouldn't write about these things" -- because the people with the loudest voice have the most to gain from the polarization of the media. Again, this is pretty obvious. The loudest voice becomes the only one you hear in an echo chamber.

It was insightful the first time I read it from Socrates and Aristotle. But at this point it should be common knowledge for anyone interested in philosophy (literally: the study of knowledge).
In my view, the state has to ask a court to approve the purpose of each request, based on a reasonable hypothesis about what might be found.

How this seems different is the lack of any limitation on the kind of content that can be turned over. And in my view, that was a mistake on the judge's part for approving such a sweeping request.

For instance if I were accused of committing a crime against X, then I suppose that Google could be asked to turn over e-mails that I wrote about X, but not e-mails about my bicycle. This is how the system prevents the state from going on a hunting and fishing expedition.
Yes, pump motors and generators.
so 96% motor and 96% pump up = are in the 95-7% efficiency, pumps about the same up or down.
So .96 x .96(up) and .96 x .96 (down) = 84.9% and friction drops that a little. It is quite good if you hacve a handy high dam pond to use as many places do. To build a high dsm pong may not be economic unless you have a topographic valley you can dam and fill (and murder all the locals and flying snapping turtles) Dams have many objectors, so new ones are hard to build, except for China.