skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, MP3 was based on the audio component of the first "MPEG" standard (the one used for Video CDs) rather than MPEG2 (the one used for DVDs, amongst other things), which would make it "MPEG Layer III".
This. And local news will have to jump on this too, and form groups with national/global.

A NyT/Guardian type outlet can live through subscriptions. A local newspaper could thrive in a city with 100k people and decent ad market - but not now that Facebook eats their lunch. That’s the problem that desperately needs solving.

I’d love to pay for e.g a guardian sub that includes personalized local bits from my country, city etc.
I believe Nanopore Technologies is about to announce that a $1000 Human genome is possible with the PromethION, a big brother of the MinION.
It's unlikely foreign sites catered to foreign viewers would be impacted. When I buy something from a site that only sells in another country's currency, I know I'm probably going outside my own nation's protections a bit.

But if you're a company specifically soliciting EU customers, and especially if you have a presence in the EU physically, expect to have issues if you're collecting data on them without consent.

Bear in mind, the US will extradite people for committing crimes against US entities who live fully within other countries. Presumably if the act is bad enough... that sort of thing starts to play in. (Seriously, if the EU tried to extradite Sundar Pichai... that'd be something, wouldn't it?) The crime has to be befitting such effort though. One EU citizen's data sweeped up in your Google Analytics data does not make you worthy of a legal case. Do it several million times... maybe.

tl;dr: If you're an average company not operating in or marketing to the EU, this doesn't affect you. If you're the size it's likely to be an issue for you, you're likely big enough to handle the additional requirements and do fine.
Seems like the distribution of S will be different to the the others. Guessing the probability of picking card N is greater than picking a card less than N. I haven't given it much thought.
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Your site doesn't work without JavaScript turned on. Then you have this annoying pop-up and then I gave up.

If you want people to read and critique your article try and help them out a bit?
> And even if you do require payment, if you don't have a physical nexus in the EU, it's unclear what exactly the EU can do?

You need an EU VAT ID to accepts payments from EU citizens. So they will revoke that and then you can't accept payments from EU.
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The UK went from 1.2 million[1] workers in the coal industry in 1920 to nearly zero now. It was painful at times though and many of the former coal towns have never really recovered.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/371069/employment-in-coa...
Hi Jeremy, recently google have free gpu with colab notebook product. Student can use it when they need free gpu option.
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When I was in 8th grade in Oregon. We went to a clear cut site to plant trees. We had to dig a very small hole and put the seedling into it. They had little burlap bags around them with a bit of dirt around the root ball. There was twine tied to keep the bag closed.

The ground we had to walk through was like a world war I trench zone with massive holes, ripped up trees, rocks, pits, it was a mess and hard to climb through. It was fun as a kid. But there was no way you could just throw trees everywhere and have them grow.

That being said, I can see how drones could do this with a tech change in how they are planted. Each drone has a few seedlings, the seedlings are in a pod that is weighted (keep it upright during planting) and self-sustaining (ie, plenty of dirt, water retention polymers, etc..) so they could be set on _top_ of the ground. (maybe some hex-shaped carboard box thing? lol)

Then drones get brought in with a big giant ass truck, you have 1000 drones, they make many multiple trips, recharges. It's possible.
Regarding equal spacing: the sample rate determines a part of the system latency, and therefore performance and stability limitations. Eliminatating the stability of sample rate eliminates the decades of work basic controls analysis relies on. Or said another way, slow your sample rate and pay with your phase margin. Not to say it’s impossible to deal with (small) changes in sample rate, but in a text where he is already wildly simplifying things, this sounds like the wrong place to innovate.
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Absolutely, its compressive strength (~1 MPa) is so low that it's better to think of it as rigid insulation that anything structural or load bearing.
Then I think they are cheating their numbers if they count multiple trees per pod. :P
> Selling to EU customers as US business already requires you to have a VAT ID in EU

That's not quite right. If you are digital service provider based in the US, no, you don't need EU VAT ID.
Thanks, Dazc. How would you recommend I get around the Javascript problem? I can fix the pop up.
I've been looking for this for years. My local newspaper from my small city is crap for anything beyond local news but there's no one else covering those. I'd like to combine that with a German section from one of the bigger newspapers (SZ) plus a few parts from international papers (Guardian, NZZ, Economist, NYT etc.) and I'd especially like to leave out stuff I'm not interested in like sports.

I'd pay around 50€ per month for this.

I know there's Blendle and it actually does have a good selection but I don't want to pay per article because that leads me to not read as much as I would with a flat rate.
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I don't think Vietnam had nuclear weapons back then, or did they?
Banks are a great example of this:

"Mastercard, originally known as Interbank/Master Charge, was created by several California banks as a competitor to the BankAmericard issued by Bank of America, which later became the Visa credit card issued by Visa Inc."

SWIFT:

"SWIFT was founded in Brussels in 1973 under the leadership of its inaugural CEO Carl Reuterskiöld (1973–1983) and was supported by 239 banks in fifteen countries"

Several others I can't think of right now.
I could see it work. They only need to plant, and go back to base... Could use multiple drones, some working, some getting recharged/batteries replaced.
There is already a convention for signed-off by. I don’t understand either why GitHub is pushing for this, though I have seen this feature before on some repositories before the post.

Edit: Now that I think about it, can see why. I have seen merges where is was good enough to merge, but needed som slight adjustments. Rebase/merge with minor changes would be a good use for this, and would allow for better crediting of both authors.
I have no business assets connected to any EU countries, and I don't have any desire to cross any EU borders. So I will continue to enjoy life in my home country and ignore your provincial laws.
>data those companies don't own

I don't know if it's possible to have a productive discussion about what seems to be a question of fundamental philosophy and values, but that's ridiculous on its face.

If I'm a shop owner and a customer buys something from me, the cash register prints two receipts: one the customer owns, one I own. If a customer writes me an email, I own my copy of that email. If a customer comes in and makes a scene, and I ban him from my stores's premises, the paper I generate telling my staff to call the police if they seem him is mine.

If I follow him around and write down everywhere he goes... at some point a line gets crossed, sure. If I start asking other shopkeepers if they've seen him or what he purchased, yeah, something's wrong. But to claim that my records of the interactions he knowingly, willingly had with me are his property just sounds bizarre.

>Realistically, this is not going to impact small companies a lot. This is about big ad and tech companies, and giving citizens some minor semblance of tools to resist them.

The GDPR does not discriminate by the size of the operation. It's large companies which can reliably afford the consultant, lawyer, and engineering time to understand and adapt to new regulation. The violators are going to be those without security and compliance departments.
Ironically, The Guardian used to own a few regional publishers but sold them off in 2010.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

Kudos to Neil44 for the link above.
Logfiles are necessary to operate a service securely and guarantee quality of service. This is one form of implicit consent that users are giving you without you having to ask them for it.

But Storing IP addresses for each access indefinitely (> some days) is the problem.

If you rotate the files into a version where IP addresses are without the last part after a few days, then this is considered pseudonymous data and GDPR has no problem with you keeping this for a long time anymore.
If your website is of any use, they will be copied from an EU-internal website that adheres to local legislation. If you subsequently tried to sue according to your country's legal concepts, whatever, why should they adhere to another country's legal requirements?
It's the major cost of sequencing with this system. Apparently, overall, the cost is a bit higher than with the current industry leader.

Apparently the cost is competitive for what it does.
Certainly with the cookie law, I feel the EU should have legislated the top browser makers to make this a spec and be implemented in the browser, than to rely on each and every website.
In a startup scenario, business changes can and will come in that destroy previous assumptions. Being stuck with a 1/4 finished cathedral when you now need to build a truck is both wasteful and inneficient
The question is also what exactly you get. Illumina's technology gives you very short pieces of DNA. I'd call it confetti sequencing. Pacbio and Nanopore both go for longer sequences. This is important when trying to assemble the pieces to a bigger picture.
Fixed the pop-up issue. Thanks for that. As it's a Wix site, the JavaScript issue appears to be something they're working on.
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I came across this at a MongoDB conference last year, and thought the demos / videos looked bloody cool.

Here's some more detail on the tech works: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/oxford-nanopore-technologi...
I think this kind of thing is funny for us westerners. I recently found this tech has been used in arid countries for possibly hundreds or thousands of years.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ollas+gardening&t=lm&iax=images&ia...

I do realize the ollas are for more permanent gardens, but it's the same concept. I do hope the paper version gets used, there are plenty of places that could benefit from it.
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I have my macbook for work and programming, my PC has windows on it (much to my dislike) and I use it for occasional gaming. I will probably not get new parts anytime soon though as performance is currently fine. Just wondering for when someone asks me to build them a PC.
Interesting that 214 million GBP revenue with 1500 employees works out to just under 143K GBP per employee. Obviously, I'm not in publishing, but it seems to me that there is still quite a lot of fat they can cut. I'm guessing that their sales channels are horrendously expensive. However, their digital revenue is now approaching half of their overall revenue, so perhaps those sales channels are not so necessary as they may seem. And maybe the print infrastructure is expensive to maintain. Still... if this was a software house, you'd be expecting to be making pretty hefty profits with that kind of revenue...
> I just wish they'd drop the absurd pretense that the EU is somehow capable of imposing their provincial laws on foreign companies with no physical presence in the EU.

They aren't capable of doing that, if those companies do not do business within the EU. As soon as those companies have the power to negatively impact EU citizens, however, the EU has the power to protect those citizens.
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Exponential growth, every three years, since the 80s... sounds a bit hyperbolic, doesn't it? Just how much did he make at Nvidia??
I don't check your other affirmations but it seem's that Godot have sort of console support : http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/platform/con...

« Console ports of Godot are offered via third party companies (which have ported Godot on their own) and offer porting and publishing services of your games to consoles. »
It works for things like Spotify as well. Competitors offering their products on a common platform. Revenue can be distributed by how often content from a certain provider is consumed.

Car2Go will probably soon be owned by Daimler and BMW as well.
Google Fonts is actually not a problem from a GDPR perspective as long as the EU-US 'Privacy Shield' is in force. All in all, Google's data privacy compliance is outstanding in comparison with most other US companies, only Amazon and Microsoft are probably on the same level.
'new commanding heights'[1]

That source is from 2011, in the depths of the recession.
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And the "reasonable" response to this is to act like China: block those services. China showed it is possible so now the "lol it is Internet you can't stop people accessing things, VPN, crypto blablabla" spiel is proven to do jack-shit for services which need a lot of people and their data.
Note, the original paper is about evolutionary patterns of overall brain shape, which is far from indicating how brain organization evolved. The important parts of brain organization are encoded by patterns of structural and functional connectivity, which are internal to the brain and not well depicted by the overall shape. The paper is great, but the write-up just jumps to some distant conclusions.
"without Visa" -- how did you get into China without Visa in the first place? It's illegal!
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The article says "a drone loaded with germinated seeds fires (!) pods into the ground at a rate of one per second". The video makes it look like the drone will just fly over the terrain.

Maybe the pods fall from say 10m and that is enough to get them into the ground (and not kill them)?
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Not only that... Classic controls (including PID, Routh-Hurwitz, root-locus, etc) are NOT taught in many graduate PhD controls programs!
I haven't read that book, but seeing it as a Bayesian filter made it click for me. All the control theory guys who just handwaved with "it's basically a stochastic Luenberger observer" didn't capture the essence of the filter for me. With a strong statistics background it was much better to go from Bayesian first principles to the Kalman filter.
> the Great Firewall is trivial to circumvent with the right VPN subscription.

Not true. The Chinese government is cracking down on VPN providers and you can go to jail for 5 years and have to pay very high fees for running a VPN service.

And the Great Firewall is becoming more clever, they are probably using some learning algorithms as often you buy a VPN subscription which works great but it usually gets shut down in couple of weeks or months at the most.

In order to circumvent the firewall you will need to keep switching VPNs a lot and even then it's quite flaky.
That’s extremely interesting, thank you for posting the link.
Governments aren’t generally cash constrained at the core (they often are at the margin, though) so if you can substantially contribute to solving a problem government cares about, it can be quite lucrative.
Your ideas about government control of slippy digital value fail to take into account that if it still retains value, sure the average dude might not be able to play, but that value can be extracted and moved quickly past municipalities.
Im not so sure that "thinking through" is so pure in value as you think it to be. Many grown ups have quite a lot of biases factor into there thinking through- where situations basically hash to a solution and the "thinking" through is avoided at all.

Kids do not have that, they can develop novel approaches and they really have to think- they dont even have work to escape from the difficult questions. So this is where the future comes from. Beeing childish and able to fail is a bon.
So your position is that with kids at home, you can't be doing things that cause you to be unavailable/unreachable for durations of time longer than some threshold. Nothing wrong with that. The kinds of recreational events that conflict with that restriction are generally easy to spot ahead of time, and no one's compelling you to participate in them.
On the graphics, it looks like the density changes for the rest of the dates whenever the identified bot families show up (creating the differently colored columns). When the identified bot families stop, the density changes back. Is that an artifact of how you're displaying it, or is it an indication that the followers before/after are also bots, but they've been mixed with bots created at other dates, where the bot families identified are just the low quality (non-mixed) bot families?
The article is full of misunderstandings. The following sentence for example is just wrong:

'You can’t collect and store any personal data without having obtained, and being able to document that you obtained, consent from the persons you’re collecting data from.'

Consent is just one option. You can do logging without personal data. You might have a legal obligation do to (full) logging. You might have a legitimate interest. And so one …

It is wrong to summarise the GDPR as 'consent is always necessary'.
Agreed, paywall not paywalls: https://artplusmarketing.com/paywall-not-paywalls-8474092276...
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Well, one question we could ask is why basically every single popular open source multimedia project (FFmpeg, x264, MPC-HC/madVR, mpv, avisynth/VapourSynth, MVtools/SVP, heck even LAME, .....) is made mostly by european authors? Some projects are almost 100% european, some are partially european with some russian and other non-american countries thrown in.

The only projects I can actually think of that are based in the US and made by american authors are those by xiph.org, and they only get away with it because their entire business model is developing royalty free alternatives to MPEG codecs.

Even if multimedia patents might not affect big corporations much, they definitely seem to strongly affect the open source community. I imagine if we had similar dystopian laws here in the EU, our best and most beloved multimedia software would plain not exist.
The 'cookie law', the new ePrivacy Regulation, is still work in progress. And yep, opt-in via browser configuration (instead of opt-out or no option at all) might become a thing through the upcoming ePrivacy Regulation.
They sort of do, just with seeds instead of saplings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_seeding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_drones

I think the real advancement here is the autonomous component of it.
Companies in China definitely can pay to get a fast VPN to get unfiltered access. Especially western companies & tech companies do this as you really need unfiltered internet access to do any productive development (an even for non developers, management is using tons of web tools hosted outside of China so they also need VPN to be able to do their work).
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If you want to use pure Python for your project, a binding using GDNative exists, although it seems quite new at the moment...
https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python

To see a glimpse about performance with GDScript:
https://github.com/cart/godot3-bunnymark
>And so this is why it’s tricky and this is why in your example of a bridge, if you widened the bridge but lots of people want to cross it, you’ll end up with a wider bridge that’s exactly as congested as it is now.

Widening the bridge does increase throughput; people who used to be unable to use the bridge are now doing so. There's a benefit there, it's just siphoned off from "reducing congestion" to "people are no longer forced to stay home rather than deal with congestion".
If you want to do business with EU citizens, you have to follow EU law. Before the internet, you had to open a shop here, or send your goods over the border. The only thing that has changed is the fact that you provide a virtual service over the internet.
It's uncomfortable to consider, but there is strong evidence to suggest that the brains of Australian aboriginal people differ in significant ways from their Caucasian bretheren. One study found the aboriginal visual cortex to be significantly larger than the Caucasian equivalent [0], possibly as an adaption to Australia's (visually) vast open spaces. The same study found the Caucasians had significantly larger parietal lobes and cerebellums - the same structures mentioned in this article. Another study found that Caucasians have significantly larger brains on average compared to those of aboriginals [1].

There's also evidence to suggest that modern humans from India [2] have contributed to the Australian gene pool for millennia (long before the arrival of the British), so more dramatic cranial differences may have already been averaged out.

EDIT: deleted figure mis-remembered from an unrelated study.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1261675/
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6926391
[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/110/5/1803
Does anyone know the state of Daala, which to me seems to be the proper foss competitor to h.265?
hey, don't forget to enjoy each day as it comes. loss can come at any time. focus on your family, friends and yourself THEN work. you can get everything you need done OK.
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I have been doing a (integer) PID without a PhD over the last years as well : meCoffee ( https://mecoffee.nl ) for espresso machines.
How would they punish though?
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