skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So now Formula E has enough juice to last a full race with no car swap in the middle. There are also efforts to bring Formula E to city centres - and the people - but will anyone be watching?

I would like to see this electric car racing take a different direction - imagine if you could press a button on the dash and have your car emulate any of many open wheel single seater cars of the past.

Just getting started?

Try the 'Formula Challenge Japan' mode or maybe give an F2 car from the 1970's a spin.

If you get really brave then you could put it into one of those Red Bull F1 car modes.

You could have all the characteristics of each car ported over from a simulator/game but be out on the track.

As well as this open seater 'Formula E' with a difference there could also be a normal car with things like a roof and passenger seating, this could be electric and simulate any number of cars. Porsche GT3 RS?

Fine. There could be a fake manual gearbox, fake RPM redline and all of that exhaust noise nonsense also simulated.

Or maybe you would like to see what it is like to go round the track in a retro Ferrari 275 with a big V12 singing away.

Perhaps the next lap could be tried in Testarossa mode, with the Miami Vice Classic car simulated.

Or maybe you wondered what those Group B rally cars were really like, so you could just go into 'Lancia Delta Integrale mode' and not have the 'benefit' of a tank full of gasoline underneath one's seat.

Perhaps petrol could be faked too, a smell created that does not have the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons but gives the 'garage' impression.

As well as being greener, such simulator-cars would also be easier and cheaper to maintain than a fleet of ICE race cars. This would make track day racing more fun and accessible.
i've seen much worse done with trumps face - which is still clearly protected by the first amendment.
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> having worked at Kelkoo when it was owned by Yahoo! so I have to disagree here

The issue isn't when it was part of Yahoo, but after. It was bought by a virtual shell company registered at the same office as Kelkoo, with generic directors and almost no employees. It now has bogus product descriptions, which are the same for every single product (read the rest of the post).

They were clearly bought for the sole purpose of filing a claim against Google.
This happens at every scale. For example, Centene announced a few years ago that they were moving from St. Louis County into Downtown St. Louis (a separate city), but eventually decided to stay, ultimately receiving a package of tax incentives from their home city just about equal to what St. Louis City was offering.

Does it really matter to "St. Louisans" on which side of this silly, arbitrary border they build their HQ? This system is ridiculous.
I don't know, but they also have gpg .sig-files in the download folder.
The cause and effect of tax breaks causing company migration isn't clearly established. Further, you'd need to consider what the city's tax revenues would have looked like without those companies HQ being located there. Finally, (and this, to me is the least interesting argument, but people from SF seem to love it): is the gentrification that ensued universally "good"?
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Even if this were 110% true, I'd still rather have money in Amazon's hands. This isn't a football stadium, it is one of the best growth and tech companies in the world.

Employees best interest is in a better Amazon with a runway growth and stock price. Many employees might not even live in the same city, and the parents and children will be better off with more a stronger 401k, raise, better firm.
Namely disable them. The website registration is about as annoying as pop-ups now. It's one of those things, that once you open pandora's box on ... you can't really put it back in the box.

I find notifications great for a phone, but terrible on implementation on desktop. But maybe my workflow is more unique than most? Or maybe its just not evolved. It drives me bananas, in general because its so abused.

The other portion of this is Cloud buy in. If you purchase a Cloud product from Apple, the specific portion of Photos (the app) that unifies the experience across platforms - iPhone, iPad, Mac desktop/laptops - does not have one feature to back out photos and archive. You have to individually select and the previous feature to "select all" or cntrl-click from start to last on an image group has disappeared. They effectively make it impossible to export a catalog.

argh!!!! JACKIE CHAN MEME!!!!
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How about actors playing the roles of (still living) real people in theatre and movies? Would they suddenly need permission?

Should the (many!) Elvis impersonators need a licence from his estate?

Impersonating others isn't a new issue, we already have a quite settled body of law about that and centuries of weird edge cases. I don't see a radical difference brought in by technology here. IMHO the treatment of making face-swapped porn videos (or distributing them, which is a quite different case) should be the same as the currently established treatment of painting (or distributing) a realistic painting of someone you know in a pornographic pose - whatever that treatment is.
Oh hell no. "By wearing the same hat as my client, the defendant is clearly trying to profit from his likeness with my client."
Isn't there anyway some of a pendant to Conway's law in this? I mean, C++'s standard library is - or at least used to be - rather complex, so the people that would go there and use C++ for their project - would more likely than not - carry at least some of that complexity over into the project...
Does anybody know a good tutorial or book for learning modern C++ 17, focused on best practices (new language paradigms, TDD/BDD, etc.) ? Something like Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Sure hope AMD can stay on plane this time. Athlon 64 was tremendous and forced a huge opening in the x86 market, but AMD squandered this opportunity in following years. Competing with Intel long term means keeping up on all fronts.
No, just complaining about being underpaid when anyone looking at things objectively would say you're well off and have been treated well.
It's as much infamous for illegal content as hard disks are. That is, you can choose to host some, but you can also choose not to.
Well photogs don't need protection from paying customers and there are already ways to sell your photos. Where they really get screwed is when someone who's not paying uses the photo, then the 'corporate layer' sends a cease and desist or possibly a DMCA take down depending on the situation.

What you're talking about is keeping honest people honest, so proof of work is just waste, a central DB and a billing system is fine for that.
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The earth can't physically support the existing human population without great cooperative ventures such as the production of electricity and nitrogen fertilizer. It can't support life at anywhere close to the present day level of prosperity without additional great ventures such as transportation, medicine, telecommunications, money systems, and electronics manufacturing. All known means of operating those ventures depend on the state, including the entitlements granted to corporations.

Giving up these ventures would require such a massive reduction to the quantity and quality of human life, that it would be unacceptable to the vast majority of people.

The Haber process ended humanity's hopes of creating a society based on self reliance.
> We really need to get a handle on something akin to copyright to cover our own faces and identity in general.

While the details may need tweaked, many jurisdictions already have “something akin to copyright to cover our own faces and identity in general”, under the name “personality rights” or “right of publicity”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
Yeah could be, My guess is they've been late to the party on everything for the 25 years and someone conned them into showing up on time for this one and it turns out the parties a dud.
This couldn't have come at a more convenient time for me. After years of telling myself I'd learn D3 I have finally started to as well as use it at work. I was using an extension in Jupyter but it was behaving unpredictably, and not being a frontend engineer by trade I found the process of sublime + browser foreign and cumbersome. As a big fan of jupyter and zeppelin I am stoked to see notebooks entering the js data viz domain.

Curious as to know how developers view the notebook paradigm? I feel like there is a sense of pride in working from the command line or vi, so wonder how these UI heavy approaches are received by the js/python/scala community.
I don't know if an ARM chip really would be underpowered - remember the consoles are using the ultra-low-power jaguar cores. Probably not a million miles away from an A57, or whatever denver-based core NVidia could pull out of the bag.
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We've actually had this as part of the US legal system since at least the rise of Hollywood...

The reason social networks and other apps can get away with it is because you agree to let them use images of you posted to the network for commercial purposes as part of the Terms of Service you agree to when you use the service. In the absence of that provision in a ToS, you would have a very valid claim for appropriation of image if a social network used a picture of you.

These TOSs do not extend to other pictures of you. Thus, for example, Facebook couldn't run a commercial with a picture of you that was posted to Twitter but not Facebook.
Now if my service is screwed up enough that I can't host my own status page or easily find another service to host my status page - like all of Amazon's infrastructure or the entire east coast fiber network or something like that is down - I can see where IPNS would be useful for hosting. But since standard DNS is already distributed, why can't I continue using that to do name resolution? Why does IPFS need its own reimplementation of DNS?

(I ask this as someone very unfamiliar with IPFS, so please forgive if this is a stupid question.)
But they still are quite power hungry at least according to the TDP specs. So it gives an impression that Vega isn't really where it's supposed to be efficiency wise.

And I prefer to avoid reference design which is usually too noisy.
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It's so obvious that social platforms with business models based on number of ads/impressions like Twitter/FB are not incentivized enough to remove fake accounts, yet there seems to be very little public discussion or outrage about it. I agree with Mark Cuban here [1], they should do more to make sure each account has a real user behind it, even if it means less revenue. It's just the right thing to do.

[1] https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/957686987229618176
I believe that at least an introductory philosophy course should be required for all college students. (maybe high school, I don't know). Philosophy has a bad reputation because 1) it's seen as the most pretentious of fields and 2) getting a degree in it is not a quick path to making any money. But in my experience, most people who haven't taken a course don't really know what philosophy is about.

I took a few courses and I consider them among the most valuable parts of my college experience. You look at some of the oldest questions(and various answers) around, and use those to learn how to really form and analyze arguments objectively. I may be preaching to the choir here, but if you haven't studied any philosophy, try it out!
Doesn't this is a sense show the system is partially working? Austin, who barely cares to get the HQ and has other attractive properties for tech companies, is offering no incentives, while underdog cities who really want the HQ but have less compelling properties are showing their willingness to try harder. Classic story.

I get the race-to-the-bottom argument, but then what mechanisms can an underdog city use to ever compete?
It may be worth lodging a complaint with whatever authority your country may have against that doctor that dismissed the bullseye rash.
A few differences. 1. You don’t have to install anything, so running (or forking) someone else’s notebook is as simple as clicking a link. 2. It’s reactive, which means simpler code and better feedback, particularly when building user interfaces or analyzing realtime data. 3. It runs in the browser so you have direct access to powerful graphics (and GPU computation): Canvas, SVG, WebGL. 4. You can quickly import code for reuse from other notebooks, making a notebook a kind of lightweight library as well as a human-readable document.
I want to use Thunderbird, and for whatever reason even thunderbird performance is better on my computer.

The problem I have is that its junk filtering is absolutely messed up. It ends up marking several important emails as junk.

Also it’s not very clever in auto completing email addresses.
Recruiters offer a lot of value outside tech hiring. For instance my wife is a doctor, and both employers & employees in medicine aren't as active on LinkedIn as techies are. Recruiters do the hard job of matching the two
Oh man, the echo chamber here is hilarious. Sorry bub, i gave you one internet point to cheer you up buddy.

Ive found the trump haters really never entertain dialogue and are nothing more than an eztension of some psyops operation
Typically, as it currently, celebrities are treated differently, so your Elvis and MJ impersonators should be okay.

In any case, this is more narrow in that its focus is on pornographic representations of regular people (a la revenge porn).
I read the opening paragraph and thought 'wow, this guy has clearly just taken the release statement from Duckduckgo's privacy app announcement (or possibly their much-upvoted AMA) and just copied and pasted some statistics.'

Then I saw the author.
Could you elaborate on why Filecoin is a different issue? Is it because I have to specifically download (or allow others to upload to me) the files so I can host them?
This kind of stuff has been going on for decades. It's perfectly legit for an elected government to offer incentives to a company thinking of building a plant. But governments get their pockets picked ALL THE TIME. It goes like this:

Company: we want to build a new office / factory. Give us an incentive.

Elected official: yes yes yes. How about lower taxes?

Company: is that your final offer?

Elected official: we'll subsidize construction.

Company: Deal.

Months go by. Gripping and grinning. Official wins re-election for bringing in "jobs." Company builds plant, hires some people...

Company: we're moving to Central America.

Elected official: but, but, but, you said....

Company: business is business, suckahs. We're outta here.

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A possible answer to the problem. Use a formula that gives companies financial incentives to employ people, and terminates government liability when companies stop employing people. It can be as generous as required. But it depends on actual employment.

Company: New plant?

Elected official: yes yes yes. We will refund you 80% of the FICA withholding tax you pay for hourly employees at your new location. We'll send you the money within 30 days of you sending us proof you paid that tax, after each payroll.

Company: Is that your final offer?

Elected offical: How about 95%?
There is no way to know their margins for GPU because in their financial reports, AMD combines "CPU and Graphics" into one bucket.
In fairness, The Walrus is primarily aimed at a Canadian audience.
Yes!

Disable 3rd party cookies, delete your Google & Facebook accounts, and done.

Easy peasy.
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Is that a common sense interpretation?
Interesting to read all the responses in this thread observing incidental correlations between intellectual or practical accomplishments and philosophy. Famous scientists are sometimes interested in philosophy, philosophy majors score high on the GRE, etc.

It does not follow at all that studying philosophy helped cause those accomplishments.

The situation is similar to brain training games like Lumosity. They do not make you smarter in general, just better at that particular game. People who are already smart will do better.

Personally, my argument for philosophy is that I enjoy it.
First off: is there any ethical or moral set of questions which apply to an image sequence but not to a single image?
Thanks, but my reply was for notacoward. Unfortunately I can't edit or delete it any more.
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> you should be the first to point out this doesn't imply causation

Nah, I'd rather just go nuclear on causation, with the assistance of Hume...

"...experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable... It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connexion between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind is not led to form such a conclusion concerning their constant and regular conjunction, by anything which it knows of their nature."
It refers to almost the same software. The difference is more on emphasis and what you care about than the set of software it refers to. It's about the underlying philosophy.

I say this because it's important to remember that open source is also intended to refer to a strict definition that also addresses user freedoms. The open source definition for example forbids discriminating against fields of endeavour and says the software should be usable for any purpose. "Open source" doesn't just mean visible source.

OpenBSD calls itself free software despite being opposed to copyleft, for example. Open source and free software are more allies than enemies, and I think it's important to remember that both want user freedom. They just express it in different ways and to a different degree.
People who study carpentry tend to be better carpenters than people who study accounting. One of the aims of philosophy as a discipline is to instil the discipline of critical thinking, that's the purported business of philosophy after all. Would you ask someone who had studied carpentry for empirical evidence that studying carpentry produces people more skilled in the carpentry than if they had not studied it?
> Impersonating others isn't a new issue, we already have a quite settled body of law about that

Right of publicity / personality rights are actually a fairly actively evolving area of law (and one with considerable variation between jurisdictions, even with the US), not an area of settled consensus.
But of course we all know America has terrible tax-payer funded services compared to the other OECD countries.

That's a feature, not a bug. Quite many of us, including many of the Founders, believed/believe that the proper scope for government is very narrow, basically just "protect individual rights". Quite a few of us think, to this day, that the government is involved in too many taxpayer funded services as it is.

You are, of course, free to disagree with that position. But understand that things (w/r/t taxpayer funded services) operate the way they do here for a reason and not just due to happenstance.
Is the education spending comparing the actual dollar amount or is it adjusted for PPP? Or is it by percent of federal/state/municipal spending?
I thought you had to give consent to have your likeness used? Isn't that why people's faces are blurred out in videos sometimes? And athletes certainly have recourse if their likeness is used without consent, so I'd imagine that applies to the rest of us.
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We don't have figures on skin tone for North Africa over two thousand years ago. As far as I know. If we do, then by all means post them here.
From the article:

> Within this nascent computer world, Luhn cut an unusual figure. An elegant dresser throughout his life, Luhn knew more about the textiles industry than computer science when he arrived at IBM in 1941.

So it might be more the exception than the rule there as well.
I agree, I feel hacker news should be tech oriented. It's becoming Reddit.
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Beard's point is that we really have no idea what "typical" ethnic backgrounds were for Roman families in Britain. There's just no reliable data, and it most likely would have varied enormously between different parts of the country.
Has it changed over time? It looks like what you say is true in 5E, though only for death savings throws. But I played 3.5E. My memory isn't good enough to know whether that makes a difference.
Soon, enough people on Facebook will have climbed Everest, yachted with billionaires, and partied with the most fashionable pop stars, that nothing on the internet will be believeable. Elaborate and unique photo/video narratives will be purchased for having one's face and body/body type convincingly inserted. Most of the internet media will then quickly collapse, but some of the fake photos/videos will be pretty funny, and help us laugh away our bitterness for awhile.
Is Robinhood crypto really going to be zero commission?
> Does it really matter to "St. Louisans" which side of this silly, arbitrary border they build their HQ?

For those that pay taxes and use things paid for by taxes, it matters. The services on the other side of that silly, arbitrary border is paid for with different funds and gets to make its own decisions about how money is spent or saved.

> This system is ridiculous.

Yes, but an alternative would be...what? Federally-mandated local-tax rates and policies or something? I like that my city (not on the HQ2 list) can control what it spends its money on and can decide if giving tax breaks to X would lead to suitable growth in Y and make the trade-offs with its tax-base in mind.
> PS: how does one delete old HN comments? Seems like a major privacy issue to me.

There's no option in the interface, the best option right now is asking nicely per email.

Of course, you can just wait until May and then use the rights the GDPR grants you to force them to delete your comments.
The cities that don't get chosen, yes. But the thinking is that Amazon has already secretly picked a city years ago (Let's say Washington, DC) who was not originally planning to offer any tax breaks.Then they make a this big show that's basically The Bachelor, causing every city to fall over themselves to offer tax breaks. Once 200+ cities offer tax breaks, then Washington, DC feels compelled to "bid" like everyone else, unknowingly sweetening a deal that has already been "made."
> Ok, so if it's in 2 years that makes it fine?

Not what I was arguing. The purpose of my post was helping out recollecting the mistakes Mozilla made. I don't remember the Hello issue. You're also forgetting the Cliqz debacle. Sure, it was German-specific, but still.

I don't think it is fine, and it is good Mozilla is being criticised. However, the alternatives are arguably much worse.
I don't think it matters really. If Facebook's current practices cause, enable, or magnify harm to society, then there are levers that should be pulled to minimize that harm.

Facebook is, in part, a tool for distributing misleading information on a massive scale. We control tools that cause harm even if those tools are inert or even beneficial if they're not used by malicious people. Facebook has no institutional or economic reason to reduce the harm it causes, and it's the role of government to reduce harm when the market has failed to do so.