skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two counterpoints:

* The subset of things that are legal in all jurisdictions is probably rather small. Let's say hypothetically that a country bans the distribution of all works in English - should PG comply with that as well?

* Why should I have to care about laws beyond my jurisdiction when setting up a service? That seems like a tremendous burden.

> they'd probably be characterised as a pirate site and shut down by the FBI.

That's a likely outcome, but if Project Open is operating lawfully in its own country, on what grounds should the FBI be able to claim jurisdiction? Unilaterally applying laws over foreign persons in foreign territories feels like an overstep.
Ask HN: Which of your original ideas was already implemented by someone else?
More than once I thought i head an awesome original idea for a product, and in the end it existence already. I prototyped something like airconsole, and a password manager that generates password by hashing the site domain predictably.. what were your ideas that happened to already exist?
Depends what you compare it to. Everywhere is relatively weak against the West Coast scene.

That said there is still a lot of talent in the EU and it's only going to get better since the Brexit negotiations is going off the rails and companies are starting to relocate.
Building a simple neural net in Java
Could someone compare this to Dask? Would you use the two in different situations?
UK courts have always held that US based publications/websites commit libel in the UK if they have a readership in the UK, irrespective or the location of the publisher.

The US doesn't enforce those judgements any more, but the UK still holds the principle.
> DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages.

Intended by whom? A lone voice (however correct), a standards body, or an industry consortium?
This article should really carry some authorship information.
> PGLAF thinks that the German court is wrong.

They made that point in their article and they also made clear that this is not just their opinion but also that of their legal teams in the US and Germany.

> However, they would prefer to not have German court decision - even if they believe it is wrong - against them to be in power, since international treaties mean it can have consequences beyond Germany.

And that is my point. The best way to not have a German court decision would have been not to ask for one. They could have easily avoided the whole situation if they just ignored the lawsuit brought against them in Germany.

> Thus, they are fighting it in German court.

They are fighting in a German court, even if they could have avoided it, because they would prefer not to have a German court decision? That doesn't make any sense.

> In order to raise chances of winning, they choose not to openly flaunt German court decision

The way to avoid embarrassment on all sides would have been to ignore the lawsuit and point the publisher to the proper ways to handles this, namely either US court or WIPO. Being ignored by a US organization wouldn't have been a big deal neither for the German court nor the publishers, this happens all the time. I appreciate PGLAF highly, but what they did here just caused unnecessary drama.

> - which they can always do later if it turns out resolving it within German justice system is a no go.

Which would be the ultimate embarrassment for the German justice system, don't you think?

> It is a common thing to do - you can disagree with some decision being legal and still temporary abide by it in order to work within the judicial system and not put yourself outside it.

I agree with that, I just think that in this case there was no need for it. PGLAF could have avoided the situation without consequences.
Ten years too late?
There are other ways to influence this. The biggest problem society can face in this regard is unsupported children. No snobbery here but this is a problem we can throw money at. Better schools, better class sizes, free school meals to combat malnutrition, adult education to fight multi-generational unemployment.

Middle class families are already doing their bit here. Additional income taxes on DINKs (via higher base rates and breaks for supported children) could really help the next generation of lower class children, and therefore society as a whole.
http://blog.aventine.se/2014/03/09/a-silly-review-of-dec64.h...
I don't get why people still think this. Look at the other comments in this thread.

Germany isn't the best place to bootstrap a startup, but it has amazing universities and very established - and sophisticated - multinationals that train end employ a large number of incredibly talented people.
As to whether that corner is on this block is another matter. It might be within the postal code.

Taking on a great project that hasn't been attempted before presents great challenges along the way that couldn't be anticipated.

These forecasters mean well but have no idea.
> better-than-average-human performance

There is false, except under some contrived tests. NNs still aren't very good at handling rotations, can be confused by changing single pixels and often recognise shapes out of complete static.
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I'm sure Disney wouldn't be happy, but that doesn't mean they should have legal recourse (beyond in the US - e.g. targeting downloaders) either. If German law was changed to place Snow White back under copyright, I suspect Disney would not accept that as having effect in the US.
Sloppy article. The Gemini is shipping now and a, eh, handful, have landed in early backers hands. The question of future support have come up repeatedly and Planet Computers understands this and have promised to "open source what they can". While this leaves a lot of question, the specifically mentioned boot loaders. Thus, bleeding-edge Linux support might depend on community support, but it's not impossible.
Just like energy and entropy, it becomes harder to harvest efficiently. There's still just as much water, it's just not easily accessible. The difference between the water in your glass and the water in the cubic foot of earth after you spill your glass on it. You can't drink from the latter.

The water cycle does the collection for us (lakes, rivers, aquifers) but we're draining them faster than they can recharge, particularly problematic are the melting glaciers (in the Himalayas) and the aquifers:

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

http://lcluc.umd.edu/hotspot/glacial-retreat-himalayas

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/11-percent-of-disa...

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4626
The author points out that it's different this time because you're not getting a more balanced perspective which you would've received from traditional media outlets and from interacting with other members of the public through face to face communication and potential confrontation.

This is because social media companies have a vested interest in showing you things you only want to see to get you hooked on the site so they can make more money. Then you share more outrageous things because you get a hit of dopamine when another like minded person shares or agrees with your outrageous perspectives.
How did you make your fortune, if you don't mind me asking?
Give it a try.

Many AI classes talk about the fact that metadata are less often relevant than we think and are often embedded in the image in a way the classifier easily learns.

In an event, the classifier will probably spot a few architectural elements that will make useless to rely on the time of the picture.

On my first attempt at image classification with deep learning I was surprised at how a very badly design and not custom-tailored network managed to outperform a classifier that had several days of work into it.

I'd say give it a try anyway, you could be surprised.
> It’s the world’s smallest and lightest handheld computer.

Only for very specific definitions. Some phones are smaller than that, and there are GNU+Linux wrist watches.
> Let's say hypothetically that a country bans the distribution of all works in English - should PG comply with that as well?

If there's an international treaty (or indeed several) backing it up? Probably. Unlikely that there would be though.
Amazingly, youtube-dl works very reliably in Termux[1]. I can't see that surviving a transition to headless Chrome.

[1] https://termux.com/
I live in Germany, but I'm not German. I need a car to drive to my home country. It's cheap, fast and comfortable in some ways. Other than that my car is rarely used. To work I go by public transport that I can supplement with kick scooter. Or by bike via shared bikes.

If I would be sure that I will not move back to home country I would probably look to sell the car.
I got used to the keyboard eventually, but it was devilish few weeks until I did. As a vim user, the placement was bonkers .. but a bit of retraining of muscle memory was, admittedly, in order anyway.

Pyra is going to be great - only wish it had the Pocket form-factor/design ethos. The chunky plastic is a bit gauche for my tastes, and if we think the Pocket keyboard is terrible, well .. Pyra ain't no better! (Have played with a prototype for a few hours .. that muscle memory thing ..)
I've never really like the word "anti-pattern". Anti-patterns are still patterns of sorts instead of pure entropy.

How about just "common mistakes" or "discouraged/deprecated/error-prone/incorrect patterns" or something?
> I suspect the time is ripe for something like the SPEECH act, a law clarifies that when a US citizen makes something available on the US, that does does not subject them to the law of a non-US country - and that allows the US citizen to claim court costs if someone tries to register a judgement against them.

The US would have to pull out of all international copyright treaties and the WTO for this to happen, so it's not going to happen.
> In my opinion the only field where they will not be able to catch up are autonomous vehicle, it is too abstract and revolutionary for them. It does not fit the german way of innovation based on small incremental innovative steps.

Remember that VW and Sony had a working prototype of an autonomous Passat around 2008, back then the computers required to make the calculations filled half the car.

I’m sure going from that step – having a prototype that works on highways and in simple situations – to the goal is just an iterative process, something they are good at.

And we’ve seen with other carmakers, which started by adding lane assistants, parking assistants, crash prevention systems that automatically brake, later ones that automatically drive around obstacles that you can gain autonomous capability by taking each part of driving, solving it seperately, and iterating on the combination.
It not very often you see a complimentary post. Good on you.
more opinionated like MacOS (but without all the restrictions).

Isn't this a contradiction? Pick for you, but still let you pick?
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i've been an occasional defender of php, but darn...those backslashes.

and, symfony is the worst garbage in the history of the planet. worst mistake ever.
Yeah and he even requested that since he can't join Vero to join him on Instagram instead.
The flaws raised three years ago when it was posted to HN are still relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7365812
It uses Ethereum for the logic, and IPFS for the storage back-end. That might sound a bit hand-wavy, but I'd honestly just recommend downloading it (after you get into the beta) and seeing for yourself - its very easy to use, you don't have to setup or deal with either Ethereum or IPFS, and the GUI is intuitive enough that you shouldn't have any problem just launching it and using it. The initial startup time is a bit of a usability issue - it takes some minutes to get itself established on the network - but once up and running its kind of refreshing to be able to do all the things, without any of the typical social-media grot to deal with.
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There are some limitations on it nowadays, but they do and used to a LOT more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel_tourism
Mastodon has switched to ActivityPub already
I was going to suggest ello (https://ello.co), but it looks like they've pivoted from a general social network to something for artists (which probably makes sense for them).

For those who feel like they might fit with Ello, maybe check it out
Agreed, but let's also be honest, the industry is weak when it comes to quality control, which isn't helped by the general attitude of replacing cars once they go over 100-150k km (~93k miles).

This definitely isn't my field, but I'm at a loss to see where BMW, VW, &c. plan to purchase inputs once they start to scale ev manufacturing. The closest thing to a EU gigafactory isn't set to come online until 2023 (the Nortvolt in Sweden), and Europe isn't known (as far as I'm aware) for rare earth mining.
So what could they do that would actually have an effect ?
Well, "always" since about 1996 depending on the country, but yes, it is.

I am curious about what Project Gutenberg would do if this judgement was replicated in every country in the EU, which feels plausible.
> Gemini is shipping now and a, eh, handful, have landed in early backers hands

the same can be said for the GPD2, but that does not make it "officially released" until you can purchase it anywhere, anytime.
We are at the peak of the autonomous driving hype cycle, and the trough of disillusionment is going to wipe out a few players, and see the massive consolidation of others. These start-ups are very capital intensive and once the funding environment shifts, it's going to be a big problem for a lot of them.

The initial launches of autonomous taxi services will be underwhelming - relative slow, sometimes frightening (there will be accidents for sure), and with limited deployment areas in limited weather. The novelty will wear off quickly, and then the real work is going to start.

There are basically going to be two ways to survive it - be part of a larger organization that can shoulder a long-term R&D burden to go from 'toy' to 'real infrastructure'. I can see Cruise and Waymo making it that way, unless GM gets cold feet.

The other survivors will be either super lean like Voyage, who went straight to revenue generating niches like retirement communities and rely on being downstream of the technical innovation being done elsewhere (no in-house vehicle or sensor development to cut down R&D costs and move quickly).

Or else they'll be in niches like logistics (e.g. Peloton, Nuro) where the parameters of the game are different, and the structure is more B2B than B2C.

One other play is the autonomy-tech licensing structure like Aurora is trying, but that's a hard sell, especially since they're dealing with German automakers who (from first hand experience in this domain in particular) are clueless about autonomy.

This is an incredibly exciting, risky time to be a part of this new, emerging industry. It feels in many ways like the very very early P.C era, where everything is very much still in play. I'm glad I made the career shift to get there.
Yes, but it is only a small contribution. Most of Earth’s liquid water already is in oceans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_distribution_on_Earth#Di...:

- Oceans 96,5%
- Antarctic ice sheet 1,56%
- Lakes 0,013%

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

“Approximately 61 percent of all fresh water on the Earth is held in the Antarctic ice sheet, an amount equivalent to about 58 m of sea-level rise.”

⇒ completely emptying all lakes in the world into the sea would rise sea levels by half a meter or so.
https://dbatools.io/
Could someone please point out the benefits and implications of this? Does this bring us closer to some very important solution or does it have some real world applications?

Edit: I suppose this is a related article talking about the same problem from December 2017. What changed since then?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/secret-link-uncovered-between...
And in 5 years they will be "just around the corner" again.

There's so many hurdles before it becomes something that is commonplace or accepted, that really it's decades around the corner.

The technical hurdles to get to level 4 and 5 are just the start. Once you get past that, there's going to be a whole slew of legal and public opinion challenges.

The first time an autonomous vehicle is involved in an accident that kills a few kids, you'll have a Challenger level probe to figure out what happened and probably a whole revamp of safety measures.

Don't count your chickens yet.
Regarding shopping, you get one of these:

https://www.amazon.de/Andersen-Royal-Shopper-Wismar-schwarz/...

It's also very common to have a reusable shopping bag in your everyday carry, and/or to carry your groceries in your backpack.
All I see is a blank page on that link.
We generally speak favorably of occupied communities violently expelling their colonizers, and express regret that populations which were forcibly relocated in history did not have the means to resist.

Of course, an economic and population boom only reads this way due to the catastrophic failure of urban planning.
You can put a Linux in a chroot on most (? all?) Android devices , even non rooted https://www.xda-developers.com/guide-installing-and-running-... and the Moto Z family has a landscape keyboard upcoming https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/physical-keyboard-mod-for... so that should be a contender too, I feel.
In which a compiler gets its wings
> which isn't helped by the general attitude of replacing cars once they go over 100-150k km

This is something that only rich (compared to the rest) people do in Europe. Most people never owned a brand new car and drive their cars up to 500k km and more (if the car allows it, nowadays it's not possible).
Many people want to live in Germany, there's nothing wrong with Germany itself. If German companies were competitive in pay and culture, they could easily attract the best from around the world. It's my observation that many German companies are not interested in top talent, and see software developers as a cost center for which they need to get "value for money".
Germany has a comparatively weak consumer software industry.
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/vero-die-naechste-social-network-...
(1) This is not adorable. (2) I feel this is similar to "first they came for the socialists"[1] idea: your country could be next to be blocked access from Github, Youtube or Wikipedia. It's a ridiculous idea that everyone should do this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
And only if your GPU/driver isn't blacklisted.
Climate != weather.

I'm sure you can find plenty of examples in recorded history when those areas had roughly the same weather.
This is not true at all, bordering to utter nonsense. Databases try hard to keep the correct set of blocks in memory because that is essential for their performance. Heck, many of the fastest database systems advertise themselves as in-memory databases avoiding disks altogether.
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Reminds me of a hipster riding a Penny-farthing.
I'm german and don't have a car and don't plan to get one.
There is a problem here in that different regex libraries have different semantics for these.

I checked the manual for PCRE (man pcrepattern), and it says that ? has both the meaning of {0,1} (zero or one repetition), as well as turning * and + into non-greedy variants if directly following them.

Similarly, + usually has the meaning of {1,} (at least once) but can also quantify * and + to prevent backtracking.

For an engine whose semantics differ from PCRE, non-greedy matching or backtracking might not even make sense, if the matching is implemented differently (e.g. using finite automata that don't backtrack).
Is Logic Empirical?
I can completely believe that the automotive industry in Germany cannot cope with more software and more computer centric vehicles. And it has nothing to do with Python either and more to do with the fact that they cannot seem to architect software at all.

Perhaps they hire too many mechanical engineering graduates who simply do not know how to program. I find the main culprit being AUTOSAR, the flaming pile of shite should have never existed and should be taken out and shot.

I need to compose my thoughts more, as it is making me mad and is the main reason I am leaving the automotive industry - shockingly bad software, practices and utter incompetence when it comes to anything residing on the microcontroller. The electrical and mechanical designs are great, the software will eventually cause someone to die.
I use Firefox on Linux.
This is true for premium brands only. The "normal" ones are still actively selling combinations of everything you've said including manual transmission. Petrol engine is not preferred by EU people, they prefer diesel; it's true that nowadays there isn't much of a choice if you want petrol, though.
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Right, the latter part of your comment describes exactly why Germany has been exporting its skilled Software Engineers for the past few decades.

The question is, when will the circumstances change and how long will it take to reverse the damage that has been done?
Advertisers only really care about showing ads to people with enough money to buy their products. An ad-free subscription lets these people remove themselves from the consumer pool, drastically reducing the value of their advertising product. Why take the chance of disrupting a system that's working for them?
That's my idea of a living hell. Who would want to deal with the thoughts around all that potential violence and aggression. This is exactly what I mean. We all have 2 things that are most valuable. Time and our health. Having all that security apparatus is not good for your mental health.
> a more balanced perspective which you would've received from traditional media outlets

Are you serious? Traditional media outlets have always been run by the landed gentry (or their capitalist equivalents), and so have almost always reflected the ideas of the existing system.
gmail.com (would not be surprised if the pages are browser and country specific, at least google.com is) I use Firefox.
People who disobey their conscience are weak!
Too bad there isn’t one in C++ — everyone rolls their own. Would really make sense to have it as part of STL.
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Opinionated and restrictive goes hand in hand...
Wow, could people who are flagging and deading @anovikov's posts please stop. You may _disagree_ with what they have to say but they are not being impolite or abusive. I get that their position is extremely illeberal in these times but that is no grounds whatsoever to pile on and and flag and downvote. Doing so means it is hard to reply to them.

If you disagree, reply, and give your reasons.

Reserve downvoting and flagging for Reddit type meme humour, abusive comments, comments which spread fake news or conspiracies, pointless humour, off-topic comments, those sorts of things. Just because you disagree with someone is no grounds to downvote them. Think about what that means, please. Let's keep the level of discourse on HN elevated. Thank you.

@dang or another moderator: would it be possible to unflag anovikov's posts here to allow discourse to happen or is that sort of thing not done?
Having checked, 2 out of 4 are currently revoked.

Equifax and Thawte Premium Server CA.
I've spent time in both Marthas Vineyard and New York and can say that everyone in NYC would definitely benefit from having a more equitable society with less poverty.