skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might be good to consider outrage an externality that we should price in somehow.

Not sure how we would do it.
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> Germany believes it can sue over anything in the german language

You did not read the ruling (carefully). The language of the books was not discussed at all. It was discussed whether the offer (to download books) is directed to people in Germany.

Project Gutenberg said "NO", because they use a .org domain. (Obviously trying to claim that Germans only visit .de domains and neglecting the fact that .org is really trying to stress international coverage)

The court ruled "YES" because

- Project Gutenberg explicitly mentions to be available worldwide (before the geo blocking resulting from this very case)

- Project Gutenberg has some of its Web site translated into German. (In court they argued they did that to address US users, because German is the 3rd biggest foreign language in the US. The court did not accept that argument.)

Furthermore it was counted against them that project Gutenberg advises on its web site that users must check local copyright laws before downloading, because downloading might be illegal according to local laws.

Taking these points into account I must say the court ruling was logical from a legal viewpoint. Project Gutenberg had only lame excuses and in fact denied their own mission in court.

The real issue is that incompatible country laws don't fit at all with Internet (unless you propose a Chinese big (fire)wall). But I don't see any improvements any time soon, a certain president just declared last week that trade wars are the way to go.
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It's easy to view the past as some romantic fairy tale.

In reality the world has probably never been more democratic than it is today. The current political trends might flip in a few years. Things might be moving backwards, but the US might still have stronger oversight of it's intelligence agencies than it did in the 70'ties?

As long as people aren't silently outraged we'll be okay :)
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How would you define "fail" in such bet?
S. Fischer isn't just a independent subsidiary. The company is run by Monika Schoeller (born Monika von Holtzbrinck). She and her brother own large parts of Holtzbrinck and she's listed as a partner and member of the supervisory board on Holtzbrinck's website. (Her brother, Stefan von Holtzbrinck, is the CEO.)

> Why would they want to subsidize a losing bet using the profits from other divisions?

Because owning S. Fischer, Rowohlt and Droemer Knaur means owning a large chunk of the german book market.
Maybe this is a case of mixing cause and effect. It might not be you fearing the ghost but rather your fear creating it in the first place.
We use wrk since we are often load testing fairly simple services, occasionally with some Lua for cache busting. It's a great tool. Would love if it supported http2 since I work on CDN type stuff where that matters.

I love your 2nd approach (advertising). Any pointers to how to get started?
Had to get a TB test prior to starting a new job. Everything was covered for me but there's the cost of health care itself in the US plus the little cuts that add up to. If can't get validation, parking is expensive. A little sign above the check-in desk said that there would be a $25 charge to fill out worker's comp forms.

At least they had movies on and weren't blasting Fox News.
> "the sky is only accessible to a fraction of the one percent"

Really?

How many people want or need exclusive ownership? Unless I want to hour build for an ATPL, or have time off for holiday, only a few hours flying a month is likely. That's to enjoy flying as a hobby.

A citizen seeking easy travel, rather than love of flying, would likely log even fewer hours. They may well prefer an air taxi or charter to ownership of a little used aircraft.

A part share, or rental for $100/hr (chock to chock) is about as easy to reach as a cheaper car. That is plenty for a few hundred hours a year, so why bother with outright ownership? Most GA pilots are miles away from the 1%, with pretty regular jobs and wages. There's plenty of flying schools that will get you a PPL for around $5k or so, all in with books, tests and 40hrs. That's all pretty affordable - should you want it.

So what regulations should go to unleash this pent up demand for more aircraft?

Honestly, I don't see it. At all.
Appreciate the link & response, happy to wait a few months.

I've been looking to find a way to get short term localised rainfall forecasts in Australia (for sporting events) and excited to see how this goes!
>Very few people seem to remember Google started this little war with blocking access to Google Apps on Amazon devices

It wasn't quite that. Amazon got pissy about Google following Apple's lead in taking a cut of digital in-app purchases. It's an insane policy, but it is an Apple policy that the industry adopted.
From nature-perspective it's just another selective pressure.
How does it handle tables that aren't joined anywhere?
What you want is a question and answer WWW site.

* https://superuser.com/a/380231/38062

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/251215/5132

... and so on.
I've always wondered: is there a paper/thesis somewhere suggesting a better alternative to democracy? I don't mean the usual (monarchy, dictatorship, etc), but rather something entirely new.

I imagine there must be at least one political sciences/philosophy student somewhere who gave this a thought, but I never found anything.
The German public and car industry is fighting tooth and nail against any change in drivetrain technology. The push to outlaw old diesel engines in city centers is met with cries about "deindustrialization".

We also mostly drive stick here.

I think the jury is still out if cleaner car technology will actually win or if we will keep living in poisoned cities.

Maybe German car makers will come out ahead by focusing on strong, loud and polluting cars.

I sure hope they won't.
Youngsters keeping traditional trades alive
Yes. Waiting on new job to start then might get new tires (tread is good but they're 8-9 years old). Might get some basic household stuff I've neglected (new pillow). Haven't been to a dentist in a while so...yeah, scared to do that but nothing is wrong as far as I can tell knock wood.
Oh wow! An electric Karmann Ghia would be about the best thing I could imagine driving.
Blame big business. California has a huge agriculture industry, which depends on huge numbers of illegal immigrants each season. The industry wants to keep these workers.

"Undocumented immigrants make up an estimated 10 percent of California's workforce, and the work they do is often at the bottom rung of the wage scale." - https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-06/californias-undocumen...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-an-immigrat...
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If anyone here is in Germany, I'd like to ask you: what will it take for you to stop driving?

Previously on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375534
Load testing can be hard. Wrk works for me for the most part but it's not ideal for complex flows (say e-commerce trying to simulate a real browse and checkout complete with typeahead search).

However the smarter apps can have problems too. I've pinned all available cores on fairly beefy machines because they are gunzipping bodies (behaving more like a real browser).

If you are at a scale where you need really good testing I recommend that you think of wrk results as comparable to a unit test and something like jmeter as comparable to an integration test. It's not worth the effort for most companies but where I work we serve a decent amount of traffic and downtime costs 6 figures per minute so good performance engineering and good business overlap.
I hope you don't mind that I take this opportunity to tell about he GFF, because it is very much related.
If you are European and care about freedom rights, there is now an equivalent to the EFF/ACLU, called the "Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte" (short GFF), which translates to "Society For Freedom Rights".

They are mostly lawyers fighting strategic court battles in one of the cheapest country to do so, which in Europe happens to be Germany. This is a cost-effective way to further the cause of human and freedom rights.

If you are upset about

* excessive surveillance

* anti-whistleblower laws

* laws against freedom of information

then consider joining, they need your support to do what they do: https://freiheitsrechte.org/join/

Disclaimer: I'm not involved with the GFF except as a paying member.
No, base64 is normally ~30% larger than binary to represent the same data.
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Duplicity is a norm within the structures of the power elite. We, the people, don't like to ever admit it - it interrupts our comfortable lives - but both sides are regularly played by those who have the advantage of technological, legislative and bureaucratic power. Australia's imperial adventures pale in comparison with those of its allies in the 5-eyes nations, but its still just playing by the same rulebook of its cousins.

"Play both sides, for power." Now, the UK is freely admitting it does this.
It’s really as simple as this. This is a 34 second clip of Edward Bernays, consultant to Joseph Stalin and father of the American Public Relations Industry illustrating how to transmute a reprehensible idea into an acceptable one. And doing it with a frightening amount of ease.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtg-qFPYDE
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Its even worse.

Put this recent news in the light of the coverup over ministerial child sexual abuse in the UK .. now they've got a very significant means of getting themselves out of that particular pickle, eh boys?
I had a similar non-disparagement clause. Not bad talk about company and especially CEO. I asked for a sunset clause, HR asked if I wanted my money or not. Sent it past a lawyer friend and he said take the money because it would never hold up.

I also to opt-out of Rapiscans and get pat-downs at the airport to stand up for my 'liberties'. After feeling violated after the recent 'enhanced' one where some dude rubbed every part of my bait and tackle for 2-3 min I decided to give up that fight to. No money though.

Modern America, eh?
Disclaimer: I'm not involved in AV, but I have a telecommunication background that let me do some (hopefully) not too stupid guesses on how a LIDAR can behave here. If some expert in the field can give more authoritative feedback that's be even better.

Looking at [1], a typical LIDAR uses 10 ns pulses, at 140 kHz for pulse rate. So one LIDAR uses only 0.14% of air time. A LIDAR is also a rotating device, looking at reflections only from a narrow angle at any give time (how large this angle? TBD). That also reduces the risk of looking at another reflection in the right direction at the right time. Raw collisions should be rare, even in a crowded environment (you're 1000s of cars is extreme, 100s will already be very crowded).

Then if it's using the usual techniques for signal detection, each pulse is encoded with a randomized pattern, so that a LIDAR can recognize its own pulses reflections using correlation. So a given LIDAR will only consider reflections using the right coded sequence. That will further reduce the risk of wrong interpretation, depending on how many bits in the synchronization sequence.

Lastly, at 140 kHz you can do quite a lot of filtering and still have a fast update. If by extraordinary bad luck another reflection comes from the right direction in the right time window with the same sync pattern, this would create an odd input that's unlikely to fit with one's own echo pattern, so could be filtered out. And it's not likely to last long considering all that has to align.

That's my armchair analysis based on a quick search and a single set of slides ;) But it's enough to see that interference is not likely to be a problem. And I would expect this question to have been considered by AV LIDAR experts in much more detail.

[1] http://web.pdx.edu/~jduh/courses/Archive/geog481w07/Students...
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I suggest a question and answer WWW site.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/413225/5132

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/251215/5132

* https://superuser.com/a/380231/38062

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/34386/5132

... and so on.
Chumpcar?
"Are these MI5 agents allowed to attend the child sex parties of the MP's, for an alleged greater good?"

- Doesn't sound so noble to me, honestly.
Then it's also probably not going to work out anyway.
For those that don't have to customize it, it 'just works' right? Also, their only major competitor was blogger at the time which, IIRC, was far less customizable and monetizable.
Imprescindible youtube series Proyect Binky. A toyota corolla (if I recall correctly) 4 wheel drive engine and drivetrain in to a mini!
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCHvBHWBzzB7NyU5tIiEZHBg
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>They're authoritarian.

Widely entrenched Child-sex rings among the MP's, covered up in the name of 'national security'. Too damn right they're authoritarian.
Don't get me wrong: i won't be happy with 0.001% ruling over me. This is the case in Russia, and i left it.

But i am fine with anywhere from 1% to 10% ruling over me. These will be better voters than the average Joes. It's not OK that propaganda trickery, playing on people's instincts and knowledge of psychological crowd behavior laws is what defines election outcomes. Elections should not be like clicking on Facebook ads. Or only ways to save Western societies would be adopting some like of Putinism when elections are kept but made irrelevant.

Just imagine that Zuck may just decide who will the next President be, by slight adjustments to Facebook feed algorithms? Who can blame him, it is a private business after all right? With people with no property and nothing to lose, who kill their time on nonsense jobs browsing facebook, voting (and they actively vote!), this may very well be possible.

50 years ago when the U.S. was a wide middle class society with most people having something like a career and some property, and feeling that they have a good future which can be optimised by choosing their leaders wisely, and technology of TV manipulation was in its infancy, it may have worked better. But today in the world of mass precariat, who have no good future and know it (and any politician promising them one is a liar), and with whole generation of best engineers and data scientists spent years perfecting mass manipulation through mining people brains, i just can't see it working anymore. It is a threat to itself.
The case I was responding to was one of car breakdown. Of course the other case would be an emergency while the car is moving (which is what you are talking of) and here i think the evidence is compelling. To hand over control to a distracted driver at the worst possible moment is not likely to work well. It actually does not work well even for trained pilots, as the Air France crash some years ago showed.
> The US has it because its government is coopted by big media like Disney, MPAA, and RIAA and the average American is too ignorant / doesn't care at all about the death and stifling of culture that 100+ year copyright terms bring about.

Germany has many powerful media/publishing companies as well, and most people don't care. It's really a very similar situation.
i dont endorse this, but there is also ”futarchy”

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html

it would probably not work because of Goodhart's law, and be generally rejected for being too weird. something for vulkans to try out, maybe.
This was interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record#Barri...

I forget, but I think there was some criticism that came out in a major paper about Epic Systems a couple years back. They all seem to be a mess (and salesperson's dream).
It's super expensive because the certification is spread across such low numbers. I wouldn't want to reduce certification or remove requirements for dual ignition and suchlike.

Sales are tiny because the current fleet is enough, fewer are learning to fly each year, yet it's not much different in real terms today to fly than it was in the 60s.

Fewer are walking into a flying club than used to, but many fewer are completing their 40hrs and PPL than used to. Why? That can't be down to sales or parts certification.

My guess? Instant gratification combined with no longer being the postwar generation that had a perception of flying as being the arrival of the future. Flying is now a bit "meh" and being stuck in cattle class. Personally I don't understand how a trial lesson isn't enough to hook them for life!

Just like back in the 60s it was "the friendly atom", whereas today nuclear power has rather lost its sheen.
The BBG isn't a CIA spin-off either, it was created after the broadcasting functions (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, etc) were split off from the US Information Agency, which was a public and non-secret agency overtly created to advance US interests. At no point were either the BBG or the USIA secret or their intentions unknown.

If the author of this piece has to rely on imaginary bogeymen like this, I don't have much faith in the rest of their work.
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That's correct, but looking at how much money Amazon has spent trying to replicate Google's closed APIs on their Android version, I don't think it's unreasonable for them to expect an open protocol at least this time.

Amazon spent billions trying to work around Google's anticompetitive bullshit (something the open source community had to do as well with microG), and I think at least at some point Google should be held responsible for their proprietary bullshit.

Had Google actually open sourced Chromecast, on all sides, you'd have seen much higher adoption.
Base64 doesn't compress at all, in fact it's only 75% as efficient as binary, meaning that encoding a file into Base64 increases its size by a third.

Base64 uses a 64 character alphabet (hence the name), so you can only represent 64 different values within each byte. 64 == 2^6, so basically you are using 6 bits out of every byte and losing the other 2 bits.

HTTP can use compression to reduce the size of the Base64 representation, but assuming the images were already using a compressed format, all this is going to do is mitigate the inefficiency, it's not going to be more efficient overall.
If anybody is interested, you will find ~300 millions PGN to train your NN models on chess games here : https://database.lichess.org/
> one night she saw a man wearing older clothing standing in her bedroom doorway, looking at her with a puzzled look on his face. She blinked and he was gone. Her sister from her bedroom saw the same man. Only once, and it never happened again.

"who the heck are these girls? Oh shit wrong house!"
Zoom isn't bad. I've seen companies using BlueJeans lately. HighFive (https://highfive.com/) was really great the one time I had a chance to set it up.
Nice idea. But AFAIK it cannot work with most "modern" web sites, because they are increasingly using some Javascript nonsense instead of a textarea. (Disclaimer: have not tried this, but some "everything is text" extension years ago)
I use hey[1].

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for this purpose but it's not feature complete.

[1] https://github.com/rakyll/hey
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This article does not go to the depth of the problem.
Plastic pollution is worse than we think. Africa's shores are strewn over with plastic garbage. Recycling is not effective and remains a questionable method since the recycled material can only be used together with virgin grade plastics in practical use about 10/90 % (10 percent recycled material)... africasiaeuro.com/ju3e
Funny, as someone living abroad (alone!) for almost a year now - albeit from one EU country to another -, I wouldn't say it drains my energy; I find it stimulating! You get to see and compare different ways of doing things, and you feel a tiny patriotic sting when something works better in your home country :)

I'm guessing speaking English well enough (even if it's not the country's native language) and the Internet help immensely. I could barely speak in person with my landlord, but emails were fine. And a public service generally has someone who can speak English, but not my native language.
“PMC” is what? Google didn’t help. Thx.
How could they not mention the most important and groundbreaking one, although it doesnt release in 2018.
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It is even more painful when you realize that all of the 18 books mentioned were published in or before 1920.

Most of these books are over a century old.

I would expect that between the extremes of copyright abolishment and the current system of 'life + 70 years', most people would agree that some amount of protection is fair, but I seriously doubt that a majority feels that anything over 30 years since publication is necessary, much less considered fair. I wonder if that was ever researched in recent years.

Not that it matters; global copyright laws are permantently frozen because amending them is a costly matter requiring global coordination, and there is little political will to tackle this (or even consider it a problem). Any attempt to lower the extend of copyright (in any jurisdiction) will be met by a wall of well-paid lawyers and lobbyists pay-rolled by all the major content owners.
>I honestly don't know how it would be for kids, but in my own case I feel better when I'm prepared to act instead of having to wait around for something to happen to me.

You mean similar to how any sort of hostage / terrorist event on planes tend to get stopped by passengers now after 9/11 because folks would rather go down fighting?

Also, thanks for sharing the anecdote.
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Outrage inflation is a thing but there's a limit to how far outrage could take society anyhow. Shaming and outrage are continuous with bullying. They only work on weak people. But it's still open to us to better society by improving ourselves as individuals.
If you're not careful that line of thought leads to something akin to the Chinese social credit system.
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Despite the down votes you've stated the situation quite clearly, nice job.
I'm amazed that this still exists.

I'm not really sure how viable this is, in 2018, but I remember back a long time ago reading LFS docs on TLDP being quite instrumental in figuring out how things actually worked.

While I never actually ran a full LFS system, there were fewer things that were packaged "back in the day" and sometimes you just had to roll your own a lot more than you do in 2018. Reading LFS docs was, personally, instrumental, in figuring out how to make stuff work.
> everyone to live by any law anywhere

The site is obly blocked in Germany.