skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is just the scientists I have come in contact with.
Perhaps.

In general you are preaching to the choir. I don't follow the politics of climate change, however. Occasionally I'll see something about a denier paper funded by somebody with skin in the game (like an oil company), so I'm sure there are shenanigans going on. But there are a lot of people out there who have some idea of a boogey-man scientific power structure that is desperate to maintain it's supremacy and therefore will corrupt scientific research to protect it. It's the same boogey-man that gives rise to theories about evolution and the origin of the universe.

Exactly what this power structure is they don't explain. These are not people who have ever been engaged in scientific research. They aren't stupid, just aren't in the field. Kind of like non-athletes who criticize an athlete who is probably in the top 100 people on the planet at doing what they do as "sucking."

So they're easily distracted by arguments like it's "all political" and "both sides have a point," which, while true, miss a very important distinction. One side very clearly has a financial stake in the game, and their investors demand (by force of law) that they protect that stake. The other side stands to gain...I'm not really sure. Does the scientist who "proves" anthropogenic climate change make 15 million dollars a year for it? Does the lab stand to gain? Maybe some research funding to pay for more trips, but they're not flying first class.

You don't make a name for yourself by saying what everybody else is saying.

But maybe there is something I'm missing. Maybe you can explain it to me.
This has lots of advantages. It removes the need for smaller and smaller chips, it spreads the heat out (a major limitation in electronics packaging today), and it adds a lot of new possibilities.

It's a giant pcb and ic combined, both custom to each other and the application.
What do you mean 'violates GDPR'?

GDPR doesn't necessarily make having such info illegal. It's more what you do with it and how you inform and allow the individual to control/delete it.
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Say the HN logs the ip, URL visited, and the referrer:

123.123.123.123 200 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DanBC referrer https://news.ycombinator.com/news
123.123.123.123 200 https://news.ycombinator.com/changepw referrer https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DanBC

This log now links this ip address to user account DanBC (since the change password link is only present on the page when the user themselves visits it). Your user page has information that identifies you as a natural person. Now what?

It seems like anyone could be entitled to collect the logs to prevent fraud (and abuse). What about providing people with "their" data if they request it? If they want to delete their account, does that include deleting these lines in the logs?
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No, of course not! The AI only has an "advisory" role: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/google-helping-the-p...
There needs to be term to describe these rail thin articles whose only real affect is to provide an HN conversation-inspiring headline.
But who is complaining?
I really wish we could know what is going through CEOs heads when they make statements like this while simultaneously contradicting themselves.
This is a great example of why the US doesn't want manufacturing "back" even if they/we could have it. Both because this example isn't that big of a deal (but yet, has created controversy), and because if this was a big deal Americans simply would not tolerate the pollution, in exchange for the manufacturing jobs.
Many large and profitable enterprises struggled as marginally profitable businesses for an extended period of time before finding a formula that worked.

The ability to run a failing business is also valuable in and of itself. Look at the businesses run by the McDonalds brothers before they opened McDonald's restaurant for example, which helped them gain the experience necessary to eventually create a successful business.

>>Thankfully, this is the 21st century and Western society has long ago decided that it'd rather have "the government" destroy individuals with a system of courts to appeal to rather than let anyone do whatever they wanted.

Ah yes the 21st century, where a growing proportion of young adults live at home, have given up on starting a family, and have a shrinking pool of industries in which they can afford to start a business or career, as a result of an increasing number of well-intentioned regulations.

Regulations like GDPR are hopelessly misguided attempts to centrally plan greed and abuse out of society. The complex bureaucratic rules attempt to anticipate every permutation of commercial interaction, and predetermine the correct parameters of action for each permutation.

It's absurdly reductionist and unworkable, and only results in more rent-seeking and less efficiency.
Have you got any articles that show that? I would be interested to read more.
You're assuming that I knew I wanted to do said analysis, or that I would never want to go back to an order's record for more information. (What was ordered, or perhaps the US county someone is in that I need to figure out from the shipping address.)

It's not that the analysis can't be done anonymously, but to do so requires foreknowledge of everything you would like to analyze.
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I disagree. Systems from other manufacturers (BMW, Mercedes, Audi/VW) are as capable but they prevent you from using them above certain speeds for safety reasons. Tesla can do little more than lane assist and adaptive cruise control, as recent events have shown.
Instead of using all these dangerous chemicals, can you use use an alternative like Ion Beam Etch (IBE) or some sort of plasma etching system (given that a person can build one and has the money for everything like turbopumps and grids)? Or is it mandatory to use something like HF to etch?
Is it not possible to country ban each website ? Why couldn't they do that for all of europe and move on ?
I think you can get around these problems:

Algola has something they call a DSN that runs your search backed all over the word. So you have good latency's. [https://www.algolia.com/infra]

Additionally you could bundle only what you use in there library to make the page lighter.
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At the time of this writing, this post (89 points) is already in the second page of its "own" list.
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>>If he were just throwing up Google AdWords /FB ads or whatever he would be participating in an ecosystem that is unethical for many.

But likely in complete compliance with GDPR... As Adwords and FB Ads would be in compliance.

That is the entire point of laws like GDPR, it has nothing to do with User privacy and everything to do with Ensure their can be no competition to Adwords or FB in the future.
Same, but podcasts. There have been days where it wouldn't work and I go thru 1-2hrs of them, but generally they work very well.
Not pii, but personal data, which is more broadly defined in the gdpr than pii is.

Second, I think you're missing the context here. If I need to encryption each log entry that pertains to a user, even if it doesn't contain pii, then adhoc analysis is nearly impossible to do.
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Its funny that your being downvoted, but using a random persons blog for legal compliance seems risky.
Please note I was NOT talking about selling personal data, ads or ad-targeting in any way.

Just regular analytics and statistics of usage and environment to simply improve the product.
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Let's do an exercise as presented in the article and accept CO2 level increases are irreversible:

The Jurassic had 5 times more CO2 than today. [1]

Modern climate change is slower than the K-T mass extinction event, when photosynthesis was halted. [2]

[1] https://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_extinctio...
Yeah!! "You keep using that acronym..."
And why on earth should someone in - The Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, rest-of-Asia care if China wastes their OWN water? China can do whatever they want with their own natural resources. As long as they aren't actively harming other nations, it's their prerogative.

So yes.. of COURSE people in the US are going to care when a Chinese company comes to the US and starts wasting our natural, shared resources while at the same time not caring at all when China wastes their own shared natural resources. I'm not sure why that would seem odd or confuse you in the least.

In other news: Lots of people are pissed that the current US president is removing protections on national monuments. Same people don't bat an eye when Xi Jinping refuses to create national monuments in China. The sky is blue. Water is wet.
I find that theory really compelling... but if I look around for businesses sorted by margins, I find several counterexamples.

Oil and gas as a sector has pretty mediocre margins. Energy generally, even when it's not a utility with government stipulated rates.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/269679-oil-industry-profit-...

It's possible that the counterexamples are just outliers and you're still right.

Or maybe there's another factor, like you mention, how static is the industry and how much continual innovation or development is required.

Regardless, padded margins isn't necessarily an indicator of long term health. If you can safely charge your customers a significant premium, to pay for research or expansion for the health of the business in 10 years, there will be pressure from some shareholders and short term execs to raid the piggy bank. Keep prices high while lowering future investment.

The other odd thing about this as a hard law is MVNOs. Low cost competitors are renting space on existing networks. They're probably not paying lower than cost? I suppose they could be, but subsidized by the high paying customers of that network...

Hmm. I generally have a visceral feeling of being gouged any time I've paid any telecom provider, but maybe you're right and that's not entirely fair. I'll definitely have to give it some more thought.
I was once asked to do deep learning on a bomb for an SBIR. Not sure what the bomb was supposed to learn. Passed on that one.
Not to worry just yet as AI still hasn't been realized.

What many developers call AI, or more precisely machine learning (ML), are a collection of algorithms for making more intelligent decisions in context to the data at hand. That is simply smarter programming, but it isn't intelligence. The machine is still limited to the static instructions available.

Real AI will allow machines to spawn original decisions to solve new problems spontaneously. We aren't there yet. The ethical implications will likely not be any different than those confronted by people. It generally boils down to just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
I chuckle a bit thinking of someone paying a monthly subscription to read "Hello World" articles
The media does a terrible job of describing AI/ML.

My roommate was under the impression that Facebook shut down their experiment wherein chatbots communicated with each other because they were scared of the consequences of the machines communicating in their own language.

For the unaware, Facebook determined it wasn’t useful to continue the exercise.
I think any breakaway AI would be a highlander situation in that it would ensure there can be only one.
> why is this not accepted?

Possibly a poor choice of words on my part. My comment had nothing to do with sexualisation (that didn't even cross my mind), but purely from the point of view of sleep hygiene for both parent and child.

Being able to go back to sleep by oneself is essential to good sleep, and something that people who didn't learn as a young child can struggle with into adulthood.

For the parent it can interrupt their sleep, as the GP mentioned. For someone who already has sleep difficulties, this isn't ideal.
I was born in 1980, and for a time was embarrassed to admit I met my first girlfriend via a local BBS. Now, I was a bit unusual in that I grew up with access to computers (mother is a programmer) -- though back during the early-mid 90s you were 'offline' most of the time, and only connected to services to check mail a few times a day (with the occasional overnight software download).

This always-online stuff is good and maddening at the same time. And I still don't "get" social media and probably never will (I don't want to either, it's a giant time sink - my wife is always pecking at her smartphone. Seriously, we're in the same house, stop texting me).
You should read the second paragraph here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
TL;DR: "Yet, as Durant’s story typifies, one of the challenges for visionary founders is that they often have a hard time staying focused on the present when the company needs to transition into relentless execution and scale."
Which of course means it will return as rain somewhere. I guess I don’t see what all the controversy is about.
Did he or did he not seek to make a meaningful profit from this activity? I can't see information on that in the article. Also did he use the downloadable file or did he actually burn from an existing DELL disc? I think there would be software differences potentially there right? I got a reinstallation media sent out from DELL and it definitely seemed customised.
So many in this case are missing the point.

If Microsoft caught him violating their copyright, and it bothered Microsoft, Microsoft should have sued in civil court. That is the purpose of civil court- to penalize wrongdoing by companies. Happens all the time.

But Microsoft was never going to recover anything in civil court.

So Microsoft lied to the US government about the value of what was being "stolen", and got the US government to foot the bill of prosecuting the case.

This is called a civil-criminal hybrid case. It should be civilly prosecuted, but the US government gets in cahoots with a corporation and the pair conspire to make it a criminal prosecution, which allows the corporation to de facto imprison any person it helps to convict.

Microsoft was able to avoid the lion's share of the legal fees, and won't be responsible for any fees when and if the case is successfully appealed. You will, as a taxpayer, footing the DOJ's bill.

Any restitution Mr. Lundgren pays will be far higher a return than Microsoft could have gained in a civil case. As for the investigating body within the government, it gets enriched through forfeiture. Everybody wins, except the small guy and the taxpayer.

Mr. Lundgren might have been in a stronger position if he had not pled guilty to two of the counts. Whether to sign away your integrity for a potentially lighter sentence is a decision no one should have to make.
We don't hear enough serious talk like this.
Dr. James Hansen called out the problem as Scientific Reticence [1].

While I'm not certain that CO2 is the primary driver of climate change, it's clear that there are wildly out of norm changes occurring. Minimum Arctic sea ice extent is one of the main measurements that I've started paying attention to lately, and it's been outside of, or close to the -2s mark for five of the last seven years compared to a 1981-2010 average [2].

According to the IPCC things will be very bad somewhere near the end of the century, and according to Guy McPherson civilization is coming to an end within the next ten years [3]. There's a huge variation in time frame and severity in predictions, but it's clear that climate change is already severely affecting certain groups of people, and changes are occurring faster than expected [4].

[1] http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2016/03/24/dangerous-scientific-...

[2] https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIt93dDG1M

[4] http://www.fasterthanexpected.com/
Probably he’s been already replaced by a replicant
Those cheap areas with no trees would need irrigation (fed by what?) and ridiculous tons of organic matter. You can’t just plant a tree in the desert and call it a day. The carbon market is a shell game and this is why.
Yes, I realize that now, but since I can't wait to say I've been told so, I'll keep getting downvotes :)

The recitals do sound as if it applies to citizens, however the actual definition of a data subject for a company outside the EU is someone "in the Union".
Wouldn't a large forest act like a carbon filter? Something we could easily start with our current level of technology.
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Well, I'd say it's pretty close to clickbait. Also, it reminds a bit of "dog whistling": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
The other side of the case, which contains a lot of detail not mentioned here:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
I agree with the general principle, but programming in Rust is not "program in C++, then fix errors". You really need to lay your code in away that will satisfy the checkers. That or jump into unsafe mode.

A good example of the challenge is that there's unsafe inner code in rusts own container code. If you try to build your own custom containers (or things like arenas) you'll likely work with unsafe code... Or rely on rusts container code (not a bad thing of course).

My feeling is that "C to Rust" is close to "Java to Haskell" more than anything else. The extra layers are important enough that they need a new thought process. (I say this as a proponent of rust)
Hackerbait.
Yes, compliance is the goal.

However, the rules are vague enough to be interpreted in other ways as well. If some authority decides to make an example of pesky local startups for whatever reason there is little that prevents them from doing so. Remember, both the actual implementation and the enforcement of the regulation lies with the EU member countries, which even might decide to further devolve that responsibility to a local level.

Moreover, in the past similar regulations such as the legal notice requirement for websites in some EU member countries were abused by shady lawyers who specifically target small business that supposedly don't comply with these rules.
This isn't our first child and we do normally follow that advice. Unfortunately the 1 year old is teething again at the moment and not coping with it well at all. So bringing her into bed is sometimes the only way we can get her to settle (it's basically that or nobody in the house sleeping on a night due to her screaming. Plus I don't think it's really fair on the baby to put her through that stress when it's teething pain which is out of her control).

Our other kid is 4 years old now and sleeps really well on a night because we followed that advice but as I'm sure you'll know all to well yourself, sometimes as parents you have to break your own rules for your child's wellbeing.

I think as a parent you can generally tell between your childs "i want my own way" screams and their "i'm actually distressed for some reason" screams. Once her teething pains subside I assure you we'll go back to the "tough-love" approach.
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"Although there are certainly smart people working in the blockchain space - most cryptocurrency/blockchain supporters are needlessly confrontational, smug, have a limited understanding of economics or financial engineering, and use ad hominems when they're confronted by arguments they can't debate against."

How is this not an ad hominem on its own? Easily the most hipocritical one I have seen in years too.
what about some thin foil spread somewhere between Sun and Earth (probably closer to Sun), that would absorb say 5% of the rays for 10 years and then be moved away? Sounds cheaper to do, and very slim chance of some well-intended geoengineering effort going wrong/horrible side effects.

It would require some sort of active management on site, ie minor adjustments, or removal from photon path to Earth if it is deemed dangerous.
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That is just wrong, and here is why.

We, the People are under the money pressure from that last 7000 years, this slavery mode of Society was a type of model that bring us, after many trouble to this point of our evolution.

Now that the robotics/cobotics/mechatronics sciences are on the point to reach and join with Artificial Intelligence we, the People are close to be free from the money Society model.

And that will be great, when 100% of goods and services will be product by the machine, that will be good and great enough to offer us the way to type 1 in the Kardashev Scale, we are at the time we will know an evolution type in our civilization.
Why would we care if these entities go under? We cared when banks were at risk because they hold deposits. But Quicken Loans doesn’t.

I mean the root of the problem is that these entities only have to hold the loan long enough to sell it to the government. So of course they’re financed with short term debt, etc. To address the problem, the government should stop buying mortgages.
Most practical reason: because as a parent who wants a good night's sleep, it's beneficial to train your kids to sleep well also. :). (And also because good sleep habits - by which I mean being able to fall asleep in your own bed without needing elaborate rituals or snuggling with a parent - are useful for life.)

Really, I think it's mostly about getting them used to the sleeping arrangements you want to have. If they're going to bed share until six, great, let them stay. But if you have them in their own room, teach them to sleep that way.

Note that doesn't mean no snuggling and reading. It just means that when it's time for sleep, learn to sleep in your target bed.

With infants, which doesn't apply to the GP, the current recommendation is to sleep in the same room but separate bed, to minimize the chance of getting squished or suffocated.
Chatbait.
My understanding was that he was changing $.75 (essentially the cost of the DVDs)?
Counterfeit handbags damage the brand either by being made of poor quality materials, or by just being sold cheaply, which undercuts the brand's ability to charge a premium. (Not making a value judgment of these practices; just it is what it is.)

Neither of those things is the case here. The discs are near-identical in quality to the discs Dell would have furnished, and (as far as I can tell), Dell essentially gives the discs away for free, only charging more or less for the effort needed to manufacture and ship them. Either way, Dell is certainly not profiting in any meaningful way from these discs, and getting a disc from someone else certainly wouldn't harm Dell's brand. They provide this service as a convenience to the customer, and likely it's actually a cost center.

Should he have used Dell's labeling and packaging? No, of course not. That was incredibly stupid. I don't think he did it with any nefarious reason to deceive; likely he just figured that a technically-unsophisticated customer would trust the discs more with the brand name matching the computer (even though a hypothetical disc with his own logo and packaging would be just as safe). A poor decision legally-speaking, definitely, but I don't see how throwing him in jail could ever be anything but an extreme overreaction to the facts at hand.
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Not to pick on you or the parent comment, but this is a such a common mistake that it's worth correcting.

"Clang" is a thing not a person, therefore it's appropriate to use et cetera, not et alii. The former is for things, the latter for people (usually limited to authors of academic papers).