skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa. You're right. This is kind of insanely low fee mandated.

> The data controller may charge up to €6.35 for responding to such a request and must respond within 40 days.

> This normally involves providing a copy of the footage in video format. ... Where stills are supplied, it would be necessary to supply a still for every second of the recording in which the requester's image appears in order to comply with the obligation to supply a copy of all personal data held.

> Where images of parties other than the requesting data subject appear on the CCTV footage the onus lies on the data controller to pixelate or otherwise redact or darken out the images of those other parties before supplying a copy of the footage or stills from the footage to the requestor. Alternatively, the data controller may seek the consent of those other parties whose images appear in the footage to release an unedited copy containing their images to the requester

I wouldn't be surprised if some video workflow products pop up to help companies comply with requests like this. For example, select the target person on video, automatically pixelate the rest, stitch together and export all clips of the target, securely mail it and log the task completion, etc.
Or at least requiring them to be made of the plastics that wax worms and meal worms can digest.
From the article, the EPA sat on this information for quite a long time. While 3M was heavily fined - were any EPA employees held responsible?

MTBE is another example of a colossal screw up on the part of the EPA. EPA required an oxygenate to be added to gas (even though car technology had long since moved on - so no actual benefit). Then, when MTBE was used and became known as problematic, they stalled efforts for several years to stop its use. The result is that MTBE polluted much of our ground water.

Anyone at the EPA get held accountable?

Today, we have gas that is more expensive, less effective, and likely more polluting due to these regulations. We also cannot buy gas cans without those crazy spouts because the ethanol in today's gas evaporates so easily, causing smog, that they had to add more regulations on spouts to try to prevent that. Anyone ever used one of those spouts without spilling gas?

https://fee.org/articles/government-reformulated-gas-bad-in-...
reg open-source dataset, came across something really cool the other way, https://dataturks.com/projects/Trending
Excellent rebuttal, which I appreciate greatly. It’s a hard problem to solve.
Ask HN: Can you please send me your old 90's style websites?
This is awesome, I've been wanting something like this for road trips. Please make it more than 8 hours, though. I can barely get out of Texas..
rtm

"2. If the program gives the expected output within an arbitrary cutoff time (120 seconds) the program is measured again (5 more times) with output redirected to /dev/null."
The Meme You’re Sharing Is Probably Bogus: Why Linguistic Urban Legends Go Viral
You may like Acme: https://research.swtch.com/acme
I don't know, by reading "certain HP Inkjet printers" I imagined that it would imply a small number of "known" affected models (all belonging to the Inkjet family, of course).

It seems to me that the given list could be better summed up with something like:

"All HP Inkjet printers manufactured in the last n years, with the exception of models A, B and C"."
No, scientific articles job is to disseminate knowledge in an impartial way. Peer review exists to verify the technical details are not obviously in error.

Since we can't predict the consequences of our actions (few scientists, if polled, would accurately predict the consequences of their papers), it would be entirely speculative.

Imagine a paper that showed an amazing improvement in machine learning- we could suddenly predict diseases just by looking at pictures of people's retinas, or predict any number of other fairly private things. Shoudl a technical reviewer say "I think this could and will be used to discriminate against people, so it should not be published"? I'd far rather the reviewer just say whether there was an error, have the paper be published, and let the faculty of 1000 or the larger community debate the legality of whether the technology could be restricted.

Note that editors, not peer reviewers, have far more latitude to reject papers due to (their perceived, speculative) societal consequences.
It’s not that hard.

Take an example: your team has developed technology that can identify, with five nines accuracy, the yearly income of a user. That’s innovative, for sure. And nobody is taking the achievement away from your team.

But you don’t need to be Socrates to realize that what you’ve created could be used in horrifying ways. The article is asking creators to take a step back, ignore the excitement of creation for one moment, and consider if what they’re doing should be done. And if the answer is Yes, then decide if a public debate is required to protect the public from that new technology’s misuse.

Now the first reaction from many will be to scoff “fuck that, I’m just building an app here, I’ve got an investment to recoup and money to make”. That’s valid, but it’s an unethical way of looking at the act of creation. Feel free to hide behind the “I’m just doing my job” excuse, but we all know where that ended up.

That is the crux here, politicians can only make laws to protect the public at large from misuse of your newly created technology if they know about it. And the public at large can only demand robust protection (in the form of laws made by their politicians) from misuse of your technology if the public at large knows about it. Without a public debate, new technology could be misunderstood by politicians such that even if they are aware of the technology and even if they legislate, they may not make laws that robustly protect the public.

Thus, from an ethical standpoint, a public debate is needed so that robust laws are demanded and provided in order to protect the public at large from new technologies.
You can, of course, use VR to get a stereoscopic 3D display as well, like what humans see in the real world. Except for depth of field (which some prototype VR systems can still accomplish), that's as 3D as real life. And Google Maps/Earth VR can indeed do that.
I applied more than a month ago and nobody got back to me.
In NYC, where I live, I would never strike up a conversation with a random stranger. The first thought that crosses my mind is, "oh they're probably on their way to work", or "they seem busy on their phone", etc.

Our smartphones, tablets, headphones definitely make us less approachable. But our attitudes towards work is also to blame. There is this culture of being busy in NYC all the time, it's almost as if people take pride in it. This probably shows in our body language too.

I feel especially alone on crowded trains. Everybody is staring at their phones or trying really hard to not make eye contact. No wonder a lot of out-of-towners feel NYC is an intimidating place and the people are rude.
You're missing the point / haven't read my other comment- in the context of academia plagiarism amounts to stealing. Sure, there's nothing that's legally preventing you from copying code and passing it off as your own so long as the license is preserved, but in academia this has political and sometimes economic ramifications.
I'm 21 years old, I grew up online. I started on myspace and chat via gmail, eventually moving to Facebook.

Fast forward through an early highschool graduation, and taking most college classes online: I have no idea how on Earth I am to socialize with people in the real world.

I quit and deactivated Facebook in January, and since I have felt so truly alone. Each day I ride an uber to my dev job, work mostly by myself, then ride back to my apartment. I speak with my coworkers, but all business, and rarely speak with the drivers because it feels so awkward and strange.

To me, it feels like it's going to get worse. I am personally upset that my abilities to connect with other people my age feels so stunted because of the Web. And now, kids in this school district use smartphones in 6th grade.

A lot of this is likely bias, my mental health is really suffering, and I've bounced in and out of therapy for awhile. So take it with a grain of salt.
This is considered a classic article, Guy Talese at his absolute best. If you've ever wondered why Sinatra was such a big deal this begins to explain why.

Personally I never cared for Sinatra at all growing up. It was the age of rock and he was the previous generation. But once I got over fifty I did a 180 on him. Still don't admire him as a person, but I have come to appreciate his music.
Yes, you would then have a basis to file complaint to your (within the EU) country’s data privacy authority
I have a Wells Fargo auto loan. Their site is separate from the main Wells Fargo site. They have no animations (not even spinners) and basic web forms. The site feels so fast compared to other sites it's jarring. I often feel the need to double check that what I just did actually got applied because it feels like someone is presenting a mock UI demo with static images.
Meetup seems to be the go to recommendation for people to get out and meet others, but I've had the problem, at least in my area, of Meetup groups consisting of people much older than who I find it hard to connect with.
from the article, to me it seems pretty clear that the message is "finding the complexity for the general case is impossible" (ie for certain, short, strings we can definitely figure it out)
Ironic that the author uses up 2/3 of valuable screen space for the title of the article when a much smaller size would have sufficed. It took me extra time to scroll down to the main content.
This just goes to show that aesthetics have more value than perhaps the author is conscious of.
Yeah I agree that a lot of people are probably sick of it. It's kind of strange trying to keep friend and dating spheres so separate. Would be better if there was easier ways to just meet people with shared values where finding dates was a potential bonus and not the end game.
I see it in Europe. Probably affected by your browser and/or extensions.
Satiety index is just a measure of how full you are after eating something. It’s not meant to factor in how much you enjoy eating it, which is of course a very subjective thing.

Myself I’d rather eat 15 potatoes than a steak any day. I like them with a lot of herbs and spices which add a lot of other nutrients.
PS4 has this since 2013.
This is kind of what they did, "Epic Launcher" installs it and keeps it up to date. It seems to be something like steam/origin/etc but for android
No, but that's you writing down every song. The alternative is them saving one of their interactions to their server. These aren't remotely comparable...
Go watch the movie The Godfather. Find the part where Don Corleone slaps a crying Johnny Fontaine across the face and yells: "You could be a man!"

Watch this as many times as you need to.

In the nineteenth century, teenagers were trekking across the continent with young wives and children in tow. Look at where we have arrived: mewling man-children.

Go join the Marines.
I think there's a (obvious) difference between anti-bacterials and standard hygiene.

We know these organisms adapt, just as they did to (oral) antibiotics. Is there any biological reason why hand sanitizers would be any different?
> But the other side of it is that modern packaging arguably reduces waste.

I've heard that too. I thought the gist of it was that it reduced the labor involved with handling, loading, unloading, protecting and stocking the products at retailers because US labor is expensive.
There's an alphabet for this:

http://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-...

Based on your description:

ʃaʊ - ʨ̑ɪŋ - ʒɛ̃ŋ
Yes and it does. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/11/pollutin...

In addition to that story there is another story I cannot find at the moment, that referenced a vegetable farm in Mexico which was linked to some bad human effects. Turns out it was right next to the highway and the pollution from diesel trucks was making it into the food. They moved the farm farther from the roadside and the problem stopped.
I assumed this was implicit in the article. So perhaps on second though he should have mentioned this more clearly?
There isn't a correct answer anyone can give you, it is something only you can choose. Depending on the size of the company having a solid director you report to maybe good enough to insulate you from the VP. But if the company is mid-sized or smaller, that won't likely last long.

Let me give you a small counter view from the VP's side. Maybe s/he was challenging you during that initial period to see how you would respond and you didn't go to bat for people you believed in so they didn't feel you were ready for that type of role. Still the respectful thing would've been to have that talk with you, but it is a possibility. At which point, your counsel also probably weighed less on them and hence the ignored timeline advice. And of course, once you pulled off keeping people happy with shiny object syndrome you basically affirmed the VP's timeline. Not saying you shouldn't have done everything necessary to try and make it work, but you also have to keep raising the schedule issue.

If you like the work you are doing, the company is decent, think the Director is a stand up person and will insulate you from the VP and you are making solid income that might be enough reason to stay. I have seen cases were there is just one senior level person that takes awhile for the company to figure out their game but that the company isn't a bad place otherwise, maybe that's your situation.

That all said, if you distrust the company, that is your sign to get out, staying cause you have a good boss isn't good enough. Find another job and move on once you have it secured.
NuoDB
My bike cost like 4k (scott plasma), and my trainer cost 1k (wahoo kickr). Peloton is a "cheap bike" for me. I don't think I am that abnormal in the tri community.

(I actually sold my kickr and tri bike to fund my startup, but 5k on bikes is not much in the tri world)
Two words: congestion tax.

It's practically criminal that their mayor and other local figures are opposed to it.
Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself
A more reasonable thing to do is to form a council of computer scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, politicians, and people otherwise capable of having a useful opinion in the matter.

That council would then have the task of reviewing new technologies and their potential impacts. The council may then have different subgroups each discussing a certain technology, or possibly each with a certain specific task such as: reviewing research papers, watching the developments inside companies, writing legal propositions, etc...

This council could then be under a government agency, or better yet, an NGO that can get funding by the government, from donations, universities, etc...

What would you think about that?
It would be wonderful to use this for genes, proteins, chemical compounds, etc, whose properties are explored and discussed in disparate publications and difficult to synthesize in any thorough manner by humans.
Isn't there an argument here to build more incinerator-style power plants to manage the garbage buildup (esp. in urban centers?) To my knowledge, lots of European/Asian developed nations are already doing this with acceptable (i.e. low) environmental impact.

Can someone more knowledgable comment on this?
Supercomputers, nowadays, aggregate many nodes featuring the same HW components
Lastly, their competition is FREE. You can go running and biking outside. It is nice out there. Even a gym subscription provides more value.

And yet, people buy millions of stationary bikes, rowers, and treadmills. People actually commonly drive to the gym in amazing weather just to run on the treadmill.

And people clearly disagree with you on Peloton and whether it has no value vs. riding a bike outside (which isn't free either, or even remotely the same experience), or they wouldn't have sold 250,000 of them.

Also, you don't need much space for one of these bikes. I have multiple friends who have them in NYC apartments. I bet 80% of the US has enough space for one of these. The upfront cost is the bigger issue...and yet they've sold hundreds of thousands.

Maybe people just value things differently than you?
The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext
PS4 Pro has 8GB of GDDR5 and has native & checkerboard 4K games.
I think you can get pretty close by investing a lot of time into configuring your perfect linux desktop, but hardly anyone is willing to do that as OSX or even Windows is good enough for most people.
Emacs’ Dired mode lets you interact with the file system this way. Imagine the output of ‘ls -l’ as an editable document — seeing this in action was one of the killer features that made me an Emacs user.
I gotta say, ultimately, I support nation-states who develop weapons to address existential threats in secret.

I do so because I think any nation which doesn't do so will be replaced by one that does, and surviving is better.

By the way, I've already kind of gone through these sorts of thought experiments, and voted with my genome: I open sourced the data in my genome voluntarily (https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu80855C) because I don't really ascribe to the "grim meathook future" scenarios you're describing.

In general I think informed public debate is great, but in the specific case of the Manhattan Project, I really don't think having an informed public debate during the war was even a remote possibility.
It's not actually "ownership": You have control over it, but you don't own it, and laws are careful to make that distinction. I emphasize this since at least in parts of the debate, people advocating for "data ownership" are advocating for weaker data protection laws, with the idea that rights derive from ownership of data means companies can gain ownership of data too, and you then do not have those rights.

You have rights to your personal data, you do not need to own it to have those.
Agree. It's a bit surprising to see that numpy indexed operations are even slower than the built-in list in this example. It seems the idiomatic numpy way to perform the iterations is through vectorization, but that often leads to code that is not straightforward to reason about. For this example, I'd prefer the simplicity of the Cython for-loop when it comes to optimization.
The question is, who becomes the final arbiter? And if that decision is "we should hide this knowledge", how is that enacted? What are the consequences for the researchers? Can you name any specific examples of computer science researcher that you think clearly should be censored (in your example, should the software or algorithm to do accurate prediction become "illegal")? And in those cases, what should be the penalty for publishing the work?

I think if we start to delve into the actual implementation of this, and look at real examples, it will be clear that this idea of "research that can be used for bad should be not published" leads to a bad type of society.
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"UIs that are pretty and friendly are nice to have, but the true values of a good interface should be speed and efficiency to make their users as productive as possible."

Nonononononono! Both. I want both. The biggest problem with terminal interfaces is that very little of the functionality is obvious from the outset.
I enjoy the mental exercise of finding where boundaries lie.

For instance, if you simply observe the actions people take when they talk to you, that's obviously your observation. If you were to, say, journal it, it's still yours. It's a weird thing to do, but it's yours.

If you used the journal to optimize yourself, perhaps to make conversation with you more enjoyable, again, that's weird, but perhaps also merely a paper version of what already goes on inside your head.

What if talking to you were really enjoyable, so that while people could technically avoid it, they usually didn't want to?

At what magnitude does the volume of people you're observing reach a scale where the people you're observing start to believe your observations are theirs?
An aside, but simply because we are talking about birds; Given how many birds there are in the world, I have always been amazed at how few dead birds I have seen in my life.

I've always been amazed by birds in general, but this specific thing, for whatever reason, has always been interesting to me.
On macOS, SysPrefs > Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion will disable some of the unnecessary animations.

I don't know if third party apps can read this setting and also comply.
But sadly, this is not new news. Unfortunately, it's not sexy in a political and/or mainstream media sense. No one seems interested in owning the problem. Perhaps, again sadly, the only hope is this becoming a national security issue and the DoD throwing its budget weight at it. But if obesity is any indication, that's not going to be enough.
If you use mlterm (and supposedly xterm with the right compile flags) you can have inline pixelmaps via DEC -regis- sixel escapes.
I've always wondered what a tiling window manager provides over tmux. This isn't a rhetorical question, I've never used a tiling window manager.

Anyway, a separate space with full-screened iterm2 + tmux on macos is my preferred way to work. I can swipe left to check slack, browser and then swipe right to go back to my terminal.
And interior of the ISS :). Thanks, that was a fantastic journey!
Laserjets wouldn't be in the set of "certain HP Inkjet printers" because they are Laserjets, not Inkjets. :P