skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BrainChip Explains Its Neuromorphic SoC – EE Times
Ok then, have it your way: next time you're going out on a date trying telling your date you are taking her to a restaurant, and then go to McDonald's. I suspect it might be a short date.
I think the most "noble" angle you could have is that it's supposed to protect artists and help them benefit from their work instead of having it "stolen" by third parties. Of course in practice it seems like it will do nothing of the sort but if you only look at it on the surface to a casuals observer it might look like it would actually do some good.

On one hand I'm sad that the EU fell for that crap, on the other copyright law is so fucked up already that it kind of feels like more crap in a bucket of crap. One day this whole thing will become completely unsustainable and will have to be rebuilt from the ground up.
New antivenom developed by Indo-US research team could be a game changer
Prepare to see another onslaught of "how to block your site in the EU" posts like there were right after GDPR.
Fair use has a much narrower definition in the EU, in addition to varying from country to country.
If rights-holders and/or YouTube had to pay a monetary penalty every time they screwed up (by taking down content that was fair use), perhaps it might level the playing field?
perspective -> prospect
:)
BrainChip Discloses SNN Chip
If I'm not mistaken, it's still an option out basis. Google crawl, index and search everything by default and allow content owners some controls, either via site manager or via flags in your html.
I Don’t Smoke or Drink,I Eat Well and Exercise.How Did I Still Get Cancer?[2017]
I don't understand why so many are still blind to these very serious problems and praise crypto currencies. I see mining as bigger problem than spam.
National legislatures are better to the extent that the populace exerts direct electoral control over their representatives.

If the election of Trump or Ocasio-Cortez taught us anything, it should be that appealing to voters can get you into office, even with powerful entrenched interests running against you.

Elected politicians are 100% beholden to their voters, now more than ever.
GDPR is TOTALLY different. If you can't run a business under GDPR legislation then what you're doing is almost certainly unethical or at worst mismanaged and irresponsible with customer data.

On the other hand this legislation will completely change the internet as we know it.
Well, first of all I have yet to hear about this vote from any of my local news sources. If I didn't browse hackernews I likely wouldn't know about it.

Secondly I don't recall voting for any MEPs, as far as I can tell it's similarly not reported on. Besides given the lack of news about what any of the parties are up to it's hard to say anything about who you should even vote for.

Thirdly just because somewhere at the end a vaguely democratically elected group of people get to make a decision about it that doesn't somehow absolve the rest of the process from being undemocratic and seemingly driven by corporate interests. The biggest problem being that the decisions on what should be voted on and how seem to be mostly taken by an unelected group of people, who will evidently (given the way Selmayr was promoted) vote for anything if it gets them better pay and pensions.
Installing Crystal on Ubuntu 18.04
> They say that the campaign against the directive has been funded by US tech giants eager to retain their control over the web’s platforms.

While I am not a particular fan of the dominance of Google and Facebook, I like it better how they handle the web than what we have seen from the 'creative' companies. It took years until they found a way to monetize their content properly (e.g. Spotify, Netflix) and even now after they pushed DRM down our throats, they kinda complicate things by not letting you watch the full HD version on certain platforms or restricting streaming rights on a per country basis.
Example: article in arXiv gets later published in a journal. Will the arXiv article version be still available for anybody? Only for non-EU people? Will be removed from arXiv? None of these?
And also how giant fuckup will be, once every country will implement it differently. 27 different versions and levels of upload filter. How will you display content upload by someone in Italy to someone in Germany if Germany has stricter filtering policies? Will you need to recategorize it for display in different countries?
Update your thinkpad's bios with Linux or OpenBSD
And drop out of the EU market? That sounds insane.
Funny, because that piece of legislation does exactly that
My first thought exactly. Pandas API is complicated enough that it requires a good grasp of Python in general to be able to tell what is regular Python, and what is the convoluted convention that Pandas uses to achieve its ends. This is not a criticism of pandas -- I think it extremely very well in being an R-like data analysis framework given the limitations/features of the Python syntax. But learning it before being confident with Python is like learning Ruby at the same time as learning Ruby on Rails.
Does Windows still give you the popup with a choice of browsers to install in the EU? I remember seeing it some years ago, but since then I've only used Windows a few times with a business version in a VM, so not sure if that's still present.

Seems like if they were forced to do that, there's no way they would get away with this, but I'm not sure if that ruling still applies.
There's another profit model on the web, and it usually involves the user just entering their credit card. Hell, it doesn't even need all of them to do that, just enough. I absolutely use services like Patreon to support artists who make all their work available for free. I tip open source projects (usually every time I install it on a new PC). I happily pay for decent email.

Sites like Facebook and Twitter don't seem truly sustainable, and they aren't free.
The movie "Arrival" showed beautifully how alien forms and languages can be quite different than what we expect..
> If you ignore the religious association, how is this concept any different from the notion that society functions better when people are industrious and maximise their efforts to do things that are useful and valuable to others?

Probably the religious connection helps illuminate the problem more than it is hiding anything.

The reason this is called a Protestant work ethic is that some Christian sects don't think deeds matter, for them working isn't important, what matters is believing. So a sincere believer who rapes and murders is good, whereas an atheist who is kind and generous is evil. This quickly goes down a No True Scotsman rabbit hole with real Christians, but that's the summary. So the belief that what you do even _matters_ is fundamental to the PWE.

But it turns out that "what you do is what's important" is almost as flawed as "what you believe is what's important". In both cases these rely on a personal God keeping a running tally, they just disagree on what He's counting. But the real world has no personal God keeping that tally, it doesn't exist.

Your parents lives are consequential in their _effects_ not in terms of how much labour they put in to achieve those effects. The PWE quite intentionally doesn't care about those effects, what possible effect could you have next to the will of God anyway?
Writing network flow dissectors in BPF
It's the public's fault if they are uninformed about MEPs who they themselves vote in.
Nobody is going to give a crap about Edge until it is an open source project like Firefox and Chromium. Releasing Chakra is not enough.
Every time someone mentions anti-trust, someone else comes in and starts claiming it's not really a monopoly, so antitrust doesn't apply. The thing is, market manipulation doesn't require monopoly power: an excessive difference of scale between the largest and smallest participants in a market is enough.

For example, the consumer choice feedback loop breaks down when scale gets large enough that market signals from individual decisions are smaller than the amplitude of the noise, making it easy to neutralize them with marketing. We are heading in a direction where market breakdown occurs long before monopoly power, and cartel-like behavior is more likely. The largest players are so large they have more incentive to cooperate to keep everyone else down, while maintaining only nominal competition with each other.

That doesn't mean anti-trust is no longer relevant, but that people arguing for it need to revise their position. Antitrust has never been about monopolies, but about abuse of power in the market. It was only a historical coincidence that that lined up with monopolies when the total economy was smaller. Corporations have now become so large that market failure begins long before monopolies, and our trust-busting strategies need to adapt to that.
I wonder if "super-tasters" are under represented in vegetarian/vegan populations (or vice-versa)?
Monopoly doesn't mean that there's only one company in the market. It means that one company has an overwhelming amount of market share. Google unquestionably fits this description when it comes to internet search, outside of China at least.

Generally it's measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index - HHI.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hhi.asp
For a starter, "wanting to leave the EU" without having a clue of how to do it or proposing practical solutions is not the finest thing to do.

And also the entire immigration discussion was some bs considered the non-EU migration is been higher than EU one for decades https://fullfact.org/immigration/eu-migration-and-uk/
There is not much of a difference. The question is, did your $60 buy you a game, or a program that is designed to just make you buy as many loot boxes as possible?

If the games are no more than glorified casinos, they should be regulated as such.
Lack of financial education is another symptom of being poor.
ChromeOS on specific devices. Many ChromeOS devices don't support Android apps.
How would this work in practice? I could easily set up a news company. Would they have to link to my articles as much as other news articles?
Sufficient stupidity applied to contentious issues is a disaster. That's how we get measles outbreaks.

Failing to present a coherent, workable programme for how we'd leave the EU and at what cost is leading us to a situation where the government is doing civil contingency planning as if we were going to be hit by a hurricane rather than a self-inflicted disastrous choice.
"If you are in the EU, you are not allowed to use this website." Pretty much the same solution for kids under 13 years of age (which is to say, they of course still do use these sites, they simply lie about it which shifts the burden...)
I don't buy it that they understand exactly what it entail, they just think "nobody will pirate my work so good, right?"

Until of course the filters take his legitimate content and claim it as somebody elses
Thanks for introducing me to Kingdomino. I like the concept of using domino-style "digit-matching". To create a turn based "area capture" strategy game ;)
Exactly. I thought that the EU wanted a thriving tech sector, but it doesn't have any social media platforms with the reach that American ones do. And after this mess of legislation, the barriers to entry into the market will get far more expensive. Nothing will ever be able to clear it.

Sometimes, when companies climb the ladder to the top of the market, they kick the ladder down. This time, big copyright (and their political friends) kicked it down.
That brings such a hope in the future of legal technology! I bet everyone will use ODR in different spheres of law eventually.
I worked in restaurants for 6 years before I graduated from college. Yes it is true, if your tips + $2 something per hour doesn’t equal minimum wage you will get paid more hourly.

A lot of States (or maybe cities) have much much higher minimum wages for servers than my state. California, Las Vegas, and maybe New York pay higher than the $2.
Agreed; this should be made illegal entirely – this mechanic benefits no one except the game publisher.
MKBHD and Dave Lee have good channels on YouTube.
Hmm, really? I just installed firefox—the only prompt it gives you is the prompt it always gives when setting a new default web browser.
I wish Mozilla would include a default content blocker to block Google's attempts to steal Firefox users. But then I also wish Windows blocked automated Google Chrome installs that steal default browser included as bundleware with free antivirus apps, Java, etc. I'm tired of walking a parent through uninstalling Google Chrome (that they have no idea how it was installed) and getting Firefox set as their default browser again.
‘Lock Them in and Burn It Down’
Out of curiosity (and some docs I'm writing) :

Any brand or model you can tell me?

That's price bought in the US or sourced in China via AliExpress or similar?
Fusion360 got minimal CAD working in browser recently, so there's hope.
Sounds like the web without user content... Web 1.0? So much for free speech.
It’s not just the Belgians, if it stands up there that will be the thin edge of the wedge.

The issue is the one of random drops for real money. It’s easy to see that has a gambling element to it.
> first of all I have yet to hear about this vote from any of my local news sources

This is definitely a deficiency of your local press.

> I don't recall voting for any MEPs

Elections are held every 5 years and organised by your local electoral authorities? Which country are you in and are you a national or a resident?
Though the word implies otherwise a monopoly is not defined by the lack of competitors. At least not in a legal sense anymore.

It is defined by it's marketshare. And google search is by and large a monopoly in this regard having ~90% market share in virtually all segments of the market.
Are you basing this on law in the EU? Because as far as I know, "fair use" is purely a US thing that doesn't even exist in the EU -- although specific countries may have laws that do somewhat similar things.
> this is obviously an unavoidable "bug"

Why unavoidable? For example, if a sufficient number of qualified people complain about any law, isn't it possible to hold MEPs accountable by openly questioning them about their reasoning? I'm sure there are journalists who can make good use of any suspicious argumentation.
On my second order, AliExpress asked for a picture of my passport (or other id). Was a bit disconcerting. Did you encounter that?

I found what I needed on newegg and ebay instead.
> Meanwhile, people who don't understand how the internet works are deliberately breaking it to save their out-dated business models instead of embracing the new.

The link tax is really absurd. Traditional news is now almost completely useless. Information distribution is near free in todays market and "journalist's" opinions don't add much value to the information either. A large amount of stories are almost pre-written and sent off to publications anyways. Quality curation is really the only aspect that I would consider valuable, but these establishments just spread click-bait and junk articles.
From what I read on this specific proposal, it's not entirely draconian and has some benefits to the user, since the process also implements transparency requirements and complaint mechanisms.

As far as the one-hour-rule goes; if I get an email about taking down content at 01:00AM, then I will naturally be unable to respond for atleast another 5 hours, German courts atleast agree that for such things, it counts when you are first aware of the illegal/infringing content, even if it's weeks after (though you already have an obligation to operate a contact through which you can be quickly reached when you operate in germany atleast, IIRC this proposal will introduce that EU-wide which is good IMO).
Stats seem to vary, it's not clear that 91% is correct. Even if it was 91%, that doesn't necessarily make it a monopoly.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267161/market-share-of-s...

https://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.as...
You mean when microsoft used their dominant OS position to drive Netscape out of existence? When IE went from 0% browser market share to over 90%?

It seems to me they learned a lot. That using monopoly advantage to attack the competition works like a charm and that anti-trust cases are toothless.

Microsoft essentially "won" the anti-trust case since they weren't broken up.
But a Black Friday stampede is not representative of a long-term stable customer base. Selling a crapload of stuff at a tiny margin doesn't say anything about your business's ability to make it to the next Black Friday.
I had a Subaru Legacy with a CVT. Awful. Just plain awful. I would back out of my driveway and there would be this 2 second delay after selecting "D" and trying to go forwards. WTF Subaru?

CVTs are cheap garbage and "infinite gears" are not that useful. Heck, even the 8,9,10 speed autos now have too many gears. They're always hunting for which gear to be in and CVTs are the same way.

The argument that manual drivers are less efficient that autos rings hollow to me. I always got better mileage driving a manual than an auto and the manuals always got all the performance out of under-powered cars versus the slushbox. The computer can't know what is going on in the traffic or if a slow curve is coming up ahead. It can only react to rpm and maybe steering inputs. You just have to get better at driving one!

The reasons manuals are going away is government regulation of emissions. The automakers can't control all the inputs and they hate that!
> ACL2 has had numerous industrial applications. In 1995, J Strother Moore, Matt Kaufmann and Tom Lynch used ACL2 to prove the correctness of the floating point division operation of the AMD K5 microprocessor in the wake of the Pentium FDIV bug. The interesting applications page of the ACL2 documentation has a summary of some uses of the system. Industrial users of ACL2 include AMD, Centaur Technology, IBM, Intel, Oracle, and Rockwell Collins. ACL2 is intended to be an "industrial strength" version of the Boyer–Moore theorem prover, NQTHM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACL2

NQTHM was used to check e.g. FM9001 CPU

ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/boyer/nqthm/nqthm-bibliography.html

B. Brock, W. A. Hunt, and M. Kaufmann. The FM9001 Microprocessor Proof. Tech. Rept. 86, Computational Logic, Inc., 1994. ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/boyer/cli-reports/086.pdf
The European version will be the same thing when I try to go on a non-gdpr US site, a big banner that tells me to *$#^ off.
> Markus Meechum (aka Count Dankula)

Do we really not have anyone better as a source than the Nazi dog guy? http://www.scotland-judiciary.org.uk/8/1962/PF-v-Mark-Meecha...

(Perhaps someone from Open Rights Group or EDRI?)
The IT revolution will leave some behind no matter what. The ones with good education will be at the top of food chain. The ones with enough education will make ends meet. Many of the rest will be left over. There is no fix, not universal welfare, not even overthrow the government and restart over.
I'll be the first to admit I had a good education, caring and supportive family, and my story would be different and harder without them, but I can't imagine a world that I didn't try to learn something new each day.

I don’t think you’re giving this enough weight. I went to a small unknown state college and got a degree in CS. The CS curriculum was horrible. My saving grace, was that I had been a hobbyist programmer since the mid 80s when my parents bought me my first computer. When I graduated in the mid 90s, I knew I wanted to get out of the small town I grew up in. My choices were to move to a slightly larger city and developing using technology that was already out of date, but would have provided me a salary to support myself, or moving to the major metro area where I still live not making nearly enough to support myself as a computer operator based on an internship that I had the previous year.

There was no way that I could have chosen that job if I my parents hadn’t already bought me a car, paid for insurance, paid my moving expenses, and help me pay my other bills for the first six months.

I “worked hard” but I didn’t have to work two jobs to support myself.

There was another guy who graduated with me, who was just as smart, but didn’t have parents that could help him. He had to get a job in the same place that I avoided like the plague. He’s still working there 20 some years later.
How do you define 'fair'?
I think you'd need stronger evidence than has ever been given that raising minimum wage concurrently raises purchasing power, _especially_ for staples. In the end, it's a feel-good solution - politically, it's hard to pass up, as a great deal of people would be very happy about seeing their paycheck get bigger, without also examining whether the prices around them are going up as well, or noticing that their coworker cohorts are thinning out.
Time to download some rare gems from YT.
Is this credible? Can someone with more experience weigh in on the mechanism behind this?

My understanding of physics is that 5G wavelength is much longer than visible light (millimeter vs nanometer magnitudes) and visible light only really starts to get harmful in the UV+ spectrum.

How can electromagnetic radiation in the millimeter range do anything but heat the tissue to a minimal degree? How can it be harmful?
This is untrue. Foreigners can easily get a SIM card. Just walk into a China Unicom or China Mobile store, with your passport.
Funny how this revelation comes at a point where Trump reports record low unemployment for the Afro-American population; it's almost as if the NYT has an agenda.
This is not true, you can get a Chinese number and SIM card with a passport in any of the big telecom operators stores
Why would Switzerland and Norway introduce this law?
Many companies are so out of it they don't even let you stream content to browsers running on Linux distros. Even Amazon owned Audible just fixed that issue a few months ago.
But MEPs are elected?

(also I find it odd when people apply this argument to the UK where we have a fully unelected upper house!)
Microsoft is a huge company. You’re going to see different reactions to Azure, VSCode, .NET, and their voice assistant/spyware program.
It's a really fun little game!

The follow-up game, Queendomino, introduces more game-play mechanics and a greater amount of interaction and strategic choices, making it more of a gamers game. I like them both, and it depends on the mood which is the most fun to play.
If you voted for Britain to leave the EU because of the EU's "capability to be authoritarian", then perhaps you should have already voted (with your feet) to leave Britain because of its much worse capability to be authoritarian.

For example, it was Britain that introduced the Snoopers' Charter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016

without any encouragement from the EU, and indeed that Act has since been found incompatible with European law.

Out of interest, can you name another example where the EU was authoritarian (acting in a way that the British government wouldn't have)?
Petitions are not science.
This is a decision that will end up benefitting the big players on both sides, i.e. regulatory capture.

Google, Facebook and the like already employ filtering and copyright techniques and they can afford it. So, this law lifts the barrier to entry for smaller internet companies.

On the other side, it's also beneficial almost exclusively for the larger publications or copyright holders as the collected amount of license payments would end up there.

So, while I accept that the benevolent interpretation of this initiative is correct – big internet companies have an unhealthy market share and it's unfair to make money from other peoples' work – I suspect this might be another step towards more corporatism.