skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's one valid objection to hashing (not the one the author expressed): you may have an array of items that you can compare, but you cannot hash.

For example, maybe you rely on a third-party service that lets you compare two items but does not provide you with a hash value.

Or maybe you simply don't know the distribution of the items, so it's hard for you to write a good hash function. For instance, the items may be large strings of text. You can of course compare them. But to create a good hash function for them, you'd need to know a bit more about how they are distributed in the space of all possible strings. Maybe hashing the first few characters is good enough -- but that won't work if most of your strings start with the same prefix. Maybe splitting into words and hashing word frequencies is good -- but not if many strings are just reorderings of the same words. And so on.
2030 should be totally doable. 2040 is so lax it's almost a joke. And there are ten years in between those two numbers. Hard to see why they pushed it out so far.
Deception and stupidity are merely implementation details of untrustworthiness. It doesn't matter.
It seems sensibile that digital items could become rare, and from my brief research archival copies are permitted under fair use. Storage is cheap and small, a raspi and a dufflebag of replacements is cheap... you see where I am going.
Ever notice how seemingly all the predictions and new regulations deal in a timeframe always conveniently 10 or more years into the future? Everybody embraces denial so eagerly, even the ones claiming to be confronting the problem. Coastal flooding, unprecedented storms & droughts, crop damage, streams of refugees... these are happening NOW, and even if you stopped driving TODAY, like leave the car right where it's parked, forever (which we all literally need to do) it wouldn't be enough to "stop" climate change, since the climate has changed, for one thing, and since driving isn't the only cause. Though it's an important one, and if you never drove again, it would help. Minimally. And most people, a.k.a. "you," are probably not even willing to do that.

This law, like most of the others, is well intentioned but still too weak; it's "provisional living" just like how a junky's plan to kick always starts tomorrow. Quitting an addiction is a pain in the ass, but hey, now that we have this great plan for 2040, we can continue business as usual today. And even this would be, politically, something of a miracle to get passed. You wouldn't even be able to get it out of committee in, say Texas.
These kinds of articles are laughably tone deaf.
Maybe if Musk actually listened to the people he hires, they could have, you know, foreseen these kinds of things. The kind of things that car manufacturers forecast on a daily basis. Why is Tesla so uniquely chaotic?
Because I'm pretty sure this is not something you come up with in such a short notice.
Sounds like the BC wants to have their cake and eat it too. By 2040, most cars and trucks will be zero emissions. So, this law doesn't so much speed up good behavior but just pushes out the stragglers.
> Are you saying that, like Al Capone, Assange has somehow threatened people with knowledge of some greater crime?

I'm not sure what you mean by this, so I'm not sure how to answer - if you expand I'm happy to respond.

I'm not an expert on Assange or Capone. I invoked the example because I understand that people dislike Assange for reasons related that are unevenly covered by the law. That seemed similar to Capone who, as I understand, operated at a time where little of his actual behavior violated the law (though he was at the top of a violent criminal organization).

The things people dislike Assange for may or may not be narrowly legal - but their feelings towards him will affect how they treat these charges against him.

> The prosecutor declined.

This is a longer discussion, which we can have. Generally, for the Swedish legal system to be able to take action, it must have power over the object of its action. Saying you will "cooperate" as long as you aren't subject to the power of a process which demands power over you seems, to me, like a rhetorical maneuver than genuine effort to engage. His arrest illustrates why he was nervous about leaving the embassy, of course, but doesn't make evasive representations more true.
Two Thirds of Hotel Sites Leak Guest Booking Info to Third-Parties
> Please, enlighten me. If you could link some benchmark results, it would be very much appreciated.

Well you just did a Rust Force HN post, bashing languages regarding performance, some of them like Ada, being in production since the early 80's, controlling human critical systems in real time.

Besides GNAT, there are PTC ObjectAda, GreenHills Ada, SCORE Ada, PowerAda, Tartan Ada all being used in automotive, aerospace, or energy generation industries, where zero lines of Rust code exist today in production.

But hey, Rust is faster. /s

> Having multiple implementations doesn't make a language faster.

Sure it does, it is a big performance difference to use JRuby or MRI Ruby.

> Being able to write an OS in a language doesn't allow any conclusions about its performance.

Slow OSes don't get users.

> An LLVM backend doesn't necessarily make a language as fast as C or Rust. You could write an LLVM backend for Python and it would still be slow as molasses.

You are quite right, after all D beats Rust when using LLVM in compilation speed.

It is all a matter of man power, willingness to pursue certain goals and skills.
I'm going (in part) of off the legal opinion of the Obama DoJ (which had no love for Assange) that they didn't pursue these specific charges for the reasons I've outlined.

On the other end, can you cite either true legal opinion, or better yet case law, showing conspiracy charges sticking against a journalist in a whistleblower situation?
"So, there are no peer-reviewed, published research on this?"

They are coming. At least one counter-study should imminently be published (I am one of the reviewers.) I am sure more are coming. Patience :)

"How do we know it is 60-70% as you claim?"

As I already said: this has been neatly researched and presented by the team lead by Christian Stoll in https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3335781 Read their Supplementary Data, tab "3.4 IPO filing analysis"
This dominance of the S9 is actually a point where all market researchers unanimously agree on. I am surprised you seem to think it's a contentious point.

"Because it looks like you are drawing the same line assumption which the paper does regarding transaction fees and power growth"

Not the same line. The researchers assumed tx fees represent as of today 100% of mining revenues when it's really 2% and they extrapolate from here (gross overestimation). Whereas I'm assuming the current CO₂/kWh trend slows down (underestimation).

"And how much of the hash rate does France generate? Or how much of China's energy in the future is going to come from nuclear power (assuming they remain the country with largest hashrate)."

My point was that all we need is for present-day nuclear technology to be adopted by a good proportion of electricity generators over the next 100 years, and this would easily reduce CO2 emissions per kWh by 80%.

You ask a lot of "how do we know that", but the same question applies to your position: "How do we know there will be zero CO2/kWh improvements over the next 100 years?" "How do we know the market share of the Antminer S9 is 1/62 = 1.6% (because there are 62 rows in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moracamilo/Bitcoin/master/...)?" Neither you nor these Nature Climate Change researchers provide any justification, whereas I do.
It seems you don't understand that there's Firefox ESR and other browsers too. The law very likely won't change just because consumer-friendly browsers by default are not enterprise-friendly. Big corps provision and manage their machines themselves, they modify the packages' built in configuration (they either create a new install package, or do it after install with scripts, or - if the application supports some kind of "group policy" then they use that).

Cost of compliance is a real thing, and making the workstations secure and compliant with their own policy is their responsibility in those industries. It's not fun, but it's perfectly doable.
This is how far we've come, sadly.
It is, I believe from talking to others and my own experience, significantly higher than the average (outside the mystical FAANG etc).

The average is basically zero.

Talking people through things at the edge of their capabilities and discussing the architecture etc that they need to know; that's just doing the actual job, surely.
Right, I'm not saying Spotify isn't trying out algorithms at all, but their algorithmic stuff doesn't seem much different from Apple Music, Google Play, etc. A lot of the "algorithmic" stuff enters into "lame" territory fast, where you see the issues like artist fixation, or "variations on a theme" where you get like 5 remixes or live cuts of the same song.

The main benefit of Spotify is that I can just bypass the algorithms, and go straight to people. And that's really where the "long tail" effect seems to thrive.
Incompetence? Isn't Elon a genius?
It's starting to look like we're getting more of a regulatory moat. (In the Warren Buffet sense of "moat", as barrier to competitors.)

An additional concern, at least in US tradition, is when once-again-centralized monopoly venues are being mandated (or given permission?) by politicians to censor or "curate" everyone's speech. I'm pretty sure I was taught in school that we consider that a bad idea here.

I generally favor a healthy amount of decentralization, that the remaining big guys be more common carrier (and stop claiming rights to people's communications), and a renewed individual sense of responsibility towards society (not gaming social media, playing to metrics, manipulating our lesser selves, etc.).
Ask HN: Pl help me find an open source project for employee interaction
Hi,
some time back, one of the bigger startups open sourced a web app that helped employees introduce and interact with each other and find other with common interest. I don't remember the name of the web app or the company that open sourced it.

I do remember it being very employee focused rather than trying to derive lots of data. Please help me find it.
What’s interesting is that these algos are trained on human feedback. What does that say about our revealed preferences in music?
Elon Musk: Tesla Autopilot – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
The Internet Archive can and does "dark" content; it is not served, but is preserved on disk for the future.
The thing about Driver compensation is that it’s not just their take-home pay, it’s what they have to pay to maintain their vehicle and gas. They’re already barely making minimum-wage when you factor in these costs, at some point you can’t get more blood out of the stone. Point taken re pool though it isn’t something everyone will do.
These kinds of automated takedown requests are a real hassle for any public archive. For Pinboard stuff, I regularly get scary notices from my ISP claiming I am hosting phishing content because someone bookmarked an Amazon page and an automated bot later found their archived copy.

The problem is unavoidable for a public archive when the people filing claims against you use automated tools while the appeal process is either time-consuming or nonexistent.
>Are you saying big acts get more per stream?

The big acts may get more per stream because of 2 factors:

1) the Spotify allocation algorithm of subscription payments works top-down from the most popular artists' percentage of total streams instead of bottom-up from individuals' play logs. (The top comment of a previous HN thread discusses this.[1])

2) Some record labels have (had?) negotiated sweetheart deals with Spotify for different revenue share and stream payouts. So a Universal/Sony/Warner major label with a roster of desirable artists that Spotify wanted may get slightly more per stream than an unknown indie label with no leverage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9226497
Exponent Podcast: A Community of Loonies
Oh, thank you for pointing that out. Not sure how I missed that :)

Ed: now I'm kinda excited about an llvm forth...
> You can always just exit the program.

No, you can't, and that is the problem. If your entire team primarily uses Slack to communicate, you are forced to constantly check it or you are not being a team player.
One of my favourite and more exotic for the web is Genshi https://genshi.edgewall.org/ , a XML based (and lesser known) templating engine. Downside for using XSLT is its overall speed.
It should be requestable by snail mail and token payment or with a similar amount of friction.
Not an expert on car hardware. However, I do know it is difficult to buy a car without computers in everything. Computers that record tons of data. Just because they don't have modems doesn't mean they don't spill everything at the dealer/smog-check when the cable is connected.

In electric cars such as Tesla, all this has been accelerated. In a recent thread, folks told stories of buying a used car, and receiving the PII and driving history of the previous owner.

It is also used against you, but never for you in regards to law-enforcement. Good reason to be skeptical.
Already so much of the syrian civil war has been lost. Amaq, the ISIS news agency posted a huge amount of propaganda and information. All factions were involved in a very heavy media war as well as a physical one. Seeing these videos, articles, posts, tweets, and pictures disappear is really sad. There are efforts to keep it documented but I'm of the general belief that this information should all be saved and stored.
My friends and co-workers believe and see me as a highly outgoing, social, talkative person.

Nevertheless, I'm an introvert at heart and can easily volunteer to help people understand and imagine what it's like to be a person surrounded by strangers of similar age & background and strognly prefer / find it easier to have zero interaction.

Hint: "Strangers" is the weighted keyword, not "similar background/age".
[Heck, "Similar age" has, for most of my life, been a negative attribute - Until late thirties I tended to socialize better with people slightly or significantly older]
Given your hostile opening, I'll start by asking what you think that evidence would look like and what you would find convincing.
The Newest War on Women
As in not starting an X server? No.

As in most of the time the window focus is on a terminal? Yes.

In my computer, 90% of the time there are only 2 types of windows open. 1 is the web browser, and the other is the terminal. Sometimes I open up Emacs to read my mail or write some notes in org-mode, but my text editor of choice is vim in a terminal, not even gvim.
Of course you can- Lightning works today.

If you don't believe me, our team hacked together https://ln.pizza as a demo of the tech.
The lease doesn’t look too bad but how much does insurance cost?
I don't know which paper they mean, but here's a relevant paragraph from one of the papers available from Blackmore's page:

"In this paper, we unify the convex optimization approaches
of [1], [2], [17] and extend them to handle thrust pointing
constraints. While convexifying the problem with nonconvex
thrust pointing constraints, we develop a geometrical insight
into the problem that establishes a connection with “normal
systems” [18]. A normal linear system is defined in the context
of optimal control theory where the system is said to be normal
with respect a set of feasible controls if it maximizes the
Hamiltonian at a unique point of the set of feasible controls. In
the case when the set of feasible controls is convex, a system
being normal implies that the Hamiltonian is maximized at an
extreme point of the set [18]. Our convexification result has
a similar geometric interpretation since it establishes lossless
convexification by ensuring that the Hamiltonian is maximized
at the extreme points of a projection of the relaxed set of
feasible controls. This set is then shown to be contained in
the original nonconvex set of feasible controls, thereby estab-
lishing that we can obtain optimal solutions of the original
nonconvex problem via solving its convex relaxation."
There's nothing to fix. The devices are either open and a dev has decided to write his own, or the devices are closed and the drivers are provided by their respective creators.

If it's the former, pay a dev, if it's the latter, use a different device.
I thought Amazon's empire rests on AWS which actually funds the company allowing them to make a sustained loss on their retail business despite attempts to automate with robotics and ML.
I mean, trust your council over some random guy on the internet (me), but I would seek a second opinion on this from a technilogically savvy lawyer.

There are absolutely implementations available that will allow you to have a hash, not tied to other data, sitting in your opt-out list that you than check other hashes against. No PII in the mix.
I don't know if "flexible" is the goal. In fact, the listed feature of restricting font and color choices is reducing flexibility. The author seems to just want features to automate repeated tasks.
>At best, Google will be making cars that pull over to the shoulder and call for help in a few years.

Ya, that's pretty much what I was getting at.
Ugh. I swear it was "parity" in my head. I have no idea how I managed to mis-type that. Wow.
This is why I wish that us, europeans had the United States Bill of Rights. Every character of it.
That would be amusing, but that's not what I said. I said that's what he word “the press” refers directly to, not the modern usage of the term for the institutional media; what it applies to is publishing and distribution on a fixed form (rather than ephemeral speech). What it doesn't apply to is violations of otherwise-valid laws to gather information that is intended for publication.
More realistically, content considered in peril should be replicated on nodes outside of the Archive's control. Fun fact: Every item in the Archive can be retrieved via a torrent. I leave it as an exercise to the reader on how to retrieve the Archive's item index, ascertain least replicated items, and how to retrieve and serve them.
Wind probably does pretty good up there.

Lots of mountains, but sparsely populated so they don't need to find all that many locations.
I'm not too worried about farms. Governments haven't had a problem with massive agriculture subsidies and I doubt that will change. Labor costs on farms may skyrocket but that will also throw fuel on the mechanization fire.

Food is cheap right now in part because of exploitation of labor. We probably should be paying more for our food.
They use the cheapest model to try to lure customers in and upsell them. That is why it is not available online. They don't want to sell the SR; they are likely losing money on it.
In the anime "Rocket Girls" they landed in the school's swimming pool.
I'm sure you could but this truck seems marketed towards people who haven't owned a truck. "Adventure Vehicle" sounds like its built for those soccer moms who would have otherwise gotten a Ford "Explorer". At best, its unproven. At worst, its every other eco-suv this time with a bed. The video preview doesn't even have a basic hitch ball on the back.
>I really don't get it.

Tesla has over-promised and under-delivered for years while maintaining a tremendous amount of hubris throughout.
When are they going to make an electric car that regular working people can afford?
No, that's based on the deprecated multi-level round-robin scheduler, which we find tremendously amusing. :)
Does anybody enjoy plan9's /net FS? I am familiar with netcat and enjoy it as the (self named) "Swiss army knife of networking".

I wonder about advantages of the /net FS in everydays Linux workflow.
Any companies you recommend for this? Thanks!
Even fully after Treble, there are absolutely still kernel drivers.
3X speedup is a definite improvement. I don't use rust regularly, so have been relying on community news for updates and while they have mentioned planned work to increase compilation speed a few times they haven't really talked about any landing (that I saw anyways).

Also cold start speed is not really what I care about. I am more concerned with compiler speed while working and running tests. I find that if a language compiler is to slow it breaks flow while testing changes. I haven't seen much mention of the improvements the incremental compiler gives in a while. Last I read was the 2017 blog post [1] during beta and it only showed modest improvements and more recently I only see talk of how it still needs a lot of work [2].

[1] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/incremental-compilation-be...

[2] https://nicoburns.com/blog/rust-2019/#compile-times-especial...
The fact that modern people are outraged when information like this is hidden from general view is in fact a testament to how far we have come as a society.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135399
> This might mean that those living less sustainably may have to pay more.

I would strongly urge you to be careful with this language. Don't be so quick to assume folks living rural/suburban lifestyles are living any less sustainably.

These folks are what make city living possible in the first place. And city folk have plenty of huge-CO2-footprint problems of their own that everyone conveniently forgets, because it isn't literally dumping gasoline into an automobile.
I don't think he received this much praise.
Emacs 26.2 Released
Tech workers face the same issues as most white collar workers. It's common to be unfairly treated in regards to promotions, workload, overtime etc. But the biggest issue is probably equity. It would probably be worth unionizing just over that.
Help me understand what I am missing here. The majority of my friends use Spotify, which already has a "share" feature to drop a song I want them to check out to the FB Messenger app for example.
We don't just need to ditch our cars: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080428120658.h...

> But the "floor" below which nobody in the U.S. can reach, no matter a person's energy choices, turned out to be 8.5 tons, the class found. That was the emissions calculated for a homeless person who ate in soup kitchens and slept in homeless shelters.
Europe telling a San Francisco based company what to do. I'd say, give them the middle finger, but the article has this little gem inside it:

> If the Archive does not comply with the notices, it risks its site getting added to lists which ISPs are required to block.

Well, that's Orwellian. Great job, Europe.

American sites should start giving Europe the finger en-masse. Just return a black page with "Sorry, European officials have their heads up their asses. Tell them to fix it" like they did for SOPA and PIPA. Let them firewall themselves off to oblivion.
I prefer to buy, not rent music. Luckily we have enough DRM-free music stores around that simply sell you music files. FLAC is the best option.
The unofficial gmusic API is why I continue using gmusic. I make many playlists for work (teaching spin classes) and I use the API to aggregate the songs I use and clean out old playlists.
You are right.

Personally, I question how many people would support authoritarianism if we didn't have the regulatory capture environment we currently have. There is such a powerful system of indoctrination in the US.

But then I think of experiments that deal with human nature. Of how 65%~ of people in the milgram experiment gave the dangerous shocks even while hearing people plea... It paints a picture of human nature I guess I want to blame on something 'out there' and not 'in here'.
Spending 90% of the money or time, on the last 10% of performance, is common in my experience. The ratio may be not that extreme, but that’s the crux of it.