skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smart managers would run it by equally smart lawyers and regulatory partners, who would patiently and in no uncertain terms explain that compliant operation of this business has a playbook, that "college kid with an unrefrigerated uncontrolled uncleaned car" is not part of that playbook, and that the last time a fast food chain needed to announce a food safety issue it wiped off billions of dollars in market cap. (The tippity top of the iceberg here is that the courier can't produce a document attesting to the last time his car was cleaned signed and dated by the person who visually inspected it. Note that this is a different requirement from "You must clean the interior of any vehicle which transports food over state lines.")

It is very plausible that the playbook is excessively limited and excessively costly because of regulatory capture by competitors, because of excessive loss aversion, or because society weights preventing risk-adjusted botulism outbreaks incorrectly against the societal good of an expectant mother being able to eat a donut, but none of those arguments against the playbook are responsive to the brute fact that the playbook exists and that you must follow it or be sanctioned.

Additionally, and Dangerous Professionals will love to remind managers of this: after you have been told the playbook exists, your risk of sanction if you ignore it _increases markedly_, particularly if you do something like cite any of the above rationales as a reason to _ignore_ the playbook.
Patents have suffered a fate similar to something like metrics that have succumbed to Goodhart's law.

Patents could've worked somewhat originally, at least in principle, but soon people started gaming the system, rendering the patent system worthless. Except for maybe certain domains patents do not currently host important inventions in the meaningful sense. Especially in software, execution matters much more than the actual idea.

And the execution part usually is akin to a trade secret: for example, it's not so much what Google and Amazon do, it's about the mountain of work they did in building all that and also making it scale. That's the non-trivial part that you couldn't replicate even if you read and bought all their patents.

A low-hanging fruit of fixing the patent system would be to reduce it to a mere notary service of timestamping ideas. Establishing the patent de facto would require the patent to be defended in courts: this alone would cut down the amount of bogus patents.

Defending a complex, vague system would cost a lot of money, balancing the usefulness of gaining a court-verified monopoly on the idea. On the other hand, a simple but truly novel idea would be rather easy to defend, even for a private person. There's no downgrade to the current state of matters: it's not as if the current patent system would allow individual inventors a low-cost way to sue and win big companies trying to abuse their patents already.

There are other ways but in any case gains need to be balanced with cost, that's the only way to make people and companies prioritise and valuate the true worth of their ideas. No party is going to spend a lot of money trying to defend a vague patent that was written only to win the first-to-file race and game its coverage within the patent system. They already know it's bollocks.
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The bus companies could provide a free tier of data to Google, like one bus line, and after that Google Maps users would have to watch bus company ads for 30 seconds if they wanted to know where the bus was. After all, it costs money to track all those busses.
The effect that GDPR has as far as I'm concerned as a user is that many or even most sites accessed from EU come with a prominent banner warning about PII data collection for targetted ads, including a large portion of sites linked from HN. Maybe this isn't noticed on the other side of the pond, but it has a very profound effect on my usage, as I'm immediately turned away from such sites. OTOH, platform sites without ads such as github, where you supposedly already have agreed to their ToS, and where data isn't being used for ads (for the time being) don't suffer from this effect, yet.
The clock may not have actually ever existed, not that it matters.
I guess nowadays you don't need companies to tell you who the cool kid is because you can just look at followers count.
And yet as one of the people you describe, you can't find a single tech job in the midwest.
And they killed all the comments that also held an incredible wealth of information and anecdata.
But then you've spent more money. You could have just bought more hardware in the future.

For a fixed budget, assuming that Moore's Law still holds (dubious, these days), you should wait until the computation will take 26 months on hardware purchased within that budget [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202
A few months ago someone posted a tool that cleared this and old tweets as well, but I can’t remember the name.

I wish there was a tool that regularly nuked my Facebook history as well, from comments in random groups to likes across the site. I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago.
I'm highly skeptical. I mean, a hash function that has four output states also maps anything to one of those four states. That doesn't mean it's some next-level classifier.

The problem here is EEG. EEG bandwidth is not enough to capture that much information. There is far too much noise introduced by the skull and muscles. It's most likely physically impossible to do something like this with EEG.

What's likely happening here is that there's some large scale oscillations that are sufficiently unique to discern the images from each other. This does not mean they are reproducing the images. I am highly skeptical of the methods used here -- they are almost certainly flawed.

I, too, once had dreams of conquering the planet with EEG when I was a grad student. I quickly learned that physics makes this infeasible. Anyone who is serious about BMIs are studying invasive BMIs and how to make them as safe as possible. Going inside the brain is unavoidable, I'm afraid.
R without tidyverse (which is just sugar) will do just as nicely.
Fb, G, MS, Twitter, Atlassian, Reddit, and a lot of companies provide the infrastructure that literally billions of people use to better their lives. They are able to organize, communicate, collaborate, share, search, store, work, supervise, have fun, discuss, learn online.

Is there a problem with monocultures? Yes, of course, but our lives are now spread out over space and time a lot more. I'm writing this 19 hours after your comment, very likely from a different country. Just a few minutes ago I was looking at Skype (work, a full-remote team), and Messenger (friends, a group chat where accidentally everyone happens to be hundreds of miles from each other) before that.
Fake news.
This is taking place in the Gulf, using local apps (similar to eBay or Craigslist)... that happen to be available on Apple or Android stores.

Instead of reporting on an ancestral culture of slavery in this region, the BBC used a heuristic that keeps shifting the blame until it falls on a western/white country. Disgusting propaganda.
Historical note: A significant portion of that land was granted by the US government in the 19th century to incentivize westward expansion.
Could this be an improvement?

1. Patents must cover only stuff that could be created/used at the time of the filing.

2. Patents are not transferable.

3. Patents that are not licensed and not used within a specified time are automatically released to the public.
Why not? Microsoft does it all the time. So does Google, to an extend.

Apples inability to work with us is the primary reason we replaced thousands of iPads for school children with Chrome books. Eventually Apple caved to our needs, but it was way too late. Google were “what can we do to make this deal work for both of us?” from day one.
Usually, as with turning off location history, I feel this only hurts the user, as I don't believe any relevant parties won't have access to the deleted entries if the need arises.

The only person who doesn't have access to that data will be the subject the data originated from.
> Excel for Mac performed well but it is a paid solution so I did not consider it viable for many developers

Because developers handling gigabyte size data, and wanting to reliably manipulate it in a GUI, cannot possibly be expected to pay/afford the $7/month to Microsoft.

That said, the recommended solution is probably the best option for developers, not bedside because it's free, but for the ability to run complex SQL statements, and visualize the results.

If I were to edit this article, that'd be my takeaway: use tool X for snappy vitalization of SQL queries, even on multi gigabyte sized CSVs
My concern about these deletion request is that you are totally at the will of the platforms, that they actually will delete your data. This already imply trust towards them. And if you have trust they handling data with responsibility, why would you need to ask for delete?
Except that idea is simply historically untrue. Patent were started primarily as a way to modernize the guild monopolies that were common place at the time, but were unsuited given the greater levels of globalization and international trade.

The idea that they were meant to serve as a way to reduce trade secrets falls flat in the face of the fact that most places with strong patent and copyright law, also have strong laws protecting trade secrets
I like the idea it could have been used for borders.

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Seems plausible.
In Russia, do you stay together with your class all throughout high school? That is, did you share a core set of classes with a set of about 25 people for four years, with only certain elective classes where you would be split up (like music or art)?

If you do, I think that's the difference. Here in America, depending on the size of the school, every year there is no core group you share most classes with. You sign up for classes, and sometimes friends choose to stay together, but otherwise most classes come with a set of people that is likely to be selected from the whole grade. There are academic tracks for high/medium/low achievement in Math, English, Science, etc., but even in medium-sized schools you could have a class with a significant percentage of the students in the school every year. Some schools are quite large.

I went to high school in both Croatia and America, Croatia having fixed classes where students stayed with their cohort year after year, and I was surprised how different the social environment felt. Even for the more socially awkward people, people weren't really rejected or bullied-- because you would have to see that person for the next N years of your life. Whereas in America, "fuck that guy, I only had a health class with him once, his voice is annoying."
That's a reasonable reason for my data to be on their servers. However, what validates that they actually do it?
The end results show an overfit model. It's not predicting that specific input out of an option space of everything; it's essentially predicting that mode (out of the 4) and probably capturing things like "if brain's audio regions are active, it's a waterfall, because waterfalls are loud and trigger that".
did it really hurt their brand though?

it seems like maybe they're using the streisand effect to their benefit here - i wouldn't have heard about the original story if not for the controversy. they get the "people want our product so bad they're breaking rules to get it" headlines while also shielding themselves from any potential legal or food-safety issues by being loudly on-record as saying not to do this.
Example of how it may be overfit: Waterfalls are loud, audio regions of our brain may activate in response to waterfalls. Classifier reads that to predict waterfalls.
Good old "anyone ineptly arguing against my core beliefs must be a paid troll": https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shill_gambit
How in the hell would Krispy Kreme be responsible for this guy reselling doughnuts?

Their agent, the franchisee, has actual knowledge of his intent for the 100 boxes of donuts he routinely buys. Now that they know that, they can't un-know that.

There's a real risk that, in the event of a controversy, serious people will not describe this as "a niche Krispy Kreme chose not to full" but "the mechanism by which Krispy Kreme chose to fill the niche." Which is not totally unfair; their agent is taking active steps to facilitate this.
You must be a really bitter person if you hate a game and denounce people who play it just because you happen to dislike the genre. I personally love Battle Royales and the fact that you only have one life makes it so much more exciting. Saying that it's objectively "not fun" is simply false.
Mozilla cares about HTTP security first and foremost, as they are a browser vendor. And TLS with ESNI takes care of that. But it punts the problem at DNS. And DoH solves that.

And 99% of interesting traffic is over HTTP.

For email there's MTA-STS (basically HSTS for SMTP), for everything else... um, what's left actually? (P2P networks, but for that VPN is recommended anyway.)

Sure, inference from L3 data is still possible. But there's a big difference between looking at just "tumblr", "wordpress", "blogspot", or knowing that you look at which blogs.
In five years they will have adversarial networks produce hyperrealistic videos of anything.

Can’t wait to see FOX News anchors deepfaked to have the exact opposite views.
Crossing state lines to sell food seems like it maaaaybe will set off some regulatory bells and/or whistles.
With a patent that the court ruled as invalid in just 2 pages, and the appeals court confirmed in just three days: Shouldn't the USPTO get at least a slap on the wrist as well? It looks rather obvious that they messed up by awarding that patent in the first place.

Any options towards that end?
My first thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallocain
I have a hard time believing that anyone on HN legitimately things that companies like Hertz and Avis will be able to become efficient in the ridesharing market before one of the two TNCs become efficient in the fleet management market (which is a subset of the rental car market that overlaps with TNCs once they choose to have their own fleet.

One set of businesses here has modern engineering practices and the other set are dinosaurs. Furthermore, rental companies have more employees dedicated to sales than to fleet management and their entire current customer base is rental car consumers. They literally need to redirect money to R&D long term where that R&D serves no benefit to their current customer base. Wall Street will punish the stock of rental car companies short term for spending R&D on becoming ridesharing businesses that serve a customer they don't yet even have mindshare with. With the TNCs however, wall street won't see any problem with them building out their own fleet. The only condition where wall street looks down on the idea of own fleet management is if they believe a franchise model with third party fleet managers make sense. Either way the TNCs own the relationship with the customer and therefore has all the power.
> short time in the 90s

The first time I heard the word millenial was 2017.

This world is weird. But in a world were people can choose their gender freely I think I can have the choice to use that word as I see fit. Feel free to do the same. ;)
How fast is this train going? And you still need to get to/from the station. At 200mph it'll also be a 3-4 hour ordeal at least, and more if there are stops in the middle.
It's short sighted of course, because the money will be spent many times again over a lifetime for every botched kid. Both on the giving and receiving end of abuse.
It's quite decent. B+
They pass the cost directly onto the shareholders :-)
The GDPR doesn't cover processing of personal data "by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity". So I imagine that at least some instances of recording police officers in public are exempt, especially if you don't follow them around or upload the videos to your local police recordings online community. Of course I also wouldn't argue with the people with the batons.
It’s enough that your site respect the cookie settings of the browser, which they all do as far as I know. So the warnings are not needed.
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How about some examples of the smallest and the weakest that have been hurt?
don't fight, poor dwellers of US :) The donuts here, be it KK, Dunkin or whatever, is just a poor version of Eastern European "ponchik/pyshka" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%85czki

"pączki are made from especially rich dough containing eggs, fats, sugar, yeast and sometimes milk.

...

The traditional reason for making pączki was to use up all the lard, sugar, eggs and fruit in the house, because their consumption was forbidden by Christian fasting practices during the season of Lent. "
This is how I feel about it.

I don’t have any faith that I’m going to be protected from current / future persecution because I ticked / didn’t tick some box on some control panel on some service provided by Morally Bankrupt MegaCorp.
Exactly. Bad commercial movies designed by a committee aren’t a new thing, I remember the likes of Independence Day and Speed from the 1990s. What is new is the rarefaction of the sort of movies you mention.

I recommend Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast. What he says is that it is the combination of two things.

First people don’t go to the theatre anymore, they stream, so the economics have become really hard for smaller independent movies.

He also argues that Marvel movies are so plain that they don’t really produce new movie stars with a strong personality, it’s all CGI, most of the audience probably doesn’t even know the names of the lead actors. And the model for smaller movies was for the a producer to secure a movie star (popularised by big blockbusters), then get the financing on the back of that star, then the movie could be made. And that model is now dead.
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Just speculating here, but it could also be plausible that one of Sholes' investors was a biographer, who wanted that kind of symbol on the typewriter. But given the success of the typewriter, by the second version, Sholes abandoned it, because the demand for a slash symbol far outweighed the demand for the dotted line.
I'm sorry, but you're suggesting that botulism would take hold inside a 4-6 hour window on fried, glazed, doughnuts?

The risk of foodborne illness on an unopened box of fresh, less than half-day old deep fried sugar crusted doughnuts has got to be stupendously low.

Krispy Kreme literally sells older doughnuts on the shelves of gas stations and grocery stores.

And furthermore, managers at a Krispy Kreme franchise aren't running an abstract game theoretical calculation based off of input from pastry lawyers, they're saying: "cool, $1200 in sales every Saturday!"

When I was in scouts we'd do the same thing: load up the back of the SUV or pickup with boxes, drive street to street, walking door to door selling them to fund summer camp.
All Software is Software as a Service
"Twitter Archive Deleter" is a Glitch app that walks you through deleting your whole Twitter archive without having to give access to a 3rd party service. I haven't used it myself.

https://twitter-archive-deleter.glitch.me/
I am ashamed but my GPU is an old GT 650M :-) 1 FPS but it works :-)

The Mac mini is still unhappy and says:
./glChAoSP_OSX
Error: NSGL: Failed to find a suitable pixel format

But it's also an old Intel HD Graphics 3000.
So please don't drop the macOS port it's working for most configurations.
This is what it boils down to for me.

Plausible deniability.

“We don’t have your data because you told us to delete it. Chortled chortle.”
Basically you are saying "I don't need stored procedures, therefore neither should you".

If you don't use them clearly you don't need to debug them. That does not change what I said earlier: a difficult development workflow hinders their adoption.
Snowden: Most powerful institutions in society have become the least accountable
Didi is 5% commission, massive difference to the driver. As an alternative Melbourne opinion, no way am I using Uber.

Last ride I got the driver told me he only considers the premium jobs from uber and prefers Didi.
Curiously, he doesn't seem to present any numbers on the outcome for the gifted children. All he says is that it is better for the other children if they learn together with the gifted children.

I think parents of gifted children are first concerned with how well their own children do, not the others.

I question that even "learning together" as in school is the most effective way to learn. Some homeschoolers achieve stellar results (see Polgar sisters), indicating that there may be better ways.
That's why I said "with the same last-mile effort and total trip time as a train".

Planes cruise at 500mph. Trains at 200mph will take 2.5x longer at best, assuming there aren't any stops along the way, and you still need last-mile transport to get to your destination. Trains are not going to be faster than planes at this distance, and that differential only gets worse as distance increases.

Meanwhile economic realities aren't "defeatist". There are much better things to spend $100B on than a slower alternative for a few people to travel between 2 specific cities. Trains may be the answer in the future, but there's a lot more that needs to change first.
This just reminds me of a short post:

Tech enthusiast: All my devices are IoT-ified! I can control everything via Google Home! I love living in the future!

Software engineer: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2005, and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it so much as makes an unexpected noise
> When to we get wankipatent? (short for wiki-anti-patent of course)

Warning - in some countries this has an unsavory meaning.
It sounds more like it's akin to wage slavery rather than blindly following orders. Assuming there aren't other jobs for those workers then they most likely have to chose between that job and a meagre existence based on government subsidies and goodwill of others.
I think it might be more like what I read in a book about Hughes one time, that basically when he was at his craziest he was still making incredible amounts of money and the theory was that once you reach a certain size/power it takes on a life of its own and you continue to make money despite fucking up a lot - although one can see a lot of countervailing examples I think in a case of some of the companies I've been at simple economic inertia meant they still did well.
Really? I'm doing a Ph.D. in sci-vis and my experience has been that people don't release code. One time I emailed a group asking if they were going to open source their code (and asking questions about some parameters that were unexplained in their paper) and a week later they responded by telling me to go the tutorial page on pytorch (seriously.... just ghost me if you're going to pull that kind of crap). It seems to me that a lot of groups keep code as a "secret sauce" per-say. Personally I feel that's anti-scientific, reproducibility is a fundamental element to doing science.
> how was it solved in 18th century Paris?

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