skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could you explain why the restriction over selling user data would be a violation of first amendment rights?

Start with the premise that you're passing a law against people telling other people anything they know about you (especially if they would otherwise be able to without compensation), then add in the "money is speech" thing, which is existing precedent whether you like it or not.

> If the whole idea is to be able to exert regulatory control, to protect users, over companies that seem to have a huge share on decision-making in this space due to their unmatched wealth, how is their parting with a minuscule portion of their wealth so they can potentially influence a decision made on the topic of restricting them, solve any problems in the first place? It seems like a stretch to suggest that privacy advocacy groups need money from tech giants to support themselves.

Privacy advocacy groups don't just have binary existence where either they exist or they don't. Every dollar is more advocacy.

And you can't have it both ways. Either the amount they receive is insignificant and consequently shouldn't affect their overall policy positions or it is significant and losing it would be a meaningful hit.
I agree, it doesn’t sound like much fun. What you’ve described sounds like a much better “cafe” experience.
I gotta say, I'm quite surprised people like this last so long without getting assassinated.
They didn’t pull anything back, the code is still publically available to anyone who wants to use it and share their contributions back to the community.

As a side note, I am also inclined to use more permissive licenses, to allow the widest possible use.

But your attitude of “anyone who uses the GPL is a jerk” is way too far.

The idea behind the GPL is to create an all-or-nothing pool of code. Inside the pool everything is free, but you must also share the work you do in the pool.

Outside of the pool you can use the pool, but you can’t distribute it to others without also sharing any changes you made.

It’s fine if you don’t like those terms. There are lots of reasons to not like them.

But to act like people who willingly contributed work to that pool are assholes because they want to protect the contract... I think you’re being unfair.
A follow-up to my earlier post about algorithms being only half the story.
I follow the Google news aggregation feed. Despite the algorithm and their "Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines" their news feed is still a left-wing propaganda rag. It isn't a place to go to get an accurate model of what is going on in the world. That should come as no surprise because, based on the news coming out of Google, their employees are always demanding that Google not work for certain DoD programs, not work with ICE and support most Politically Correct causes.

The first thing Google needs to do to improve their news and search engine quality is to hire and train people who have quality and integrity as their guiding principles. Leftist ideologues need not apply for these functions although they can contribute in most other parts of the company.
I don't know, I think there is a _lot_ so it would be scary if there was even more than I thought.
Seems hilarious to assume they can be standardized within a culture too, whatever a culture may be.
Hi Everyone! Birgitt here from spotLESS Materials -- we are commercializing this technology and some of the authors of the Nature Sustainability paper are part of our team. I'll try answering some of the questions I'm seeing. Would love to hear your feedback!

Check out our products at: https://www.spotlessmaterials.com/shop

Check out the full research article here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0421-0#citeas

Edit: Let me answer a few of the common questions here:

1. Is it easy to apply? We designed our coatings to be applied in minutes with just a spray bottle and a paper towel/cloth.

2. Regarding durability: Our coating consists of two parts - the first part is the formation of a nanohair layer, which is permanently bonded to a substrate (e.g., toilet surface or glass). This layer itself is very liquid-repellent and sludge-repellent and does not require replenishment as it is permanently attached onto the underlying substrate.

The second part is the lubricant, which is infused into the nanohair layer (like a nanoscale sponge absorbing the lubricant). The combination of the lubricant and the nanohair make LESS coating super slippery against liquid and sludge-like substances. The lubricant layer will wear off over time depending on the frequency of use. For typical use in a toilet environment, the lubricant will need to be replenished after ~500 toilet flushes and can be reapplied by a simple spray process.

3. Regarding the environmental friendliness of our coatings:
Our product is based on silicone. It has been shown in the scientific literature that silicone can be decomposed naturally in soil within 4-7 days. It breaks down in silica, water, and carbon dioxide.

Ref.: Graiver, D., Farminer, K. & Narayan, R. A review of the fate and effects of silicones in the environment. J. Polym. Environ. 11, 129–136 (2003).
how long until on-chip user tracking?
Yeah, 500 flushes is not really very many. I live alone and I reckon I flush the loo at least three times a day, which would mean the coating needed reapplying every six months. If you're a family then it's probably heading down towards every three months. If this spray can be re-applied by the end-user and isn't too expensive that's annoying but just about OK I guess. If it needs a technician visit and/or it's an expensive coating then it's not practical. An order of magnitude more flushes between recoatings would definitely be better...
>It is crazy to see this as an official statement from a Fortune 100 company.

No it's not—the era of "journalists" being de facto arbiters of truth is most definitely over.
They absolutely were. But I have to say that in recent years competitors have caught up and surpassed in some aspects. The newest models from Sony, Sennheiser, B&W, B&O have really stepped up and is on par with the QC35 or above.
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Why is everyone on this thread running to rescue NYT? Most of what NYT does in the last 10 years as far as I remember is crony-corporatism and warmongering. And occasionally support social liberal causes to deceive people.
I'm not sure if data from the analysis will be made available to the large public anytime soon, but in the links below you can find more information about the protocol in use, measures taken so far and a statement from Petrobrás about the type of oil found in the region.

https://g1.globo.com/economia/noticia/2019/10/25/petrobras-d...

https://www.marinha.mil.br/manchasdeoleo/informacoes-sobre-o...

http://www.petrobras.com.br/fatos-e-dados/recolhemos-mais-de...
What data set is this based on? Are you calculating flows by monetary value (favouring high-end systems) or by quantity (favouring small arms)?
I'm much, much more concerned about The New York Times deceptively pushing a political agenda during an election year than I am about FedEx legally paying as few taxes as possible. We all do that every tax season!

It seems like the real story is how the NYT is actively campaigning for the DNC and I'm glad FedEx is calling them out.
Wait

> I had a freight elevator door pin my hand and damage a bunch of nerves while I was helping someone move furniture into his illegal Brooklyn loft. I got $50k for it.

You were doing something illegal, got injured, and sued? And you say "the system is broken"? The system is broken because of behaviour like yours
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Topological a torus, yes, but the area exposed to atmosphere was approximated as a sphere. Lol, we all giggled at the approximation. He drew a trunk on the sphere later!
Just contrast the results with a different engine and you decide who's fault the poor results are:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=US+ambassador+Germany&t=hk&ia=web

Them training you to have low expectations isn't the right way I don't think.
The source of the data driving this visualization is https://sipri.org/databases/armstransfers and that has a lot more detail that others have requested.
I mean, a real hologram (made using light interference) is also not Holodeck hard light.
remove code? certainly legal

replace the code? I'm not sure how it would not be legal to write substitute code under a new license. If there is no remaining GPL code in a project, the project doesn't have to abide by the GPL. The "Ship of Theseus" example makes no sense in the context of copyrights.
Those Bangalore guys might have a hand in UPI. Transfer to anyone anytime. it's more then magical!!!
Specifically for sequence diagrams:

https://sequencediagram.org/
Thank you for that feedback and I agree, we could do a lot better with CTAs and user journey. Feedback is always greatly appreciated and will relay that to our web team. :)
So they lay out what the discussion should be about :

The focus of the debate should be federal tax policy and the relative societal benefits of business investments and the enormous intended benefits to the United States economy, especially lower and middle class wage earners.

But this above is not what the piece was about..

Now I'm confused..
GP could use Wallington's technique and place a monolith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Wallington
I don't agree that just because 3rd parties are where google profits, means that they are buying the data.

If I ran a newsletter, "selling data" would be me giving a 3rd party my mailing list. Profiting from the data would be me "selling eyeballs" from my list.

That is effectively what Google and Facebook do. They are in the eyeball selling industry, not email selling.
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No that is not what it is claimed. Pollution reduces your IQ, not that it makes your IQ lower than someone else's.

The people living in those cities form a so-called "self-selecting" sample. They are probably, on average better educated, and they recognize the value of education much better. They already would score higher than the others, that's why they moved to the city.

It might just as well be that the same people would score far higher in a non-polluted city.
Poverty also reduces IQ by 13 points https://archive.is/bmj11
Alternatives:

1. Webview: https://github.com/zserge/webview

2. Lorca (Chrome): https://github.com/zserge/lorca

3. Carlo (js/Chrome): https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
You could use GoJS to make one: https://gojs.net/latest/index.html

(I make GoJS, a diagramming library, but it presumes nothing about "looks", which can be modified arbitrarily)
Wait, I’m verifiable? Who knew?!
Corrections don’t sell papers...err get clicks. They also don’t evolve the narrative.

Fedex isn’t just challenging the facts. They are challenging the underlying premise that corporations are a net negative on society.

I think it would be fascinating to see an actual debate by folks that aren’t politicians, but are willing to put their public reputation on the line.
Now this looks awesome coming from a stodgy US car maker .. some serious competition for Tesla.
On the other hand the allegations themselves are carefully selected in order to create a false narrative.
LMAO that Uber stunt is illegal and kinda exploitative
That would be a much better link than the one provided. Wasting energy on the "IQ" issue is not productive to the problem presented: that air pollution does, indeed, cause (hopefully only temporary) cognitive decline. It can be measured on a small scale, for example, see the Allen et al. [1] article showing cognitive decline in an office environment (conventional building vs Green+ building).

1. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27662232/4892924...
The visualization is driven by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database and it tracks only what is calls "major weapons" (see section 3 in https://sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/sources-and-method...). So small guns or similar arms will not be covered.
Also, I have not checked the dataset yet, but from the description, a chord diagram of source and destination nations could probably be plotted from the SIPRI database. Would make for a good spare-time dataviz project!
There is another, silent, group : the ones that don't have any problem with the updates, because they disabled them, or because the local computer expert who installed their computer disabled them. They are also not vocal at all, since they "don't have any problem". (And this is also not only a problem on Windows).
I assumed he was talking about his manual tests.
For all sorts of diagrams, this software is awesome: yEd

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

Favorite feature: automatically reorganize the chart according to your preferences/constraints (e.g. fewer line intersections, hub-spoke, hierarchical, etc)
On the other hand, the fad for seeking out weak and exaggerated causal relationships, in order to write an article with a click-baity title, seems to be growing apace.
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Investors have stock. Dividends and stock buybacks move idle cash out of the corporation and back into the hands of investors. Investors now have cash instead of stock. Those investors are better at distributing cash to good investments than Fedex or Apple or Google is. The cash doesn't get redistributed from the non-1% to the 1%. The idle cash that corporations have aren't generating jobs.
> The problem is it isn't journalism, it's activism.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. Journalists have an ethical responsibility to be honest, but outside of that there's nothing to say that a journalist cannot have a set of beliefs that shape their worldview.

In this case you aren't really accusing the NYT of being dishonest, you're saying that their honest opinion isn't ok because you have a different opinion (or that a journalist has to be void of any opinions at all). I'd just suggest you skip either that author's work or the NYT in general then, and find something more aligned to your own worldview.

As to the accusation it is "activism?" I mean, yeah, I guess. Arguing that something, anything, is wrong is activism depending on your definitions but since we haven't established that activism is a bad thing or wrong, that's not really problematic in and of itself.
I tend to agree, but I (and maybe you) live in the Great Lakes region where water is abundant and cheap. Optimizing water use just doesn't seem worth it.

But I can totally see this coating helping in regions like India, who have a real problem with open-air defecation.
Yes. That's why they told the anecdote.
Thanks for the report, it's very valuable and thanks for pointing me to noVNC, it looks great!

I'm very serious about usability issues, would it be impossible for you to provide some examples of sites where the click failed and what you clicked on?

I try to get those things fixed ASAP because the experience of using is so important, I think it should be as familiar to a regular browser as possible.
I'm uninpressed because it lacks Nuclear Tunnel Boring Machines like in [1] and [2] as envisioned by [3] for [4] and [5] in 1972 and 1978. Which all Hyperloop afficionados should read, if they haven't done so already :-)

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US3693731
(I'm wondering about steam explosions when hitting ground water, which is not unheard of. But...NUKULAR!)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterrene

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Salter

[4] https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4874.html

[5] https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P6092.html
(Lacking cheaply mass produced super-conductors here)
You're comparing a web search to a news search. If you do the same search on google.com (not news!), you get good results. Including a picture of the US ambassador to Germany.

https://www.google.com/?q=US+Ambassador+Germany

And when you search DDG in their news section, most of the results are about the impeachment hearing, just like Google.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=US+ambassador+Germany&t=hk&iar=new...
I always like to quote the Golden Thread of British Justice, "It is better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man goes to jail"
But now we are not speculating about potential new additions, we want to know utilization of existing circuits to allocate resources & improve in the future. I'd hope this could be measured without collecting a ton of personal data.
They don't actually list the facts they dispute, they just make that generic statement and then list some unrelated facts that paint them in a flattering light and hope that you assume those were the facts the NYT got wrong.
> People have legally shot intruders in their home and then been successfully sued in civil court for the injuries to the intruder.

In most states you can use deadly force to protect your life, not your property. If some dude come in your place to steal a TV and you shoot them in the back with a shotgun of course you will get sued.
The additional maintainance maybe doesn’t worth it for homes, but clean toilets would be important in commercial space.
Yeah long haul on Amtrak also has this annoying feature where connecting trains are often 1 day apart because the connecting train left an hour before the arriving train gets there. And forget about the cost. I’m about to fly to the west coast on frontier for $75/RT... go price that on Amtrak.. I’m guessing $400-$600 ... and easily 4-5 days of travel. We’ve also looked into NY to Orlando because you can bring your car... you might as well buy a car down there! I get the romance of rail travel - I’ve done Chicago to Minneapolis and LA to Santa Barbara.. it’s beautiful. But wildly impractical.
It’s the question whether the device “is” the wallet or the bank’s app “is” the wallet.

I think for reasons similar to what grandparent mentions, I prefer it be the device, like the hardware btc wallets.

Regulations shouldn’t crack open a toaster, and shouldn’t crack open a PDA.
This is usless without showing what is being sold, by who, and to whom.
The rates that nobody paid, because of tax "loopholes"? There's no reason to compare rates that nobody paid.
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It might be worth looking at some of the pcie to pci risers out there, you can find them for about $40-50, and you can likely get much better power efficiency on modern CPUs and platforms. That'd give you more time on a UPS along with better power bills (though likely not enough to recoup costs alone)
AMD never really made boards. That was part of their problem for a long time. They didn’t even make or support chipsets. It was just VIA and other third party stuff that was so riddled with bugs it was hard to recommend for anything other than enthusiast gaming.
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This.

FWIW I will use "Forth language" or "Forth programming language" instead of "Forth" to delineate more precisely what I'm seeking.
Why don't we use grey water to flush toilets? It can use water either from the bathroom sink or shower.
MIT style licenses provide 'snapshot freedom'. The code is a collection of text files at one point of time.

GPL license is additionally a share agreement. If the code is also an valuable asset that requires constant development, update and contributions to stay alive, GPL can help with that.

I would personally would prefer GPL-license under organization that can sell different licenses. If a company don't want to use GPL, they can buy commercial license and developers get money.
I don't think that you could get away with it. There's not enough out there. However you'll probably appreciate this similar jest from Michael Stokes (source Douglas Young's "Is Linear B Deciphered" for Arion in 1965).

https://imgur.com/GPdnYfU

Article source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20162981
There's an appealing hypothetical alternative where the plastic actually gets used.

I had an opportunity a while back to work with a US company that gets paid to accept bulk HDPE from bottle recycling on one end of the plant, shreds, extrudes, and machines it, and sells composite building materials out the other end. It's really quite cool to see the system working as designed, and a lot of trash becomes useful and valuable.

However, there's a lot of situations where yeah, the landfill is a better destination... it's just not worth the effort to separate and clean some stuff.

I wish we could come up with a technical mechanism (preferred) or regulatory system (acceptable) that would make it profitable to separate recyclable waste.
If seeing America profiting from weapons sales makes you unhappy or uncomfortable, I would ask you: who would you rather see profiting instead? Because somebody will. And "nobody should want to buy weapons" is not an answer.
Hm. Whom has America conquered? Puerto Rico I guess. Any others?
If the new code is a clean reimplementation of the function of the old code, that is, not based in its source or principle of working on the old code (e.g. copy large parts of the logic from the original code), it should be quite fine. Porting an existing code to a new language isn't a clean reimplementation.
I worked for Leapforce for a while doing this sort of rating work using Google's guidelines. The guidelines were linked elsewhere in this thread and, at a glance, they are the same ones I used:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...

If you're doing something that would skew the results to favour a certain brand, you'd be going against Google's guidelines and your contract would be terminated quickly. I found the review process of my results to be fairly stringent; they were reviewed frequently to ensure I was staying within the guidelines, and I was told even about slight deviatiations.
I’d rather go back to the early 20th century when income taxes weren’t even a thing, and yet everything still worked somehow.
If you look through the comments, it's because some people would like to transfer wealth from the top 10% of earners to the bottom 90%, or maybe even the top 50% to the bottom 50%, and the NYT is a useful tool in educating people about why that is a moral act, e.g. FedEx is bad and didn't pay their fair share, and also some people earn more than others, therefore...

Proof: your downvotes.
I know your question was rhetorical, but let's give it fair consideration. I suspect what they'll learn is whether they have the capability to analyze the movements of their entire population efficiently and if not, what it would take to do so.

Armed with that knowledge, they can prepare for the eventuality where the one-off exercise gets turned on permanently.
All IQ tests are (ought to be) standardized for the target population.

The median IQ should be 100, with a standard deviation of 15.

If the median IQ is not 100 over the population, the test is flawed.
I'm not sure if any products like that exist. The problem is twofold:

1. Noise cancellation works best for consistent noises

2. Noise cancellation doesn't really work for high frequencies (in headphones, at least)

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-2/graph#678/2090

Your best bet is just to get some closed-back headphones with good noise isolation, like the:

* Sennheiser HD280 Pros

* Beyerdynamic DT770 Pros.