skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But obviously they are dwarved by the single commuters, or else the average wouldn't be 1.4 persons per car.

Well, 1.4 persons per car is already quite a bit higher than your original claim of "at least 2500kg of material to move 1 person".

> Let's look at the numbers again. To not disadvantage the car, we assume 20% capacity, which is the minimum possible for a car.

Yes, OK, let's look at some actual numbers about kWh per 100 passenger km, averaged over all times and not just rush hour. Here is something I could find: https://www.forschungsinformationssystem.de/servlet/is/34223...
https://www.forschungsinformationssystem.de/servlet/is/34223...

So a subway car or a commuter rail car gets 12.5 kWh per 100 person kilometers. That is still better than a tesla model 3 of 160 Wh / km or 16 kWh / 100km. But not by much.

https://insideevs.com/news/347916/tesla-model-3-epa-energy-c...

If you assume 1.4 people on average, you get 11.4 kWh / 100km / person, so basically the same.

And if you have 3 or 4 people, the model 3 is significantly more efficient than the average commuter rail.

> In my area the actual train during communiting hours is at least 70% occupied, BTW.

But trains also go outside commuting hours. That is the whole problem with a system that has large units and is not on demand.

> I'm not trying to win internet points here; there just is no way around the fact that electic cars are not in any way a meaningful solution to our climate problem.

Neither am I. I was doing back of the envelope calculations about what it would take to do a battery powered commuter rail for the relation I frequently use, and was genuinely surprised how inefficient commuter rail is on average.
The best free tool I've used is Draw.io[1], can create diagrams online or offline and has nice integrations with things like OwnCloud.

If you don't mind paying for something and want something that looks great visually, I would recommend Lucid Chart [2]

[1]: https://draw.io

[2]: https://www.lucidchart.com
The Betrayal of the Kurds
So, are you trying to go from audio file to sheet music or something?

That'll be a bit of a pain I'd imagine if you aren't separating out subtracks by instrument.

Besides which, wouldn't a time sliced Fourier transform give you the characteristic frequencies of the piece?
Direct wrongs vs indirect wrongs.

Banning direct wrongs are done because the thing being banned is wrong. The effectiveness of the ban doesn't matter (unless maybe one can show that banning the wrong actually increases the rate at it happens, but that is different from failing to significantly enough decrease the rate).

Indirect wrongs are things that aren't wrong but which we ban in order to stop something that is wrong. If there is no effect banning it, then it isn't justified to have a ban. If I want to ban cheese to reduce murder, is it justified? No, because banning cheese will no effect on the murder rate.
The article only briefly mentions the Boring company and Elon Musk, because it's mainly about how cool these large tunnel are and how the machines are large enough to allow multimodal transportation in a tunnel. The comparison to Musk is that his company is making a bet the rest of the industry has rejected. They are all building large, versatile tunnels. Musk is betting that small tunnels will be the future. Who knows?

What I got out of the article was definitely not an "anti-Musk" vibe. Not even super critical of the Boring company approach. It was more of a "modern marvels" type of article.
I think I've picked a bad example!

I was thinking along the same lines you explained -- that the facts wouldn't be copyrightable, but the overall work might be.

To that effect - the scan produces a point-cloud. If you repeated the scan, you'd get almost the same point-cloud. Thus, the point-cloud is a fact.

But the process of taking that point cloud produces a work, given the creativity involved in cleaning it up and checking accuracy, then making it into a model fit for release.

I was under the impression that the phone book's appearance and layout might be copyrightable (trade dress/look and feel), though that's more likely a trademark issue than a copyright one.
Driving dynamics sounds like it should be lower on the list. This is seriously good work. Looking forward to teaching it to drive stick!
GP says "Cloudflares of the world", i.e. companies providing similar services. We can take your word when it comes to Cloudflare itself, but that doesn't mean your competitors don't sell, barter or exchange data - and frankly, at this point, just possessing this data is grounds for reasonable suspicion. At least it seems to me that whatever value or code of behavior can be broken for profit will get broken by someone eventually.

(And even as we trust Cloudflare of 2019 doesn't do it, who's to say Cloudflare of 2021 will still live by this code? Can you guarantee that? I often find myself wishing for an established way for a company to make legally enforceable vows about its behavior. Maybe there is something like this already?)
Convenience link (obviously implied: IE, Edge don't support it):
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I wind up having to add "wiki" to about 25% of queries.
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We need to solve child porn, but law enforcement always uses this example when talking about encryption to help us forget that the state is the enemy. When people start demanding concessions from the state in the midst of an economic crisis, the state will use its powers to suppress protests and ensure wealth continues to concentrate in the upper strata.

We see this in revolutions all over the world at this very moment. The state is dangerous and the police are not to be trusted in this way. The police stand against a democratic and equitable society. We must never forget this.
I like Clojure, but sometimes I dislike it's so heavily tied to the JVM and/or purely functional.

I think a modern multiparadigm Lisp on LLVM would be great. Perhaps that's Julia, though.
The disaster planning argument is a huge red herring. I've yet to see my home city evacuated like you're saying for any reason. Whereas I've spent the last 17 years driving around everywhere for lack of any other options. So it seems to me like disaster planning is something we would have time to think about even if my city replaced all of our cars with trains and buses. So it just doesn't seem very important.
Very possible and future experiments should probe this hypothesis too. We should never forget that the very beginnings of immunotherapy were paradoxes themselves (e.g. infecting someone with a disease to control cancer). Our immune system, like many other complex non-linear systems, have been known to behave unpredictably at local levels while behaving predictably at a global level.
If you have not already read it, this is a fascinating review of the paradoxical progress of modern immunotherapy (cancer centric) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235230421...
My first cynical question on seeing the headline was, "Real privacy, or are they trying to protect their business, perhaps by limiting competition?"

I see I'm not cynical enough.
Interesting. I notice a similar pattern on some off my posts.
Not directly what you ask,
but "Terms of Service didn't read" is great

https://tosdr.org/#
Excellent question. In my mind I had been thinking that it could be analogous to census data. That doesn't answer the why though, or how it would bring commensurate benefits to civilians.
> If the data is truly anonymized (and that's a big if), would you still have an issue?

Yes!

It's simply not anyone's matter to decide but the affected person what their data is used for, if only because that destroys trust. It is critical to the relationship between doctors and patients that the patient doesn't feel any need to hide information because they think that it might be shared and used against them, even when that fear might not actually be justified by the actual facts of the situation.

Also, that big if of anonymization is an important reason why the decision should be for the individual to make, if it is allowed at all: If you distrust the anonymization, then you should be able to refuse, without any requirement on your part to prove that it is unreliable.
Honestly, it is not so obviously better to have hundreds of tiny stores in each neighborhood, stocked every day rather than going out doing grocery shopping once(!) a week! I am sure there is a tradeoff there - the many delivery trucks suffocating the same space they are supposed to serve.

I don't actually live in the suburbs, just a small town that looks like a suburb, and I also lived in European style cities hence I understand the attractiveness of a suburb. It is a different lifestyle and you can't "fix" the suburbs with the wrong kind of arguments - "you my friend suck for wanting to live there" Find a suburb looking place in Europe and check the prices ... now think about it, do Europeans assign value to that?

The vast majority of cities do not even remotely look like some of the elite and lucky European cities that are built on the many advantages they got from (not looking for a flamewar here) but exploiting other nations (the behavior is in the past, but the advantages remain and accumulate), all I am saying is that it cannot be a model for <insert eastern european city here>.

If anything the clean, quiet, well kept European city is non-sustainable and non-replicate-able as a global model. We need to fix the problems of the suburbs but not by imposing a model that cannot work.

The global city model is a far less livable.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101124040141/http://spikedmath...

On a radically different note, I find it kind of surreal that comics 334 and 335 have been silently excised from this comic's archives page, and #333 now links forward to #336.
And, again, not a hologram.
I love this idea – of an actual, genuine debate on this topic where an actual corporate executive can make some points (I know they will be Tim-Cook-like spin but debate is better than asynchronous speeches where people talk at each other)

Update: I realized I didn't write the second half of my sentence... which makes me sound like a corporate shill.

The second half is... AND someone on the other side can immediately call bullshit on their spin, but we can have a proper debate on the inadequacy of current Federal tax policy.
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Web of angels, written in 1980, describes the life of a hacker (cracker) on the Internet.
I wrote that they sell it, which is wrong. They want to give it away for free. I don't know what is worse at this point. Patients don't have any possibility to protest.

It is in Germany and the law isn't active yet, but will be very soon. They basically create a central organization to collect data from all insurers. They receive info and are allowed to spread it to third parties in anonymized form.

> If the data is truly anonymized (and that's a big if), would you still have an issue?

Health data cannot be anonymized , since indicators and diagnoses can quickly identify a person. But no, this is my data and I do only share it when I explicitly consent to it.

You can opt out if you make enough money because that allows you to leave state insurance, which is kind of a real problem in our health system. But that wouldn't phase our current health minister, who seems to be an idiot and needs to be removed from office. His performance is bad enough.
Apple wants every bank. The discrimination comes from the payment processors — it’s likely that those payment processors who handle transactions for the local banks don’t care about the smaller banks. For example, FirstData in the US drove and facilitated adoption — it wasn’t the banks that reached out to Apple or vice versa. It’s fun to say something like “a bank needs to beg Apple,” but that is just not based in any sort of fact. Instead your comment attempts to paint a picture that big, bad Apple is mean to little banks when the truth is far more complex and has little to do with Apple and everything to do with payment processors. It’s also very likely your small bank doesn’t want to pay the 15 basis points on credit or the 3 basis points for debit.

But saying Apple doesn’t care about smaller banks — that’s just a lie. Some of the smallest banks all across the US are using Apple Pay. It’s possible and probable that your bank just does want to offer Apple Pay.

Here is an interesting article from 2015 about banks and Apple Pay: https://www.bankdirector.com/issues/technology/becoming-an-a...

Please note the lack of “begging” involved in the process discussed in the article linked above.
It's like the Roman Empire funding the "People's Front of Judea" to discredit the "Judean People's Front", very similar to Putin's tactics in Russia.
Not OP, but I’ll take a stab at it: he’s saying that the NYT is overly liberal, frequently trashes businesses as being tax evaders and plagues on society, misses its own hypocrisy, and doesn’t live up to its historical pedigree when it comes to fact checking.
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There's an easy way around this phenomenon: just do it and savor the experience. Don't take a photo and post it on Instagram. Don't go back repeatedly to take others. Don't blog about it. Just go, enjoy the moment, and savor the memory.

Not everything needs to be photographed and shared. Some things can just be experienced and forgotten eventually.
> how to share the road with bicyclists onto the written driving test, so that drivers at least know how to share the road with cyclists.

That's one of the reasons why the "Share the road" sign is being phased out in favor of the "bikes may use full lane sign".

The proper way to share a lane is in serial fashion, not parallel. This is because lanes are rarely wide enough for a car or truck to pass a cyclist with sufficient distance between the two while both remain within the lane itself.

In fact, many state laws that specify that cyclists must ride as far right as practicable actually have the substandard width lane exception (described above) to that requirement.
It's not really surprising that the EUs tax haven countries support whatever there is to support around money ;)
I hope this doesn't just go off the front page. It is a great story about right to repair and women in tech (sadly in the context of such terrible circumstances)

I remember when this abhorrent incident happened, a remember thinking what a tragedy it is that such a toilet circling individual - notably, echoing current US right wing talking points during the lead up to the attack - was able to rob the world of such a promising person. What grabbed me in this article is that

"Dumala still lives in the house she and Kuchibhotla built. Because she was a dependent on her husband’s visa, she had to apply for a new one after he was killed, and in doing so was bumped to the back of India’s astronomically long immigration line. All the years she spent waiting to become a citizen with her husband were lost; she now has to start over."

How is it possible that her visa application has not been expedited? Does anyone know which US rep/senator to call to push this issue?
Journalists and editors should not let the business practices of the paper they work for prevent them from investigating and publishing stories. This is a feature, not a bug.
I'm skeptical as to whether robust anonymisation is possible, given the incentives involved.

After all, the data is more valuable the more bits there are per patient record, for researchers to find correlations - and the more bits there are, the easier it is to de-anonymise. Especially as you never know how many bits of data are already public about a given individual.

And given that they're releasing the data to make a profit, or to advance research, anyone doing this has an incentive to release more bits - and no incentive to release fewer bits.
My first thought was actually "Mental Illness"
Gotcha. No practical use of your work. You're like those pure mathematicians who just do math for the sake of math. I don't see a problem with that, it's just amusing you're trying to compare your field with deep learning.

I'm a researcher too - I look for ways to build faster hardware for deep learning. But to answer your question - using deep learning I can classify objects, recognize speech, and translate language, as well as generate plausible text, nice sounding music, or beautiful pictures. Those are just few examples of what I can do with DL much better than with any other methods.
Only if they think something is already happening. A world where every room in every house is covered by cameras results in less child abuse than a world where warrants are required to search a house.

How many children is privacy worth?
Thank you for the response, I will do my own research into the deanonymization of data, but please share a source or two if you have them at hand.
> In a free society, people can commit crimes, and sometimes they can get away with them. We've made a deliberate choice to structure our society this way rather than optimizing for preventing crimes or punishing criminals.

If we're talking about the United States, then we're talking about a society of control. When you go to the store, you may pay with a debit card, thus making you trackable. Alternatively, you will be caught on a camera entering, shopping, checking-out, and then leaving the store. Maybe your smartphone was tracking your location, you had your partner email you a shopping list, or you were in a group chat discussing what to buy for your nephews Christmas present and their aunt suggested a book. Maybe your mother got a little too into genealogy and did 23andme or some other service allowing police to look for criminals. If you walk your dog through your neighborhood, how many doorbell cameras are you caught on? How many times have you seen here on HN where people said they felt compelled to check email after work to put forth the image that they fully committed to their company?

Everyone knows this is happening and everyone marches on because we still feel free despite the decentralized panopticon we've fallen into. All of the previous examples shape behavior, yet allow the facade of freedom. There's no more likely occurrence than for encryption to be subsumed to further exert control, but it will be in a way that doesn't seem to hamper freedom.
Don't 1.2M humans die in human-driven car accidents per year? And 20-50M suffer injuries?

Good enough for humans is one thing, but the promise of self-driving automobiles is that they're supposed to be able to be better than us and safer. Incorporating all the sensor data available shouldn't be looked down upon.

Also humans rely on hearing and tactile response data as well as vision when driving.
I drink a few cups a day, and enjoy the effects.

My theory/speculation is that if you consume something that tastes badly but makes you feel good, the human body will over time translate the expectation into "this tastes good".

Maybe that's part of how addiction works. Maybe that explains "acquired tastes". And maybe my uneducated guess is completely wrong :)
Failing new York times. If only liberals weren't so enamored with their deliveries while they sit at home and watch CNN they'd probably label FedEx as orange man coconspolirator.

The establishment media made up Russian collusion and after 2 years refuses to apologize for 100% made up claims. They had the balls to give themselves pulitzer and ruin it's legacy. Thank God FedEx is pushing back.
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Thanks, didn't know these terms before! I'll read up.
Do you use other alternatives to current SM platforms?
Too many calls for building another/better social networks, but do you really use any alternative that's already been built? why/ why not?
One of the prerequisites of flash freezing is that the fish are bled before hand - they are long dead by the time they get processed.
Google Facebook are all privacy abuser
they have been abusing it.
I'm not sure on the details but just throwing out what I've seen in NY. Smoke shops around here seem to allow smoking indoors, I assume there are special provisions for that type of business.

There is also a bar around here that has a separate smoking room. They have a large air filtration system hanging from the ceiling in there, not sure if thats why they can get away with it. There is even a little door in the wall where they can serve drinks to you while you're in there.
A friend of mine has been trying to hire a new employee for her department
The author states that the food isn't very good, and reaches the conclusion that:

> the experience just didn’t feel that special.

interesting review; I'm glad he went and shared the experience.
Damn, can’t believe Fred Smith is still running FedEx.
Too bad it's impossible to read because of multiple overlays. I guess I'll take FedEx's word for it.
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> In their 2nd comment below you can see that they are trying to call out the colonization

Why do you feel the need to defend against the horrors of colonialism?
NYT and a few other papers are pretty much running in campaign mode, floating trial balloons of policy ideas of candidates they favor if not outright pushing forward a narrative which aligns with the direction one campaign or another is following. So stories align to support the narrative.

The 2020 narrative for the Democratic Party is again wealth envy and how all the woes can be solved if X just pays their fair share. The easy villains are billionaires and large well known companies. After all it is damn easy to make numbers appear however you want; see the recent claim Amtrak might make a profit which is only true if you don't look hard.

we are already deep into the election cycle for the next President and Congress so you must use a heavy filter on stories you read on the NYT and even here. you can pretty much toss any story that gets around to mentioning one candidate or another.
It's a joke. A reference to "Delfts Blauw"
> 4. Are there any reason why we dont use TBM for small pipes, ( like for electricity or fibre optics, )

We do. It's called a directional drill.
https://www.ditchwitch.com/directional-drills
FedEx didn't even dispute any of the article. They're just doing some whataboutism.

Edit: Can someone downvoting point out where I'm wrong? They say the NYTimes distorted the truth, but give no indication of how.
Reader mode in Firefox gets around it.
I wonder what internal conversations had to happen to make this possible?
>people and organizations who are having problems with malware and cyber attacks.

this sounds like (almost) everyone
There are a number of SaaS companies (the irony) that claim to solve this as a service.
Some are:

Zylo, Torii, SaasLicense, Blissfully, Alpin
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Read and laughed. I was going to say as well, 3$ in the green is already better than most people!
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A bit of local context. The Brazilian president accused Green Peace in staging the accident. Also according to Bolsanaro fish are not dumb and if they see oil they are going to avoid it (that was a real treasure for memes).
I think Wikileaks were a novel concept, but they needed to remain ideologically pure to remain viable. Unless all the evidence of conspiracy is manufactured, the organization become political.