skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically it's only illegal to use the data because the subjects of the data never gave you express written permission to do so, and you have to get that in Illinois before doing any kind of facial recognition.

You don't need that in most other states.
My rent cannot go up by more than the Consumer Price Index, and I cannot be evicted without just cause, except in very limited circumstances (owner move in, condo conversion, etc.). How much housing security have I given up?

What I’m really giving up in this situation is the right to make significant improvements to my unit, and such. In exchange, I don’t have to pay for any repairs due to wear and tear. I don’t think it’s a terrible deal, but I would like to own a home, simply so I can have a living space that I alone fully control.
No, but I would love to hear about one.
> my kids can't get online and we can't do any connected household stuff like Alexa or Ring

Any houses for sale nearby?
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A couple more nitpicks for the author if he/she is reading this...

> Alpine doesn’t support wheels

You mean wheels do not support musl, or to be more precise they don't conform to POSIX 2008 or C11 standards.

> Alpine has a smaller default stack size for threads, which can lead to Python crashes.

You're linking to a Python bug. That's right, Python. This is a bug in Python. Not Alpine, nor musl.

The whole point of using Alpine-based Docker images is that musl provides a lean, efficient and standards-compliant implementation of libc which should in turn result in faster runtime execution of the software running in your container, and other secondary benefits such as smaller binaries and faster build times. If your software (in this case, Python) is glibc-dependent and is not standards-compliant, the bug is in your software, not musl. Don't expect it to work. The bottom line is that if you don't understand this, you shouldn't be using Alpine. Please don't trash-talk something you don't understand.
Don’t think so, but then it’s always a game of risk multiplied by time. Less chance but not zero risk.

Can’t speak on lung cancer. My mum died in 2013 from non-Hodgson’s lymphoma and she only smoked for a few years in her early twenties. She was diagnosed in her forties and it didn’t actually get her until her early seventies.

The risk there is highest in current smokers, lowest in non-smokers, and past smokers are in the middle.
You could also use https://tailscale.com which has, subjectively, a much nicer UI and iOS integration.
And I'd be colossally surprised if the PRC had never fantasized about ruling India (not that they could). They seem to feel just about everything ought to belong to them.
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the guys at teller.io seems to be doing it the OAuth way so technically not storing it like the scraping guys. However, it may be limited to the banks that they can connect to due to the requirement for a "real API"
> Why do you prefer the Bolt?

The 2020 Bolt has 259 miles of EPA range and is the best value for money of any EV in the world at the moment. Have a look at these prices:

https://www.cars.com/for-sale/searchresults.action/?mdId=362...

Here's a real world example of someone who has leased a 2020 Bolt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Egdi0GU9Y

He has a 2017 Bolt on lease and he was thinking about getting a different EV, but in the end he went with a 3 year lease on a 2020 Bolt because the offer was too good to refuse. He paid $2500 down (which was covered by state EV incentives) and the lease is $147 a month for 12,000 miles per annum.

Show me a better EV deal than that.
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Indeed.

At the very least Tesla (and any similar 'electricity' co) already benefits from policies geared toward limiting greenhouse gases (and various 'pollutants') emissions, and as those will probably ramp up, will benefit more and more from them.

But there may be more, maybe even much more.

The gorilla in the room is the fact that solar (nor wind) energy cannot deliver 100% of the time.

Any intermittent energy source has to be compensated. On a grid in order to provide the necessary 'baseload'. On most autonomous locations because people don't want or cannot wait for power, they want to switch it ON and immediately enjoy the ride.

At any moment delivering power to a non-producing geographical zone may be done thanks to power produced in other areas, or (this not a XOR!) by storing energy.

From a practical viewpoint a mix of sources (windfarms, geothermal...) and interconnecting grids (forming a continental-scale supergrid) are mandatory, and in many nations there are massive investments towards all this, boosting 'distributed generation' (mainly wind energy, various other forms of renewables, long-distance transmission (see high-voltage, direct current (HVDC)))...

Tesla ability to deploy supercharger networks in many countries ties them with local folks in charge of the gridpower. They know about local energy storage (batteries, which will not be only useful for the car). They also explore distributed generation (Solarglass roof). The necessary smartgrid is mainly tied to operational research and IT (Tesla knows about those)...

In summary Tesla knows about a fair part of many pertinent domains, at worse as an integrator.

Moreover Tesla stands nearby the consumer (mindshare).

Therefore Tesla may become the most prominent ultimate link to the customer when it comes to electric power (which will become more and more pervasive as policies geared toward limiting effects of climate change will phase out fossil fuel), enabling them to rack-up a fair part of the benefits from more and more massive infrastructure-oriented investments.
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> FOSS implies restrictions on the developer in the service of end-user freedom

No it doesn't. You're thinking of copyleft licenses. FOSS is not synonymous with copyleft; many FOSS licenses (recognized as such by RMS and the FSF) are not copyleft.
tantivy main dev here. Just chiming in to confirm this is an accurate answer.
Spotify kinda sucks too imo. I tap on "Your Library" then "Artists," I see Lil Uzi Vert, "Choose artists," and a list of 'recommended artists based on the songs you like' of whom I have local files listed in no particular order at all. Moving over to albums, I have Kanye West's "Graduation" and "ye" listed twice, both saved, both the exact same explicit versions. Search is polluted by user playlists full of junk with the exact same name of whatever search terms you've tried. "listen on other devices" just doesn't hook to my blutooth speaker for me, even though it's listed and turned on. The UI is lazy in areas. Pull up the full playback window and you will see three dots in the top right, hiding 4 functions, three of which are already in front of you in the full playback window. It could just replaced with an 'add to playlist' button since that's the only utility in this menu, but then we wouldn't have to tap twice...

I've had spotify for 5 years now and it's always felt just as unpolished as when I first got a subscription, which is unfortunate.
Apparently research has shown that each cigarette smoked can damage DNA; where build up of damage in the same cell is what leads to cancer. So your lungs can recover. Your lung* DNA, less so.

* mouth, pharynx, nose / sinuses, larynx, esophagus, liver, pancreas, stomach, kidney, bowel, ovary, bladder, cervix ...
Waaaay less waste is left in the end. Like, small enough to fit in a small room.
a pipe dream

Opium poppy (Papaver somniferous) is actually kind of an interesting case. At least in the US, it's OK to grow the plants, the flowers are showy and many seed catalogs sell the seeds. It's also OK to harvest the pods and consume the seeds (poppy seeds, have them on a bagel). But, if you scrape off and collect the latex on the outside of the pods, you are committing a felony.
Fyi VS Code is working on[1] native first-class notebook support, which should make the experience of using a notebook much better. Notebooks right now stretch the bounds what extensions can do, particularly in that they can't use the VS Code's own text editing services, so things like vi mode aren't inherited.

(Disclaimer: I work on VS Code, but am not working on notebooks)

1. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/88243
I think there are cost aspects to it; athletes gets broken bone all the times without grave QoL consequences after full recoveries, doesn’t mean it’s free of charge or it’s okay normal thing.
OK, that wasn't clear to me. So I guess it makes sense.

But does Netflix pay partial royalties on films, based on percentage viewed?
True, but if you can make hydrogen at $1.40/kg, distributing it won’t cost that much more.
During that healing period, your quality of life can significantly suffer.

There's a "Smoker's cough" associated with people who smoke, but also a more serious "Smoker's cough" for some past smokers who are quitting. It's loud, obnoxious, and it feels like your insides are going to turn out if you cough one more time.

If you were a heavy smoker, like I once was, you can't breathe quickly or else you'll go into a coughing spell. Exercising and otherwise enjoying the world on foot is nearly impossible. There's not much you can do to make it better except wait -- Depending on your past smoking habits, sometimes years.

I do wonder if light smokers could get away with it, though.
I looked at the paper, I couldn't readily spot what they considered "outdoor recreation". Camping, fishing, hiking, biking, and jogging/running were things they mentioned repeatedly though.

I have no idea if they included, say, reading in a park.
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The chasm between politicians and science is staggering. For a truly terrifying example, there's the 2018 IPCC report. It's under 600 pages. The summary for policymakers is 25 pages, with the following 5 chapters each with an executive summary of about 2 pages. So let's say a 35 page read for politicians.

For 170K a year, plus an expense account, plus a nice pension, we should expect each of the representatives of the United States Congress to slog through those 35 pages, right?

If you want the terrifying truth, watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZsHtpk0XII&t=217s

Greta Thunberg, providing the United States Congress with a roughly 3 paragraph TLDR of the IPCC report, and even this is news to probably most of them.

CP Snow's essay The Two Cultures is all too true.
It actually says more like "smoking damages 95%+ of your lungs [1], but more than half of that damage can be undone if you quit". I think that's pretty impressive, even if there's still a lot of lasting damage.

[1] "The overwhelming majority of cells taken from a smoker's airways had been mutated by tobacco, with cells containing up to 10,000 genetic alterations."
hindered vs destroyed brings two different ideas

Your semantics are baiting....
From my experience, Chinese police and authority in general are extremely lenient on first time offenders. You will usually get a stern lecture and warned never to do it again.

If you’re a non-citizen, you’ll probably be monitored for awhile.

However if you continue to get in trouble, then the punishment can increase exponentially.

Strangely, in some cases, they would just take you on a vacation [1] to get you away from the area.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/chinas-bizarre...
Are you sure? Do people in some countries lose their money if they, for example, sold their car to a bad guy?
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I don't know enough about their infrastructure, but presumably SpaceX could offer that as a premium service? "Most direct" path for your data at a much higher dollar-per-MB cost vs the mesh offering?
Also, the work-in-progress (alpha quality) preview code:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8853
I agree with the other comment, great post! Tesla is doing amazing work (and I'm a fan, owner, shareholder, yada yada) but the stock price currently is disconnected from fundamentals. That said, it could definitely continue to stay disconnected from fundamentals for a very long time. I believe Tesla will only show modest profits for the near future. They are going to continue reinvesting to push out more product lines (Cybertruck, Semi, ??) and that will take time. Their mission is not to make the most money. Their mission is to accelerate the move to EVs and solar. They'll show some modest profits, hopefully get added to the S&P 500, and maybe the stock will become less volatile.
He had to go looking for his master until someone noticed he was unfed, so his 9 year journey did start with loyalty at least.
This is a good, 11 tweet summary of why the science really is testable, falsifiable science https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/121788547450272972...
There are multiple competitors with similar plans on the drawing board already. And unlike with geosynchronous orbit, there's no practical limit to the number of satellites in very low-earth-orbit.

If Starlink is profitable, I would fully expect multiple competing networks before long.
Same. I'm almost at 3 years quit, but I've quit for 3 years in the past and then restarted.
Political party elected for money reasons that ignores science is a symptom of the problem, it is not the problem itself. Outdated laws and electoral two-party system is the problem.

Why no “top researcher” ever urges to look at the root of the problem? Why researchers of political science do not sound the alarm to change outdated laws that were written 100 years ago when they couldn’t imagine shameless lobbying, mega corporations, manipulated social networks, and climate emergency that clearly requires different political system to manage it.
>my kids can't get online

Sometimes I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing?
Agreed RE GroupBy being challenging, especially compared to dplyr.

As I've worked on a port of dplyr to python over the past year, though, I've realized the dtype issue (like you said), indexes, and GroupBy being difficult are likely connected. Basically,

* dplyr can chop up a dataframe into 50,000 groups and apply arbitrary functions to it--no problem.
* custom pandas grouped applies are very slow

There are basically three reasons for slow pandas apply methods...

1. creating an index for each subgroup is slow (will not be a RangeIndex)
2. initializing a series for each group is slow (mostly due to type inference being re-run; could be avoided)
3. AFAIK more type inference is run when concatenating results

This leads to a world where grouped calculations can't be run using arbitrary expressions (e.g. lambdas), but have to go through specific SeriesGroupBy methods.

I wrote a bit on how I tried to work around that, to enable fast dplyr-like syntax over grouped data in python. Would definitely be interested in your take! There are other libraries, like ibis that do a good job with it, too!

https://siuba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer/pandas-grou...
Yes and other car manufacturers capital is tied to a return on manufacturing lines of petrol and diesel vehicles so if BMW were to release 7e tomorrow what would happen to the 7 sales.

This is while Telsa is building out a charging network and fighting for a direct to consumer sales model and also possessing a knowledge base of every fault that's ever occurred in it's entire fleet and every Tesla Sale increases the return on Tesla's deployed capital plus a highly dedicated creative resilient workforce that are at the point of smoothing variability and product refinement.

So for BMW to win they have to bet the factory that they will take enough market share while Tesla's quality and brand strengthen. Hence the current share valuation.

Now a lot of people say Elon is a manipulative exaggerator but the fact remains he has built car sensor database company with a carbon advantage that has BMW on the ropes while reigniting a space race. If machine learning can sort the data and it seems to be improving year on year then alot of people who haven't built nearly as much will probably be taking a Tesla to work.

Why do people want Tesla to fail. Economies of scale, improving battery technology and a global charging network and everyone eventually has a cheaper travel option. How revered the founder was is a quite irrelevant.
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Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176032
My dad smoked a pack a day from his teens until age 36. Quit drinking alcohol (another risk factor) around the same time. Took up long-distance cycling at 45. At 55, his doctor was gobsmacked: his lungs were absolutely clear. At 60, healthier than most people half his age, he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Died less than a year later.

Smoking increases risk of cancer in the mouth and throat, not just the lungs. Your lungs aren't the whole story.
The effects of quitting have been part of the quit smoking campaigns here (https://www.quit.org.au/articles/the-health-benefits-of-quit...), so the news that your body recovers somewhat is hardly new. Also these positive ads are the only ones that had an effect on me compared to the usual vilification they contain.

I've been switching to vaping lately which has cut down my smoking a lot, especially when I'm drinking. I plan on switching to 100% vaping at some point and after a couple of months it's starting to happen naturally more and more. Maybe if I get that far I'll lower the nicotine levels and try quitting, but for now it's nice to smell a bit better, breath a bit better and not have a burning hole in my wallet.
That's true along with proper notification support. Firefox for Android has 'Add to Home Screen' and was one of the reasons along with extension support for my switch from chrome.
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I want to know how many american football fields long it is, and how many olympic-sized swimming pools all that plasma would fill up.
Did you purchase these maps from a specialty shop, a dealer, or just grubbing around at flea markets?
For example the $500 call options on TSLA which expire on Friday. They were on-sale all month, giving you the option to buy a share of TSLA at $500 up until this Friday.

Today they were selling for ~$85/share. But on Jan 1 they were selling for ~$5/share, and tomorrow morning it looks like they will be worth maybe $150/share.

30x in a month for a True Believer -- sure wish I had done it!

[1] - https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/option/TSLA...
Wow, this is a magically irresponsible headline by BBC, especially considering the rest of the article. Without a quantifier, the implication is that all damage is healed, which further down is refuted by the buried lede:

> In people who quit, up to 40% of their cells looked just like those from people who had never smoked.

Or, at least 60% of the lungs still resembled the lungs of a current smoker.
I quit 8 years ago after 25 years of a pack a day, yes my lungs are better, so is my sense of smell and taste. Unfortunately my heart and teeth won't magically repair themselves, neither will the scars on my legs from poor circulation due to my hardened arteries.

Worst of all might be the fact that my bank account will never be what it could gave been if only I didn't start, get addicted then squander the thousands of dollars a year on something that was killing me for over two decades.

Aint life funny that way? Nope, nothing funny about it, just regret, remorse and sadness.

If you don't smoke, please don't start it truly is self imposed misery.
The moral framework that concludes that people need to be coddled against making the wrong decision about sharing their face data for stuff like this is a bit condescending. Why do we assume people haven't considered the risks and decided they think either the odds of worst case scenarios are low or they aren't bothered by them?

It feels a little bit like the gun control debate. Taking away people's freedoms because of the possible worst case outcome can result in a worse overall situation.

If people aren't bothered by how facial recognition is used, stepping in and asserting we know better and they need a legal protection seems premature and overreaching.
They are all pretty low-value comments, but only one of them seems to be a nationalist criticism (or two if you count "paid millions to to assist a foreign government - which I think is political but barely nationalist).
I believe there are specific DNA errors that cause a cell to become cancerous.

The effects are not cumulative.

It's about statistics - the longer you smoke and the more you smoke, the more likely you will be to get cancer.
The other issue I see is that, traditionally, it wasn't a matter of the end of civilization if governments took 3, 4 year terms to do something about an issue. For example outlawing smoking in public places.

This issue is so dire and serious but it doesn't fit in the headspace of these politicians and the voters that like them, it doesn't fit their traditional model of urgency.

My tl;dr version; it's too late to wait any longer. We can't wait till these politicians retire for action.
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How long? Not long.

"For Americans, [the deal] will effectively abrogate Fourth Amendment protections, and subject their data to search and seizure by foreign police."

"It will grant real-time access to communications, allowing foreign police to wiretap Americans’ conversations, ignoring the high requirements for a wiretap under US law."

"These extraordinary search powers given to foreign police can be used even for relatively low-level crimes."
We don't have a 2 party system though?
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Makes you wonder if prehistoric humans had more lithium in their diet somehow...
It's demonstrating naivety to think that inaction on climate change is driven by not "listening to the science".

Reactionary politicians are well aware of what the science thinks - they're just prioritizing their class interests.

The economic transformation necessary to properly fight climate is a threat to their status quo power, and so they resist it.

"The science" is very much beside the point here.
I think a solution would be for people to own their own personally identifiable information, in much the same way that a celebrity can own their “likeness”.

Unauthorized copying or use of this information could be simple copyright infringement, which is apparently criminal enough to involve the FBI if you are a movie studio with enough money spend on political donations.
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Ask HN: Anyone willing to share their thoughts on programming with D language?
I considering D language mainly because I want to do C programming but it would be nice to have a much more modern and flexible language that still interfaces really well with C.

I wondered is there anyone out there using D who can offer their thoughts an opinions?
People already gave pretty exact distances in other posts.
Wow, that's a cool one that I hadn't seen before, thanks!