skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't apologize! Dude was sixty feet away still standing in the street when I got out of the car, I didn't say anything and neither did he. He looked me once over, waved me off, and forgot me.

And that's just my point. Based entirely on how I looked, he judged the incident to have been a harmless accident and not worth pursuing, despite that I had a felony charge worth of dope in my front pocket at the time. Pretty important, if you get to make that bust! But he never had any idea of the chance that passed him by, because, to him, I looked like somebody who wouldn't.

What I'm saying is, think for a minute about how that could've played out differently if, in that cop's eyes, I'd have looked a different way.
I would encourage you to study peaceful revolutions (e.g. Mahatma Gandhi). Protestors protested against unjust laws by filling up the prisons. One can't be afraid to lose money or time when taking a moral stance. You are ofcourse doing this at great personal expense because you believe you are correct, not for external praise or glory.
I am sure you are satisfied, your police force kills civilians at a rate 1/3 that of the US. What techniques work there that we are ignoring? Does your police force use de-escalation? Majority of ours does not.

Perhaps the problems that the police are meant to solve are in part caused by the police? If I was always treated as a suspect after a while I may start to become resentful. If I was a minority representing 13% of the general population but represented 38% of the prison population I may start to become resentful and argue that there is a problem. Your argument that just because people live in peaceful 7-figure neighborhoods they should be grateful to the police for suppressing the riff raff, poor and minorities is very grating, classist and very much racist.

The NYPD has a budget of $10 billion dollars, and the only limits imposed on it were to please stop beating, murdering, framing and raping people. If those limits are too stringent I am not really sure where to go from here.
One thing that appears to be missing from your blog post is evangelizing, you should spend a not insignificant amount of time contacting potential customers, partners, and employees and let them know what you are doing, your progress, etc. You will be surprised at how often people will pop up to offer help.

Of course posting your blog post here is a great example of evangelizing, so keep it up.
> The easiest thing to do is to simply not take electronic devices with you anywhere in the world, otherwise there is a slight risk of someone wanting to understand the information contained within it.

I think people seriously misunderstand the range that the Border Patrol has--its far more than the US and Canadian borders. Portland Oregon, for example, is within their grasps due to the coast + 100 miles being considered part of the border.

So, you could be never leave the country and be caught up in their web quite easily. I wouldn't be surprised if 70% of the population of the US lived within their range.
Taking up patches to code is also taking up vulnerabilities and bugs they carry. Even assuming good intentions, a gift of code is a gift with a burden attached, and should pass deep scrutiny before getting accepted.

Sad as it may sound, free code doesn't come for free.
Spend time working on any high compute application, and you'll spend cycles on it at every stage of the development and maintenance cycle.
> How about showing me a sound final (100k yr) storage for nuclear waste, built and ready, before you operate any more nuclear reactors?

Bury it in bedrock with no aquifer. The only scenarios where this results in waste being exposed are borderline hyperbolic: somehow society collapses, all knowledge of radiation is lost, and some future civilization decides to dig up a waste disposal site. The US already built one of these, but then the government killed the project for political reasons [1]. Europe is building a facility in Finland [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
Oh no, I've been back several times.
Based on OP's arguments, I am not so sure he sees this as a bad thing.
IMO: I'm not sure I want the 15 largest tech companies having as much policy influence across the globe as they do. For that reason, it may be reasonable to 1) resist them, 2) encourage others to resist them.
Here's an alternative to the various toolkits and HTML hacks people are posting: How to do a cross platform GUI? DON'T.

As a user I expect applications to stylistically conform well to the native UI rules. I want a Mac application to look and feel like a Mac application, and an Android app to look and feel like an Android app. When an application uses one of these "cross-platform toolkits" I can tell instantly by using the application for a few seconds. Odd things around scrolling, menus, mouse hovering, how things re-draw when you resize the window, etc. They make your toolkit-built app stick out like a sore thumb. Yuck! Some toolkits are better than others, but I'm pretty sure I can always tell!

Sacrifice a little to do your users a favor: Build all the business logic cross-platform, with an API layer callable by whatever the best native language is, and do the UI portions of your application with the platform-recommended native tools.
In the UK, I've helped run some of the ninja bookshop crawls. There are usually guided routes that take you through independent bookshops - they are always interesting and great for discovering bookshops and the cities themselves.

Independent and second hand shops have really benefitted from these events and they usually offer discounts and gift bags for crawlers

https://www.ninjabookbox.com/london-bookshop-crawl
Sounds similar to Tesla and including the cameras and computer for AP but enabling through software. I don’t really have a problem with this but I wonder the implications of building DRM into basic car features like a heated steering wheel. What happens if I swap my steering wheel with another junkyard part in 10 years? Is it going to detect tampering and disable features because it thinks it’s being hacked? What about the legality of working around this by running power directly to the heating module, is this somehow detectable and could be a breach of contract somehow?
Not all of those numbers are equally likely though.
To help with the 'defining' bit, I've been making a conscious effort to separate work from home over the past few months in a few ways. Even though I'm at home and nobody sees me most of the time, I get into "work clothes", even if it's just a T-Shirt or polo, and trousers.

At 5-6PM, I'll shutdown the laptop and put it away, out of sight, and get back into "home clothes". The acts, despite its placebo effect, helps immensely in switching to home mode.
What feels like an obvious solution (and is therefore probably wrong), is that excess renewable production can mitigate that in two ways:

1. Instantaneous excess can electrolyse water, producing hydrogen which can be converted into methane and stored/used in existing natural gas systems.

2. Overcapacity in good times implies proportionally higher production in bad times, lowering the storage requirements.
> After finally decrypting the first one, I believe it was just static noise :)

That sound fishy, was there any metadata to confirm it has been decrypted? That's the thing with encryption, it's just math, it won't "fail" anything if you got the wrong key, you'll just get random data back.
Answer me this...if an EMT is able to administer ketamine via injection to an "out of control" "suspect" at a "crime scene", lethal dose or not, why on earth couldn't the police officers, who are armed, protected, and highly skilled in restraining individuals, subdue the subject with handcuffs and or leg restraints? Perhaps some pepper spray, or a net gun that renders them to the ground unable to freely move about?
The brain is a heavily cyclic graph. We're not there yet ;)
In terms of there being no law, it could be worse, you could be in eg Japan, where the police openly cozy up to the Yakuza and intentionally allow & support them in operating as a $6 billion per year criminal syndicate that de facto runs Japan's business and political systems with zero opposition (it's not even illegal to be a member, nobody will touch them). Now that's fully institutionalized zero law jurisdiction in action, they don't even pretend in Japan, corruption is an integral part of the fabric of the system. The law is whatever the Yakuza says it is.
You can properly dispose or recycle anything non-radioactive with enough energy, heat and oxygen. Soon this process will be powered by excess renewable energy.

Still less toxic than coal.
The Art of Search
In my hometown I've seen about half of the used book stores disappear within the last 10 years. There are a few still hanging on, but with rising rents and fewer people reading it seems like their days are also numbered. Which is a shame because to me aimlessly perusing through old stacks of books is very enjoyable and somehow comforting. I love the rush you get when you come across some rare book you've spent years looking for, or when you find some new book you didn't know you wanted. Going on Amazon and ordering the exact book you want is easy and convenient, but I don't think it can replicate that feeling of discovery.
Tangentially related question for the hackernews audience: When you learn, do you do so on company time or personal time?

I often feel like if I'm not "working" (IE; actually producing something) then I'm somehow cheating the company. This doesn't apply for the simple "trial-and-error" stuff that kind of comes as a part of the job, but sitting down to read a book or watch some tutorials etc; I could never imagine doing in the office.

But this _is_ work according to my long-term partner.
In that case we can extrapolate that and apply the argument against things like a pack of baseball cards or MTG cards. Everyone wants that MVP player or the Black Lotus, but you never know what you'll get until you open the pack.
Not really dumb if you only use a GB or so a month anyway.

I have a 7GB plan despite using less than 1GB a month, because that's the next plan up after 1GB (and I like to have some wiggle room above 1GB)
Agreed, but there are no legal defenses against having done 2.

Civil disobedience requires breaking the law. With that comes the possibility of being legally prosecuted. Civil disobedience requires accepting that. And in fact, a large part of the effectiveness of civil disobedience comes from the fact that people accept the risk of arrest.
Is it? Evolution itself seems like an expansionary process but it doesn't seem to follow that the outcomes of the evolutionary process are expansionary. It seems like many species are evolved to very specific environments like caves or thermal vents that they will stay in for generations if not for thr duration of their existence as species.
That, the chance to happen upon something you didn't know you wanted, is what adds to the charm of second-hand bookshops.

A few weeks ago I picked up Umberto Eco's Misreadings in the second-hand section of our local bookshop. It's a collection of short stories from the mid twentieth century translated in English in the nineties. I grabbed it for a closer look because the author was known to me (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum), and because the back of the book introduced one of the stories therein as a pastiche of Nabokov's Lolita, wherein a certain Umberto Umberto (heh) pines for an elderly lady referred to as 'Granita' (incidentally, 'Nonita' in the Italian original).

That story was a delight to read and totally worth it.¹

I also would never have found, never mind purchased that book online. My biggest source of books is a yearly book-fair (in Deventer) where I will gladly spend hours trawling through banana boxes for cheap paperbacks and random chance finds. (Except this year due to bloody you-know-what.) So hurray for the serendipity of second-hand bookshops!

1: Anyone who has read and enjoyed Lolita ought to read this short Umberto Eco story: https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/08/24/granita/
Lots of second hand bookshops are combined with coffee shops. When consumers become comfortable going to coffee shops again, those places will likely return. Meanwhile, current owner/operators will lose.
The balance of tracking mounts is not trivial.

They increase efficiency a lot (up to 40% for dual-axis trackers) but they also decrease ground a lot coverage, they increase cost of installation and cost of ownership, and they decrease availability.
Sure, but that has nothing to do with the comment it was in response to, which does in fact not say that.
> People do not really take kids seriously, and they especially do not take young girls seriously. (How many times have you read articles about how great Fortnite is, with no mention of Roblox?

I have never heard of Roblox!

It was discussed though a few days ago here on hacker news I learned through a search. Interestingly through a specific nerdy lense:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24221010
The math is isn't advanced, any high schooler would've encountered it. Brush up on the basics of exponents and logarithms and you'll be fine.
> Information is stored for 75 years although if it’s not related to any crime it may be deleted after 20 years.

I wonder if you have your house burned down and you want your digital pictures back, can you ask them to give you a copy of their backups? That's the only thing that storing this data for this period of time is useful for, but I guess they won't hand it over.
> This generally results in the cold start problem

If I'm an online store with 100 products, couldn't I just punch the products into Amazon on a fresh account, then copy the search results? 100 products would maybe take me 20 minutes to do a day, but if you're saying there's a 4-6% lift, seems like it's worth it?

If it was 1,000 products, maybe I do this once a week for 200 minutes? Etc. etc.

Here's what'll happen: Your online store won't have most of the products on Amazon's recommended list. Isn't that the problem?

So no matter what, don't I eventually have to scale to Amazon size to get the value out of collaborative filtering?

Maybe no small business has that real supply chain. They are just front-running other stuff. But hey, that's their prerogative - to try to be Amazon without doing the stuff that actually makes Amazon successful.

> Netflix Prize

They don't even use those methods anymore. And that competition was much more about how to do IT and ensemble methods than any one particular approach, since that's how you get to #1.

Netflix Prize is sort of the opposite narrative of what you're actually doing. If you're seeking something that normal people recognize, just stick to talking about Amazon.

> Do you think our approach seems interesting, crazy, lazy or somewhere in the middle?

At least the premise doesn't square away.

Considering the data gathering, it seems easier to do user-product collaborative filtering.

Considering the math, it seems easier to do user-product collaborative filtering. You can bootstrap weights data for a e.g. non-negative matrix factorization collaborative filtering from existing recommendations.

Is there going to be something important encoded in the image or metadata you can relate to other things? It seems easiest to just use the keywords. Like you don't need a picture of guacamole to know it goes with tortilla chips, it's in the keywords.

Then again, the whole point is to find serendipitous stuff from your existing user data. If you only offer 100 products, none of them will serendipitously be shopping carts together because that's so few products. It's already curated to such a degree collaborative filtering will not find anything you don't already know.
Minimal Computing
All books in the last ~50 years have a barcode already printed on them, and an ISBN printed inside. Any phone camera can read these. If you assume 15 seconds per book at pace, 40 books per shelf, 6 shelves per bookcase, and 30 bookcases in the average store, complete digitization of a collection should take only ...

Edit: Responding comment is quite right, original calculation mistaken. It's 4AM here. 40 × 6 × 30 = 7200 books × 15 seconds ÷ 60 ÷ 60 = 30 hours, so <4 days assuming 8 hour days. Or 1 day if you can speed up to 5 seconds per book.
Better than whom ? Do you seriously think that Switzerland is after you ?
I assume the parent is referring to the web version, where a big warning is output on the console of the browser’s built-in dev tools. I don’t know of any way for a website to disable the browser’s dev tools.
I don't know what they are writing about. PV wafer reclaim has been around for at least a decade, at least in China.

Reclaiming a cell is as easy as polishing off its surface layer, which contains most of defects, and resurfacing it.

A much more crude method just heats up the cell to the temperature where most defects from solar radiation disappear, but not hot enough for dopants to start diffusing more than they should, and then reselling it as a lower spec cell.
What does "custom domain for connected email accounts" mean? Isn't every domain custom? Do you mean anything that isn't @gmail.com?
Don’t go to Canada either. They also force you to unlock your phone.
Make it look like one of theses 100 TB SSD too, it should take 48 hours to backup one alone as it use SATA 3.
> You might change your mind on that after a bit of reflection; it doesn't make sense. We produce a bunch of things that are going to be hazardous forever - I always point to lead when nuclear comes up.

This is actually a particularly apt comparison, because Uranium is a toxic heavy metal that affects the body much like lead. Nuclear waste is toxic forever - but it was toxic before it was used as nuclear fuel, too.

I portray it this way: buried in the ground there's toxic uranium in unknown locations. We're taking all this toxic material and putting it in a known location where we can monitor it. And in between we use it to generate carbon free energy.
Hey, I'd be interested in your local trello. I was meaning to write a todo-app based on best psych best practices, especially only presenting the highest priority ( = urgent * important) item at any given time. I also wanted to add ordered sub-tasks, due-date, and time estimate features so that the urgency ramps up automatically as the remaining time to complete a task approaches the estimated length of the task.
Tesla has lead the way here.

This is nothing different than software as a service.

Because the backend will require constant employment and overhead of skilled programmers, this business model makes sense as the vehicle becomes more and more of a service provider. Nothing different than turning on and off satellite radio for a monthly fee.
“Free as in puppy.”
If the police kill people, scrutiny should happen. The same is true of doctors, dentists, or any other profession with serious consequences to people's wellbeing.

If you can't handle that scrutiny, change professions.
This is amazing. Thanks for sharing! Didn't know about netron.
A lot of farmers are leasing their land to solar developers because it provides guaranteed, stable payments.

Though "we" as a whole are not limited by land, individual economic actors are limited by how much land they own.

Additionally, interconnection to the grid and node congestion are becoming larger percentages of the cost of solar, since they are roughly constant as the cost of solar plummets. Farms are somewhat ideal for medium size solar installations because they often have significant existing grid connections that are underutilized.

Now that we have economical solar tech, the actual implementation of solar installs will be highly dependent on regulations, economic motivations of individual economic agents, the knowledge and intelligence of thistle agents, and combinations with existing infrastructure. (For example, we are seeing batteries being installed in old fossil fuel plants, so that we can reuse those super expensive grid connections.)
We [0] use a combination of Elastic’s “More Like This” query (which uses the said vector spaces et al) and view, clicks and sales data and ML (behaviour on—site). This prevents the Cold Start Problem and improves with more data.

How does your scraping hold up against the already pretty effective More Like This query in ES? That one is backed by years of research and gives very good results.

[0] https://www.conversify.com
More for less is now bad? I thought it was the definition of progress?
Daily reminder: THERE ARE NO GOOD COPS. Do not cooperate and do not trust them.
Typically they're shaped differently, but US forces in Iraq / Afghanistan use the same type of structures built from dirt-filled barriers. They're highly effective if the enemy does not have artillery and / or air power.
> only those technologies that agree with my aesthetics!"

This is an exceptionally bad straw-man [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_debate
This is confusing to me because it seems like you're responding to the golden example of how this problem can be dealt with - the nurse refused, the corrupt officer was fired, and the relevant law was changed when it was brought to light. What could change in this story to make you more comfortable?
How to delete all your files
Who’s the gatekeeper we trust to decide what can and can’t be published?
I think you're drastically overstating what happened regarding Swiss banking secrecy.

Switzerland agreed to FATCA, which only applies to people subject to US taxes and allows those people to refuse to have their information shared with the IRS, in which case the IRS has to specifically request it.

The "massive changes" you mention essentially consist of banks asking you if you're a US person and then, for the big banks, making you fill out a bunch of paperwork and for the small banks, refusing to open an account for you. If you're not subject to US taxes, there's no effect on you whatsoever.

I think the _much_ more interesting thing, which is unrelated to the US (as it's not a party to the agreement) is the AEOI [0].

Anyhow, Switzerland is still very much a sovereign nation and the fact that it has agreed to give limited financial information to the US, with consent of the account holder, does not change that.

A fun bit of proof: copyright infringement, one of the US's pet peeves, is still very much alive in Switzerland. It's your legal right to make as many copies of something as you want and give them to your friends and family [1].

And ultimately, the US' power over Switzerland is quite limited due to the referendum system. Any change they'd like the government to make has to have the consent of the people. The Swiss are quite protective of their privacy so I don't see the US having any success weakening that.

[0]: https://www.efd.admin.ch/efd/en/home/themen/wirtschaft--waeh...

[1]: https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19920251/...
>It is sub-optimal to not have a coworker to bounce ideas off and rant about problems to. A lot of times it’s these conversations that help you gain clarity.

Corollary: The optimal communication outlet is your users. Your friends and coworkers might just tell you what you want to hear. Your users will tell you what they need from you in order to make your product.
For this reason I'm with a telco that just locks me out when I reach my cap. The only thing I can do at that point is purchase an add-on package (which is good for the rest of the month) and then the internet is turned back on. When outside the EU, it locks me out by default unless I purchase an international data package.
For maximum effect you'd want to use something like RSA-1024 which is "just" weak enough that they will take a wack at it, but also strong enough that they'll expend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of compute attacking it. If you use something "strong" like RSA-4096, they probably won't bother even taking a look at it.
Roots of Conspiracy Theory with Dr. Quassim Cassam