skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Why" section of the AdNauseam FAQ has some good thoughts on this: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#does-the-project...

e.g. "We believe obfuscation is an important form of resistance to data tyranny. It can frustrate surveillance, help users to express their discontent, and act as a communal, rather than merely individual, practice."

I believe the general idea is that by contesting targeted ad technology in general, the eventual goal is move away from that model (which arguably, Google is doing with their big ad "reframing", although I realize this is contentious)
Personality is only weakly tied to political view according to the above comment... so... ?
An easy-to-understand example:

If I got in a faster than light spaceship and traveled to Jupiter, and then turned around and came right back, I would arrive before I left and could shake my own hand on the launchpad.

If we think humans will soon figure out FTL, it makes one wonder why we've not yet seen any human FTL spaceships from the future.
On the other hand their mental coin flip is going to be documented nowhere, whereas the use of ML in their decision could be traceable and they could get sued for it.
Well yes, that's how it works.

Laws create incentives and businesses respond rationally.

I'm personally glad it works.

Businesses are supposed to make money and lawmakers are supposed to set the rules of the playing field to benefit consumers. It's a good combination.
I have a gardener and I'm pretty sure he uses that trimmer like a swiss army knife to trim or cut pretty much anything. This means he'll be busy with it for hours each time. He also never fails to fill too much two stroke oil. Perhaps it's time I replaced it with an electric one.
I gave you a +1 for that. Thanks for the levity.

There's pluses and minuses to everything. As a lot of commenters pointed out, there have been many local ordinances that already do this, and many landscapers ignore them; as do the folks that hire the landscapers.

Where I live, I don't think that we have ordinances like that.

As I work from home, it sucks. Those two-strokes are loud.

https://www.wshu.org/post/david-bouchier-spring-chorus#strea...
Thanks for your answer. Do you use any external libraries? Are there any options?
> How Nintendo can have such a formalised GDPR enquiry process but such sloppy controls is beyond me.

Probably because only 1% of 1% of their customers even bother to notice. I'd be willing to bet money that you were the first person to discover this implementation error.
Most 80v battery powered leaf blowers are in the 5-600 CFM range, same as a 3hp gas blower.
You're not wrong, but a mower can fit a 4-stroke engine; the law would make more sense to ban 2-strokes first.

The real solution here is to mow more often, and on dryer days. Never had any issue with my corded units as long as I keep the lawn short. When it's long, you have to move in a few passes to get a nice cut without clogging things up. Mulching long grass is gross anyway, you'll get way too much grass detritus out of it; I know it's good for the lawn, but again, it makes more sense with a weekly mow and fairly short grass, rather than letting it grow into a field and mowing it once a month or something like that. You get out what you put in.

Obviously that makes more sense for homeowners who do their own work as opposed to lawn companies; I'd be okay with exceptions for businesses, with 4-stroke only.
Why can't we do good? I'd prefer it if we solved global warming before putting in energy toward next-gen video cards but I do understand that some problems aren't simple (i.e. the unhoused issues in particular) and I don't think the easy problems should wait politely to be solved behind the hard and complex ones.
Fusion seems like it will advance the fastest through (a) materials science unlocking better magnets and (b) simulation and physical experimentation with reactor designs, including highly experimental designs.

Computational modeling seems to be helping as well:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/07/so-there-i-was-firing-mega...

Disclaimer: I am not a plasma physicist.
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People might also be interested in sc (spreadsheet calculator): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator)
Strange to me that the constant was defined in two places. I guess it would take a careful code review to notice that.
dosbox has a setting to lock the clock rate at a chosen rate for those older games that are timing dependent like that.
> You've changed your argument. Now you're saying "forget half of what I said"

My only point is that the way you implement change matters and that this implementation will adversely affect the worst-off population.

> It should be uncontroversial given the facts and experiences with these engines that they are awful pollutants, terribly aggravating to communities, and that the world would be better without them.

No controversy there at all.
Is it common to find regular people with this feature in normal life? Other than nobles.
Note that the above is not talking about CO2. Pollutants other than CO2 are typically heavily regulated for on-road vehicles and power generation, and they have expensive systems that prevent a very significant amount of those pollutants from being emitted.

For example, your cars catalyst prevents a lot of pollutants from being emitted -- but your lawnmower doesn't have this device at all.

CO2 is a different story all together -- because it's the primary byproduct.
SVG Tetris
Svg supports the <script> tag. This allows for some very interesting usages.

Other examples:

https://www.scriptol.fr/xml/code/invaders.svg

https://www.nayuki.io/res/full-screen-clock-javascript/full-...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Morphing...
>images were tightly cropped around the face and resized to 224 × 224 pixels
> Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

- Steve Pinker
OP here. This is a great discussion and I'm glad this particular subthread chose not to dismiss it and instead chose to debate the progress of the research into it or lack thereof.

Would be even greater to get NIH to invest $1B into looking into it further.

6 months ago people would have retorted slightly differently, although they would have balked at the assertion they would have assumed that people already researched it and ruled it out, and therefore I would have been "fearmongering" because the scientists already researched it! now we can acknowledge that they haven't and needs to be peer reviewed.

so the goal post has moved, but I'm all for data being collected.
This was in the context of downtown businesses not complying.

And if a neighbor refuses to comply with noise ordinances because they want faster/cheaper lawn care, they already kind of hate you. They're just being subtle in how they show it.
The operator needs to charge them in the truck, and many trucks come with power points.
My neighbour is a builder and he laughs at the guys with big batteries as they lug them about. He carries two or three small ones and switches them out regularly.

Ruined wrists don’t have to be a thing.
Great! Let’s hit the most protected group of all - small immigrant independent gardening contractors. They have piles of money lying around to buy new less effective equipment.
What is it? I'm unaware
> child absolutely cannot rationalize slanted eyes

Some parents are totally clueless.

This is like expecting that children would develop phobia to birds after playing angry birds (have you seen this very obvious slanted eyebrows in the main character?).

A figure with slanted eyes pose the same danger currently as giving your son a tin toy with sharp angles. Could cut their skin if one single child in the planet would find that stuff remotely funny, or accept to play with it for money.

This old fart WWII bomb has been inactivated long time ago. Just can't compete the thousands of positive asian characters that are the bread and butter in the journey of the western child. Unlike 1945 farmers, the pokemon generation are very aware of anything remotely related with japanese culture. Can talk for hours about their favourite asian characters, specially the evil ones, that they absolutely adore.
Just to put these claims in perspective using the paper you have quoted.

> In 2011, approximately 26.7 million tons of
pollutants were emitted by GLGE (VOC=461,800; CO=5,793,200; NOx=68,500, PM10=20,700;
CO2=20,382,400)

To quote other sources:

CO emission in the United States in 2001 was 120.8 million short tons, of which 74.8 million came from on-road vehicles.

Fair to say around 3% of total CO in USA today is being generated by GLGE (Gasoline powered lawn and garden equipment).
I've thought about this for a long time. Whole Foods (AMZN) could build or partner with an OEM to automatically re-order (or suggest for re-order) certain products when they run low (perhaps based on predictive analytics tailored to the individual fridge unit). The fridge should connect to a Whole Foods catalog that associates items with full/empty weights so it can infer the remaining contents. Integrate with Alexa to allow people to ask how much X is remaining or when she thinks X will run out, etc. Integrate with a recipes database so you can ask things like, "What can I make with the groceries on-hand?" or to allow users to place an order for ingredients for a particular recipe (less the ingredients already on-hand). Of course the corollary would be "smart cabinets" that do the same thing sans refrigeration. I don't know why this doesn't exist yet tbh. Surely people would pay a premium on groceries for the convenience.
Yet it is inevitably Europeans who complain about the widely-predicted effects of GDPR, a regulation designed to bring about the world for which you hope... Perhaps Europe is also not in complete agreement?
US companies started implementing it as a result of CCPA. So it's everywhere now
That’s true until you factor in relativity, which the person above you was trying to avoid. Basically, if someone were traveling near the speed of light (and in the right direction) they would see the person get the text on the moon before the person on the earth sent the message. And it’s not just a matter of perspective either, if they had an FTL phone they could see the message received on the moon and then text the person on earth before he sent the message, preventing him from sending it in the first place.

The explanation for this is complicated, however, so I would suggest you look at the links provided earlier in these comments for a more comprehensive explanation.
> images were tightly cropped around the face and resized to 224 × 224 pixels
Carbon emission has an almost direct relationship to the amount of fuel burned, so assuming single occupancy, even older motorcycles do fair better than most cars in that respect.
Particulate and NOX emission, not so much.
Density of busybodies increases as you go up the economic ladder (and then falls off a cliff at the top).

You're gonna have a harder time getting people to narc on their neighbors in LA than in SF.

Even then most people who would narc will just ask their neighbors to adjust the times which they do loud things and most neighbors will do so.
Games lasted longer twenty years ago. It was easier to immerse in the game for this reason

I think part of this was because games used to be about the gameplay, and not about the special effects.

A few weeks ago I got an old Pong cart in the mail. By the time I looked up from playing it, I'd lost half a day.

No special effects. Minimal sound. Irritating controllers. But almost entirely about the gameplay, and not about the game.
Here's how they're pattern-matched:

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/browser/ext...
I am a retired programmer (now software hobbyist) and I am interested in them. :-)
I wish I could truncate the last two paragraphs; I roll my eyes when seemingly everything on this website gets reframed as advice for startup founders (I know, I know, the site is literally run by an incubator)

But I think the fundamental point about the human condition (we are both subjects and writers of our own stories, and taking hold of one's own story is key to finding happiness and fulfillment) is very true and important
Precisely why the new term was devised: dark patterns are not, in general, technically fraud.

They are playing completely within the rules but taking advantage of human psychology to tilt the outcome in the direction the website owner wants (and, it is assumed, against what the average user wants).
The revolution is already here. I had gas powered weedwackers as a kid. Nowadays I own an 18v brushless Makita. It's fantastic, almost as powerful as the gas one was...and they also make 36v and 80v versions that are beyond powerful enough for any job.
If you click "Get Access" you'll be asked to lot into a university account or such
Apple finally complies with latest UK ruling, apologizes for snarky letter
The big weed trimmer companies already make battery powered trimmers. Some of them even have batteries that can be worn as a backpack and can run all day, compared to stopping every 15 minutes to put more fuel in. (as a user this is a mis-feature - (I need that rest, but I supposed the boss likes it, and the people who use these should be in better shape than me)
A good result of this is that the technology is going to get a lot better now that there's a larger market for the electric alternatives.
It's different from the Prop 65 warnings. Unlike those, the GDPR explicitly bans annoying/misleading consent prompts. Merely disclosing tracking isn't enough to comply, consent needs to be:

* explicitly opt-in, so no action from the user means they shouldn't be tracked - pre-ticked checkboxes are not allowed

* it should be as easy to opt-in as to opt-out, so approaches like a big "accept tracking" button but a "learn more" or putting the deny option in the fine print isn't allowed

* needs to be "informed consent", so the user should be made fully aware of what data will be collected and how it will be used

* needs to be granular, so the user should be allowed to decide what data to provide and for what purpose

* optional - you are not allowed to deny/degrade the service if the user does not consent to tracking

The problem is that the GDPR is not being enforced properly. The annoyances you are facing would not be a thing if the law was enforced. It explicitly learned from the earlier "cookie law" which merely enforced disclosure and led to stupid & useless cookie banners with no easy way for the user to actually act on them.
Happy Birthday, ZX81
Sure, but saturated in the same way that sandwiches are in kitchens just before lunchtime. Bibles and other religious goods are consumables.

Really, all you'd need to do to make the point to yourself that belief isn't a finite resource here is change your mind.
Fantastic, as I'd rather listen to the even the cheapest Harbor Freight open-frame generator over a two-stroke leaf blower any time you care to ask me. That set up will pollute less, too.
From the abstract:

> The estimated incidence of neurological or psychiatric sequelae at 6 months was 33.6%, with 12.8% receiving their first such diagnosis [thus 20.8% pre-existing]

From table 1:

33.6% of patients had any sequelae

24% had psychiatric disorders (only 8.6% for the first time)

6.6% had substance misuse (only 1.9% for the first time)

5.4% had insomnia (only 2.5% for the first time).

No other condition was over 3%. (Numbers add up to more than 33.6% (12.8%) because some patients had multiple conditions.)

So it looks like almost 2/3rds of the figure was preexisting conditions.

> Because a strong causality claim like you're asking for is impossible without perfect randomized controls which would be unethical.

I'm not asking for a strong causality claim, merely some effort to restrict the numbers to conditions that might plausibly have been caused by COVID.
Preventing transactions between two third parties (i.e. ebay) is economically similar to refusing to do business with another party. Except that if your in position to do the latter, you're obviously a platform for others, and thus you have a lot more unilateral power to prevent transactions between arbitrary third parties. Which is probably a lot more economic transactions than the number of transactions you engage in yourself. It's like leverage.

So the harm seems proportional to the harm done by refusing to bake that wedding cake for the gay couple.
I looked for a 2500+W battery blower before buying my Echo gas blower. (I'd tried two different corded ones that were underpowered and went looking for something that would actually work.)

I couldn't find one (at the time, probably 4 years ago). Most everything I could find was 1/4 of the equivalent power.
There are some good examples elsewhere in the article responses but this legislation may significantly improve health outcomes for landscapers and provide a non-negligible effect on the environment. Two-stroke leafblower engines pollute a lot.

It's not just about making people feel good or allowing audiophiles to listen to records undisturbed.
Yes, indeed it would. I guess the difference is it's harder to be objective about whether something is over capitalized.
Depends on the style. An plug-in electric leafblower is constrained to around 2HP max (746W/HP) while drawing 12A from a 15A circuit. A handheld gas one will have a 25cc engine and can probably do 2HP max. But the backpack style gas leafblower that landscaping crews often use will have a 50 or 60cc engine that would put out 3 or 4HP, so will be able to blow more strongly.
I couldn’t find a way to contact you—could you specify the filters you used for your cuboid design?
Why would that be the case?

With battery powered chainsaws, the noise signature is much better and quieter.

2 stroke engines just have a way of screaming in their power band.
It's already here. Try the battery powered options from the usual brands (I prefer Makita), they are fantastic.
Yes, but it would be nice if the Steam Client did that for us.
theory: seeing as these are pictures that were very specifically "taken" in a given context - with a camera, by someone, for something (dating, facebook, etc.), would it be possible that the algorithm is picking up differences more in how people relate to those conditions, vs facial morphology? For example in the example photo, i would have also guessed that the model was a liberal. But I think it was more about the something in the WAY she was smiling and posing for the camera, and i guess also her specific grooming - hair and makeup.
Cynical, but... the great thing about the wired ones is that you can run them from a portable generator. Reading the text of the legislation, it seems that this will be an acceptable workaround.
Why would I not just leave my empty plastic bottle on the beach? It's not like the beach is in trouble because of my one bottle. People only avoid littering because they want to be the "good guy".
Julia will be able to generate c-compatible .so/.dlls in a not so distant future.
This is the way.
Having one installed outside changed so much for the better. The noise and dust that I tend to create is much better dealt with by having doors and windows closed.
Where are the outrage crowds when someone uses the word "rape victim" both for the person that was slammed on a pavement, threatened with a weapon and beaten into submission, and the one who had nice sex with the wrong person?
Modern super conducting magnets are amazing. It’s the next generation of miniaturization. We could see fusion in the home by the end of our lifetimes.
That's not what the article says.

The article explicitly describes how most people believe you do consent even if lied to. As does the law.

The article actually is very nuanced, which is what makes it so interesting.
I challenge this. Most games were really short. They were just very quick to kick you back to the title screen. :)
Even if Europeans want it, the U.S. will make sure that isn't going to happen. And they don't need to convince the whole EU and its citizens for that.

EU+Russia is just the worst thing that can happen for the US. Far worst than what Russia+China can bring.
I remember being in high school and visiting the large magnet facility in Tallahassee at FSU (you know, where they levitate frogs). They explained to us that the superconducting coils were made of niobium-titanium alloy, and I remember asking: "aren't there better superconductors?". The answer was yes, there are, but they're insanely difficult to make or something, so we don't consider it practical, "maybe someday".

It looks like "someday" finally got here -- the cuprates are being used in practice.
It's possible, but even if this happens it's still a pretty big win over the two stroke engines that are prevalent in lawn equipment. You'd be surprised at how efficient a modern generator is compared to two stroke engines.
But they aren't deciding what your children read. Just what they list.
Who knew. Being a progressive/moderate makes people more attractive...and improves your sense of humor.
They are out there but a lot of them have moved to batteries due to market demands and more so, building an ecosystem. All the major power tool vendors sell yard tools with their battery compatibility.

I imagine you can get some things corded still. I use battery and corded all the time, but I have gas powered as well.

In a small home (less than 1 acre) I can work around it, on the farm. It's almost all gas. Things like the blower, lawn mower, chainsaws, etc. had bad electric alternatives. We also don't and can't run, 1000 foot electrical cords all over the property.

Corded will always be the better option though. With the drills on the farm, corded offer way more torque! Just make sure you've got isolated circuits for exterior and aren't loading them down or you're popping breakers with a couple of the electric tools plugged in.
> If it turned out to be the wrong decision to have made, you'd at least be fun at dinner parties.

Or you'll regret it for the rest of your life.

This advice only works for easily reversible decisions.
FWIW the Twitter web client can be somewhat easily hacked by blasting it with an interval from a web extension or userscript. It's a bit inefficient and you have to awkwardly navigate the DOM since they're using obfuscated class names but it works and it can be stable.

Here's some example code from a web extension I wrote that removes promoted tweets: https://gitlab.com/t0astbread/no-promoted-tweets/-/raw/maste...
> existence of a book

Wait, sorry, is someone confiscating the book? Burning it? Requiring it be burned? Arresting people who have it? Arresting the people who wrote it? Legally compelling the publisher to edit it? Legally compelling distributors not to distribute it?

As far as I can tell, everyone complaining is upset that distributors don't want to tarnish their brand with certain content, and authors and stakeholders have decided that certain content doesn't match their modern brands. None of these are censorship!

As an author, you are free to write dumb things. As a bookstore, I am free to not sell the the dumb things you wrote. That's not censorship.

As a publisher, I am free not to publish the dumb stuff you wrote for you. That's the metaphorical megaphone, in case that is unclear, and no one can force a publisher to give you one.
I don't understand why this is in HN frontpage. This is just numerology. There is no predictive or mathematical content here, right? Am I wrong?