skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've changed your argument. Now you're saying "forget half of what I said".

I agree that second-order effects need to be considered, certainly. That is the point of phase-in periods, which this measure had.

Is it long enough, or substantial enough? Should small businesses be able to apply for exemptions, or interest free loans for new equipment, for example? Perhaps.

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.
>What is politeness but acting in a manner that is respectful of the sensitivities of our peers?

How do you deal with bad actors? How do companies like ebay deal with bad actors in this realm?
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In the UK, there's another law called the PECR in place that may supersede the GDPR in this case.

I've had multiple merchants get back to me after such a complaint claiming that under the PECR they're allowed to send further marketing solicitations following a purchase.

I haven't pushed it further so no idea if this is actually legal or if the GDPR supersedes it.
I have a battery powered leaf blower that I wouldn't dare give up for a gas one. The ease of use and volume difference is amazing.

It wouldn't be great for large commercial estates, but the runtime is more than enough for most homeowners.

I have a second battery to swap and fast charge, but I also have an abnormal number of messy trees on 5 acres.
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I’ve had to clean up many teams whose weak managers tried to isolate them in mini-silos

This is the entire concept of Scrum, isolate the developers so the only contact is through the scrum master and the product owner. I agree it is a methodology for weak managers.
I have no idea how people figure this out of test it out, but I find it very interesting.
The summary:

While studies have not yet collected four months of data on vaccine effectiveness after the first dose, the first two months of real world effectiveness are showing sustained high levels of protection. ...

Short term sustained protection is consistent with immunological principles and vaccine science where it is not expected to see rapid waning of a highly effective vaccine in adults over a relatively short period of time. Extending the interval between doses was shown to be a good strategy through modelling, even in scenarios considering a six month interval and in theoretical scenarios where waning protection was considered.

NACI recommends that in the context of limited COVID-19 vaccine supply, jurisdictions should maximize the number of individuals benefiting from the first dose of vaccine by extending the interval for the second dose of vaccine to four months.

So basically, it makes theoretical sense, looks beneficial in total, so let's consciously adjust the vaccine administration regime we studied.
>> Baldur's Gate took me weeks to finish.

The great games have no "finish". Where is the finish line in SimCity? Factorio never really stops, just getting bigger each time you play. I don't like SeaOfThieves but I appreciate that it is about playing rather than winning. And I cannot be the only one who has never bothered to kill the ender dragon.
Hey all, I'm the one of the authors of the conference paper discussed here and was quoted in this. Glad to see it's interesting to HN!

Wanted to briefly highlight a couple points that I think will be interesting to the HN audience.

One of the major goals of the paper is to describe a framework of three "data levers" (ways a group of people can hurt or harm a data-dependent technology). Data poisoning (well known to ML people for a long time) is one of the three "levers". The other two are "data strikes" (withhold future data and/or delete past data via deletion request) and "conscious data contribution" (ala conscious consumerism — give data to a firm you support and want to compete with incumbents).

A major point in the paper is that there are some big differences in terms of barrier to entry, legal considerations, ethical considerations, and ability for a data lever to be impactful. Basically, for any given company + technology, there's probably a particular data lever that's a "best fit". It might hard to organize a large enough "data strike" that will meaningful hurt a huge company's search engine, but conscious data contribution could help improve a competitor (esp. if that competitor focuses on search verticals). On the other hand, data strikes could be really great vs. facial recognition, because there's precedent of forcing companies to delete actual model weights ([https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/11/22225171/ftc-facial-recog...).

Another point is that there's some nice connections between levers. On the topic of data poisoning defenses: if you've been feeding poisoned data, and get caught (quite likely for naive attacks, as noted below), the company deletes your poison and you've just been "reduced to a data strike".

A final point: the paper discusses implications for folks who work in ML, design, HCI, and policy. There's great opportunities to build to tools to support data leverage, and for ML researchers to "bake in" data leverage (e.g. compute a performance v. dataset size learning curve to characterize how "vulnerable" a system is to data strikes). Also, there's huge potential for win-wins with privacy regulation: data deletion and data portability both enhance the public's leverage.

I'll end this long comment now, curious to see what others think (and appreciate all the comments already here!)
Was it a Sonnet? Those were pretty enough to justify it.
If you’re looking for a typed BEAM language with great interop with Elixir and other BEAM languages, have you seen Gleam?

https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam
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Easy on Android with automation apps like Tasker. I would have assumed Shortcuts on iOS can do it too, but I don't have first-hand experience with it.
It would be ironic if this forced landscaping companies to all buy noisy diesel generators to run constantly so they can charge a bank of batteries while running on another set.

On the other hand, a single big diesel generator is less harmful to the environment than a bunch of 2 stroke engines. It could theoretically even get some pollution controls that would be too heavy and expensive for the power equipment.

Or maybe they'll buy those F150s with the built in power bank and have the truck idle to charge the batteries. That would be even better for noise level and the environment, as the truck comes with modern pollution controls.
We could just give them money, but that idea is too taboo for the vast majority of Americans who believe the only purpose of government is to make the individual suffer.
A lot has changed, including nutrition. I would not be surprised if 17th century skeletons and body builds were observably different from the contemporary ones. In fact, at least height and weight of an average person is fairly different compared to the past.
Yeah I think the hexagon property holds whenever you have a set which consists of 1 and 5 mod 6 numbers.
There is a difference between libertarians who support liberty and "libertarians" who mostly just want there to be less government spending on anything besides military weapons.
Should also add, here's the pre-print link for the full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09995
The revolution is obviously coming. The big manufactures probably support this as it will force their customers to replace working equipment with their new battery lines.
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That are gestated in artificial wombs and reared by robots? Sounds like we'd be better off freezing people.
I believe GDPR is supposed to be implemented in every participating country's legislation, so the GDPR was implemented in UK law and this remains the case even after Brexit. Nothing prevents them from amending that law and repealing the GDPR's effects on it though.
Yep.

All prime numbers above 6 are of the form 6n + 1 or 6n + 5, everything else is a factor of 2 or 3. If you make a choice that occurs on primes then no choice will be made for the 6n + 2/3/4 cells. This gives a well defined pattern since this is setup so those no choice cells are the ones that could go outside the bounds.

You could also create a shape with 30 sides and a similar pattern since all primes above 30 (235) are of the form 30n + 1, 30n + 7, 30n + 11, 30n + 13, 30n + 17, 30n + 19, 30n + 23 or 30n + 29. Everything else is divisible by 2, 3 or 5.

In fact you can do this sort of thing with any set of factors. There will be regular gaps in primality. Set the starting point so that those gaps in primality only change the direction on the inward sides and you'll confine all numbers within some larger shape.
Hey guys, it's estimated that 72.6% of people will access the web only via their phones by 2025.

Most people end up sharing templates with thousands of others, only because their website builder didn't offer an easy way to make them unique.

This is a website building platform with a mobile first approach, and is focused on building unique sites.
I echo this sentiment. It's either getting too expensive (people) to police laws with sufficient numbers, or we are not interested in offending people or doing the dirty work of putting teeth behind laws in the name of "equity" (for some things).

I hate half-measures that inconvenience those that follow the rules, and do nothing to punish those who break them.
I agree that the metaphor of war/battle/conflict is appropriate in numerous scenarios of arguments.

I took away from the book the (I think) important point that if you have different goals (than fight) but use the word "argument", many people can buy into the (wrong) metaphor and you are now cross purposes.
(Edited)

I assume you mean:

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents... (2015)

"All Nonroad sources account for approximately 242 million tons of pollutants each year, accounting for 17% of all VOC missions, 12% of NOx emissions, 29% of CO emissions, 4% of CO2 emissions, 2% of PM10 emissions, and 5% of PM2.5 emissions."

What's "Nonroad" isn't clearly defined here, so I assume it's quite a lot more than "Gas-powered blowers".
I think it's not unlikely that they might be charging their equipment off of a truck mounted generator (or the truck itself) which is good news - since most generators and all cars are far more efficient and generally better muffled than leaf blowers.

Leaf blowers churn out a bunch of monoxide due to the generally poor motor design.
From the above cited paper:

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), accounting for 24%−45% of all nonroad gasoline emissions. Gasoline-powered landscape maintenance equipment (GLME; leaf blowers/vacuums, and trimmers, edgers, brush cutters) accounted for 43% of VOCs and around 50% of fine PM. Two-stroke engines were responsible for the vast majority of fine PM from GLME.
The marketing people moved to fisker and EV's: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fisker-battery-promises-500-mile-...

Apparently, after coverage in EVERY blog, news article, etc, they dropped it last year.
And some humans may be very good classifiers, or would be if trained.
I have an electric weed trimmer, lawn mower and leaf blower. They are quite a bit less noise than gas equivalents I used growing up. The one huge downside is that these devices are pretty big energy consumers and battery life is horrible.

My yard is tiny and I’ll routinely go through 2 240WHr batteries each time I cleanup my yard. I couldn’t imagine how annoying that would be with an actual big yard. Also good luck if you go on vacation and come back to tall grass, my electric mower (I have one from Ryobi) that struggles to increase the torque well enough to handle it.
If anyone's looking for an Auth0 alternative, I recommend checking out WorkOS.

It's like Stripe for enterprise features, including SSO/SAML, Directory/SCIM, and more.

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Heh, Optical DX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing#DX_Communication
Not OP but Ill share my bingo board.

Murder

Statutory Rape/sex tourism

Numerous drug violations

Tax evasion
Did it? If you control for gender but not sex, you can use the difference to predict ideology. And for ethnicity, there are subethnicities that matter too - white Italian and white German have different proclivities.
> who wants to rat on their neighbors

You'd imagine there would be more busybodies or easily-disturbed people who would be phoning anonymous tips over noise complaints. Maybe they would be doing that more if knowledge of the law was more widespread.
> If you read up on this issue, the effect in the real world is that businesses buy electric blowers.

I wonder, between the two of us, who has spent more time actually making money by doing landscaping.

A large portion of these 'businesses' are 1-2 people who scraped together whatever they could to get the equipment to make a living. Many are low income. Many sacrifice heavily in their personal lives to be able to make ends meet.

The lie here is the notion that the bunch that go the route of 'organic landscaping' are representative of the entire group.
They're just going to use Electrics and Generators. It doesn't really solve that side of the problem. A different approach would be needed to reduce noise pollution, such as Operating hours etc.
For everything under ~4hp electric is definitely "nicer" in every way but only if you pony up for "nice". The 18v trimmers and chainsaws that are comparable in cost to the low end 2-stroke stuff aren't nearly as good (yet).
Electric equipment already exists, no "path" is needed.

And this isn't going to harm immigrant small businesses, because everyone's in the same boat. It's not like non-immigrant businesses get to continue using gas blowers.

Price will go up a little bit for consumers as everybody switches over to electric.

But we're not even talking a massive capital investment here. Weed whackers don't cost $50,000.
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These are the kind of advances we need in fusion research. Who knows what these new magnets will unlock.
when a rich person tweets something and makes a ton of money it's market manipulation.

When a hedge fund tells a journo to write an article it's business as usual.

To be clear: I think both are worthy of the same scrutiny. The double standard is what bothers me.
I’m a huge fan of Stihl and their range of battery tools.
One weird little idiosyncrasy is that while their battery range are interchangeable, they don’t work as you’d imagine. The bigger batteries have more charge, but the biggest one also gives more power/torque (when used on a chainsaw). It’s something to do with the cells being wired in parallel or something like that. The difference is very noticeable.
>I'm interested in learning if there are alternative credit cards available that do not track/resell your purchase history.

While they certainly do track many things (I was an employee for several years), American Express does not provide information to credit reporting agencies (Equifax, TransUnion, Experian).

While that doesn't help with more mundane tracking (although you could buy Amex gift cards for cash, but that would be the same for any other gift cards), it does impact some of the more insidious tracking that's been going on for decades.
Highly depends on the Aldi. Mine does indeed start with bread but has Veg at the end of the first aisle across the refridgerated goods. I would guess that the position of the bread depends on the infrastructure, specifically where the baking station can be built.
The problem is that the GDPR is not being enforced properly. The GDPR explicitly bans annoying/misleading consent prompts, so this shouldn't be an issue 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.
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My apartment is across the street from a shopping center, and they have all maintenance work done at night. This includes using leaf blowers to clear off walkways. The noise is absolutely ridiculous to have at 3 in the morning.
Blower noise is way louder than cars if that’s what you were referring to.

The reason I’ve been hesitant to complain is it feels wrong to go after the (mostly working immigrant) landscape companies the Palo Alto NIMBYs have all hired to do their landscaping.

I assume a lot of them are probably commuting from far away.
At the end of the day lawn service gets more expensive, but assuming the city can strongly enforce the law it should become more expensive more or less equally across the board so there shouldn't be any direct winner or loser from the policy. The companies would theoretically lose a few customers that could only barely afford the service in the first place, but I don't think it would cost many customers in the end.
This is why it's dangerous to have centralized chokepoints on the web. A true resilient Internet would have no single point of failure, yet here we are.
I played this on the PlayStation 1. It was the biggest pain since you had to swap discs constantly but it paid off as it felt like playing a movie. It also didn't click in my head that Mark Hamil was the lead until some time later.

I love the author's write ups but honestly I need to set aside time to read them thoroughly since they're so dense. Thanks so much for these!
That's a good point. Not to mention that mobile providers and tech companies can, and do, volunteer private data to police and authorities without a warrant. I believe Apple was one that pushed back on this.

It is time to declare the old argument, since it's a private company it can do what it wants, and free speech should not apply, dead and outmoded. Yes, the 1st Amendment. But it's time to rethink the entire moral fabric that has informed us before the Internet Age.

What I find positively shocking is that, myself as a lifelong progressive, am seeing Woke people using that free market argument, to promote censorship and what they call antiracism. I think it goes hand in hand with large megacorporations like Amazon and Bloomberg promoting wokist ideology.

Bottom line, they want more, not less control over our minds. They know what's good. We must ask someone with a Ph.D. in __ Studies to tell us what our ethical path should be. It's positively insane.
It does! Thank you. Something we've debated internally. Really good to hear it from a potential user.
I bet it's really good at identifying nice asses
The market finds a way.
I don't think he ever said such a thing. Do you have the source of this claim?

Some back story:

"Through the years, there were some attempts to build type systems on top of Erlang. One such attempt happened back in 1997, conducted by Simon Marlow, one of the lead developers of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and Philip Wadler, who worked on Haskell's design and has contributed to the theory behind monads (Read the paper on said type system). Joe Armstrong later commented on the paper:

One day Phil phoned me up and announced that a) Erlang needed a type system, b) he had written a small prototype of a type system and c) he had a one year’s sabbatical and was going to write a type system for Erlang and “were we interested?” Answer —“Yes.”

Phil Wadler and Simon Marlow worked on a type system for over a year and the results were published in [20]. The results of the project were somewhat disappointing. To start with, only a subset of the language was type-checkable, the major omission being the lack of process types and of type checking inter-process messages."

https://learnyousomeerlang.com/types-or-lack-thereof
Your comment lacks any explanation at all. Why is the term 'dark patterns' 'psychological manipulation and fraud'?
I don't know how much grass you have to deal with, but before renting, I had a small-to-medium sized lawn to mow, and I just didn't mow in heavy, damp grass. The electric I had supplied way more than enough power to mow everything I had to cover without a hitch.

I can definitely see it becoming in issue on larger areas, with larger weeds or, in less dry weather, if you really _have_ to, like landscaper services, maybe. But for the average suburban lawn maintenance?
Battery powered blowers exist and are just as powerful. A cord (as others have noted) can't deliver enough power for the job and so they have to run it longer. However a battery can deliver just as much power as an engine, for only a little more weight.
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I would like to recommend an alternative to the leaf blower called a 'rake'. It takes no time at all to rake a lawn, the exercise is good for you, emissions are low and the noise levels are safe. How many times have you seen someone blow leaves away, only for the wind to blow them straight back.

A rake is no use for starting pulse jet engines, however.

https://youtu.be/zsXWspo5hrc
Could be. Until better battery alternatives come up. I don’t think a battery can be charged very quickly. Even with an on-site generator. So they will have multiple batteries. At which point it might be better off charging them overnight.

It will reduce noise across yards. It will increase efficiency. It will cause more ewaste. And it will definitely raise prices.

Yeah it’s ridiculous.
page 7 and figure 2, "GLGE represented nearly 4% of All Emissions of VOCs and 12% of All Emissions of CO"
I dislike both forms of noise. Getting rid of one doesn’t necessitate getting rid of both. Noise is known to be hazardous to mental health and we definitely make more than we need to. This is especially so with yard equipment.
I call a spade, Love. Everything arises out of Love, even your so-called "evil". Love is the first movement. You could unfasten societies overall moral compass and you're not going to do diddly-sqat to the Unconditional Love that permeates all that is. But don't believe me, I'm just a Dark Wizard with nothing to lose, I have embraced the Heart of Darkness only to find the Light, I know-see everything as Love, transcending time and matter and mind itself, the subjects we speak of are absolutely arbitrarily absurd, as is Love itself--have you ever impregnated yourself and burst forth like a sea-monkey giving birth? Remember Love.
Guinea pigs also lost the ability to manufacture Vitamin C; it's hard to blame that on their development of agriculture.

It's also not necessary to eat a rich diet to maintain levels of Vitamin C. Everything alive contains it. (Even the guinea pigs.) The things that suppress it are probably things you would associate with "rich food", like cooking and long storage periods. Eat one onion and you'll get far more Vitamin C than you need.
Quite possibly. The magnet as a key tool for harnessing the immense power of nuclear reactions is only just now coming to light, most recently when Dr. Indiana Jones survived a nuclear blast by hiding in a fridge covered by a variety of small magnets.
> Landscaping companies will be running gas powered generators to charge their batteries...

Which, even accounting for charging losses, will be less polluting than backpackable two-strokes, and less close to where workers breathe, so, mission accomplished, whether the pollution concern is environmental or worker health or both.
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