skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL, but last year a bought a house in the UK, and all the conveyancing was done by email, except for one digital signature which used some third-party secure stuff for one particular document (can't remember exactly what, I'm afraid). No faxes.
Several "Citation needed" in that comment.
Similar story with a company I was struggling to contact (in 2019?) to solve an invoicing problem. Phone calls and e-mails were no success, I was always getting useless answers (when I got any) and interminable wait lines. Magically the problem solved a day after I faxed them a letter.

Thing is, nowadays faxes are used so rarely that when they are, they immediately catch the attention of the recipient (assuming they don't end up as PDF in some mailbox that nobody opens... this happens too).
They're talking about it and waiting to see if `?` pays off in C# and Kotlin before moving on it.
Investing in renewables and mandating efficiency is great, so I’m not picking on those parts of your post. But why do people talk about things like recycling, banning plastic waste, etc. in the same breath as discussion of CO2 emissions and climate change? They are completely separate topics.

In fact I think the recycling and banning plastics movements are actively harmful to climate change mitigation because they give people a false sense of security: “see, we’re doing something!”
The only thing I dislike about this is these tools aren't available to the common person. Tax is extortion and theft: either pay or go to jail, and if you refuse, especially if you're a person of color, the police will show up with guns to harm you.
> The question must be: "what can I do to enjoy life as much as possible within the current framework and without stealing from my neighbor?"

And what about the next generation(s)?

Climate change might have disastrous consequences in my life time (I’m early 30s) but it’ll pale in comparison to what coming generations have to face. Whatever we can do today to give them a leg up is valuable.
The US had excellent wind/hydro/solar resources but we’re not exactly ahead of the game, we just use a lot of electricity per person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country

Honduras is a standout at 14.9% solar, India ranks 7th at 7.5%, US is at 2.8%.
As someone who has worked with bgp off and on for over 20 years, I suggest looking elsewhere for information on BGP.
> And here’s a strawman fenced syntax:

You might find MyST interesting! Personally I’m counting on it to succeed (after painfully realising reStructuredText never will )

https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Oh no, a problem that isn't clear or easy. Better wash our hands of it and call it a day, huh.

If we can convince countries to stop killing their own people, we can convince countries to curb their emissions. We are not doing close to enough, and the measures we have taken so far can hardly be counted as half-assed.
Libre-SoC 180nm Power ISA v3.0 ASIC Submitted to IMEC MPW
The fact that most dependently typed languages (which have a much higher propensity for complicated exhaustiveness checking when pattern matching) don’t use a serious SAT solver for this makes me doubt Rust would ever need to.
JWST isn't a probe like Voyager. It's job isn't to go to other worlds and see what's there. Its a space observatory. It does exactly the same job a telescope on earth would do, just in space. The reason why is to avoid light pollution and the interference from earth's atmosphere.

So that fuel isn't used for going places, its for aiming the telescope and keeping it steady. Once the fuel is gone it can no longer control where its pointing. If you cant aim a telescope then its useless.
I've often wondered if Apple were to put their computational photography magic into a traditional camera (DSLR or similar), what would the result be?

I'm thinking if it were a good idea, then Canon, Sony, and Nikon would all be doing that.
A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake
ElementaryOS was kinda polite in a modern mac-like way last time I looked.

Or are you referring to mac os 7 style? There was a project awhile ago to implement finder-like file windows. Forgotten its name.
Somehow every anti-vape campaign I've seen that tries that argument only makes vaping look more desirable. "Flavors so good that kids don't find them gross" is a pretty decent draw.
What about marketing as a smoking replacement product? There are people who smoke and don't plan to quit. I recommend them to switch to vaping.
The solution to that is for savvy consumers like us to band together and form a non governmental ratings agency that gives a stamp of approval to products that meet a repair standard. Same as “certified free range” or “certified kosher” food.
Or if we insist of policy intervention then we should just force companies to have a label specifying if the product is repairable or not. That on its own should be a sufficient intervention to influence buying behavior but maintains free choice for everyone
"Do you have a source for that?"
Science Moved Beyond Peer Review During the Pandemic
I don't understand the argument here.

Yes, sometimes code is returned that is a verbatim reproduction of the training data. This can be prevented if need be.

What I really don't understand is how some people are complaining about GPL'ed code being used for training.

What's the difference between a machine looking at the code and learning from it and a human being doing the same. As long as the code isn't patented, there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to look at GPL'ed code and implement the idea using my own code.

In other words, is - according to those who think using GPL'ed code for ML training - every implementation a derived work if I looked at GPL'ed code that implemented the same algorithm? Where's the line that separates plagiarism from original work? Is there even such a line? Does it matter whether the GPL'ed code is encoded in human neurons or network weights after looking at it and if so, why?
French court convicts 11 of harassing teenager who posted anti-Islam videos
As far as I know, there isn't a formal copyright-related US court ruling (yet anyway) of training ML/AIs on any media (except for copying the code of an ML). So everything is actually on thin ice, much like the infamous "GIFs [from snippets of shows etc.] are widely believed to be fair use", which in reality is still untested. Let's not forget other countries, with much stricter copyright rules (especially moral rights).
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Having talked to climate change skeptics myself numerous times, you've hit the nail on the head. Wish I could upvote this more!
Isn't incremental compile disabled currently? I thought they found a significant bug and so turned it off until they could validate a fix.
Where did they say they’re not building? Building your app does not mean you install the modules every time. Some apps are so large they have to be split into chunks / layers anyway. In golang this used to be the way you’d add deps, check the entire source into your version control.
"But that phrase doesn't really express curiosity, more unwillingness to accept. Anyway, it isn't a quote."

-- Alfred Einstein
I'd be totally fine with UX designers having final authority on these matters if more of them were actually good at UX design. It seems that UX these days just means making interfaces that match some arbitrary opinion of "beautiful" without any actual regard to what works and doesn't for a user interface. I miss when actual UX designers did actual studies to find actually good ways to put interfaces together.
What is the Western Digital example that your are referring to? I may have one or two of their products
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Calling it “public” code feels like doublespeak. It’s most definitely NOT public domain code — it only happens to be hosted on GitHub and browsable (but not copyable) by people. “Source available for viewing” is very different from “public property” as the phrase is commonly understood: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_property
Ear wax is genetic - and linked to armpit odor: https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/ear-wax-and-body-odor-its-g...
It’s also a tragedy of the commons problem. If one country does the right thing, it doesn’t stop everyone else from carrying on as usual.

There are debates right now in Germany about how German steel producers could become uncompetitive internationally if stricter emissions requirements come into force as planned. I assume the same sort of debates crop up anywhere that makes any attempt to address climate change.
Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of the administration of services?
We are a small team with a growing number of *-as-a-service dependencies. What do you use to keep track of the administrative aspects? I’m talking about payment plans and information, access rights, usage, licenses, etc….
Don't worry about the haters. The market of Mac users who need more efficient meetings who'd pay $10/m for that and don't care about using an Electron app (or don't know what one is) is huge.

This looks pretty useful. I like:

1. Templatized meetings. I do this already - I pull up templates/new-client.txt, duplicate it (most of the time), and then take notes. It's annoying to do. Hera's workflow is really nice.

2. Rules to pick a template based on meeting title is really useful

3. It's not clear what "Streams" are. I grokked the mental model while watching the Loom screencast UNTIL you the Rules section and you brought up the concept of a Stream. No idea what that is but it made me think that my mental model for the software was incomplete.

4. I love that you export to todo apps. Many note taking tools assume you're not using another todo app - Hera acknowledges the reality that you almost certainly are. A vote to integrate w/ Things.

5. It seems like Hera is an ephemeral place to TAKE notes, but not necessarily KEEP notes. Like a scratch pad where notes are taken and then disseminated to a todo list or Slack/Gsuite/Notion. Is that the intention? Related: a vote to export to Evernote please.

Will definitely try it out. Good work!
That's a solution with more problems. Different liceases with the same code would be a conflict. Different liceases making a bigger function would have mix liceases.

Probably would have been smarter to just use bsd. Perhaps they tried that and failed Is it too late to rerun the model? It feels like it.
Sorry, not sure how to make a constructive conversation in the face of semi-ad-hominem attacks or attempts of labelling with some fringe movements.
> If we can convince countries to stop killing their own people

We haven’t actually been able to do this. Not even close.
We can also be the target market giving feedback. The idea that everyone who doesn't agree with you isn't the target market would revolutionize product management if true ;)
I don't need software developers to believe in my project. I am not working on some groundbreaking "save the world" project, just on some boring business applications.

I don't need believers. I need professionals instead, that will do their best during the working hours, and implement things as requested, even if they personally think the project itself is totally nonsensical.

However, what I would expect from developers is to be professionals and strive to the high technical quality of implementation, even if they don't believe in the usefulness of the project.

EDIT: Looks like I was not clear about my role. I am not some business owner messing up with the technical decisions and asking developers to "be professionals" and "do what they are asked".

Instead, by "being a professional" I am arguing that we as a technical team need to focus on the technical implementation of the business request, even if we don't believe in the business value. We can tell business if something doesn't make sense to us, but in the end it's their responsibility. We should not push our view of business requirements upon them, as much as we don't want that business push their view of technical implementation to us.
The US has tried and failed for 80 years to close its southern border.

Unless you're suggesting the US station ten million soldiers on the border and shoot anyone who tries to enter (hint: this is not politically feasible) closing the US is hopeless.
"All your code are belong to us" ... :(
It might be the most-repeated phrase, but I wouldn't call it a quote.
Yeah, especially on HN there's lots of whataboutism. As you can see from other responses you got, a lot of people get really defensive for China and are very eager to carry water for them - for apparently no reason. For them, the US has to be the worst offender, and if some other nation does equal or worse - they need to jump in as keyboard commandos to go to bat to make sure it's clear the US is public enemy #1. It was kind of true in 2003, of course, but the world has changed so much and their talking points haven't.
so, are you implying that this is tool is actually a status symbol to show off to other founders and your (less fortunate) employees?
ML novice question: is this atypical when training models? Wasn't GPT-3 trained on a lot of copyrighted data? My gut instinct, which is based on very low-information, is that it would be pretty hard to train models if you could only use open-licensed material.
Cool thought. Completely skips over the reality of 2008, and the auto industry though.

Johnson was one example. I highly doubt Toyota or anyone could carry them at the time alone.

What about ContinentalTevis? What about Bosch Automotive? Delphi? Packard? Amphenol? Yazaki? New Venture? Dana? Allison? Vector? ETAS? How about the literally thousands of suppliers that all make one or two things or exist only to certify this or that? This wasn’t just these companies but a large portion of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois.

You missed the entire point of the interconnectedness of the automotive industry.
Yeah, that is my understanding too. I don't doubt that there existed forms of martial arts in ancient Korea, but I doubt there is a straight lineage from back then to modern TKD.
Well, we’ve got to! and it would be nice to open up the game to different assumptions. Like, I tried Covid zero in this game, and although I never got to zero it ended up minimizingz the deaths. Games like this can be useful for at least explaining ones ideas even if the games aren’t “realistic”.

I think for decarbonization, you wouldn’t need to take as drastic of steps is taken for Covid. But if your policies are unpopular, it will be a lot easier to lose political power as the timeline is ten times as long. It only takes slightly unpopular policies to be kicked out of power. So I think that aspect would help people who think we can do extreme measures for climate change (ie abandon most of the suburbs in a decade for denser urban cores more easily served by public transit) kind of temper their views a bit and think of more politically viable methods of fighting climate change (electric cars, etc). Of course it be nice to be able to modify the game to explain other arguments, like effects that redistribution might have making those changes more politically viable. But of course like most kinds of social science Model, it’s really more of an explanation/exposition than a prediction
There are lots of examples of where science has gotten it wrong. So what do we do, philosophically, with this fact? It is possible that the 97+% of climate scientists are wrong in their beliefs. Let us ponder this possibility and assign it an unknown probability of X. Let us now ponder the following two facts.

Every known example of where science has gotten it wrong is also an example of where science has corrected itself. The overwhelming majority of the people most knowledgeable about climate science believe the massive amounts of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution are largely responsible for the disruption of the weather system.

Is X sufficiently high to discount the previous two facts?
Scientists are studying perturbations of Earth’s orbit to see the effect that has on climate. Some study the effects of solar dynamics on Earth’s climate. It’s not that CO2 is the sole culprit. It’s that CO2 is the one we can control. It’s not that climate doesn’t change it’s that we are changing it faster than nature can change. It’s changing fast enough that there will be dire consequences to the current world political system.

Of course more governance is needed. The free rider problem mandates that the solution be enforced by government.
That would potentially be an infringement of the copyright of the photographer but in any case it’s an infringement of the personality rights of George Clooney.

You aren’t allowed to sell someone’s likeness without their permission. You don’t need an AI for this if you create a portrait of Clooney and sell it or make any use that isn’t covered by fair use he can sue you.

Depending on the composition of the picture for example if Clooney is naked and say Putin is riding in the “bitch seat” of the saddle then you also are quite likely be open for a libel suit as well.
YouTube is recommending videos that violate their own content policies
A new report from Mozilla shows that YouTube is recommending videos that violate their own content policies and harm people around the world.

That needs to stop. Watch to learn more about.
There's many things you can potentially do at a loss of performance. E.g. train it on all the code initially to learn the general rules better but then finetune only on the subsection that is of the right license or write something into your inference that checks how close to existing code the output is etc.
The standard patterns that frequently emerge within languages are often low complexity special cases of potentially more powerful constructs and usage paradigms.

I might start with a simple for loop:

for(int i = 0; i < limit; i++){
...
}

And then decide that I can make it more concise:

for(int i: [0 .. limit]){
...
}

But I still need the base form, for less likely scenarios:

for(int i = 1; i < limit; i <<= 1){
...
}

A language or its libraries can support new cleaner forms for fundamental structures and frequently repeated boilerplate constructs - but it increases library/compiler complexity, cannot always be predicted ahead of time and often sacrifices power for specificity and apparent language simplicity.
Is this because women are especially virtuous or is there something else going on?
Who is "us" that are being served?

I'm not the biggest fan of copyright law as currently written, but I wouldn't say that MS's desire to file off the serial numbers on every piece of public code for their own profit is a good impetus to rewrite the law.
The patent and trademark system needs work, but the baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater.

There's so many kinds and examples of egregious behaviors by patent holders that you have to wonder if we're just better off with starting from scratch and deal with the tradeoff that may come with it.
I think what turns people off of this is that the phrase “Citation needed” carries an additional connotation of passive-aggression and is not a great way to ask for a source. It’s most notably used (outside of Media Wiki) as a rude way to say, “I challenge you to back this up” at best or “I know this is bullshit” at worst.
The register's motto is: Biting the hand that feeds IT. That should tell you something about their articles, although they also frequently have substantial articles.
> So Marlboro buys 35% of Juul and now Juul is advertising recklessly and inviting an e-cig ban or heavy regulation.

I’m disappointed this transaction didn’t get more scrutiny from an antitrust perspective.
xkcd 538 ($5 wrench) is also up there
It does seem a bit hypocritical the poster's part if we assume he used the worst possible energy source. AC is a comfort and luxury. If we assume that climate apocalypse is impending, then going without a few comforts would seem reasonable.

>there's no political will or consensus to combat climate change; it's also not a one nation issue.

Think about this in the context of the warmist's proposals for limiting energy consumption in the developing world. People who've never had access to AC at home will be priced out of the market due to rising energy costs. Those who have no electricity will have to wait longer or perhaps never enjoy electric lighting.
I actually found the Touch Bar to be useful for IntelliJ shortcuts compared to unwieldy keyboard shortcuts. I liked the volume control as well. But these conveniences were not so important that I missed them when switching to a linux laptop. It was just nice to have without any downsides.
Is removing ports really equivalent to tyranny? Is it damning that modern computers don’t have floppy disk drives anymore, or 56k modems, or VGA ports?

At what point in a technology lifecycle does discontinuing support for that technology stop becoming “tyranny”?
Why would there being too many of something imply that there are specific members which should be removed?

If we allow the population to stop increasing we can _maybe_ find a way to live sustainably on this earth. No one existing person is "extra".
We're just another animal on planet earth that consumes resources and takes up space. There is some saturation point where no more people can fit and/or no more people have the resources they need to survive. Ideally, the alarm is sounded before that saturation point. It may sound bad to say there are too many people, but it would be a lot worse if we got to the saturation point and billions of people suffered.
Ben Chilwell Sends a Strong Message to England Teammate Luke Shaw
You're correct in the short term but Venus only has four times the nitrogen content of Earth which might sound like a lot for now but in a fully developed Dyson swarm, will prove to be inadequate. It might turn out to be a non issue since we might be able to simply transmutate it into existence by recycling more abundant materials with fusion but there is still a lot of unknowns with the actual engineering constraints of controlled fusion.
This is so very true. I've definitely worked in those environments where threats are used to try to eek out more performance, and the net result is lower performance. As the article says, you need buy-in from your developers, and if you are a problem, they will solve you instead of solving the problem they are supposed to be solving.
Oof this kind of adversarial us vs them doesn't sound great!

In well functioning product teams everyone should be working together to make a better product, recognising the roles and strengths of each other. If this isn't the case, then your org has bigger problems.
People are afraid that this unfairness will leave them without money. There's a thought that if the US has laws to limit altering the climate, China (ever the bogeyman) will continue to pollute and have a crushing economic advantage because of it.
Expo and React Native Jobs
Clean air and water have nothing to do with climate change. Climate change is caused by relatively tiny concentrations of CO2, which is perfectly safe to breathe, and not “dirty” or a pollutant in any traditional sense.

If you think of climate change and imagine superfund sites, factories dumping sludge in rivers, etc., then you are conflating two concepts that are only tangentially related.
Innovators absolutely do get their stuff patented, but it's no guarantee that they will continue to act as innovators rather than rest on their laurel. The current 3d printing scene was held back by pioneers in the field until patents expire. You could say that today is really the golden age of 3D printing.
How does caching effect this? are you’re devs / build processes not doing clean installs?
I find it somewhat funny that Propublica articles keep on making the front page, even though they have a clear very left leaning bias. Just look at the last hit piece on Peter Theil[1] and his use of a roth IRA (which is completely legal and just savvy finance).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27743427