skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is one way to look at the issue.

In business, when we negotiate an agreement with a business partner, if it is sufficently-sized, we (our lawyers) may include all manner of protections against potential liabilities or losses resulting from the conduct of either party. This does not mean that each party expects the other not to perform as agreed. Rather, it gives us assurance that if something does go wrong, each party has its interests protected, as negotiated and immortalised in the agreement.

Having privacy laws is just the "right thing to do". It is a matter of mutual respect. Even if no one is doing anything "wrong". We still need those protections.

"Gentlemen do not read each others' mail."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber

This idea had to come from somwhere. Perhaps the ethics are part of the human psyche. However, history shows the only way to see the idea realised is to have laws that enshrine it. Without rules, some people will, in fact, read each others mail. And no one will complain about it because there is nothing they can do.

Privacy laws are good for society. They represent our best interests and our sense of what is "right".

Just an opinion.
> and their parents

How exactly do you suggest parents accomplish the surveillance necessary to avoid liability?
Yes, you are right all the workspace data is deleted once the user requests for it to be deleted. This includes everything the user may have done in that workspace.

Also, specifically around the browsers unless the user opts in for save session the workspace along with its data is auto deleted after the session ends.

Furthermore if the user is inactive for more than 48 hours we send a reminder that their workspace will be deleted after another 48 hours. Apologies for lack of clarity in our privacy policy, we will soon update it.
Clouds can also just evaporate if the temperature is hot enough, like in a desert.
Regardless I think it's better to use this kind of method for cloud-seeding then the pumping chemicals into the air, which seems to be the common method.
Not sure about those but it'll be incredibly useful for research grant funding monies. Most research grants are "use it or lose it" so if you have any essential infrastructure, capital with short shelf lives/frequent replacement needs, etc. you want/need after the end of the grant, you pay for it in advance.

A group I worked with bought about 5 years worth of a specific consumable they needed to continue working, 2-3 year service contract with a vendor to maintain aspects of things so some work could continue and be leveraged for future grants, and hosting/software licenses were often purchased for long time horizons in advance, where possible.

With use it or lose it money, you use it. Whether money should be provisioned that way and coming in under budget should be punished is another story...
Bezos’ remark on Amazon prompts backlash over his vast wealth
Writing type-stable Julia code
If they are considered a minor and not accountable, then parents need to be 100% held accountable.
Hmmmm, I use WSL2/Ubuntu and I always navigate to my folder in Terminal and type `code .` from there - works perfectly. Really love this integration.
Maybe nice to note: Even in cities where there are paid firefighters, there are almost always still more voluntary firefighters that respond mostly during night times if there is a demand for them.
Just guessing: A waypoint in a fairly lonely part of the Spanish coast, then a few points so the drone won't fly over cities on its way inland, finally a lonely spot to land.
I love second hand bookshops. The smell of old books is probably up there with the glug of wine into a glass in terms of instead relaxation and visceral anticipation (I don't really drink anymore but I've not kicked the book habit).

I managed to build a decent sci-fi collection almost purely from charity shops. It was fascinating to me to map out the relative fortunes of charities just by their second hand book prices. Cancer charities always seemed quite flush, the shops well kept, the books priced in whole pounds. Charities for elderly people usually had the best prices (and for me the best selection), perhaps because much of the stock was bequeathed in bulk. I'd be sure to overpay for my bag of 20 novels for less than a fiver, it always felt like a steal.

My favourite finds are old chess books, especially old books about chess programming. One of my favourite ways to learn a subject is following its history, from primitive approaches through successively more complex and effective ideas.

It's always been infinitely comforting to me that even these cheap, dilapidated stacks of paper each contained whole worlds, days of entertainment for pennies. I got the same feeling about computers from a young age, the fractal quality of always being able to dive deeper, never hitting walls. In some ways I feel sad that these days I get caught up on authors not publishing the next book in a series (some for many years) or having to wait for the next series of something I've just binged on Netflix, or even being forced to wait for the next episode of something. Second hand bookshops remind me of a different (and perhaps more sustainable) pace of life.
That is a pretty advanced design. It's hybrid gas/electric and the manufacturing looks excellent as well. I was expecting something patched together along the lines of the semi-submersibles that we have previously been shown.

On another note, I really don't see that thing carrying 150kg (330lbs) of useful payload. That would be an aerodynamic marvel for forward flight, and there is just no way those 4 electric motors can support vertical flight with a 150kg payload.

I am just an r/c hobbyist and would love to know if I am off on the payload somehow.
This sort of electrical/pedalling hybrid is an interesting space, but one where legislation is often a real downer.

I’m currently planning to build a velomobile that I can live out of while cycling round Australia for a year. A trailer too, designed around a digital piano and some sort of fridge (either a production model or one constructed manually from a compressor).

It’ll end up heavy enough¹ that I’ll want to put a motor in it, so that for local journeys I can get from Point A to Point B more quickly and more confidently dispose of my car, and because otherwise when touring there will be some hills that I simply can’t climb, and that 200–250W² should make it possible (though probably still not easy).

So then I figured, how about a fully electrical drivetrain? Even with the best components, it’ll still be a bit less efficient than a well-maintained chain³, but getting the chain and front chainrings out of the way would be great, making the decision of how to facilitate sleep much easier: go quadricycle (rather than tadpole trike, which is two wheels at the front and one at the back), then to sleep tilt the seat back flat, and shift the pedals/generator a bit out of the way, and there’s no chain to worry about so you’re ready to sleep in the vehicle.⁴

Unfortunately, the legislation is drafted in such a way as to forbid such vehicles. Excerpt from Victoria’s Road Safety Road Rules 2017 <https://content.legislation.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2...>:

> bicycle means a vehicle with 2 or more wheels that is built to be propelled partly or wholly by human power through a belt, chain or gears (whether or not it has an auxiliary motor)

The way they keep talking about power assistance as the use of an auxiliary motor is troublesome, and this potentially doesn’t even allow things like hydraulic, shaft or electrical drives. But then, what is an electrical wire but a belt for electrons?

—

¹ Though nowhere near the the two-seater Twike’s unladen-save-batteries 246kg. I’m aiming for a this-is-my-home practical loaded long-term touring weight of 125kg, including things like 50kg of vehicle and trailer (including all vehicle electronics), 12kg of piano, 12kg of fridge, 12kg of battery and 5kg of solar panels.

² Broadly speaking, Australia currently has two classifications: 200W with no speed limit, and the pedelec 250W but limited to 25km/h. Finer details vary by state. Not sure if you could legally get away with producing 250W if pedalling and under 25km/h, or 200W if over 25km/h (and pedalling, in some states); “an auxiliary motor capable of generating a power output over 200 watts” hangs quite a bit on the interpretation of the word “capable”.

³ An electrical drivetrain could easily be better than a poorly-maintained chain.

⁴ The main alternatives I’m considering include making the vehicle expandable in a way vaguely reminiscent of a pop-top van, and a larger and/or expandable trailer and sleep in that. But I don’t want to be messing around with tents every day.
For years I have seen the USA grab taxes from lottery winners - yet they do not allow people to claim the amounts they pay to buy lottery tickets. The same for gambling.
This is crooked on it's face, as we know the casino makes money and is taxed on that, so on the whole the bettors lose money. Same with the lottery. Strictly speaking the aggregate of deductions would exceed the winnings = zero tax due - but no, they tax one and not deduct the other. The US tax authority (IRS ~~= Inland Revenue in the UK) does this, yet the IR in the UK does not tax winnings or allow deductions of bets - this is simple fraud by fiat against the people, and the IRS has a huge infrastructure devoted to this. I suspect it is based on the so-called christian label 'evil' attached to lotteries/gambling?
Of course it has its own cryptocurrency.
> Do you think other engineers think this way?

Yes, and that's correct. If your skills go as far as building a 1-meter tall wall around a patio you are not an engineer.
I rarely click on my bookmarks, but I use them very frequently. It's a way to pin an important thing into the personal search engine that is my (Firefox) address bar.
The size of the fine illustrates a sort of perversity here. If paid who's actually getting the money the state or the victims (family of the deceased). I'm quite sure many will think blood money abhorrent but why should the state get any either?
I do mention my side open source side projects, but not side hustles.
> this list of phones that were targeted

isn’t this just an assumption at this point? what makes you think those were targets?

> How can we continue to allow orgs like NSO Group to exist if they surely can’t keep something like their entire target list safe?

what exactly is the difference to the NSA leaks from years ago? they couldn’t keep their secrets, allegedly same as this company.
I am working on an app to solve the issue of making friends and meeting like-minded people.

https://www.trypoppin.com

If anyone is interested in co-founding and located in NYC, let me know. Ideally with front-end or mobile experience and design oriented.
It looks like one big species, after all.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiregional_origin_of_modern...
Does that cost £1400 per year per user, though?
You want your side projects to help you get the job. They must demonstrate as achievements instead
of hobbies.

For this reason, I'd default to no, don't list side projects, unless you make it a strong argument for the position you're applying to.

Are you a major contributor to a tech used in company? Have you written a book about it?
Did you grow a community? Have you reached significant traction or revenue?

Any yes to one of the above, if they relate to the position, can hint you into mentioning your side project.

Other than that, your side project will be seen as a hobby and not an achievement, and will be disregarded.

Note: some nuances may apply, so take this as the generic advice it's meant to be.
> Do you dispute that people generally acquire a replacement phone if theirs is stolen? Do you dispute that phones have the same environmental footprint whether they’re an upgrade or a replacement for a stolen device?

No, i dispute that locking phones reduces theft. Because as i've explained, unlocking phones is perfectly possible and there's an entire gray-market industry dedicated to that. But yes i dispute your last statement, because it is true on an individual level but false on a collective level. If you get your phone stolen, you will buy a new one, but on a global scale, stolen goods are still circulating and therefore do not lead to increase in production of devices, and therefore has ZERO environmental impact.

> I don’t want activation lock removed from any device.

Then you truly are an enemy of the planet and the people, because you wish to keep your owner's privileges just for yourself and don't care if you have to set the entire planet on fire and ruin lives for that. I hope in a few decades, when we are struggling for basic survival (eg. finding drinkable water that has not been polluted by silicon/lithium/oil refinement), you remember that it is your choices and your acceptance of this fucked-up society that took us there.
Make-me-admin holes found in Windows, Linux kernel
The fact that superdeterminism can violate statistical independence is what lets it violate bell's theorem, right?

If so GP's statement is just backwards: Super-determinism is a kind of forgoing statistical independence
U.S. Life Expectancy Fell by 1.5 Years in 2020, the Biggest Drop Since WWII
> It's not clear even to me, as a student of ML, what it means to release NN weights.

While such questions seem reasonable the first time you encounter them, they have been thoroughly answered for similar things: For example, for source code, releasing the code handwritten on toilet paper is not a "preferred form of modification" (as the GPL requires). A public web site with ASCII code is. In the past, a CD shipped by post also was, but I don't know if the situation there is changing.

So, for the weights of a deep network, it's pretty clear that any reasonably documented format for loading the weights into memory would do. That could be one of the well-established matrix/tensor blob formats, or a pickle file, or HDF5, or whatever. Nobody thinks that Stockfish would fight them over the exact format chosen.

As for the training parameters etc., and the questions you get into there, those seem indeed to be open questions when it comes to FOSS and deep learning. Debian has started taking its first steps in thinking about how this all relates to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, for example: https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy

> I don't know; I want to agree, but this is fraught with peril.

Yes, the legal world often is. It's full of words like "reasonable", "expectation", "preferred", etc. But I think you're overcomplicating the matter. There is definitely a gray zone here, but ChessBase GmbH are not in that gray zone, they're clearly far into the wrong.
This is something I have been thinking about. Tech to continuously record audio and video will become ever cheaper, smaller, and difficult to detect. There will eventually be mosquito-sized drones watching us. Children born into that world will not have the same expectations of privacy that we have. I wonder how they will think about it.
Modi's approval rating has taken quite a hit recently though. Your point still stands. Even after the hit in ratings those would be the envy of many.
Document a big system from interviews and not from source.
The frameworks you're familiar with
That multiple, independant, well-regarded and thorough lifecycle analyses of recycling have consistently shown it to be both financially and environmentally (including but not limited to carbon output specifically) beneficial.

edit: I removed a "not" to clear up the ambiguous double-negative. Summary, my position is that science says recycling is a good thing. Numerous media stories will focus relentlessly on any small flaw in it, either to get a reaction from the people who do it and think it's a good thing, or support the people who fight against it for political reasons as it represents (like global warming) a massive failure of free markets.
PES renamed eFootball, goes free-to-play, digital-only
Is that a true statement? Has Peter Watts transcended his humanity and entered the ethereal realm of gods where he is no longer subject to that which he claims humans are subject?
> Stop fantasizing that the government cares about the shit you buy.

While I do think there's a case to be made that it's none of the government's business how many times per week I visit Starbucks, my main concern is big tech companies, banks and insurance companies collecting this information about me, and using it to build a profile based on which they place me into different groups or more or less privilege, offer me different deals, or otherwise manipulate me and my behavior.
Just a quick looks suggests it is a big issue. Hard to get firm estimates (presumably because we only know about the people who get caught) but one estimate has it at 7% of total expenditures of $700 billion which puts it at around $49 billion / year.

https://safeatlast.co/blog/medicare-fraud-statistics/
Python, works quite well, golang works super well. C++ and JS are reasonable. Rust, you might as well turn it off. The more popular the language overall, the better it does. Swift and Kotlin might have too little to have refined the model on.

Another thing: I was using the free version in beta so it was effectively the full blown version. It worked super well. I changed jobs, changed hardware, and haven't set up my key yet (hopefully still grandfathered in) but it's felt not as good - the output is a lot shorter, for one. I would likely get the paid version if I lose my beta key. But it's weird that you have the paid version and it's not useful.

It's also possible they nerfed the models over time in the name of some other tradeoff, like cpu or memory. May still be able to configure it. But I distinctly remember it spitting out entire lines or chunks of code, exactly as I would have written them.

It works best when you are writing stuff similar to your own codebase. Perhaps try vendoring some Swift or Kotlin in your project dir to get the engine to fine-tune on it?
I've never understood why flying cars should have lower needs for maintainence.
Minimal type-2 hypervisor for Linux written in C
Tour of the Sacred Library – Come walk with me for a while through latent space
That is method overloading, which isn't the same as multi-dispatch.
PES Has Been Renamed EFootball, and It's Fully Free-to-Play
Wow, are we recursing? Yes of course it's Apple's fault. Apple could allow to remove the phone locking mechanism on the condition to fully erase data on the phone. That would make their phones suitable for second-hand market and as a consequence more eco-friendly.

But they have decided to go against right to repair and against basic principles of ecology. Just as they have, in other fields, decided to go against basic principles of interoperability (Micro-USB/USB-C charger? Jack plug? Standard screws? who needs that, right?).

So yes Apple is harming users and is harming the environment. No amount of greenwashing can undo that.
China debuts fastest Maglev train
Yaya Mbaoua: Pan African Technology – Chat with Disruption Now's Rob Richardson
Hey, thank you for that :) I never remember whether HN strips all punctuation after urls or just periods. And thanks for the good luck charm.

It’s really an interesting question to me, so if you have thoughts on the NN weight distribution issue, I’d be curious to hear them independent of whether the post is on the front page. I honestly don’t know how to properly distribute NN weights according to a license, which is a weird feeling since I’ve released quite a few.

I suppose a tensorflow checkpoint would be fine. It just seems insane to me that Fat Fritz would refuse to do that after releasing their source code, given that they have to distribute the weights anyway with their program. I was trying to apply the principle of charity, but it’s true the company may have unilaterally refused to “release the weights” (somehow) even if it harmed their position and resulted in a lawsuit.
As the tragic ED-209 incident showed us, inadequate training datasets can have deadly consequences. The machine never saw a nicely dressed white man holding a gun and couldn't figure out the gun was dropped.
That is only likely to apply in very small-scale environments or companies.

And if only a single binary is produced, quite likely a single source code repo would be used as well - sounds like 'single developer mode', well 'small team' at most.
For me (on mobile) it said right on the homepage. And then after loading a few megabytes of data a cookie wall popped up so I guess they need consent for stuff I don't want...
One more, hinted at but not explicit in your list:

The variation in task requirements for a vehicle is high, so it is economically efficient to buy a single vehicle suited for as many tasks as possible.

If you can acquire a limited vehicle for a much lower price (including parking, safety, and other externalities) it can be useful to do so -- but the limited vehicles are generally too expensive.
What about pratyekabuddhas? And why would one expect The Buddha to have an answer other than The Buddha?

Sincerely, a stream-enterer.
Almost all modern velomobiles are build by Velomobile World in Romania. There is a italian dealer for them:
https://www.velomobileworld.com/dealers/

It is probably a good idea to do one or more test drives first, so you know what you are getting into and what is important to you.
>There’s nothing quirky, loveable or wild about school massacres and an aggressive, poorly trained but hyper-militarised police force.

Neither of which has anything to do with the second Amendment, and ready, free access to firearms. The school shootings have much more to do with our criminally underfunded education system, and so overfunded law enforcement with terrible perverse incentives, warrior instead of Guardian ethos, and the complete dissolution of all semblance of high-trust culture through incubated multi-decade corruption.

Solve the right problems first. When teachers can't even count on specialists to help with the hard cases in schools, and social workers are stretched as thin as they are, that's what sews the field with the seeds of desperation or anger driven slaughter.

And don't think it'd not happen without the firearms. Once you go over the edge, you find a way.
I don't blame them I blame the parents. If my dog murders you I'm to blame but not if my kid does.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – the forgotten immunisation pioneer
The obvious advantage for the smugglers is that there is no person to get busted.
Thanks for linking to that of post, I always enjoy his articles and hadn't read that one for a long time :)
That's why collectors introduce grading to these things, they desire rarity and grading provides it.
EVs and Plug-in Hybrids cost less to maintain than ICE vehicles. [1] Over 200k miles, ICE vehicles are about double the maintenance cost of EVs or Plug-in hybrids, and EVs are slightly more than Plug-in hybrids.

-At 50k miles; EVs $600, Plug-in $1,050, ICE $1,400.

-100k miles; EVs $2,000, Plug-ins $2,600, ICE $4,400.

-200k miles; EVs $6,300, Plug-ins $5,900, ICE $12,300.

EVs use about 30kWh to go 100 miles [2][3] and at the US national average for electricity [4], that would be about $6,250 to drive 200k miles. ICE vehicles vary but 35 mpg combined is pretty average [5] for compact cars. At the US national average for gasoline [6], that is $18,070 to drive 200k miles. Plug-in hybrids use about 29kWh to go 100 miles and about 48 mpg [7]. Just assuming 50/50 driving on gas or electric, that’s about $9,610 to drive 200k miles.

So maintenance and fuel cost over 200k miles would be roughly:

-EVs $12,552

-Plug-in Hybrids $15,510

-ICE $30,370
Little known fact: you can be forced to be a `voluntary` firefighter - in case there are not enough real volunteers in your area.
Oh interesting, Ruby doing something similar as well, although not official.

[1] https://twitter.com/ioquatix/status/1386594287085780992?s=20