skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments don't need to secretly plot to be despotic. They're fairly open about it.

Here we are discussing a government demanding that they are able to access all private communications in order to ensure it's all perfectly legal, and yet you don't see this as despotic.

So it's not a conspiracy, because so many people don't even see it as despotic they aren't afraid to do it in the open.

Losing the ability to have a private conversation online is so blatantly harmful to individual liberties I cannot comprehend how a thinking person isn't alarmed by it.
The same thing happened/is happening with electric vehicle subsidies: it's essentially a 4000€ gift to the rich that can afford a 70k€ car.

What needs to be done is:

(1) End subsidies for electric cars, and give them for e-bikes instead. With the 4k on a 70k you're barely making a dent, and you can use it instead to give e.g. 5× 800€ subsidies on 1000-1500€ e-bikes.

(2) Lump sum instead of percentage. say 800€ on a 1000€ bike or 800€ on a 5000€ bike.

(3) Give the money directly on the purchase instead of returning it later. This latter mode essentially blocks out people who don't have the money upfront. With solar panels this is especially grating: in my country you can get 85% subsidy on solar panels, which is just ludicrously efficient (I installed mine for ~500€ 6 months ago and they have nearly paid themselves back). But for that to work you need to have >5k€ lying around that you don't mind only being paid back in the end of the year! That excludes ~80-90% of people, according to statistics.
> Inhabitants of dense, large cities like Paris or New York are famously considered generally rude

Eh, I moved from a rural farming town to inner London. People in dense cities aren't rude, they're busy. If anything, city people are much more willing to help out, they just won't make a deal out of it. This twitter thread basically sums it up: https://twitter.com/jordonaut/status/1352363163686068226
I still have reader bookmarked. I keep it next to my gmail bookmark as a reminder to not get overly invested in any one ecosystem/service.
No it is not, especially if you are a parent.

My wife spends hours upon hours researching product safety before selecting a bicycle, scooter, shoes, moisturizer, dishware, and other products for use by our family, especially for use by our child. She does this because she believes it is her job as a parent.

The Latin phrase Caveat Emptor, "let the buyer beware" comes to us from the Romans more than two thousand years ago.

Today there are forums, reviews, lists... when there are safety complaints about a design or a product, it is easier than ever to become aware of these kinds of problems.

Companies providing products have a responsibility to provide their products in good faith. This is similar to traffic rules that govern who has a responsibility to yield at an intersection. Assuming you have "right of way" won't help you avoid an accident. That's an assumption of someone else's adherence to the rules. In the same way that you freaking check that the other driver has yielded before making your turn or driving through, you check that a product is safe for your child to use.

For this specific instance, why would you deprive a 12 year old child of the exercise they need to grow properly by buying them a motorized bicycle?
If it’s not a projectile, we have the tech already. Landing on Mars is done autonomously today but making a robot/computer to last more than 1000 years isn’t in our wheelhouse yet.
Yeah but you also have cash from selling your car.
How Much Is Power in Europe? It’s Now Equal to Oil at $1k a Barrel
I wouldnt want this unprofessional person working for me. Look at how he lazily half-censored the names of his co-workers at Microsoft that sent/cc the email, in such a way that you can easily read it.
We're having a wet year and the weed growth is impressive. I've considered spraying Roundup to help control them but I'm concerned about the affect on my pets. Then I talked to my neighbor who regularly uses Roundup. He said that he sprayed a few weeks ago, and his weeds "just kinda look a little tired" instead of gone. If that's all the result I'd get why take the risk.

But I've spent around 10 hours walking behind a weed whacker in the last month. That's not my favorite chore and I'm willing to take some risks to trim it down a bit.
Works surprisingly well! One note for walking directions: It doesn't seem to take elevation gain into account in choosing between alternate routes. Probably a not an easy thing to implement.
I put them into Zotero and let it auto-tag. I add additional tags as needed. Its full text search works quite well.
Sure, but it's not normally the guy in charge of security that gets to complain the security isn't good enough.
> exclusively answerable to their shareholders.

Shareholders are pretty happy under a system in which the corporation benefits from tax breaks and loopholes, fat government contracts, favorable legal environments, carve-outs for regulation exemptions, regulations that make entry into existing markets prohibitively expensive, etc.
Dark grey houses, why? I've seen so many recently renovated and for sale houses painted the drabest colours and I really don't understand it at all. It's like a symbol for being tasteful, without actually having any taste.
Merkel is not christian-conservative except for the label of the party itself. She hit most of the progressive boxes really, especially "no nations, no borders" and the climate sale of indulgence.

I also wanna add that Merkel was elected by big city voters as well and not just the (framed stupid and wrong) "rural masses".

> They must have enough votes to influence policy in such a big way. And those are the ones that are the most susceptible to 'for the children!!!' type privacy invasion.

Realistically speaking once a party is in charge the people have no saying in the politics and the only thing that matters is how it is framed in the media. If the media says that people like it, it's okay, otherwise they might rethink it, but even that is not a guarantee. Given that most media outlets are dependent on government money they are mostly mouthpieces of the same.
TranAD: Deep Transformer Networks for Anomaly Detection in Multivariate TS Data
Have you been googling me? A few inaccuracies there ;).
> Happens to me a lot on Youtube too - you watch just one thing - and now your recommendations are full of things like that one thing.

I've heard reports of this happening but for well over a year, YouTube was still recommending relatively high quality videos to me that went along with my interests.

Until last week.

Somehow, somewhere along the line I must have clicked on some sort of "influencer" video. Now all I see are hundreds of hyper Minecraft videos, "I filled my house with 1 million packing peanuts" videos, etc. I have tried manually searching for some of the topics that interest me again, but these influencer-type videos still overrule whatever I try to manually teach it.

I don't know what happened, but it has ruined it for me.
Country is paying car drivers nearly $4k to switch to an electric bike
I think "cheaply" word is kind of extra in your question.

Of course they do this for more convinceable lying to all their population. Of course any civilized country should block that kind of super-nasty resource, with jailing all their creators if possible.
Chemically/physically, how does this work? What are the inputs and outputs?

(edit: n/m, it's not generating ammonia, it's just using it as a coolant)
> I'd say it's broken if we don't enforce immigration laws, not if we enforce them.

I'd say it's broken if the laws are bad.
That is true with any amount of subsidy. And yes, and people can use e.g. welfare payments to buy cigarrettes and booze. That is in itself not an argument against welfare payments.
Musk's account was among those that were hacked in the 2020 high profile hack. He made the offer in 2022, he therefore can't claim to not have known that twitter's security isn't 100% and really can't use this in court, I guess
>How can you complain about them being "ideologically driven", and simultaneously criticize them for not insisting on anti-war/environmental ideas in the face of war in Ukraine?

Simple, the Greens have refocused on US-style identity politics and abandonded environmental concerns as their main focus.
The example uses Crawlee already, you can just remove the

import { Actor } from 'apify';

and then all references to Actor and either remove them or replace them with Crawlee functions.

E.g. await Actor.openKeyValueStore() should be replaced with KeyValueStore.open()

It makes sense to add a separate example for Crawlee though. But it's true that it does not exist yet.
Why would you need to pass in your language? The AST is data. You can then take that AST, which is already validated and disambiguated and act upon it in any way that you'd like.
And two years from now it will be removed again in a "de-bloat" drive. Circle of life...
Related news stories:

- A Bulgarian scheme scammed Spotify for $1 million—without breaking a single law

https://qz.com/1212330/a-bulgarian-scheme-scammed-spotify-fo...

- The Rise Of Spotify Streaming Farms: How Fraudsters Are Cashing In

https://lunio.ai/blog/ad-fraud/spotify-streaming-farms/

- When Spotify, Pandora, and iTunes Pay Royalties, This Is Where the Money Goes

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2013/07/03/breakdown/
Maybe Tate engineered the ban? Put up toxic content on each platform?
what stops your govt from doing the same even after existing the EU?
I've bought a few books from Stripe Press and they are all high quality. My only complaint is that some of them use a very small (to my old eyes) font. I bought The Dream Machine from them and ended up finding an electronic version for my ereader.
It's even worse in the US! The electrical rebate is against tax collected, so you not only have to have the money to buy (or borrow to buy) an electric car, but you have to have enough tax liability to take advantage of the whole rebate.

Or lease the car and let the car company take it for you.

If it was an above the line credit, I would have highly considered it.
Do you not feel that your devices should wholly act in your interest, instead of possibly falsely accusing you of crimes? Would you want to have your devices and the state spying on you in a way that you can't introspect or control? Or unable to oppose, should its usage be extended to other domains? What about the presumption of innocence?

Why trust the executive without judicial oversight? What if they use their powers illegally, or misuse the files they receive? What if they are hacked? You will never know what happens in the black box.
Taboo opinion and I know this would never happen but a solution in my opinion would be to legalize prostitution with at the federal level or carve out specific exceptions for the military, create a screening process, do background checks, bring on the prostitutes as civilian contractors and create a dedicated a leisure deck or leisure wing compartments. Ships medical crew perform weekly tests and verify birth control.

Optionally train up the prostitutes as medical staff in their idle time / off-shift time for bonus pay in the event the existing medical staff are overwhelmed and also giving the prostitutes a secondary career option.

Sailors that perform above and beyond the call of duty get some time on the leisure deck / leisure wing compartments. Sailors would know their behavior with the prostitutes is monitored giving the prostitutes a significantly higher level of safety. This would also give the sailors better safety from utilizing untested prostitutes in ports around the world and reduce incidents of sexually transmitted diseases and reduce hook-ups resulting in single mothers at each port.
Book recommendations via SMS
Hey HN,

My aim with Sunday Books is to 1) recommend good nonfiction books via text message and 2) make those books available for quick purchase from the same text. Why SMS? It's quiet, calm, accessible, and you don't have to wade through newsletters, popups, ads, social rankings, endlessly scrolling cover photos, and thousands of mass-market reviews just to figure out if you might want to read a book.

I know there are a lot of people working on book discovery apps and alternatives to Goodreads, but none of that interests me as a reader. I don't need social features, public reading lists, suggestions from the algorithm, or digital bookshelves. I want recommendations I can trust from people with similar literary tastes, so that's what I'm working to build.

Quick details:

* You opt-in to receive texts, start your subscription via Stripe.

* We recommend a book twice a month via text message.

* At launch, we'll provide guidance on where to find the book. Soon, you can buy the book directly from us.

* No need to create an account, log in, or manage a cart to checkout.

* Text messaging available only in the US and Canada; shipping only in the US to start.

Current status:

* Sharing this publicly to see if it resonates. You can send an email (in my profile) to get on the waiting list.

* Learning about text message opt-in laws and deliverability gotchas, and figuring out which SMS tool to use.

* Rounding up people who have a similar literary taste to help write recommendations.

* Opening accounts with book wholesalers and publishers.

* Trying to sync subscription status from Stripe to Heymarket, though I'm at the edges of my technical know-how with the APIs. I'm currently using Zapier (god has it gone to shit) to sync subscription status to Heymarket contacts but would like to build something less clumsy, more robust.

Challenges:

The biggest challenge is the bookstore side of the business—it's a real hurdle and may not be practical, even if I sent orders to a large distributor, like Ingram. It's likely that I'll launch with recommendations only, provide ISBNs and sources for buying the book in the text message—no marketing or affiliate links. From there, I'll figure out next steps for the bookstore.

Note that the language on the website is still a work in progress, the recommendation that's on the site is just a copy/paste sample, but wanted to show what I'm going for. That section will scroll through previously recommended books once I've got them added.

I'll be ready to test and to start adding people to the list the week after next.

Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.
I went deep into research on solar cookers and solar ovens (for recreational / personal use) a few months ago and found this video to be the most informative comparison of many of the most popular products / categories, if anyone is inspired by this article:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsFrXjMA01M
> Not people with a family, elderly or people that live in cheaper suburban areas.

The dutch manage to do it (minus the elderly). Why is it so strange that a 40 year old dad and a 7 year old kid bike to work/school respectively?
The design looks fine and professional.

Some hopefully helpful comments: One trace is too close to board edge. Try not to run traces between 0.1" header holes if you don't have to. The vias might be a bit small for a simple board with plenty of room.

We don't use slots for the power jacks, just holes and fill the whole thing in with solder. Slots are a bit difficult for some pcb houses. That's just a preference though.

We also use ENIG because the unleaded HASL builds up a film after ~6 months. But if you aren't going to store the bare boards, HASL is just fine.

Overall looks great!
Is it possible that the problem isn't caused by lack of money, but by organizational issues?
No. The issue is with the torque of the brake pulling the wheel out of the dropout. Changing the angle of the dropout changes this.

Look at figures 3 and 4 on this article: https://cyclingtips.com/2015/10/road-bikes-are-headed-toward...

What is needed is the dropout not aligning with the direction the axle is forced when the brake is applied.
If it's a paper with a DOI, it's easy to re-generate the metadata. Same for an ISBN. My guess is that this type of file won't hash well, because the metadata and the data (cover page) are mutable. Zotero tries to extract metadata from PDF files, but it doesn't always succeed.

I use Zotero with the ZotFile and BetterBibTex plugins for my academic papers, and Calibre for my ebooks.

I'm not an archivist, and I don't read enough to benefit from automating this problem. https://xkcd.com/1319/
This is the content of the tweet:
I created a 40 page comic book story about monsters and Midjourney AI was my artist. Download it for free here: https://campfirenyc.com/summer-island/
> I wouldn’t be so comfortable speaking for an entire legacy user base so casually.

I guess that's why you still use the ESC key. You need to break some eggs to make an omelette!
I've been using vscodium for the most part but you cannot avoid the extensions themselves sending their own telemetry.
Threads can be derailed, that's usually how interesting things come up.
GPT-4 is going to be released soon and blow everyone's minds again.
And maybe you've been talking with GPT-3 in comments all this time /s
> 90% precision is actually quite good

It is good from the perspective of comparing this to other ML models. It is not good from a real world perspective.
You convinced me to look for a used copy on eBay (found one). Thanks!
Securing Developer Tools: Argument Injection in Visual Studio Code
> Maybe Elon Musk's complaints about Twitter have more merit than anyone expected.

Not the bot complaints, anyway, because "failed to properly estimate the number of bots on its platform" has been covered off by Twitter's consistent "this is how we estimate by sampling, it's a finger in the air guess, could be right, could be miles off, there's no standard methodology for this" stance in their SEC filings since 2013 (which no-one has questioned until now, mind.)
Glyphosate doesn't last in soil though, it's broken down in a few days by soil bacteria.
There is a class of interpretations of quantum theory which take a so-called epistemic perspective of the wave-function. In the epistemic perspective, the wave function represents an agent's knowledge, belief or information regarding a system.

This has a lot of appeal partly because wave function collapse looks very similar to the way that probabilities are updated in bayesian statistics when new information comes to light. For example, if I measure the polarisation of a photon in the vertical component and get a "yes" results (V1=y), then I have complete confidence that future measurements of the vertical will again get a "yes" result (V2=y), whereas future measurements of the horizontal component will be 50-50 between a "yes" result (H2=y) and a "no" result (H2=n).

P(V2=y | V1=y) = 1

P(V2=n | V1=y) = 0

P(H2=y | V1=y) = 0.5

P(H2=n | V1=y) = 0.5

You can sum this up as "the wave function is a way for me to keep track of probabilities, rather than an objective fact about the system".

Of course this idea has its own set of challenges. For many people the question becomes "what does the wave function represent knowledge of"? Also, a few years ago there was a thought-experiment known as the PBR theorem, which rules out some epistemic interpretations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBR_theorem

There is a good set of slides on the PBR theorem and its implications by Jon Barrett here (he was my external viva examiner): http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/qisw2012/slides/barrett.pdf

One class of epistemic interpretations that persists are the so-called bayesian interpretations of quantum theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism .

A "strong" version of quantum bayesianism is QBism, which asserts that quantum theory is no more than an effective user manual for organising subjective beliefs about the outcomes of future interactions with the world. Chris Fuchs and Ruediger Schack are two prominent theorists advocating QBism.
"who blocks UDP?"

In the world of virtual machines, UDP is always the first thing to die. Xen on Amazon, for example, would often (and almost always, if there was any load at all?) silently discard most UDP traffic, and this was true for years. VMWare (back when it was still being actively developed and supported) had fairly atrocious support for UDP as well, and the "atrocious support" level was only if you explicitly enabled it and carefully configured it in the first place. In one VM implementation (15+ years ago, so I can't remember which, but probably VMWare or Xen), we determined that the UDP buffer size was a total of one packet (~1500 bytes). So if you wrote a test that sent or received a burst of more than one packet, only one packet out of the entire burst would have greater than a 0% success rate and the rest were lost.

Back then, I was testing with UDP on EC2 before EC2 was open to the public. I was working with UDP-based server clustering tech (previously used by Amazon, since acquired by Oracle). Still have the scars.

It's been many years, so my guess is that reasonably decent UDP support has slowly crept into EC2 and other common cloud and virtualization environments, and may even be decently supported by now. It needs to be very good to support the transition to HTTP/3 (which coincidentally I'm currently working on).
So the interesting bit is that there are hundreds of thousands or millions of Bot accounts streaming music on Spotify? Wouldn't this have massive implications for their Ad Revenue model?
If I had a penny for every time I tried to pinch-to-zoom a paper book...

...I'd have enough for an ebook
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welding

What point are you trying to make here?
> the other party's liability for fraud

What fraud though?
Show HN: Glue – Pandas as a DAG (Now a web app)
Do you have any idea about performance? I'll just ask him in a few weeks but I'm really curious. I actually never used the .NET framework before.
But all EU members auto include it into their constitution or at least law.

Through not necessary the ECHR but a more general term of "human rights" but that is legally basically the same as long as they don't exit the treaty.

Even Russia did so until a few years ago (through they kinda ignored it at the same time, too).

E.g. it's §1 of the German constitution (yes the very first "law" in the constitution).
Depends on the content. For academic papers and books there are tools out there that can rename files by scanning the document for the DOI number and then looking that up on CrossRef or whatever.
France already has that in all of the major cities. The subscription is heavily subsidised if you are poor.

This is the next step when you already have that.
Well.. I come from the age of dumb terminals so trauma. We have powerful machines today. Using them like a dumb terminal rubs me the wrong way.
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When Roundup first hit shelves, "soil erosion" was the big concern and it was a miracle chemical that enabled "no till" agriculture. Now erosion is not a concern anymore, hardly anyone does more than disc their fields once a decade.

Of course while that helps erosion, it doesn't fully solve the problem, and it also took down the flood control benefits the erosion mitigation efforts gave us, too.
On the other hand, good policies get rich people to subsidize development of new technologies that benefit everyone.
This is not exactly the first study on glyphosate. There are 857 studies on links on the links between glyphosate and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma alone. Pubmed finds 4,585 studies mentioning glyphosate, going back to 1975.

It's an extremely intensively-studied chemical.
OpenAI (the people behind GPT-3) already make one. It's called JukeBox. It can even make new unique songs in the style of existing artists with a simulation of their vocal style.

https://openai.com/blog/jukebox/