skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like an extension of what is already covered by the Digital Markets Act [1].

Like allowing to remove, replace and install any software unless "essential to the functioning of the operating system or the device" (but not the entire OSs),
allowing to choose between service providers (to some extend), not privileging the first party service, and
forcing some level of interoperability (messaging, video calls).

The actual letter doesn't seem to be dated, but the earliest reference I can find to it is from the 27. April this year.
It not mentioning the DMA is quite surprising, it has much in common and was proposed late 2020 [2].
Especially considering it is directed at EU legislators.

A cynical mind might interpret this as an attempt to potentially claim credit
for something that was already in progress, but maybe there was a reason to omit mentioning it,
or perhaps the thing was poorly researched.

In any case, in good old FSF(e) fashion this aims at an unrealistic seeming ideal, but lets see where it goes.
My guess is that legislators will take one look at this, see the similarity to the DMA, and dismiss it because the letter doesn't address how that is "insufficient".

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj
[2]: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheproc...
Yeah, it’s effectively an enclosed four-wheel ‘bicycle quality’ type vehicle - and I imagine a huge chunk of the asking price is to cover the 5.5 kWh lithium battery.

I’d like one, but not for £8,000 - an electric bakfiet (cargo bike) seems better value for money.
OMG what did I miss, please expand. What is being distorted and what problems are caused?
Microlino https://youtu.be/uNp_M76wIws
Show HN: I made a minimalist puzzle game about linking nodes in graphs
Subscription fatigue could transform in a regulation. I have a Muse S EEG device and yesterday I discovered that I need to subscribe to their monthly service for just recording my EEG without listening their meditations guides. I obviously can mute them or hack it.

I understand that this is different from subsidized game consoles since I paid the full product.
I think there are so many weapons that it must occur (either by Russian capture or traitorous Ukrainians) but that should not deter the US and allies from sending as much as needed for Ukraine to expel their invaders.
The fine is not to send a signal to Microsoft. The fine is a punishment for letting Microsoft process personal information when it's know that they do so in a way that violates the GDPR.

The €100 fine to that one website that included Google Fonts wasn't an attempt to get Google to put Google Fonts in a European holding or whatever. That was never going to happen. It was to punish that website for breaking the law.

Before anything like this will hit the news, there would first be a massive lawsuit that will probably take months or years. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft would throw lawyer money to the company involved just to make sure the lawsuit doesn't end setting a precedent against their product.

Never underestimate German courts and their willingness to uphold privacy laws when they get challenged.
Some of the best drivers started out in go-karts, something about the feel of the road and getting the most out of such a limited vehicle.

I would not call python a go-kart I would call python a mini-van. Boring and looked down upon, but is the best vehicle around for doing your daily activities in.
Perhaps grad student workers should just struggle in silence, due to the difference in their circumstances with other workers. Or perhaps all workers should band together in solidarity due to the commonality of their circumstances.
Honestly you should not be overtaking in the other lane at all. It's a large risk to you and the other drivers on the road, and all you get in return is a few seconds off your trip.
The calculus changes when you’re being fined tens of billions of dollars that will be used to develop a competitor to your core product.

It’s not (X/2), it’s (X/2) - (NPV of future profits from giving X/2 to develop competition).

Your model would work for just an adaptation to a compliant product, but not to the proposed “just seize 4% of their global revenue and use that to fund a competitor” model that I was replying to.
Consumer devices with sufficient adoption are most definitely a national security threat.

Let’s for a moment imagine Iran (instead of china) has a significant amount of the low end consumer cameras sold in the US. Imagine they push propaganda, or build in a back door to control them.
Naively it seems not to bad to me but I am totally not an expert. If you have a million bits of state, we ask if a machine will halt in a million steps, otherwise we can not be sure that the machine does not use more than a million bit of memory. This of course heavily underestimates the hardness as you can have a machine with only 20 bit that goes through a million states. This also means that the EXPTIME is not that bad because the problem size is only 20, the number of bits required to write the number of bits in the machine, not the number of bits in the machine itself.
The Children Making Millions on YouTube
5%-20% of college students were homeless at the time of this study [0] (closer to 5-10 for universities).

[0] https://oshi-la.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cts-state-of-...
About ten years ago we rejoined with my classmates for some days (30 years since graduating highschool) and talked a lot about our teachers, about our experience with math/physics/literature etc. It seriously amazed me how different our experience was. We were in the very same class with the very same teachers. Some of us loved how math was taught and some of us hated. Some loved math since grade 7, some "finally started to get" it in grade 10 and some still don't get it why it all was even needed. Some hated the math, but started to love it because of physics. Some loved the geometry and algebra, but still don't get for what this calculus is even needed. And so on with every single subject. And most of these people had very strong feelings how things should be taught in schools – based THEIR personal experience of course!

I have now some experience teaching math for 11-14 years old kids and this experience strongly resonated in me. The most important thing I learned about teaching is that we don't learn about what we read, see, listen etc. We learn about what we think. A teacher or not, we have very limited influence about other peoples' thoughts. The idea that there are some magical methods all or even most of kids will understand all the math is naive at best.

Most of kids in the class don't get "why?" regardless what you do. But that's OK. You of course will talk about "why?", but it's important to give them "how?" skills for the times they will decide to think about math and they will find out "why?".
> Then, to honor these presumably devout, pious Christians who were falsely accused of witchcraft, one of whose last words were, “I am wholly innocent”, 15 feet away we open a witchcraft shop operated and frequented by people who are serious about practicing witchcraft.

Even if the town wanted to prevent serious witches from opening up shop, how could they? Any ordinance forbidding it would violate the First Amendment.

Besides, barring witches from their town would just show they learned nothing.
My husband and I purchased a new electric car last year.

It is for this and many related reasons that we found the exact car we wanted, took the VIN to our bank, and walked into the dealership with a financing check. The dealer financing officer called our bank, gave them the price-out-the-door, and our bank gave them a PIN to write on the check alongside the total amount.

We walked away without having any further relationship with the dealership. Despite this, they tried several times to get our written consent to run their own financing. We steadfastly refused.

Not everyone is in a position to do this, but it was nice because we didn’t have to put up with any (other) dealer bullshit. (We did have to put up with other tangentially related dealer bullshit, which I have previously written about on here.)

Edit: typo and context
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20221126004310/https://www.tesla...
Just to clarify, your position is that, without "corroborated" proof to the contrary, you doubt that there are 5 jobs that a graduate student can get with better pay and conditions than a worker in one of these factories?
They seem to be trying to understand if it is the laws alone or a combination that make life there so ideal. Because a country without so much wealth may prove the law alone isn't actually that great.
A lot gets buried in the privacy discussions but the unfair trade practices are also a problem.

For example Western app makers don't have access to Chinese consumers the same way Chinese app makers have access to Western consumers.
>cars are increasingly banned in downtown Paris

I drove in Paris past August, and didn't notice any bans.

Parking availaibility and price varies a lot, but it's workable.
The game is meant to be in the style of WORDLE - three daily linking puzzles to challenge the user (like those in Numberlink or Flow Free). The twist is that the puzzles here can be set in a lot more complicated geometries, instead of just grids.

Each daily puzzle should take a few minutes to solve, but some days can be more challenging than others. I'd appreciate any feedback: tutorial, aesthetics, responsiveness... anything you'd care to mention.
Most people are terrible at pricing an item over its full lifetime. A smaller cash outlay almost always attracts a sale, even if the item has a much shorter expected lifespan than a more expensive alternative, or will require constant repairs, etc. Seeing a low base price on a car, fridge, etc will sway people to buy an item even if there's now a larger operational expense. You're not just powering a device you own anymore but also "unlocking" the Ice Maker Feature(tm) for $5/month.

This feels like businesses are trying to force everyone in the debt trap that keeps the poor where they are. Having to pay a monthly subscription for basic functionality isn't _that_ different from being in debt. But instead of floating consumers a loan, these companies are selling an item that selectively breaks if they miss a payment.
Yeah what I'm writing about there not being a pain signal applies either way; even if you have a good reason to store data, leaking them should hurt.

But even so, many times a website seems to ask for data they absolutely strictly don't need. Electronics shop -> doesn't need my gender, nor birth date really.

If someone does need my birth date, they typically a) don't need to store it but just verify, and b) what they'd really need would be a trusted third party (like my govt ID) certifying that date. And even then, often just properties about it like "is over 21" or such. Which is incidentally what my german ID allows to do, albeit in a way too complicated way.
Absolutely love the science being done here! Hope things like these can hit the market, and quickly.
Umm taxes are a by-product of laws which in most cases come about by representative democracy. Not some 1500 year old book written by some randos, which happens to be set in stone.
You make it sound as if the GDPR is specifically targeted at US companies, which is not the case. It applies to domestic companies too.
How would you respond to Socrates' objections to writing [0]? Especially:

"You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not."

I often wonder if our ancestors, who were a great deal more private about things like techniques and guild knowledge, not to mention esoteric religious teachings, didn't have the right idea. Perhaps even the penchant for writing scientific articles in Latin and Greek was an explicitly chosen shibboleth to avoid the kinds of informational chaos we see coming to a head in the internet age of 2022.

0 - https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...
SBF doesn't represent effective altruism anymore than the hacker claiming "there's suspicious activity on your account" represents your bank.
My understanding is that Tesla upgrades do stick with the car. Not that they help the resale price much but at least the value does pass on.
I hesitate to engage with this comment, but this 'method' is the same that was used by the hunters with the ladder. The sticking point is that, sure, they're not stepping foot in the corner-adjacent lots, but they are still crossing into the property via the air. This would be the same issue with the helicopter.

Consider a property line not just a line on the ground, but an invisible wall extending from that line on the ground up toward the sky. That's the issue here, is that the hunters are disturbing the 'air rights' of the adjacent properties by crossing that invisible wall, and not just by stepping physically onto the property. Using a helicopter wouldn't be much of a loophole if the air rights are concerned, I think.

Edit: after comments, yes, duh, it doesn’t extend infinitely and there’s the aspect of reasonable use, c’mon, why do people need their hand held through everything. Flying a helicopter over another property at 100’ is different than 2000’. Talk to the FAA.
I’d thought that Sapir-Whorf was largely discredited, but I was wrong: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

I wonder how this applies to languages that have been revived? Do modern-day Hebrew (also a revived language[0]) speakers relate to it and Jewish culture the way that Judean Jews did? Presumably the corpus of existing literature is a significant factor.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_langua...
I too don’t like this, but no, advocating for it is not the same as agreeing with this scenario you imagined into certainty.
> This kills resale value

Are you sure? I personally don’t like the subscription model for car features, but look at it this way: it means there will be more cars in the second-hand market that are capable of faster acceleration or seat-heating or whatever else is pay-walled. It means that people can pay for a lower model car, and then someone else can buy it and “upgrade” to the higher model. I don’t know or have evidence that this will help resale value, but it seems at least logically plausible that it could help resale by giving downstream purchasers more options than they might have otherwise. You’re right, it’s still true that the auto-maker is leeching some of the value with every transfer, and that unlocks won’t transfer, but I’m not sure that will hurt resale.
It seems highly unlikely. What maneuver are you pulling where you need to floor it and your 0-60 time comes into play? You see a boulder rolling down a hill toward the road a quarter mile away, and you say "I can beat it!"
Every article I’ve ever read that cites “national security concerns” never, ever explicitly goes into the exact, computational mechanism in which it is a security concern. It’s always something like “Chinese company under Chinese government, therefore bad”. Never anything concrete or substantive from a software engineer POV, such as what exactly is phoned-home, or what actual subversions are happening currently, only hypotheticals.
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Actually, a company that accrues a lot of profit could always be outcompeted by one willing to make less profits. Profit is a cost to the company itself, it is only beneficial to shareholders.

On the other hand, it's true that companies with lower costs will tend to outcompete others, so moving to China is sort of dictated by the market.
> speaking at an event after defrauding millions of people out of billions of dollars

Wouldn't it be useful even if people have done criminal acts to let them speak about what they have done? If not to hopefully prevent it in the future, to be able to understand the motivation behind it. Maybe I'm just morbidly curious, but I'd like to hear even out everyone, guilty of crime or not. Doesn't mean I'll take what they say to heart.

But without that view, I'm afraid we'll throw away people like Snowden, Mitnick, Manning and more, just because what they did was illegal in the eyes of law enforcement.

> People have been barred from talking at college campuses for much less.

Does that mean it's right?
I also found this article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/18/california-univers...
> few will drive this if they have other options

Why not? If you're a city-zen and going to do something in the city too far to go on foot, using an ami is much easier than using a full-size car, unless you have an A-segment car (and even then, the ami is a full meter shorter than your average A-segment, the length of the Ami is the wheelbase of a Picanto or an Aygo).

It's not like the 28mph is a big impediment in most city traffic.
I didn’t say anything about abolishing the ability to rent out a home.
GH setup scripts cache dependencies in a way that is hard to replicate --- full stop.
If it’s raining/snowing, or too hot, or too cold, I’d much rather be in an small enclosed car than exposed to the elements on a bike.

The Ami has a primitive heater but no air conditioning, but there’s no reason that these limitations are inherent to a vehicle of this size. I imagine an Ami-sized car with creature comforts of a regular vehicle would sell extremely well in cities.

Biking is great when the weather is amenable to it. When the weather is not, I'd rather not show up to my destination drenched in sweat, soaked in rain, or freezing my ass off.
it doesn't check character classes either. It literally takes two characters, then uppercases both and compares, then lowercases both and compares. I have no idea where you are getting that it has anything to do with word or character classes, it doesn't.
It's only a matter of time before we get there. Models will be built for film. It's a matter of scaling the resources. I'd imagine the computing increase would be mostly proportional to the number of frames to be generated.
I need it
Wasn't that his nickname ? Perhaps his given name was Bartholomew.
It would be nice to see an article that bothered to explain the situation instead of an easy outrage piece.

Engagement with China has gone very, very bad with Xi Jinping’s regime. He is absolutely the root of the problem and is doubling down in a bid to become Mao 2.
Tim Berners-Lee reply when NCSA X Mosaic 0.5 was released
So you're driving in a manner that if your car gets a hiccough and underperforms, you're in extreme danger? That happens all the time with ICE cars...how are you not dead yet?
Looks like a special rockchip boot mode for when there is no suitable boot environment installed on one of the storage devices.

https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/maskrom/
How to take your software from distribution to sales?
It’s unfortunate you’re catching heat for this 1000% true comment.

The reality is that Apple systematically robs value, specifically the value delivered by foreign slave labor. This same process occurs in graduate schools across the United States. Universities rob graduate students of the value they deliver to higher education. It’s just done in a white-collar patina with lies instead of force.

The “oh they’re in training” is nonsense. They will not obtain even an adjunct position after a PhD. It would be one thing to have a true apprenticeship with a guaranteed job, but that isn’t how this scam works.

It is all grist for the mill.
that's an uncharitable response; poster explicitly mentioned short term rentals and vacations homes being problematic, not all renters as you've stated
>(Tesla is building their own lithium refinery in Texas to drive down battery costs; point me to an automaker that is doing the same, they can barely source batteries at the scale they need)

With this kind of statement I have to believe you're arguing in bad faith. Even manufacturers that haven't jumped onto the full electric bandwagon like Toyota are ramping up manufacturing, see :
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/automakers-in-race-to-ma...
>The Japanese automaker said on Aug. 31 it will spend another $2.5 billion in its battery plant in North Carolina, called the Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina.

>The investment at its newest North American facility will increase capacity to support battery production. Toyota plans to hire another 350 employees for a total of 2,100 workers.

>Toyota said last year it plans to invest heavily in electrification and plans to spend a total of $70 billion, plus a total of $5.6 billion for battery production, which includes the new North Carolina investment.

> let’s set aside who Musk is for a moment and reflect on a $1B global dc fast charger network (“Superchargers”) and an EV manufacturing flywheel that continues to ramp (approaching 3 million units built and sold pa), together which has convinced major nation states to enact or pull forward their new vehicle combustion vehicle sales bans. Someone can be a pathological liar and greedy and yet have moved the needle.

Tesla totally invested in superchargers for the greater good and not to have a proprietary charging network! if it wasn't for the rules we have in the European Union they would have brought the proprietary chargers they had in America and would not allow competitors to use it.

The needle would move nonetheless, it is no longer a matter of choice but about the continued survival of the species as a whole.
In France tesla are a rare sight but small delivery cars like these :
https://imgur.com/a/kUUJKYV
Have become extremely common sights in the city centre.
We are also doing a lot in trying to get people away from cars as much as possible : Montpellier is going to make all local public transportation free.
If a robot jumps in a falling lift, what happens?
Both are true, I was forced to use subpar solutions because MS paid a lot of money to become the default. I have no idea why anyone given the freedom to do so would choose MS products over alternatives.
"Letters of Note" would make a great Christmas present for almost anyone on your list. They almost certainly haven't heard of it, and it'll keep them captivated.

Elvis writing to President Nixon asking to become a special Federal agent: who doesn't want to read that?

I hosted Shaun at Google! Some of the attendees read a letter out loud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg7LRg2NAfM
This feels like a peek at the first truly practical application of AI art beyond “I need a blurry illustration for my blog post”. I could easily imagine this as the first step in an art director's creative process of exploring the look of a project quickly and iteratively, yet at high fidelity.

Even with the unavoidable AI artifacts, the aesthetic of these images is incredibly evocative.
You can already do vocal replacement and create new covers of old songs.

High quality pitch matching and vocal replacement is here [1] and is going to be big. You can generate Smash Mouth's "All Star" as every single president, celebrity, vocalist, or cartoon character. Or whatever you feed it.

Within the next year the field will move onto changing instrumentals and generating novel tracks.

[1] The tool I've written and will be deploying as the next version of FakeYou.com does this at high fidelity
Huh. I owned a Citroen Ami back in the seventies. It was a gas car (two cylinder air cooled engine), much like the 2CV but made to look a bit more like a conventional car. Interesting that they decided to reuse the name.