skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to sell LFP base model 3's in the US: https://www.electrive.com/2024/10/04/tesla-withdraws-model-3...

> Tesla is known to frequently change the prices or availability of its models without providing separate information. As the US publication Electrek writes, the Model 3 Standard Range disappeared from the US configurator at the beginning of October. At 39,000 dollars, this variant was the cheapest Tesla in the US. Recently, however, only the Model 3 with the larger Long Range battery has been available there – in the rear-wheel drive version from 42,490 dollars. There is also the Model 3 Long Range with all-wheel drive (47,490 dollars) and the Model 3 Performance (54,990 dollars).
> If Apple can provide the UK government with foreign data, what's to stop Russia or China making them provide data on UK minister's phones, or more likely dissidents in exile?

nothing

the first precedence of not-draft law here was Cloud Act I think

through I would be surprised if China doesn't "de-facto" requires Chineese companies operating outside of China (including Subsidiaries) to cooperate with their secret service in whatever way they want

and if we go back to the "crypto wars" of the ~2000th then there is a lot of precedence of similar law _ideas_ by the US which where turned down

similar we can't say for sure that there aren't secret US court orders which already did force apple to do "something like that" for the FBI or similar, SURE there is a lot of precedence of Apple pushing back against backdoor when it comes to police and offline device encryption, but one thing is in the public and the other fully in secret with gag orders and meant for usage in secret never seeing the light of courts so while it's somewhat unlikely it would be foolish to just assume it isn't the case, especially if we go forward one or two years with the current government...

Anyway UK might realize that now they have left the US they have very little power to force US tech giants to do anything _in the UK_ not even speaking about regulation which is a direct attack on the sovereignty of other states to own/control/decide about their population(s data).

IMHO ignoring the US for a moment because they are in chaos the EU, or at least some key EU states should make a statement that a UK backdoor allowing UK to access EU citizen data would be classified as espionage and isn't permittable if Apple wants to operate in the EU (but formulated to make it clear it's not to put pressure on Apple but on the UK). Sadly I don't see this happening as there are two many politcans which want laws like that, too. Often due to not understanding the implications undermining encryption has on national security, industry espionage and even protection of democracy as a whole... Sometimes also because they are greedy corrupt lobbyist from the industry which produces mass surveillance tools.
There was 25 Hz infrastructure in Ontario until the 1950s

https://www.lifebynumbers.ca/history/the-rise-and-fall-of-25...
It's difficult to put into works what the Infocom games mean to me (and likely many other 50-somethings). So many great memories curled up in a blanket spending hours mapping these games and working out the puzzles. I still play many of them to this day. Thanks for all the memories and endless hours of fun!
Armstrong is, among other things, basically the original shit-hot electric-blues/rock guitarist. Wait for his solo after the sung section and Dodds’ clarinet part: https://youtu.be/iZLlJ9crI4s
You're now entangled with the system, and so we will need someone else to observe you.
> If you don't agree with the strongest counter-argument, then why would you present it without your own response? It's fine to present the strongest counter-argument and then go on to explain why that argument doesn't hold in the end, but a simple Devil's advocate comment, by itself, does give the impression that it's really your hidden opinion that you're afraid to embrace.

I do go on to explain why it doesn't hold, but not until the other parties have had a chance to consider as well, otherwise it defeats the point (which again is to get conversation going). I also don't presume to always have the answers, and part of my hope is that the other people will consider the devil's argument and come up with an interesting reply I hadn't considered before.

There is one exception: back when I was a (religious) believer, I would frequently pose "literal devil's advocate" questions that were essentially atheist arguments against whatever religious teaching I was presenting at the time (or the instructor was presenting). In those situations I usually would immediately lay out my counterargument because otherwise the religious people would visibly squirm from cognitive dissonance and in one case actually berated me for not being "uplifting." He went on to say that church should be a safe place where you are never challenged in your belief, only reinforced. That was one of the final straws for my faith. Also though, it noticeably reduced the interestingness of the conversations because nobody spent any time thinking about the devil's advocate argument since they already had an/the answer.

Honest question: Does it bother you that somebody might be interested in and want to explore oppositional perspectives, without holding those perspectives themselves?

I think it does bother a lot of people, even people that I wouldn't have expected (like well-respected professors at prestigious colleges like Stanford, for example). I think some people just aren't capable or comfortable with the idea that there aren't rock-solid right and wrong, and can't accept that someone might respect another perspective without agreeing with it. That's purely observational though.
I can't find it now, but there was a blog article from maybe 15-20 years ago where the author, a math educator, lamented how students seem to put math in a "math box" and completely divorce it from reality.

One example given was a word-problem in which a round-trip was involved and the student complained that there was no way to know they had to double the time, but then demonstrated obvious knowledge of how this worked when asked a real-world question.
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Yes, but the OP remarked that the question "was settled long ago", however the quote presented doesn't settle the question, it simply dismisses it as not worth considering. For those that do believe it is worth considering, the question is arguably still open.
No, the development of an artificial general intelligence does seem like a special case compared to usual IP debates, particularly in the potential multiplicative positive-sum effects on society overall.
AI and the Individual Human
The public facing data was never the problem.

We have no idea what is being nuked off the backend, copied offline and into AI

Employee records, Tax records, medical records, things like that.

Then there is the problem of private servers plugged into government networks that are obviously bypassing firewalls and prime targets for foreign governments because they aren't secured and designed to be remote accessed.
For those casually browsing the comments, this is an actual quote from the article.
> It would create challenges for content moderation

Honestly it sounds like this problem would be gone entirely. The government already defines speech that is so bad as to making it illegal despite the first amendment. Treating social media as a common carrier means they get to skip moderation entirely and just have to follow what is legally allowed.

Forcing social media to act as a common carrier could very well mean algorithmic feeds aren't allowed as they impede speech and still toe the line of censorship. Without algorithmic feeds we could be back to seeing just from those in your circle, meaning moderation shouldn't be nearly as big of a concern anyway.
> Woulda deleted and resubmitted if the comment didn't take away my delete button

Sorry I thought it was possible to change the URL easily.
Don't worry, the extra tariffs, mad growth from unshackling those repressed corporations from pesky regulations, closing the Department of Education, USAID, and of course the establishment of the strategic memecoin reserve will magically pay for all these tax programs! YOLO baby!
There are a lot more people who own a few properties as investments than there are hotel owners. Even if these people don't plan to rent through Airbnb, the way Airbnb distorts the housing market is still beneficial for their investments. Also, by the time Trump became president Airbnb was already entrenched for years.
A fourth federal agency locks its doors to Democratic lawmakers
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(1997), which I wondered about due to the "Many people continue to be affected by the decisions on frequency standards made so very long ago" phrasing and the intro-bit about the need for adapters in the paper itself.

Because these days, voltage and especially frequency are pretty much irrelevant for mains-power AC, and "ignorant" will be more accurate than "affected" when it comes to "many people"...
When I was a kid, magnets seemed magical. I'm 60 now, and they still seem like magic, despite always having some on hand to play with.
That's a fascinating thought, since obviously it is bidirectional + there's already the ability to send a small custom payload when an object is marked lost.

If I was Apple I'd be extremely cautious about opening that up, though. Not everyone would be excited about the idea of their data plans and bluetooth bandwidth being used up to enable a free texting plan for every kid within twenty meters.

Think of how that would play out at elementary schools, with hundreds of students piggy backing off a handful of teachers' iPhones.
At what point is this just extortionary cash grab from U.S. tech companies?

Want to fund some expensive grand program? Find a reason to fine U.S. companies.
> quite different from say, the suburbs.

My small rural town of 9000 people had multiple taxi services that poorer people relied on to do even their grocery shopping. We didn't need "disruption"

Tech bros generalizing a negative experience from NYC or SV to the entire US has been so stupid.
The idiom I am familiar with here is to make the constructor private and provide a public static factory method that allocates on the heap.
13 Things I Learned Reading a 225 Page Report About the Gaming Industry
Some children read word problems, understand the question and apply math. Most children look for key words, use those key words to guess what operation to apply, then apply it to the numbers in the question (e.g. there were 3 numbers and the word "total" so I'll sum the numbers).
I think you mean this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx1SIEwwZrU
"Nature did this for no reason" is in general not the default assumption. It's not that it can never happen, but rather that as soon as there are two phenotypes, evolution is going to start selecting for one of them over the other in any given environment unless the difference has zero effect on evolutionary fitness, which is unusual.
It'd be nice to not have to have this fight every 3-5 years but privacy is antithetical to the role of the security services so they're never going to give it up.
Ok. I am clearly out of my comfort zone here. So NPS is not a proxy for organic marketing success, but for customer satisfaction. Is the article’s point then that the question is sometimes too hypothetical?

I still think that it is useful to track actual reccomendations when that is expected to happen.
It's hard to unwind that clock. The next admin will may leverage that consolidated power to undo trump harms, but also see the benefits of keeping that power. I pray congress mandates the political independence of certain federal agencies (FBI, doj etc)
Advances math helps with developing logical thinking and in general makes you smarter.

But I agree we could achieve same results by teaching more practical skills. Maybe, programming (data structures and algorithms) over calculus?
Swartz wasn't the kind of person to accept a plea bargain from an overzealous prosecutor who was indicting him on 13 felony charges with a possible sentence up to 35 years along with a $1 million fine. I assume he wanted a trial because he wanted to continue his fight for open access. And maybe he thought he might lose, but wouldn't lose on all counts, and would make the prosecution look unreasonable in the public eye. Was that decision rational from a self-interest point of view? Maybe not.

And then you might ask, if he wanted a trial, why did he kill himself? Obviously no one knows what was going through his head when he did it. He left no note. But the prospect of being locked in a cell until he was an old man probably had something to do with it.

You can certainly argue it was his own fault for not pleading down, but even if that's your view, that doesn't absolve the prosecutor. Ortiz has a lot of blame in this too, and the fact she still hasn't acknowledged it over a decade later speaks volumes to the kind of person she is.
What you describe is one of the fundamental “problems” of associative memories. Which is doing or recalling a thing in one context does not mean you are capable of doing or recalling the exact same thing in another context. Neurons light up based on all the current inputs, and if none of the current inputs light up the neurons that can trigger a skill, good luck doing that skill. This is why practicing in a wide variety of contexts is really important for mastery, you’re essentially increasing the odds that different inputs have a chance to trigger the knowledge that’s locked away in the structure.
And a country's laws are "here are the expectations how companies should behave in our country", yet companies routinely violate those and write extortionate EULAs that ask for more than they legally can, using their team of lawyers to create a legal knot that they expect lay users to untangle.

Fuck them, and fuck the idea that contracts are morally superior to laws. We see how contracts (and EULAs) are used.
And the first one? Wouldn't the output be

batat hogog
Amazing approach! We’re essentially allowing people to do the same thing in typeconf, you can define your config package schema and defaults, then in your app or service you can import and override the configs. Thanks for the article though, I think we need to work more on this!
I am curious what other languages (and runtimes) have been using so far. Anyone knows?
I guess a better question is, when donation rates in Asia are so low, where are transplanted organs coming from?

Somebody already linked to a variety of research on this topic, it is the consensus that organ procurement in China is exploitative, even if people don’t know the exact details.

Should surgeons even perform transplants in Asia? Many interesting questions.
"the exact same thing in the same way" is a goal post of your own making, and I reject it. People stripped of their rights and disappeared, not based on individual actions, but their being only considered as object-like members of their groups. That's more than enough to have on one's plate not to wonder about the "likely" desert.
Sad that what's going on in Myanmar isn't more widely reported in international news.
Koh Kong also comes to mind.
I'm not sure there's any legal distinction though.

Is a book publicly available? No, you have to purchase it. But once you do, you're legally allowed to let your friends and family and so forth read it too. As long as you don't sell copies of it (the "copy" part of "copyright"), or meaningfully take away the ability for the publisher to make money from sales (so you can't post it for the whole world to see on the internet).

And sure, there are lots of ToS for digital works, but are they actually enforceable? ToS can say you're not allowed to let anyone else read the book you purchased. But no court is going to say you can't lend your Kindle to your friend for them to read it too. Many ToS clauses are flat-out illegal.

Meta will argue that training on books is no different from reading all the books at a friend's house. That as long as Meta isn't reselling or making publicly available the original text, they're in the clear.
My second daughter (16 years old) can bake (including e.g. making a 50% larger amount than the recipe calls for). She can beat me at games where reasoning about probabilities and numbers is involved. She can relate exactly none of that to what she is learning in her algebra classes.
And 16 TB isn't what it used to be (though it is a big transfer). I'm hopeful that it's already being mirrored in multiple places including overseas.
Well I wouldn't really call it the "American Government" per say... Its a Geriatric former reality TV show host elected to the presidency by offering to do for America what he did for steak or private education. That guy and his cronies really aren't the American Government. They were just elected to be in charge of the American Government.
Scientists discover microplastics in Antarctica's most remote regions
John von Neumann strikes again!

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin#Fair_results_from_a_...

Original paper: https://mcnp.lanl.gov/pdf_files/InBook_Computing_1961_Neuman...
Uber was able to subsidize prices, that's why.
The UK government can’t put Apple out of business; Apple can easily afford to simply exit all business in the UK. The UK is betting that Apple’s greed outweighs their principles. Long odds.
The guys got three other books on Armstrong too
How about Japan, then?
What is the relevance of this point? No one has linked a Kardashian's take on anything? So who cares if the distance between 0 and 1 is larger than the distance between 1 and 2 - we are only discussing the distance between 1 and 2.
The textile industry in Brno here in Czech Republic (sometimes called "Moravian Manchester") was hugely helped by a local noble posing as a worker in England & the smuggling detailed self-drawn plans of industrial machinery back:

"Brno’s fortunes were changed forever when a young freemason called Franz Hugo Salma set out for England in 1801. He intended to steal the plans for the most modern textile machinery in the world. His crime, the first recorded act of industrial espionage, boosted the competitiveness of Moravian textiles. Soon after smuggling the plans out disguised as a worker, and handing them over to Brno’s fledgling textile industry, Brno became the most important textile centre in the Habsburg empire."

You can even go see some of the original plans in a museum:

"Eleven designs are still preserved in the library of the Rájec chateau. They form a unique set of documents demonstrating both the level of wool processing technology at the turn of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, as well as the aims and means of the relatively rare business of industrial espionage at that time."

https://www.gotobrno.cz/en/brno-phenomenon/this-is-brno-kate...
https://www.gotobrno.cz/en/place/salm-reifferscheidt-palace/
> Logic is inherently statistical due to the very nature of empirical sampling, which is the only method we have for verification.

What? I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. You can make plenty of sound logical arguments in an empirical vacuum. This is why we have proof by induction - some things can't be verified by taking samples.
From what it feels as to how it works, it seems that c:d and a: (nothing) and ot:g

but yes now that I read it , it also makes confusion , theoretically your point makes valid , I also believe that c should be replaced by da after I read the repo , I am not sure ...
You're right; Republicans were killing high-speed rail long before Elon awkwardly gestured his way into politics.
It’s a reference to 1984 by George Orwell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Ninet...
Google's Quantum Simulator Reveals New Facet of Magnetism
Encrochat was almost certainly a honeypot:

> After the Dutch and Canadian police compromised their server in 2016, EncroChat turned into a popular alternative among criminals for its security-oriented services in 2017–2018. The founders and owners of EncroChat are not known. According to Dutch journalist Jan Meeus, a Dutch organized crime gang was involved and financed the developers.
Apple's RCS is not encrypted, nobodies RCS is encrypted unless you happen to be Google.
Are you confused about what a question is and what a claim is?

The question is about whether you believe they are fake or not. I don’t have any claims in either direction.

e.g. “Didn’t pan out that well” according to what authoratative sources?

You can’t get around it via linking a wikipedia article with opinions expressed by other random people, without any more authority or credibility than many HN users.

Edit: And if there is no source with such, then it needs to be proven via logical arguments, observational evidence, etc.
I would say data structure and algorithms are not more practical to actual literal children. Better off letting them cook/bake, where they have to work out ratios, temperatures, giving one third more or quartering other portions, etc etc. let them do scoring, figure out how to split 300g of chocolate between 5 friends and the like.
Polysubml-demo: A simple ML-like language with subtyping, polymorphism, higher
I'm not sure "giving your rights away" quite sums up the process. It's more as a Brit, and probably most of us, weren't even aware this bill was happening - the government passes many pages of dull legislation - but if it proves a pain you can always vote for whoever offers to repeal it. I suspect the encryption law vs Apple is going to result in the government backing down to some extent.

We did rebel over ID cards. Passed in 2006, repealed in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006
For a while it was controversial whether they would even allow themselves to draw from the account itself versus merely funding things from interest.
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Waymo is doing good work but it's still very much a science-fair project, just another side hobby of Larry and Sergey.

Self-driving taxis will be a "market" someday, but not yet, and when they are, there is no reason to think Musk will be a force to be reckoned with. (Well, no reason other than the regulatory capture that he's no doubt putting into place now, that is.)
Feynman was extremely knowledgeable about pedagogy, and his lectures are considered some of the finest works in the field.

I'm very aware of the "spherical cow" joke about physicists, but this isn't a "random celebrity".
Thought threads?
I'm surprised there is no torrent available
You're correct, but op is also right to point out that the headline is misleading by grouping whale song and language together—it implies that this is something unique to human language, whereas the actual category to which these now both belong is much much bigger than language.

An alternate headline that makes the point clear: "Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human city populations". Equally true, but with much less dramatic implications.