zepn | 2 years ago | on: Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99
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zepn | 2 years ago | on: UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition
But the kind of people who want the policy that Brexit is - i.e. xenophobic nationalists - are not the kind of people you'd want to take such an opportunity.
Membership of the EU was a great opportunity. Brexit is an opportunity for fascists.
zepn | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3
And perhaps which of them reference the others the most - and which points.
Would that be possible?
(Nice work!)
zepn | 3 years ago | on: World Cup Daily, Day 25
zepn | 4 years ago | on: Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
zepn | 4 years ago | on: Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco
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zepn | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A pattern generator with 1300 shapes and 300 dpi
zepn | 4 years ago | on: Google's New AI Photo Upscaling Tech Is Jaw-Dropping
I'd be extremely sceptical of its use on medical images for this reason.
zepn | 5 years ago | on: All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
For example, here is a collection of "Statement of changes in Immigration Rules: 1994 to 2020": https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-...
If you click on the latest document, "accessible" version, you'll find paragraphs such as the following:
Changes to the Introduction
Intro1. In paragraph 6.2, after the definition of “English language course”, insert:
“ “EU national” in Appendix T5 (Temporary Worker) International
Agreement Worker means a person who is a national of: Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden; and who is not also a British citizen.”.
Changes to Part 7
7.1. For the second paragraph 276BB1(vi)(d), substitute:
“(e) the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the
Department for International Development or the Foreign, Commonwealth
and Development Office has determined should qualify for relocation under
the ex-gratia redundancy / resignation package, including confirmation that
they served ‘on frontline duties outside the wire in Helmand’.”.
Anyone interpreting this law (i.e. lawyers) does not have the "latest" version to hand; they have to stack successive changes.There are other complications, which I can't recall, but I dearly wish someone would do this for UK law.
zepn | 6 years ago | on: Karel Čapek's play "R.U.R." premiered in January 1921
zepn | 8 years ago | on: Police Say Uber Is Likely Not at Fault for Self-Driving Car Fatality in Arizona
It doesn't even need to have been in its path; it should have detected a pedestrian near the edge of the road, concluded that they might step into the road (it's a possibility), and decelerated. Before she even stepped into the road, the Uber was at fault.
zepn | 8 years ago | on: Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
It doesn't surprise me for a moment that this was Uber (though it might have been a Tesla). From all I've seen and read, these companies are racing unscrupulously, and some have inferior technology compared with others.
Waymo seem to be approaching the problem from a safety direction rather than a pure race for profit.
We need to hold SDs to a higher standard than we hold human drivers. Not 1.5x the standard; 1000. 10,000. 100,000.
And every death must be treated as a serious failure of engineering. These are preventable deaths.
zepn | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Buy Me A Coffee – A free, fast and friendly way to receive donations
Is it possible to further reduce the minimum supporter amount (to, say, $1?) - or customize it?
zepn | 8 years ago | on: Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore
Much better is NYC's approach of using "Bike Angels" ( http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/09/new_york_s_ci... ) to redistribute. As I understand it, they still use trucks, but this is visionary compared with London's system, which simply adds more (badly driven, polluting) trucks to traffic.
zepn | 8 years ago | on: People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts
zepn | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the best thing you ever owned?
I use it for commuting, transport, and leisure. A good bicycle ride, like a good ski, is magical and freeing, and the object is imbued with some of that.
It doesn't require much maintenance, but it's fun to maintain, as well.
zepn | 8 years ago | on: 300 miles of secret UK cycle paths have been discovered [audio]
zepn | 9 years ago | on: WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build
zepn | 9 years ago | on: Lyft Loses $600M in 2016 as Revenue Rises to $700M