skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a longish post explaining some of the methods we could use to differentiate between real from fake content — but this led me to think of a more interesting scenario.

As society integrates more and more with cyberspace, we will have new metadata to verify events.

This is even happening now. Is it more likely that you won’t get hired at a job because of a photo of you doing something bad, or from a social media post? Most likely the latter.

Imagine a world wherein all our interactions are digitized— we would likely have no choice other than radical transparency, as all of our actions would be as traceable as our current day social media activity.

This increased amount of data associated with our actions allows for more sophisticated verification techniques, and ultimately would render video obsolete as a form of evidence.
It appears the intent was to purchase control over the ownership of the companies at prevailing market rates. As far as I can tell, the existing stock owners were entirely free to refuse the state's purchase offer and maintain control indefinitely, if they so chose. That doesn't sound like a tax at all.
When I have tried to follow the money, it mostly leads to private management companies, which in turn stop at private equity firms and investors. It ought to be well understood by now that in the US, most profit flows to wealthy property owners.
An FX trader saying Bitcoin is gonna die? right, he's not biased at all. Isn't it very obvious that anyone in the current financial world(Traders/FX brokers) doesn't like cryptocurrencies? Why does Bloomberg even have to take their opinion.

On the other hand, yes, there's some bad news across the board. China, India, and Bitfinex/Tether. Despite that, we only see the price going to a 3 mon old price. Once Tether is sorted out and the regulations are clear in China & India, you could see the recovery.
So what is the trolley problem? People who are starving don't buy meat.
The worst is when you have a self-checkout that adds a wait between scanning identical items. If I buy more than one of the same items, I scan other things between them otherwise the system makes you pause for several seconds because it thinks you are trying to scan the same thing twice even if you've already put the first item into a bag that's on the scale.
> Amazon measures everything. Their incentive compensation plans should be rewarding employees that exceed quota with daily bonuses.

I'm guessing you have never worked under the quota system. Guess what happens when one meets a quota? He or she gets a quota increased. Guess what happens when he or she no longer meets a new quota? He or she gets fired. In a quota based system the goal of every employee is to hit the quota on a nose
I suspect over the next decade, and especially as we develop better diagnostic tools, we will find more details about which sports have significant links and be able to effectively modify the rules (banning heading the ball, for example) or steer children towards the sports that don't.

Sports you wouldn't necessarily expect, like ice skating, have problems with concussions.
hahahahahaha jesus thats both depressing and perfect. what a hack. thanks for linking i wouldn't have seen it otherwise
Yeah. If you want your kids to use toys to make other toys, Little Big Planet, Minecraft, Mario Maker and the like are immaculately suited to this purpose. If you want to go the next step, pulling back the curtain to teach the concepts of algorithms and the like, actually teach those concepts and go native with Logo or Pygame or some other language/framework with a low syntactic overhead and access to a good REPL.
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I'm sure there are image forensics that could be done, ex. thresholding the image and looking for odd patterns.
But you buy stock with your own money, the state doesn't.

The state does not have any money, it takes money in taxes we all agreed on to use it in fair way, and that is not to use the power of the state to buy up your livelihood and give that to a party member, that would be unfair.
Is this Apple demonstrating nefarious behavior (ie, a battle against webapps), they don't care about webassembly (who knows why, lazy?) or are they incompetent?

There may be another option, but in my experience, they want all apps to go through their store and have been almost belligerent to web devs in their mobile Safari/iOS development.

Edit: Or is this article inaccurate? The browser as a system update is such an obviously bad MS style thing to do, how was this repeated by Apple? How come so many people aren't completely baffled/angered by this decision?

Edit 2: It looks like a comment on the article says it's fixed in an iOS beta update coming soon...
When the mental pattern matching includes quick identification of known unknowables you can often identify some of the 50/50s of a given board quite early in the game. There is no point in postponing those decisions. Failing fast gives you more boards per minute.

On this level the game becomes 95% dexterity and 4% the "metagame" OP was talking about, which is triaging probable unknowables between guessing early and hoping for more information. The tiny rest is occasionally waking up from pattern matching autopilot mode to apply some logic to very rare patterns.
I've seen a number of these deepfakes, both SFW and NSFW, a lot of the unconvincing ones are done by people that haven't specified a long enough training time (12+ hours normally IIRC) or produced enough res image data sets / were testing the data for first time.

You have to find a target actor/actress that looks similar to what you are deepfaking (e.g. family member)
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16945494/deepfakes-porn-f...

Without any precedents YMMV.
Sorry about my choice of words if you, or others, found it inflammatory or uncouth. Maybe I got carried away while writing genuine queries in a casual manner is all.
Yea, I posted something I've been working about a week ago and it got all of 2 points and no comments. I figure I'll wait a few more days and try again. I reckon that's a long enough wait to not constitute 'spam'.

I think it's just blind luck, mostly.
grab the 1.10 beta and try?? =)
> Why does Bloomberg even have to take their opinion.

Bloomberg seem to love speculating on bubbles of all sorts https://www.google.ca/search?q=bloomberg+bubble+bust
Canon used to sell a cryptographic addon that could 'prove' a file was generated by a specific camera. I couldn't find it when i looked just now, i think the implementation was broken.
It's been in preview for ages. I hope with .NC 2.1 it will be production ready and well tested on all platforms.
My sincere apologies but I don't think this conversation is going anywere. I would prefer to end it here.

For an introduction to AI, I recommend the classic AI textbook by Russel & Norvig, "AI, A Modern Approach". Go for the most recent edition you can find.
> anyone who thinks cryptocurrency is an "investment" is a fool. [...] this is nothing short of pure mania and speculation.

Strictly speaking, speculation is a genuine investment strategy, but it's only appropriate for those with a high risk tolerance.
I'm going to wait for it to crash, I am going to buy some, and wait for it to bubble again.
I'd agree with you if web pages were "static documents", but they aren't and never were. They've always had to adjust to different screen sizes, and quickly became interactive applications, and now have to adjust to radically different pixel densities.
Is it a possible option to get new users when we're near broke
We finally finished developing our app for both iOS and Android - we did it on our dime.

Problem now ? none of us know how to do PR & marketing, and we were just totally shocked by how much some of the celebrity on social network quote to help promoting our app !!.

Trying to raise money would be too late, and we've been losing momentum since we finished the code - since we couldn't do much PR (budget won't support fancy video or writing). The only thing that keep us going is those who use the app gave us positive reviews so far.

With limited budget left ($15-20K) for PR, we're thinking about handing out an iphoneX or equivalent for every 5K new users, til we run dry. Is it a possible option ?

Our app is wutt2 (what to do...) and if any of you can check the app or the site to comment on whether it's worthy, or just fall & go, we'll be much appreciated.
It looks like Bootstrap could be reduced to a pure UI component framework now.
Depends on the situation. Generally in temperate climate you wouldn't dies off dehydration in 12h of even quite strenuous work. A day is typically survivable and you would have quite a range to reach something potable or appropriate hardware.

Now, if you went on a trip in sunny climate, you're in luck as UV can be used to disinfect most containers. Does not take too long.

In very cold climates frozen rainfall (snow, ice) is an excellent source of water if you can melt it.

The highest risk is tropics, as high temperature, humidity and lack of sunlight make obtaining potable water or purifying it difficult, so unless you know which watery plants to eat you might be in serious trouble.
"and are leaving it broken".

> Confirmed resolved in iOS 11.3 beta 1.

> 3 days ago
True, but an ancient text giving the speed of light even within an order of magnitude is ... interesting. Though it's not clear that the author was really talking about the speed of light and not the speed of the sun. The 2202 is intriguing. To me, unfamiliar with Indian mythology and numerology, it looks like the result of a measurement or a calculation rather than a "magic" number. Is it possible that they calculated the speed of the sun on the assumption that it orbits the earth every day at a distance estimated using Aristarchus's method? With the correct distance to the sun that would give a result of about 1e7 m/s, but they could have had an incorrect distance. In the 3rd century BC Aristarchus himself was out by a factor of about 100, but in the wrong direction, unfortunately for my theory.
According to one of the comments on the blog post (I haven’t tested this myself):

> Confirmed resolved in iOS 11.3 beta 1.
Leaf litter accumulates and breaks down and becomes new soil, mountains and hills erode and that sediment accumulates in lower areas, wind move lots of sand and fine sediment around, All of that piles up in places until things once on top of the soil are now buried.

It's a little more complicated than that, but that's part of the process.

Another aspect is that cities used to literally rise as they deposited waste in situ and had to build up as 1st floors became basements. This is partially the source of mounds.

Neat reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17je7i/arche...
Are you making the argument that a $million+/year is not "well compensated"? You can play for 2-3 years and never work again if you're smart with your money.
NFL player and mathematics doctoral student John Urschel retired last summer because he was afraid of possible brain damage. He'd had a concussion and found that for some weeks after his ability to think about math was impaired.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Urschel
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Yeah, same here. And some ancient cities and settlements have _layers_ below them[1]. How?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy#Historical_Troy_uncovered
It's more akin to rugby league than rugby union.
One nugget from TFA: More than 80% of the YouTube-recommended videos about the pope detected by his program described the Catholic leader as “evil”, “satanic”, or “the anti-Christ”. There were literally millions of videos uploaded to YouTube to satiate the algorithm’s appetite for content claiming the earth is flat. “On YouTube, fiction is outperforming reality,” Chaslot says.
As somebody who read that famous first email and shared it around her lab: We were all tremendously excited, and spent days discussing it.

This is the same thing - it's exciting. It's trying to do things many of us have thought of, but never worked on. It's new technology. It's something that, in our hearts, we want to succeed just because the alternatives are all grungy and dusty and carry the compatibility fixes of generations.

Of course, if you don't really care about OS technology, or look at it from a consumer perspective, yeah, it's not giving you anything.

But for engineers who care about OSs? This is amazing and invigorating.
> Except that, uh, "header" and "footer" themselves are layout terms.

Doesn't that give them semantic meaning? When I see a "header" tag, that tells me something about its intended use. When I see a "div" tag ... I start reading ids and class names and hope for the best.
> Build-time performance is much improved in .NET Core 2.1, particularly for incremental build. These improvements apply to both dotnet build on the commandline and to builds in Visual Studio.

It is good to see some improvements. Currently, `dotnet build` takes at least 3 seconds to compile a simple hello world project on my system, even when the source code isn't changed at all. At first I thought I did something wrong, but no, others were suffering from this too.[1][2]

This occurs because every `dotnet build` run tries to resolve the dependencies and inspect the file structure to see if any changes are made. And for some reason those operations are dog slow. Visual Studio doesn't have this problem, as it knows the file structure and the dependencies beforehand, so it can determine whether there should be a recompilation easily. I wanted to use VS too but it was too slow for my tiny laptop, so I'm stuck with VS Code.

I hope the improvements are big enough that I can reevaluate using .NET Core again. The build time was a huge obstacle to my iteration cycle, so I had to use TypeScript in my previous project. I sincerely want to code my backends in C#.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/5918

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/7610
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Yeah i had a weird bug where ancient notifications would reappear every time my phone reboots.

I dunno what happened but it finally stopped.
New chrome extension to help you keep up to the minute watch on cryptocurrency price changes and receive alerts right in your browser!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coin-monkey/lfgkhh...
That's not true, though. Semantic tags may make it easier to be accessible, but they are absolutely _not_ required.

WAI-ARIA defines the mechanisms to make existing webpages accessible, and they do not require using tags for their semantic meaning - quite the opposite. You use role attributes for this.

For example:

<div role="button">Click me.</div>

is perfectly accessible, and will be interpreted as a button, though semantically it's a div.
That's good, but as the article says, the release date for 11.3 is "Spring".
Number of times I've seen something pretty amazing. Here in Portland I've seen little birds, like sparrows, picking and eating squashed insects from front bumpers of the cars. They just fly up and pick those insects that stick to cars when cars drive at night.
Agreed. My kids are kindergarten age now and I won't let them play football.
>Stopping the antibiotics early can select for resistant strains.

Some people are claiming this is not supported by evidence: http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3418.full

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15311274
Interesting perspective, thanks! I had assumed that this was a deliberate strategy, but maybe it's simple incompetence. With just a touch of malice/avarice to round things out.
Given the timing, it looks like a Spectre mitigation accidentally broke it.
An asset cannot be an investment. You make investments in things through an action. And speculating on something, by itself, does not qualify as an investment.
The interesting things about diptheria and tetanus is that the vaccine is not targeted against the bacteria, but rather the toxin they produce.

If you've been vaccination against both of these diseases and are exposed, your immune system will eventually mount an attack against the bacteria, but already has antibodies floating around that inactivate the toxin, which is what is responsible for the severity of the diseases.
I notice for complicated apps you often want to turn it off, but development time probably is slightly faster on simple apps with lazy loading and is the previous default.

I would probably want eager loading to be the default, but lazy would be useful for porting old code at minimum.
Then what is the definition of investment and when you speculate on the price rise of an asset what specifically are you investing in?
Yeah that's exactly the type of people the Facebook ads and ICOs targeted. /s
The questionaires were meant to be a mechanism to allow creators to get additional feedback. They can be posted by the original HN story author and we verify that they are the original author by asking that they post a link to the questionaire as a comment on the HN story. These were the ones posted by those posters - we have work to do here to allow editing and also flagging.
I think there might be some deals in the ICO market when this bottoms out, at least the ones that had some sort of legitimacy. I went and read some whitepapers for a few of the more legit ones and it seemed like they might support a profitable niche business, but they were astronomically absurdly overvalued for what you might get buying their ICO tokens. It's a bit like the dot.com bubble. A good analogy would be waiting until 2002 before buying PCLN.
I'm ready for Bitcoin, and crypto-currency mania in genral, to either crash and burn or take off to the next level and produce something of value.

I can't be the only one who is growing tired of seeing the same circular discussions rehased on every click-bait article posted by Bloomberg/forbes.

There's nothing exciting or newsworthy about the price fluctuations that have been present since day 1. Sure, the dollar value swings are larger - but nothing new is happening.

edit: found the wannabe over-night millionaires.
Here's also a cool example of a game written in go, although using JS to display GUI: http://blog.u2i.com/we-made-a-multiplayer-browser-game-in-go...
There's also the timing - beware of timezones, but yeah
Report says Apple will stop making the iPhone X in the second half of the year
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181781#c4
Pure hype. Hoping you convince more people to buy in and make loads of fake internet money.
Sometimes you are old, poor, weak, sick or care about relative who is old, sick, in prison, have kids you would have to leave behind. Dont have contact among those who could get you out illegally and don't know where to buy fake papers. Sometimes you get caught.

When I read stories of succesfull escapes from bad conditions, many also contained multiple cases of people who did not escaped.

And most often, the country you are escaping to can deal only with limited number of refugees until it reaches breaking point.
> or are they incompetent?

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)
It's fine to reference your own work on HN if it's relevant and part of a good conversation, but it's not fine to post promotional comments to HN. The criteria for being on the right side of that line are: 1) is there interesting relevant info and 2) has the commenter been posting these repeatedly.

By those criteria your comment is on the wrong side of the line. It's not in your interest to post like this to HN because to many users it feel spammy.
I hate negotiating for shit where my own identity is economically irrelevant. I suck at it, so if I go and buy a car I'm basically subsidizing people that are better at haggling.
I played rugby for a few years in high school (not exactly stellar credentials but bear with me).

The first thing we were all taught to do was tackle. The technique was to wrap your arms around the opponents legs, particularly below the knee as that would guarantee their stoppage. This was a simple but very effective technique. We never tried to go for the head, or lower our heads and hit them.

I never played football so I can't say if this technique would work there but it's at least one reason no one on my team suffered a concussion in two seasons.
Strictly speaking I can speculate that the next card in the deck is an ace. Time to invest - Hit!

But the point is defining investment so widely as to include this sort of behavior just devalues the term.
Love it when two such unrelated things are the same person. Like the antivirus guy Graham Cluley who wrote a tetris clone with a spreadsheet program built in I got obsessed with as a kid
.NET Core didn't have DataSet/Table/View until v2.0. I'm still boggled by the idea that they think those are legacy (https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/1039#issuecomment-77...) and that everybody will just use entity framework for everything.
The only reason I can see for downvoting this comment is that it’s counter-narrative to the “we’re all gonna get rich on crypto right now” spiel.

Can someone point out a better (actual) reason to downvote it?
For a value of "we all agreed" that expands to "was decided via a free and fair democratic process", then it appears that the Swedes did all agree, at least for a time, that this was a fair way for their government to use their tax money.

For any other value of "we all agreed" then it sounds like you're arguing that the vast majority of government expenditures are unjustified. That seems like a much more expansive claim than what you're trying to make.

Why should it be okay for the state to use tax money to purchase a tank or a mile of road but not to purchase a share of stock?
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Or how about this. You can't move if you're holding the ball, and opposing players can't touch each other, ever. Instead of a tackle, count down a 10 second timer for the offense advancing the play.

Since we just made the whole game about passing without contact, 4 downs seems a bit too generous. Change possession whenever the offense fails to advance for whatever reason.

And 22 players on the field at once is just a bit much. So many variables. So cut that down to 7 players on each team.

And maybe to promote skillful passing, ditch that weird oblong ball and replace it with a flat plastic disk.
But how could they accidentally release it? WebAssembly has no tests at all? I don’t get it.
It's ridiculous to think they would go through the multi-year effort to implement webASM only to intentionally break it, yet leave it in the release, after just a few months of release.
A reasonable definition of 'investment' involves the allocation of capital for the purpose of long-term creation of wealth in the instrument being invested in.

This should be contrasted with 'speculation', which best applies to short-term strategy that merely seeks to skim alpha off the top of fluctuations in value, without regard to long-term health of the instrument.
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It's odd the you get a bunch of basically non-sequitor responses to this. Nurse wages are rising at slower than the rate of the overall rise of medical costs. Based on that I'd tend to agree with your statement.

edit: forgot a "slower than"
That would be too easy. It s probably going to be another coin next time
Why is it that Apple can't manage to update their browser without updating the whole OS?
> And speculating on something, by itself, does not qualify as an investment.

Yes it does. For example, venture capitalists are investors, and they engage in high risk speculation.
I wonder how much city life biases us to think the planet is smaller than it is. Perhaps it explains fears of overpopulation.