skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually looking forward to living in a world in which pornography is so tailored, specific, and effective, that it becomes mundane. Maybe we'll have some other things to talk about after the world gets it out of its system.

Or, we end up creating a new digital addiction that partitions a class of society into preferentially existing digitally. Maybe this can just be a precursor to a VR caste that we never see in reality.
In the realm of innocent fun with this stuff, just how much time would it take to insert myself into the entirety of a movie? I'm just imagining how fun it would be to invite friends around to watch something we're all excited about, only to convincingly insert my face into the main character's.
As a Norwegian I keep getting surprised by things I learn about Sweden. Sweden seems to have been a lot more socialist than Norway. In some respect might still be.

The housing system in Sweden sound more socialist than what we got in Norway today, judging from how a Swedish friend has explained it to me.

However welfare benefits seems more generous in Norway. How sick people are dealt with in Sweden seems harsher. No pay the first days out of work, and maximum days sick decided by the government for different ailments etc.
What I have read so far is that Edge usage on the web is marginal despite (forced?) windows 10 adoption.
The great part is that using a GAN means we cannot automatically distinguish a fake from a real... because that's the whole point of the GAN.
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I coached two startup founders looking at this exact model (there were about five founders plus one Startup Weekend team that attempted this all around the same time).
Josephine became my go-to "this appears to be working, let's try and work out why..." model. I never could work it out.

Shame they couldn't get it to work. As far as I can see, the whole niche/model is fubar'd. Good try, though, and great community attitude :)
This is meant to serve as an extra data point during the decision-making process when we first get to a driver, especially when we don't have immediate access to them.

As other posters have pointed out, we try to minimise additional risk to the driver and rescue workers as much as possible. Pulling a car out of the barriers quickly could potentially injure a driver that was perfectly fine.

The data will also be useful in post-analysis, as much of the time it can take up to 2 minutes for us to reach a driver at some circuits. If we can see that a driver wasn't moving and had low blood sats, that could be useful info when deciding on further treatment/imaging/etc.

I drive the F1 Medical Car, and came up with this system together with my colleague Dr. Ian Roberts, and have spent the past 2 years developing it. Any questions, ask!
Discord banned multiple servers that r/deepfakes created and their reasoning was that it's being used for creating involuntary porn and so is against their ToS. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the legal status of deepfakes as well as the moral and ethical questions behind the usage of the tech.

A thought experiment : I run a chat room site and will be adding support for user created chat rooms (something like discord for cryptocurrency communities with real time price widgets etc). Let's say I went ahead and got them to use my chat room, what would the consequences be? And what do you think about the moral and ethical questions behind hosting such a community? Am I now enabling the creation of deepfakes? By choosing to avoid hosting such a controversial community, am I imposing my moral and ethical reasoning on others (the free speech argument)? How do think about the deepfakes project, which is mostly being used for creating celebrity porn, but the tech itself is interesting and has applications(targeted ads or in stunt doubles etc)?

To be clear, I'm not trying to host a chat room for them, this is just a thought experiment. I don't like what it's being used for and don't want to support it in any way.
And crypto currency now that they will live in a world full of it
It's time for cryptographic signatures in cameras (phones and otherwise) so that you can prove something is unadulterated.

Apple signing key -> your phone's key -> signature over hash of the media (edit: for video, embed signatures every so often to you can verify a shorter clip out of the whole). Embed Apple's signature and your pubkey in the metadata of the image, and TwitYouFace will verify on upload that it's authentic.

Of course, you can't fix stupid unless you talk about a complete overhaul of public education... And even then, people are people.
Find a better book. Billionaires are not any more likely to be able to recognize a good book than any other person, and the best-sellers lists can be gamed. If you like science fiction I might be able to make some recommendations.
I posted the Böhmermann incident 2 minutes prior and see it more as an example for the state of the art in video manipulation. I think its hard to see the response back then as an example of future interaction with the topic of video fakes. Which when it comes to altering faces in videos is still in the future.

I edited the post you replied to with "in a video." in the first sentence to clearify
I really dislike that MS is willing to impair the experience of more experienced users because other users can't be bothered to update. IMO, the MS of old would've let you opt out via a registry hack that you enable once and forget about, rather than constantly screwing with your computer to fix things.
Again, bitcoin fees are currently 0.5$
It may be worth noting that the sprites are registered trademarks of Taito. So be careful…

(I learned this the hard way: I once had a rather poplar 404 page featuring a variant of the game [1], until I received a cease and desist letter from Taito…)

[1] Compare: https://gizmodo.com/this-space-invaders-404-page-is-the-funn...
They won't. Like USA, we have our own gaggle of extreme conspiracy theorists who are always paranoid that the Central Government is a dictator that wants to reduce states to powerless puppets.
Does every post about Signal or Telegram have to turn into a Signal vs Telegram flame war? What is the relevance of your comment to this post?
Are you more productive according to the stopwatch? Or do you just feel more productive?

I believe that a strong static type system with generics is an unmitigated win, and that any time you think you may have lost fighting the compiler is more than regained by the time saved not having to track down type bugs at runtime, using the IDE to perform code completion and refactoring, etc. This effect is magnified as the project grows large.
If it can be faked, is it really evidence? I mean, you're worrying about people not believing assertions at that point. This is already something that can be faked just not by the masses yet and not easily. You should always look for multiple sources of anything and not just believe one source that shows you any evidence of something being true.
think those are unrelated. its about a headquarters shift in early 2000s to hide tax.
I have never been less productive than at the job where every task was broken down into tiny chunks, and I had to use a software stopwatch to log my time spent working on each.

And I have never been more productive than at the job where my weekly payroll timecard consisted of a radio button choice labeled "work week" and "vacation week", with a signature field.

The micromanagement encouraged me to spend all my time gaming the stopwatches and work plan spreadsheets instead of doing anything useful. That whole operation was a budget-padding scam, and I bailed as soon as I could. I have better things to do with my life than sit on ass and help my supervisor lie to their supervisor in order to keep the checks coming in. "Oh, my gosh! Writing and maintaining this glorified CRUD app is so hard! We're gonna need a bit more budget next year, and here are exactly the metrics you will need to justify that."

Every interview since has been influenced by that experience, because I'm not walking blind into a corrupt workplace again.
How democracies die, explained
The blog link for those interested: https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/nasas-long-dead-...
What does the phrase 'medically unnecessary' really even mean? Does it mean 'not necessary to filter your water except in those cases where it is necessary to filter your water'?

I think the article is saying the risk of a problem is low, so it's not necessary to filter. That's a silly statement to me and seems totally subjective, not objective. I'll decide how averse I am to risk, given the costs involved.
With all that's going on with the world (especially the last decade) a lot of people, like me, feels that having telemetry at the OS level is going too far. And think again about data being anonymized when they have so much of it (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456855). Even if I trust MS (or Google, or Apple, anybody) 100% it's still too much responsibility.

Even worse for people that are forever locked to Windows because of their line of work, clients or something else. They have no option, they can't even pay more to stop the data collection. Not to mention HIPAA and other problems that may affect small business owners.
Disconnect it from the internet and you won't have a problem. If you're going to be on the public internet, you have a duty to make sure you're patched up, just like you don't have the right to go out in public and spread infectious diseases around.

That's not a popular opinion among the subset of users who refuse to apply patches, but it's the correct one from the perspective of security and public policy.

There are plenty of ways around it: maintain your own patching infrastructure and you can do whatever you want. Use Linux and you can do whatever you want. But it's an absolutely correct decision to push patches onto the unwashed masses even if it upsets them.

We would be better off as a society if vaccinations were mandatory too, but we also have some vocal idiots there too.
I don't know, when I've tried LibreOffice (on Mac) I've found it very clunky.
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Yes they do. The Price mechanism makes sure the entire supply is used.
Same here. I get the feeling that whoever wrote the slate article hasn't been where we have. Filtration is worth it for my weak biome.
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I am sure you can do that. The hard part would be building consistent histories to back up those uploads. An upload from my facebook account, verified by other incidental data like GPS tracking on my personal phone, would more merit treatment as an independent corroboration, whereas a random reddit upload from a throwaway account would not.

And the real verification would come from ultra-high-res captures from drone cams, self-driving car cams, traffic cams, etc that are constantly running and recording everything, so that you can't realistically fake soemthing without simultaneously compromising uber, amazon, walmart, etc.
How does that help with the adulterated vegetables?
Interesting article about the possible damaging effects of UV and short wavelength light. This may help you choose the right sunglasses.
Legally, in the US, if you own the copyright to the source images, the copyright to the porn, and you’re not selling the output, it’s 100% legal
A CAPTCHA that filters out humans and only lets programs pass
This is not a philosophy seminar, you're not engaging in normal conversational norm setting at this point, and this game was boring in high school. Have fun, but you'll have to have it with someone else.
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Bitcoin Brawl: A New Twist in Tezos’s $232M Coin Offering
I find it much easier than writing in Word, and so do my colleagues. In fact, when selecting journals to send a publication to, "requires to send the paper in Word" tends to be a big red flag because of the huge work it takes to handle references, format equations, etc. which are trivial in Latex. (fortunately this requirement almost never happens within my own field, but it does when submitting interdisciplinary work, as some related fields use Word).

You don't even need to actually know the commands to get started with Latex in academia, it's typically fine to download the journal or conference template and fill in the text. All the PhD students I have worked with learned it just fine and fast.
The article nails the phenomenon on the head -- the "outdoor community" tends towards wealthy and educated -- but then completely whiffs on the obvious deduction. Viz., getting sick from waterborne pathogens carries an opportunity cost that is far higher than the price of a filter. I've had such an illness -- from using a malfunctioning filter in a place where it was really necessary, no less -- and it suuuucks. I'd happily pay $100-200 to not have to deal with that again.
Model aircraft flown using a pair of very thin, very strong control lines attaching one wing to the pilot on the ground.

The combat competitions, in particular, are pretty spectacular, involving two very manoeuvrable aircraft trailing streamers behind them, and attempting to cut the opponent's streamer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7loHjrssQg
Yes, for a spreadsheet with 10s of thousands of rows, Google Sheets starts crawling like molasses.
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They can, and they do.

Nothing in nature forces countries to be ethically consistent.
In many socialist points of view companies do not provide value, they are viewed as rent seekers. Value = {Raw Resources} + {Labor} + {Tools used by labor}. Companies own the tools, and take a margin of value. If labor owned the tools they could remove that margin. This sounds like the world view used to design that policy.
That doesn’t prove anything. Make your fake video, point your phone camera at it, record.
This is how things have to proceed for sure.
I loved my Lego Mindstorms set as a kid, it's very open ended and easy to use, even moreso now. The programming is simple but powerful and the building system is obviously second to none.
Or, once advert industry learns about it, how about replacing all the things on the table in Audrey Hepburn movie with BRAND NEW LEMONMELON FLAVOURED OREOS! :)

Ideally on the fly, with each box sold to the highest bidder, adsense-style.
Is it? There is no lithium battery out there that doesn't have a discharge slope that just falls off at the edge under high load. The alternatives are:

- stop powering the device when the charge gets into the zone where sudden dropouts might happen (i.e. lose about 5% capacity)

- accept sudden dropouts and have users experience devices that suddenly fail (i.e. lose about 5% of their useful charge since you can no longer depend on the device being on)
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Using other people's visage without their permission is gross. It's immoral and unethical.

The idea that you can have morals and ethics without sometimes acting on them is also sort of incoherent. If you claim to believe it is immoral to do something and then do business in spite of that, it directly puts the lie to your claim. This is separate from whether you believe that there should be legal consequences or other government action attached to certain acts.
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Legal status, i don't think is the issue. It's not illegal to produce likenesses, as long as they aren't published thus allowing people to believe the rendered facsimile is the real person.

I think publishing the impersonation is unethical since it allows people to believe it's the actual person, so it's fraudulent from that perspective.
While not quite the same thing, this reminds me of that time when tramadol was found in tree bark in Cameroon and misclassified as a natural product for a while:

> [You] can indeed extract tramadol from the stated species – there’s no doubt about it. You can extract three of its major metabolites, too – its three major mammalian metabolites. That’s because, as it turns out, tramadol is given extensively to cattle (!) in the region, so much of it that the parent drug and its metabolites have soaked into the soil enough for the African peach/pincushion tree to have taken it up into its roots.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/09/15/wei...
Macros are the really obvious one. But generally you need security patches any time you are running untrusted content from the internet. What happens if a malicious document overflows a buffer and gains code execution?

This is a particularly big concern with Word since its data format is essentially a direct binary copy of its memory structures.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
Yes it is, but lots of companies have upgraded to 10. Of all the offices I visit I see Edge open a lot. Chrome of course is the most popular, but I'm happy the awful web rendering engine that is IE is soon gone.
This is a great example of interactive writing. The playable demos are thoughtfully chosen. One of them even made me laugh.

Kudos to the author.
Is there an inplementation of a generalized face swap that doesn’t require hundreds of images of both the target and subject?
They are going to move at 100% towards any and every trapped driver.

Nope. Not true. Track personnel are trained to be cautious. They shouldn't be on a live track unless absolutely necessary. Anything that increases their ability to discern "absolutely necessary" from "not necessary" is a good thing.

[Former amateur race car driver]
This! One of the most ridiculous notions in articles about this when it first started coming out was "We should ban this technology!" and reddit started deleting threads that contained links to download the scripts and apps. Do these people still really not understand that's not how this works? Has the Streisand effect not been proven enough yet for the general populous?
Reading some of the press that this has had, it's unfortunate that some things have had a bit too much PR treatment. I'd also tend to disagree with 'immediately'.

We definitely don't expect this to be a silver bullet - it is the first (long overdue) foray into permanent physiological monitoring in F1, which will serve as a blueprint for further sensors and monitoring.

We chose SpO2 and motion as the first metrics, as they potentially offer us a lot of value with a single monitoring site.
That's not a mindset any true socialist/communist politician operate with. Good of economy, long term economical prosperity whatnot. More like how to tax rich till they leave, blame them for all the failures of politicians and central planning inefficiencies and so on.
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> No. That's a poor argument that, in this case, falsely equivocates slavery with financial regulation.

You say its a poor argument, but you dont say why.

> That's not what's happening in the least. But if Tether is a scam, then it will be shut down, as it should be. And no amount of "freedom" will justify running a scam on other people.

Tether will crash itself if it doesnt have the money its supposed to have, we don't need the sec for that ,the same way the SEC didnt start the 2008 meltdown or Enron's demise.
Its even more egregious if you consider tether is not in the US and affects non-US citizens the most. So why has the SEC the power to intervene in other countries with people that haven't elected them?

Its purely an act on a position of power, not on agreed rules, and thats some of the spirit that sorrounds crypto. Crypo will be more mature if it deals with this problems without government intervention.
tl;dr: The 'market' for guardianship is largely unmonitored by governing bodies and prone to abuses as told through personal anecdotes of individuals who have been taken advantage of.

Not to editorialize but this is scary for someone who lives abroad and has older parents and frankly makes me furious that we can let this happen
Anybody know how this new release compares with https://github.com/radare/radare2 ?
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If I see it come out of the ground I have zero issues drinking unfiltered water. With a filter I prefer streams first, lakes second, and ponds last in terms of preference. I have made exceptions at high altitude and drunk from streams without a filter, but the idea of crippling diarrhea 20 miles from anything is frightening, and boiling water isn't always convenient on long trail days.
I am not sure that is true. Smartphone core performance improvements have been impressive. For example: just compare the geekbench mulitcore scores of the iPhone 6+ released from late '14 to iPhone 8+ today: ~2400 to ~10200 relative to battery scores of 1510 @ 2915mAh to 2764 @ 2675mAh. You are getting 4x core performance and 1.8x battery performance with ~10% less battery capacity in just 3 years. It is more than just bells and whistles.
It's likely that we'll soon enter a new era of technological cat-and-mouse as tools are developed to automatically detect artifacts caused by digital processing and counter-techniques are developed to minimize the appearance of those artifacts.
It is the inverse of Dunne's description of the free press; Amazon's job, it seems then, is to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable.
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The start menu searching bugs me to no end. I have a hard time understanding why something like that isn't fixed/improved. It's so terrible, it's impossible to miss.
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Giardia is carried by bears and beavers, not just humans and pack animals.

It's commonly known as "beaver fever", in fact, and by all accounts it is not a fun experience (2-6 weeks of explosive diarrhea for some).
They are slowly, sloooowly implementing live collaboration. 2013 had built-in OneDrive support which had save conflicts 30% of the time even using it on a single computer. 2016 apparently supports the whole live-cursor collaboration thing, though I didn't know that until just now after looking it up. I'm sure it would be useful if you everyone else you're collaborating with has the latest version. It'd probably be easier to just use google drive for the one person that inevitably doesn't.
> And perhaps it should... if average people have the technology now, how long has it been in the hands of police departments, newspapers, militaries, and intelligence agencies?

To be honest with you, when I was younger I bought into this.

Nowadays....it kinda seems like with the open source community, consumers are getting stuff first. Not always, of course, but often enough.

And police departments are one category that I can be quite certain are lagging behind, they are definitely not getting stuff before consumers have it.
Dunno, I'm not convinced this is "new magic" for anyone nor that you can learn to program without at least encountering static typing.

It's just that dynamically-typed languages are still popular. And Javascript continually grows and is often a good choice, like for client-side applications. So it's not time wasted if we can figure out ways to improve the tooling experience for these languages.

For example, there are just other considerations beyond static-typing when choosing a language. It seems condescending to suggest that people are unaware rather than just picking different trade-offs.