skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Legally speaking, the photographer is completely within his rights.

That's not that clearly cut. One needs to fit in one of the following 3 cases if one wants to take "professional" photos at a live show:

1) hired by the performer, thus the copyright belongs to the performer

2) hired by the organizers/venue: copyright goes to the venue/organizer

3) 3rd party and this goes complicated, because based on your contract with the venue/organizer, you might or might not retain the copyright on the pictures. One thing that people on here and even on reddit, seem to not know is that the usual arrangement is for these 3rd parties to get free access to the festival, in exchange of helping with promoting the event/bands.

This is why on virtually all live events you are not allowed to show up with a professionally looking video/photo device. In one case, this was explained as "any device with detachable lenses". In order to be admitted with such a device, you need to have an accreditation, witch means you fit in one of the categories above. Which in turn means there is a contract that stipulates what exactly you are allowed to do with the material you are gathering.
It appears to be an issue with expectations for some people (including me). "Burger" is associated with a certain flavor, texture and appearance, so when I eat a veggie burger my subconsciousness is disappointed because it's too different. The veggie burger becomes a worse version of a regular burger rather than an independent dish. This is the main reason why I dislike so many "vegetarian alternative" dishes on our kitchen's menu like chili sin carne, while some "standalone" vegetarian dishes are among my favorites like pasta with spinach, tomato and feta in cream sauce.

I hope artificial meat will be introduced as a 'luxury' product and replace mass-produced fast food ground beef after it is well established as a genuine alternative and not some inferior knock-off like artificial cheese.
> What am I missing?

I hesitate to make too many assumptions as to what you’re missing, but perhaps you aren’t distinguishing between government actors and private matters?

For example, we generally believe those who wield power over the citizenry should be as transparent as possible—this is the only way we (the citizenry) can make informed decisions about those leaders. If we don’t know what the leaders are actually doing, we are literally incapable of making informed decisions.

We also generally believe the opposite is true for the citizenry, that we should have as much privacy as possible. We believe this because it is far easier for a totalitarian regime to set roots if it knows everything about the citizenry.

The most powerful should be held accountable to an informed citizenry. This is one of the ways we try to maintain balance and prevent abuses by that power.
It seems kinda like their way of saying "if your random sections collide, then you're boned", which of course isn't the same as what they said.
I don't know if it's wise or helpful to lay this at the feet of government and big companies. They are big beasts that do well with defined budgets and defined directives, but they rely on their constituents and shareholders heavily for both of those two things. While that may not seem ideal, it's practical and what we have always seen in reality.

I think many in government knew this was going on, and becoming an increasing issue/epidemic in recent years, but until the public becomes outraged and is willing to support a big shift in policy and budget, what they can do is limited. It might be some of the people in government that we should feel most sorry for - they've been witnessing it for years and voicing concern, but few in the public will listen or do anything about it.

Perhaps I'm being too generous, but I see government and big institutions as behaving very much like computers, with much less intelligence and autonomy than the general public might think.
I suspect they want a "good" random generator, and a cryptographically secure generator is a known good generator. Without one you don't have a definition of random and you may end up with an unacceptably high chance of collisions.
> Also a minor gripe - I wish that the ULID spec checked for microsecond collisions instead of millisecond, because that would be more useful for realtime networked gaming and simulations.

If you can manage the difficult task of getting your clocks synced that precisely, it's probably easy to shift two characters over from random to timestamp.
This article could be titled "Look how much music poor people can access for $10 a month (or free, with ads)"
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I wouldn't be surprised if the big tech companies started bussing in some of their contract labor outside of the bay. The commutes (>1hr each way) are really terrible and there's no way to really live on less than $20/hr full time as a single person... much less care for children. Plenty of those people have an associates/bachelors degree, but without local family support they can't survive.
The EU only enforces clear labeling of unpasteurised milk. Member states are free to choose if it can be sold.
That's funny. The cities have most homeless are the places where Marijuana be legalized states: SF(California) and Seattle (Washington).
Idea, even the free version, is light years ahead of either, imo.

NB and Eclipse are just...janky.
I was raised in the residential neighborhood of a suburb...unless you're in a village where your neighbor is 300 feet away, if it's not the subwoofer, it's the kids screaming around the pool. If it's not that, it's a new developer (housing crisis and call for density and all that) building a mid-rise after the "NIMBYs" "lost". Dense or not, short of living with the wolves, it's basically just dumb luck/bad luck if you're in a quiet environment or not, because the laws are not on your side and it just takes a single asshole to ruin it for everyone.

I spent years looking for the "ideal" spot, and an absolutely ridiculous amount of money to obtain it, and 6 months later zoning rules changed and screwed everything up. I've just learnt to live with earplugs, but not everyone can.

More importantly, to house everyone efficiently, we need high density areas. If we must put a lot of people so close to each other, AND we agree that sleep is critical to one's health, we should treat it the same way as we deal with drinking water rules, fire safety, health code, etc. The laws should reflect and be enforced to match how important it is.

Step 1: While the existing laws and ordinance suck, they're better than nothing. Let just starts by enforcing them. No one's fundamental rights are harmed if you get in trouble for driving an 18 wheeler backward in a residential zone at 4 in the morning.
> If you can manage the difficult task of getting your clocks synced that precisely

It's only a matter of time (in both senses I guess). See e.g. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2018/07/18/to...
PUBG was not nearly the first survival shooter. I still remember Hunger Games style maps in Minecraft back in 2010 and those were derivative of older survival mods from ARMA.

Nothing is completely novel, or original. Everything made today is built on our collective experience up to the moment we release it. Its why you can't patent a concept like "battle royale" or "arena shooter" or "survival game" the same way the first successful action movie couldn't patent action movies.
Use increased, but did the problems associated with it increase or decrease? Taking drugs is not terrible in itself (except for your health and your wallet I guess), but the associated organized crime does a lot of harm.
Thanks, got those T-shirts already :-)
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I feel like I'm being trolled. If not, seriously stop giving people your details - you are creating an over $7 million honeypot / bug bounty! Delete all of this. Use a burner/fake account on a different forum, and ask for advice without mentioning the number of bitcoins you have.

Other advice:

1. If you have 2000 bitcoins, consider splitting them up via different storage methods. There is risk in doing this (wider attack surface; locking yourself out), but if someone hacks you, better they only take half your bitcoins before you can secure yourself.

2. If the Trezor fails, just use your memorized private key / raw paper backup.

3. Sell half, even if bullish. It could always go to zero.
No, but you should try to practice more security through obscurity by not telling the entire internet about it.
> I often wonder if it would be easier to push out a second, accessibility-friendly version of the site

Can you be sure that the separate accessible version would be kept up to date with the mainstream version, and have all the same functionality? "Separate but equal" didn't work when applied to racial segregation, and accessibility advocates tend to discourage it as well.
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Good advice from a smart friend that's been doing this for +30 years: he uses an open source format that has wide adoption. He's continually betting that in the future there will be enough conversion tools for a widely used open source format + is planning on needing to convert every ~10 years.
The average mainland Chinese person who attended their public school system will simply not be aware of a great many historical events, such as:

The Stasi

Romanians lynching Ceaușescu

Tiennamen Square (they'll know it exists as an innocent landmark in the capital, not the history of what happened there)

1984 and the whole genre of dystopian police-state literature
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Mostly by stealing mom's card.
>All codes are encoded only to uppercase.

False. ULID specification clearly says that these identifiers are case-insensitive. There's no "uppercase" requirement anywhere.
Euler was a master of generating functions. Here is a little taste. Start with a Haskell data type:

data Tree x = Leaf | Node x (Tree x) (Tree x)

The question is how many different Trees of size n are there, where n is the number of x values in the tree.

Size 0: Leaf
Size 1: Node x Leaf Leaf
Size 2: Node x (Node x Leaf Leaf) Leaf, Node Leaf (Node x Leaf Leaf)

It turns out this sequence goes 1,1,2,5,14,42,...

Now we do black magic: we take the Tree x = Leaf | Node x (Tree x) (Tree x) equation and replace Tree x with a function T(x), replace each constructor (Leaf or Node) with the number 1, and replace | with +. We get:

T(x) = 1 + 1*x*T(x)*T(x)

Simplifying:

T(x) = 1 + xT(x)^2

We can solve that:

T(x) = (1 - sqrt(1 - 4x))/2x

Now we do a series expansion of T:

T(x) = 1 + 1x + 2x^2 + 5x^3 + 14x^4 + 42x^5 + ...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=series+(1+-+sqrt(1+-+4...

Magic!

You can try it yourself with:

data List x = Leaf | Node x (List x)
data Tree2 x = Leaf | Single x | Node x (Tree2 x) (Tree2 x)

And if you're really adventurous, try:

data Tree3 x = Node x (List (Tree3 x))
data Tree4 x y = Leaf y | Node x (Tree4 x y) (Tree4 x y)
data Tree5 x = Tree2 (Tree2 x)
data Foo x = Leaf x | Node (Foo x)
> Also how many people actually choose to be morbidly obese? Like, suppose I am genetically predisposed to like "unhealthy foods" (scare quotes because we don't really know what that means). Does that excuse my obesity as genetically caused? How are you going to tell the difference between someone who "selfishly likes" unhealthy foods and someone who can't help themselves? More to the point, is there a difference?

I'm sorry but this is insane. Are we just abolishing any notion of personal responsibility whatsoever? I can't and won't argue from that first principle so we're going to have to disagree here fundamentally.

What if I can't help myself but grope women? What if I'm genetically predisposed to violence? Or kleptomania? Those things also impose a heavy cost on society, but if I just can't help myself, am I really at fault?

> How are you going to tell the difference between someone who "selfishly likes" unhealthy foods and someone who can't help themselves? More to the point, is there a difference?

Of course there's a difference. If your willpower is not sufficient to correct your obesity, then you should take other, more radical steps that do. And if you don't, then you're just selfishly externalizing your problems to society.

> But of course an expert can pass intellectual judgment on ideas (e.g. "candy is healthy")

Good, at least we can agree on something. So to answer the first part of your post, you should ask an expert on obesity. I'm not one, so if their judgment differs from mine, I'll stand corrected. But until then, I'll be of the opinion that most obesity cases are not genetic.
I've known male sex workers who exclusively service women. Their clientele were predominantly older, wealthy women. Turns out that powerful women are just as lonely as powerful men... and that they similarly enjoy the freedom of a financial arrangement over an romantic entanglement.

The solution to this apparent inequality is... hire/promote more women into executive roles.
Legalization opens the door for constructive treatment and therapy options to step in, e.g. injection sites where users can inject safely with clean needles while being exposed to opportunities for treatment. Users have a higher likelihood of accepting help at places like this, versus something like drug court.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
What video compression they use inside mp4 container?
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I like the idea, just also feel 1.21e+24 unique ULIDs per millisecond seems kind of defeated by the millisecond accuracy. This means there are effectively two tolerance values for time at play in the design of this spec that conflict with each other. If we want users to be able to generate ULIDs on such a short timescale (implying it's a realistic use case), then it would seem they should also be able to get comparable accuracy on the timestamp itself.
Amount of times I had to facepalm because cashier didn't recognise a beet or other common vegetable or fruit is significant.

Yeah, I have that problem, too. And I don't even eat "exotic"-looking things like pomegranates. Finger potatoes, kiwis, beets, cherry tomatoes (are they cherries or tomatoes?), and lots of other things confound grocery clerks these days.

And holy cow, don't try to pay with a two-dollar bill, or a dollar coin!

But I refuse to self scan until you have to pay to use a cashier or self scan gets you a discount.

Agreed.
Or an ordinary (and cheap) lead acid car battery. These are designed for very high, short term loads, perfect for this application.
I work and live in the tenderloin – usually the street teams use one of those telescoping grabbing poles to pick up needles.

I heard one of those folks excitedly shout "jackpot" as they came across a bunch of needles on the floor the other day! I guess they're getting some pleasure out of cleaning up the neighbourhood at least…
For example:

1. Paying for a VPN, VPS, mail, domains or other digital goods.

2. Paying for physical goods. I usually buy via the Swedish sites webhallen and inet for example.

3. Dark net markets.

4. EatBCH charity which give food to Venezuelans.

5. Cam sites accepting Bitcoin. First search result: https://www.bestwebcamsites.com/bitcoin-cam-sites
The usual argument: the probability of a collision only needs to be as low as the probability of a single-bit error anywhere on the path. That's the best you could possibly do.
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Buying a house with an HOA to keep the property values up, setting up NUMBY committees to keep new developments out, google buses as someone mentioned, corporate recruiting pipelines that pull from a handful of select schools, etc.

Same general idea as the Old-Money Boston-Brahmin or NYC types, just with better marketing.
I see this posted all the time when talking about worker shortages, and while I think the overall premise is true, it's also a mischaracterization of what is possible.

Many businesses become uneconomic if labor costs are too high. It's not just that employers don't want to pay more, but that it is customers who don't want to bear the cost of these higher wages. If all baristas were paid $20 an hour in SF, the higher cost of a latte would have a lot of folks switching to Folger's.

So the real issue is what the article brings up, in that housing costs everywhere are so high that it is making lots of businesses uneconomic, and they will continue to be uneconomic unless housing prices fall.
Vice did a pretty interesting mini-doc about it a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkw15LkZ_Kw
You technically can, but then it becomes illegal in most states.
It is if you're a pet. This is exactly how my veterinary visits go.
> you're probably better off putting it in Coinbase with a strong password and 2FA enabled. The same way you protect other things you care about like your bank account and 401k.

This is not a good idea. There is a big difference between your bank account/401k and crypto. If Coinbase gets hacked, you aren't really getting your crypto back. If your 401k account gets hacked, there is at least some recourse.
The "driving point system" is very ubiquitous in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)
It is also very common in the states and other countries. Funny thing is, in China, offenders can "buy" points from other people so that they still can drive. I wonder if that would work for this "social credit system" as well at some point...
Indeed even Apple's MMU was bypassed by Google Project Zero [1], but it still significantly increases the cost of exploitation.

[1]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/10/
If you’re doing that in July or August, or between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, there’s a high probability that the target is offline.
The Chinese are formalizing it and adding the system to places that haven't been too political in the past, but the west has its own unwritten social credit system and if you don't figure it out and kowtow to it then you're secretly penalized.

e.g. Cross an insecure manager or exec in your company by saying something that's true and better for the company, you'll get dingined without knowing it. Focus solely on learning at school and not enough on figuring out the game too, there again you're going against the system.
Which a lot of Uk companies are finding out in the run up to Brexit - they have been able to hire a higher quality of worker from Europe and not pay the real rate or contribute to training in the UK.
Away from anything that can be controlled from the email address that is associated with the account that you have posted from.
I once had a credit card with the CVC code of 007. Although it looks cool and everything, I spent a few hours on the phone to manage to activate it.

Why?

Simply because only a few days prior to the arrival of my card, the bank switched to voice-command-only menus on their hotline without a regular menu fallback.

I remember looking at the back of the card and saying, “oh, here we go...” to myself. Unsurprisingly, telling the system “zero-zero-seven”, “double-zero, seven” or even pausing and yelling “SEVEN!” did not work.

In the end, I made the system connect me to a random human-being who then transferred me to someone else and that person redirected me to the regular, typing-based interface.

A few weeks later, they updated their system to fall back to the old system after the 5th error ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just like in 'Black Mirror'.
If you want to gauge effectiveness do an incrementality test with a test and control group to see your lift.

I’ve found retargeting effectiveness to be highly dependent on the inventory, ad units and creative, while also requiring a robust attribution model to gauge the effect.

Without those tools, it is just throwing money at the wall without being able to see if it sticks.
Dont be a bank. Buy a bank.
Oh but you WILL pay for someone else's mistakes if you pay bitcoin to a merchant to buy something, the merchant gets hacked due to their own mistake, and then they cannot fulfill the deal. What are you going to do then?
I mean, having an organized credit system does seem to be necessary as a fraud/crime prevention measure. Fraud's a problem there. And it's not like our credit system is perfect.. a lot of people would rather have the government run it than some weirdo unaccountable oligopoly.

I feel like whenever Chinese stories come up, people gloss over the US equivalent because they're desensitized to it, while then getting OUTRAGED about those evil Chinese.
For comparison, Finland apparently scales driving penalty fines proportionally according to your income: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
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Sure, it reduced toxic content "elsewhere" but that "elsewhere" is limited to the same space that is administered by the same authority. Banning /r/coontown may have made posters in /r/politics less toxic, likely because they witnessed the shift in moderation policies. Also because racist users likely stopped using the service for posting racist content. But you're acting as though this means this content wasn't posted at all. For all we know, this just displaced it to 4chan, Gab, or something else.

Again, I agree that banning racist subreddits led to a reduction of racist content across the board on Reddit. But you're treating this as proof that said bans reduced racist content in society as a whole, which is a baseless claim even with the aforementioned analysis of the impact on other subreddits.
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This is a "holy grail" problem in distributed systems (which this library doesn't solve on its own), but suggesting that it's not a valid problem to solve is confusing. Have you not encountered the use cases or do you prefer a different solution? With either of those objections spelled out this could be an interesting thread!
It's to be expected that they'll know less about european history and correspondingly more about chinese history. And everyone knows what happened in Tiananmen square. It's living memory.

We could flip it around and talk about how ignorant westerners are of Chinese history..
2usd/year with a public IP? Link?
You can also buy something called a "battlepass", which gives you access to additional challenges every week. By completing these challenges, you can earn additional cosmetic items.
Agreed. For many many applications, bag of words/tf-idf/support vector machines are enough but with much better training time.
I've seen the same things in the models I've built. For basic intent classification simpler models seem to be more accurate, not to mention they train faster and require less memory. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on shiny complex neural network architectures, even when simple models work just fine.
It's not an uncommon tactic to give homeless one-way tickets to other cities. In fact, San Francisco actively does it as well [0]. It doesn't seem like San Francisco and cities like it are particularly targeted for this kind of activity. The only case I can recall is in the case of Nevada intentionally sending mental patients to SF which was settled out of court[1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

[0] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18375280

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposa...