skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the deposition he clarifies this out-of-context (it is not the full sentence and not even a correct quote) statement and puts it into context. At that time, he did not think the whole thing was staged, but that the way the media handled it, used it against gun owners, was synthetic. He says some reports about the incidents were covered up. He says he thinks there was a cover-up of some of the negligence in the town and of the school. He did think there was some cover-up, but it was not that the whole thing was staged. Specific areas were faked, not in a totality. He believes school shootings happen, and now believes that Sandy Hook happened.

Even if, it is a far cry from promoting harassment of victims.

Edit: I did that edit not in response to you (I had not read your response yet, just like I made this post without reading your edit), but because people cite news stories, instead of Alex Jones. I am sure you can find news stories stating that Alex Jones instigated harassment of victims, as it was one of the big justifications for deplatforming, but I never saw Alex Jones say anything to that effect. The direct quotes are just not there... Even for your "quote" that is attributed to Alex Jones, it is not a correct quote, nor is it the full sentence, it seems to be Chinese whispered from a reddit thread. I myself got tricked by taking news stories about Alex Jones as factual, but when I saw the actual direct quote/news clip, I saw how what was presented as fact, was the journalists' biased interpretation. I read a news article stating Alex Jones was transphobic and promoting transphobia, but then I saw he was talking about this: https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1179838/2147... and saying it looked demonic to him, and that he did not want this normalized. It was very much in the style of: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/forget-mr-rogers-drag-que...

About moving the goal post: The lawsuits are about making misleading statements, not about instigating harassment of the victims. Alex Jones did not instigate or promote harassing the victims of Sandy Hook. Some of his deluded followers took that upon themselves. You can find direct quotes where he says they should not do that and that it is wrong.
AI already taking human jobs...
Not to mention you wouldn't need photoshop anymore to give the models unrealistic proportions. Adopt this system and proudly declare that you don't photoshop the models! Like fat-free soda.
While AI models might replace catalogue models for small labels that are starting out (maybe) and for e-commerce companies (definitely). I highly doubt it that they will replace real models for large companies and fashion boutiques now or ever. Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. The reason why I buy a dress from Hervé Leger is because I want to look like old school Crawford making body-con a thing in the ‘90s https://media.glamour.com/photos/56959302d9dab9ff41b2a79b/ma... and make the painful process of getting into that shape and look seem “easy” while doing it.

Fashion isn’t about looking good in of itself. It’s about social proof-of-work. Knowing what to wear and pulling it off isn’t easy. It’s the raison d’être of the multi-billion dollar fashion and fitness industries. Women eat grass all day everyday and go on ridiculous juice cleanses while contorting their body into shapes that would put a pretzel to shame. If the world endures so much pain to look effortlessly good, Why should manufacturers be allowed to forego the pain? If the root of aspiration is making the impossible look like a breeze, then why would anyone want to buy from a computer generated perfect model that never had to feel the pull of a difficult stretch and stare in the mirror with guilty eyes?

The suspension of disbelief necessary for the social economy to function crumbled as soon as something is too perfect. Like Instagram photos. It’s not cool to slap on a filter anymore and stage a perfect photo. It’s too easy now. Just like Prisma was. What’s cool is to put in the work and make something imperfect so that everyone knows that you put in the effort and looked unflappably blasé while doing it.

Most models that are hired today are hired partly on their social presence. Having an audience, even a micro-audience, is essential for getting high paid gigs, because brands aren’t just selling the look; they’re selling the whole package associated with the look. Women like to buy from other women (and men like James Charles) whom they can aspire to. Tweens and teens want to look like the models on tik-tok. Young-adults and grown women want to look like their favorite YouTuber and Instagram celeb. They all want to participate in making something cool happen with their friends.

All of this and more is intrinsically social and human.

All of this and more means that as long as humans buy from other humans, brands will hire models to appeal to what’s most human; sexy, sexy crazy-making envy.
Has anyone made predictions for what future decades of energy generation might look like? Specifically any ideas for how big if any a return to nuclear will affect everything else?
> But if they are really trying to get better, then they have to do 'deliberate' practice. Just grinding through things isn't the end-all-be-all. You have to really be trying.

Not only that, but the types of coding you can do at home are often much different than your work. Most hobby projects won't give you a chance to process terabytes of data or serve data to hundreds of millions of clients or send bytes across the country with microwaves. So if your job is related to any of those things, you're not going to improve much at home.

Also, much of what companies value in software developers isn't raw coding ability. You have to be able to work with other people, understand business requirements, convince people to help on your work, etc, etc. From that perspective, somebody who spends their evenings at bars talking to strangers might be building more important career skills than the person who codes all night.
Look into dual numbers and automatic differentiation, it's like Calculus on steroids.
It’s perfectly OK to only code at work
> But you can still influence your children to not take up smoking. Of course you can't guarantee that they won't, but parental influence certainly plays a role.

Parental influence includes direct modeling as well as environmental modeling. I'm not even sure if the two can be meaningfully delineated.

The article said the person would "occasionally" smoke marijuana on the steps, which is another way of saying regularly (but not necessarily frequently). It may be a little passive aggressive to call the cops, and I'm not going to bury my head in the sand--it's probable such a passive-aggressive approach was racially motivated. OTOH, I'm a pretty non-confrontational person and would probably use the same approach if I wasn't already on friendly terms, regardless of race. I mean, this is the Bay Area--nobody is going to get arrested or even fined. The cop is just going to tell them to stop because he doesn't want to be inconvenienced again. The unfortunate truth is that middle- and upper-class disputes are mediated through the authorities these days. Even if we would be better of if a more friendly approach were taken--as is still common in many poor (urban or rural) and rural (white or black) communities--realistically it's the couple who need to accept that disputes about seemingly innocuous behavior will be resolved through the cops, not direct confrontation.

The article said they simply changed their behavior to smoking in the backyard, out of sight of most neighbors and, presumably, with less intrusive odors. I think that's not only acceptable but desirable, regardless of any racial or class animus.

Even if, for the sake of argument, there would otherwise be zero effect on neighborhood children's propensity to smoke, such exposure likely would perpetuate stereotypes about blacks smoking marijuana. And even if the couple were otherwise the most respectable couple on the block admired by all the children for being kind and caring and intelligent that simple stereotype alone could be harmful in terms of children's (and even adults') internalized image of blacks and black culture.

Respect is a two way street. I support legalized marijuana because I respect it's a peculiar feature of some cultures, especially but hardly exclusively to black culture. Adults smoked it in my household regularly. I also respect the WASPy culture of turning their noses up at such behavior, because it is bad behavior--individualized exceptions notwithstanding--and the most effective way to suppress it is to make it a taboo. How do you respect both cultures simultaneously as well as all individuals concerned? Smoke it privately and non-invasively. The neighbors and the couple each take a small step towards better social integration. Talk is cheap, shifts in behavior are what count.
I take great issue and do not agree at all that energy should be subsidized.

Renewables are not going to provide us with the energy we need, not even by a longshot. It's less than 1% of the worlds energy needs, will only be around 3% in 2040.

Renewable energy is a linear solution to an exponential problem.
Parent didn't claim Butts was in college at the time.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/01/nyregion/neighborhood-rep...

> He collected accounts from some original players, like members of the Jackson Heights Woman's College Club.
I'm in agreement. That's essentially the point I was making, although the commenter specifically said it didn't have to come from income taxes. With that said, I would assume other forms of taxation like a value-added or consumption tax would disproportionately affect younger citizens to the same effect
All resource exploitation has externalities, and sure, those are real costs and worth discussing. If you want to make a case that the externalities of wind power are more expensive than those for coal extraction and power generation, then you go ahead and make that case.

But cut the hyperbole and poetry, dude. I see your "marred views" and "constant thrums" and raise you a bunch of fucking removed mountaintops, an acid rain epidemic and generations of health problems we're still paying for.

"Marred views", sigh...
I'm studying CS and Biology, and I'm currently researching disentangling object representations using brain inspired auto encoders
They use GDP as a measure (or regional equivalent).
Somehow they'll have to find a way around lookalikes. A real human who believes the rendering is actually their image and likeness. So they'll have to have a way to prove that there was no "contamination".

Funny enough, there was a case[1] of a real person thinking a model on a website was him but it turned out the image was that of an altogether different person that just looked like them, uncannily.

For illustration, let's say the AI generated a "body" that looked eerily similar to Kim Kardashian or the president of Burundi and used it to promote products or causes.

[1]https://www.npr.org/2019/03/10/702063209/man-inadvertently-p...
As a C (not C++!) programmer, Zig looks more like what I want in a C-replacement than something like Rust.
The higher the rise, the harder the fall. Great old-timers continue to jump ship in droves, and new people only apply after getting rejected by FANGs of the world. Given the size of the company this will take a while longer to play out, but play out it will, eventually.
>>> One of the first rules in the marvelous book The Pragmatic Programmer is "Select() isn't broken". Yeah, but sometimes it is.

How come you give this example just now? This can't be a coincidence. select() just caused us a major production outage.

FYI: select() is broken on pretty much all Linux kernels up to very recent ones. Doesn't work when there are more than 1024 opened file descriptors, not a lot for a server app. Side effects include crashing the application.
I would guess they encrypt whatever they send to DHS. Hashing would destroy all the information required to make a match.
When Measles Arrives: Breaking Down the Anatomy of Containment
Huh? How was he communicating if he wasn't speaking and wasn't signing? You never say.
I'm fine with all that if it needs to be done.

We can stop wasting billions of dollars a year on the tax prep industry and instead send a tiny fraction of that amount to the IRS so they can beef up their operations.

The one issue I see is that a lot of people expect to be able to file their taxes (and get their refund) by early February. People who have brokerage accounts (and other things) generally can't do this, as brokerage tax forms aren't due until mid-March. Since the IRS wouldn't know who does and does not wait on brokerage forms, they'd have to wait on everyone, and delay sending out pre-filled forms until late March. A lot of people would be pissed about not getting their refund in early February like they're used to. (Personally I think this is a dumb thing to get pissed about, but at the end of the day you have to convince voters it's ok, and the backlash against this would be huge.)

Requiring that brokerages and other entities with a later deadline move their deadline up to late January just might be a non-starter for some. Then again, if I look at my 1099-DIV and 1099-B forms, it's not clear why it takes so long to prepare them. All it takes is a DB query against my transaction history for the year that could be done on January 1st; no need to wait 2.5 months.

Certainly some forms couldn't be prepared until businesses close their prior-year books, but I think that'd affect a small minority of taxpayers.
But I believe when Amazon itself ran into this long ago (being in seattle but having to collect taxes for california) it complained that they were doing something for california but california provided no services for amazon and it's employees.
Yes, according to the first tweet.
I don't see how utility scale batteries could ever be a good idea when you can get dual use out of EV batteries. Not only can you dispatch demand (smoothly scale up and down charging to suit the grid), you can use the cars as storage and inject power in to the grid.

If the Model 3 battery is claimed to be good for 1 million miles, it is more than capable of fulfilling this role over the lifetime of the car. A high end Tesla contains enough energy to power the average US household for 40 hours last time I did the calculation.

There's no question we have to transition to EVs, and battery capacity is by far the bottleneck in this transition. A grid powered by renewables is going to need a massive amount of storage. Any policy that artificially silos batteries to only be used for only one of the two requirements is a bad policy.
The title is awkwardly worded, but I don't think it's so unclear. If the people don't exist then neither do the bodies.
If you're in California, the California State University System has Open University at all campuses. [1] If not, basically an open university is most likely to give you what you want. In the US, community colleges are also an option for foundational classes.

[1]: https://www2.calstate.edu/attend/professional-and-continuing...
Here's a good take on it:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/will-uber-survive-the...

Also mentioned in that story is a link to Hubert Horan's excellent multi-part series "Will Uber Ever Deliver?" It was that series which convinced me of the arguments I'm presenting.
EDIT: Man I definitely replied to the wrong comment. Feel free to downvote me to hell.
yes. I don't think it's that fair there either.
Great project, but it has had more than one major discussion on HN in the last year, which makes this submission a dupe (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

Most recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610199

Other big ones: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Zig%20points%3E30&sort=byDate&...
You set up a strawman and destroy it without answering any of my questions; this seems like arguing in bad faith.

Endeavoring to be more constructive and respond in good faith: No, I am not OK with those consequences, and the ludicrous strawman argument you raise bears zero relation to the entirely realistic hypothetical that I described.

I hope you are never stricken with a life-threatening illness that cannot be treated with our artificially limited set of legally available interventions.
So, I think that's probably quite right in general, and it's no "conspiracy". But it can still be a barrier to privacy. Rather than a conspiracy, it's evidence of priorities. You don't eliminate a development affordance when DRYing something up for something you know is a priority -- or if you do, it'll get refactored to fix it soon enough, if it is a priority.

Which is perhaps generally applicable to "conspiracies" in fact. There are some instances of powerful people making plans; but there are even more instances of results from systemic rewards and punishments, people acting independently with certain interests, from just how the system works. It doesn't make em always great. Systems can be changed.
I searched and found "Gesegnet seien jene, die nichts zu sagen haben und den Mund halten!" which is the desired quotation but it's attributed to Oscar Wilde [1] so probably originally English since Oscar Wilde is also quoted to have said "Life is too short to learn German" (though he did learn German according to Wikipedia).

[1] https://www.gutzitiert.de/zitat_autor_oscar_wilde_1481.html
But it is always driven from management. When was the last time a group of developers decided all by themselves that they needed a development framework to get work done?

And isn't it funny how management never uses any agile framework to do their own stuff. Could you imagine the board of directors putting Fibonacci cards on their foreheads when deciding on budgets or earnings forecasts?
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Serious question, what are the legal implications for using a publicly available online image for ML training?
It actually is a bias, I just probably didn't do the concept justice in explaining it.

https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/resources/mini-encyclope...

I think what you're referring to is more akin to uncertainty risk.
As someone who also went back to study math after not doing it for a long time, I would recommend doing a book that focusses on teaching how to prove things, using the math you already know. Most upper div math courses either assume you know how to prove things, or try and teach it in passing while also teaching the topic itself (classically linear algebra and calc 3 were taught this way, though now many places now have separate "proof" classes instead)

I would strongly recommend Chartrand and Zhang's "Intro to mathematical proofs", once you know how to prove things, every other more advanced math class you take will be much easier than it would have been otherwise.

[Edit]
In particular, do the book, including the chapters on "proofs in calculus" and "proofs with real and complex numbers" before doing real analysis - you'll enjoy it much more that way!
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I went through most of this book a few years ago, now about to finish my MS in math :)
Taxi Class Action Against Uber in Australia
“Pipeline Driven” vs. “We Have Jenkins Jobs”
My point is that they clearly didn't mean you should be able to write one from hearing the word fizzbuzz. It's used by name online because it's fairly widely known around these parts. In an interview question it would be given to you as a set of requirements, not just the word fizzbuzz.
I’m sure some lawyer will get the list in discovery the first time it comes a bit close to a model’s look. I do wonder if they have the list, though.
How a Google Street View image predicts your risk of a car accident
Others have gotten into this with you about the specific damage, and my point was less "yay, censor them!" than the argument that not deplatforming them somehow protects me. It doesn't, even hypothetically.
> One wonders if the people whose photos were used to build this system were compensated appropriately for their contribution.

Stock photos exist. It's not as if researchers are trawling facebook to build their AI models.

Just looking at the output, and the unnaturally specific body poses, I'd guess they just put in an order for 50,000 stock photos and went on from there.

If you negotiate, you can trivially get it down to 0.10 per image which is just 5000 dollars. And by trivially, I mean just email several sources saying your budget is in the low thousands.

So most likely, everyone got compensated. All rights were preserved.
Yeah, that's my least favorite part of how buying new cars works. The dealerships have cars on the lot with various semi-arbitrary combinations of options, and if you want some other combination then the process of buying a car gets more complicated and expensive.
Magnitudes more expensive? Huh? On what product?

We used to use AWS and had issues a lot. I've seen global GCS outrages. Today we were effected be the Azure outage, but only for about 15 minutes.
They're great if you operate your car in complete silence. Personally I'm usually listening to something.
That makes sense, it just means the brief post you linked here isn't really relevant to your firm's actual competencies and value provided, which are not really about filtering programmer abilities.