skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To quote https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use

"When a project is successfully funded, the creator must complete the project and fulfill each reward. Once a creator has done so, they’ve satisfied their obligation to their backers. "

if a kickstarter has symbolic rewards, then sure that's fine.

But otherwise it's a contractual obligation to provide a reward in exchange for money. Not a donation, not an investment.
I think that'd be a pretty good way to burn bridges, to be fair. A GDPR subject access request would be a lot of paperwork...
If you have any data that might be of interest from the point of view of industrial espionage (i.e. you work for a company that competes with big US corporations that are donating to political parties), that's a very good idea.

Industrial espionage is the only goal of this program. After Snowden revealed that the CIA was eavesdropping on allied political leaders like Angela Merkel, stuff like this is the new normal. Assume the worst and don't carry anything through airport security that you are not comfortable with sharing with foreign governments and your competitors.

This is not about child pornography or terrorism. Honestly, who is stupid enough to engage in that kind of stuff and walk through airport security with incriminating evidence. This is not a thing and hasn't been for decades. Anybody that stupid would be effectively harmless owing to the fact that they would be complete morons.
The referenced article, https://blog.plover.com/lang/jargon-failures.html, on jargon failures is a nice read as well!
Also the cost of a equivalent superconductor network would be an order of magnitude more expensive that what is essentially room temperature metal cables with very basic technology - transformers, insulation, and switchgear.
Those are two separate links to two separate incidents.
I thought most of those deaths were indirectly, resulting from agricultural and economic policies and forced relocations and only a relatively (10%) small number of executions?

If you include economic causes, you might need to include the excess mortality of systematically impoverished communities in western nations — and I don’t just mean “PoC in the USA”, as I can point to a UK study claiming the government’s austerity policies since 2010 have caused 120,000 excess deaths: https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/health-and-social-care-...

Also, if those deaths were related to economic policies, you probably have to weigh them by population size.

Obviously that’s still a million executions more than most; I am not defending him, this is just about making it an apples-to-apples comparison.
Yeah I don't know. More noise sure but I fear Svelte just misses the point. I'd write a rebuttal but I sort of already have: https://medium.com/@ryansolid/what-every-javascript-framewor...
I would be interested on how they do that - do they drill down into the processes mixing efficiency, temperatures pressures etc
The AI showed here is not even a step in that direction. If you want photo-realistic images of how a piece of clothing would look on your body you need:

- very accurate measurements of your body

- a very accurate representation of the materials used in that piece of clothing, including weight, tensile strength etc.

- a very accurate physics simulation matching the materials to your body measurements

The technology showcased here does nothing similar. It could perhaps generate pictures of what someone who looks sort of similar to your general body shape, as seen in your pictures, looks in clothes. It would be no better than what you currently have: look at the picture, and try to guess how well that fits your actual body.

Even worse, you would completely miss details like "the material is very stretchy, it looks good on the model's abs but it might look bad on my belly fat" because the AI would NOT be doing a simulation of how that clothing actually fits a human body - it's always producing an idealized simulation.

Edit: and to make this clear, I'm not saying that "the AI can't do that yet". I'm saying that the technique they are using can't achieve the goal you are talking about. There is nowhere near enough detail in pictures of clothing to get the kind of simulation you are looking for.
It’s weird to see pricing differences dismissed like this, turns out they matter a lot!
In my experience, most customers end up trusting at least one cloud vendor. If not GCP (which does not have regions in France for example), they will trust Azure or AWS (who do). If they are a big e-commerce company, they will hate AWS but go to Azure, etc.

The reason is mostly the human cost of maintaining infrastructure, and the global lack of good people have the knowledge to do so.

Edit: Trusting hundreds of SaaS vendors vs. one major cloud platform is another debate though.
The article has the merit of significantly reducing the size of the original essay, while IMO still retaining two strong messages:
1. The original (is it?) method used to prevent spam, and
2. The 'seed' factor, which is expected to make spammers work harder. At mid-page I was thinking "meh, spammers will just have to improve their writing then", but this may not be sufficient thanks to the user-specific seed.

[edit: I didn't realize the original article was from 2002. I agree the article is a bit obsolete at that point.]
It would be quite a plot twist if PornHub acquired them :)
The paper is from 2011 and does not seem to be freely accessible.

The abstract is smooth and pompous, but all the authors are really observing, I think, is that more men than women are attracted to the asocial way in which free software is usually developed; "de-legitimize" is rather overstating it.
#6 discourage the use of those platforms. Disable your accounts; Meet face to face; use & promote alternatives (Mastadon, Signal, Scuttlebutt); collectivise and lobby against them.
It was very informative news

https://onlineitguru.com/tableau-online-training-placement.h...
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But the customer is easily distracted. That's why we have things like Facebook where customers will happily give up their privacy in return for a little functionality.

Please sir, can I have some more?
What we can do is to skip unnecessary travel, use public transport whenever we can, stop buying fairly useless consumer products for our own leisure, and the most important ones: realise that reducing our collective carbon footprint will result in considerable reductions of one's individual standard of living.

We, as individual consumers, need to reduce the carbon emissions ourselves as much as possible no matter what the politicians say. Deniers are going to be a problem until shit hits the fan for real, and waiting until everyone is convinced will simply be a waste of time.

So, in other words, focus less on what others do, more on what you do, and make sure to prepare as much as you can for whatever the future holds. Not saying everyone should become a prepper (although it's a fun hobby!), but the fact that people blindly believe that the future is a straight line is scarier, regardless of where they believe that line is pointing.
The problem with adult content is that it is not monetizable via regular ads. This means that Tumblr is either:

1) a porn site with porn ads which is not a sexy business to be in -- at best it is a lifestyle business.

2) a site providing tools to small porn businesses ( i.e. creators of adult content ) for money which has a very limited growth and is a tough market

3) a site charging users for access to edgy content

None of this so far has been a multi-billion dollar entreprise.
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However this method is completely different and thus might open more options
I'v e found that "your own servers" vs. "rent a cloud" are a bit weird as a company grows. First one is cheaper, then the other, then the first one again, then the other again, it continues like this a few times.

At one point it's quite possible that a combination of the two is the cheaper option.

And yes, you're completely right, load variability plays a huge role in all this.
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I'll have to use that when talking about our country's (UK) decision to force everyone going onto a porn site to provide ID
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Countries like the Maledives invest in land; that's a sensible thing to do that will save existences. What's not sensible to do is restrict fossil fuels in Europe wile China is still ramping up; it's symbolism that does not help a single person.
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My anecdotal impression was 4chans anime boards.
Increasing power transfer effectiveness by even 1% seems like it would be a huge improvement when you consider the energy demands of a continent. That's potentially a lot of CO2 saved.
Just curious: Isn't MIR not a moving target with lots of changes going on? Perhaps a direct translation to Rust syntax would be a better choice.
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Neither does Canada.
I am guessing more than compliant it is just some corporate captive market thing where there is only one "compliant" transcoder
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If I had to bet on personal computers' and other devices' future, I would say that some years down the line--not many--only a barebones system will run on them so they can connect to an OS delivered through a cloud service. The turning point will be Google Stadia's success.

As much as I would prefer local-first as well as offline-first approaches, I reckon that the future will only have a place on the fringes for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW1_Sidq3m8

Looks better to me than a lot of what is on your video. The video is very nice and it's really good, however it's often not really photorealistic when it's supposed to be and I also don't believe it'll be possible to do raytracing at such performance it'll be usable for most people (mobile phones), for VR. This approach is a new way that sidesteps the issues of raytracing.
Lessons from a genocide can prepare humanity for climate apocalypse
> Yuan Cao ... was clearly the one who actually made the pivotal discovery

Are you saying that based on something external to the paper? In the author contribution section, Cao is not credited with having done anything on his own:

> Author Contributions

> Y.C., J.Y.L., J.D.S-Y fabricated the devices and performed transport measurements. Y.C., V.F. performed data analysis. P.J.H. supervised the project. S.F. and E.K. provided numerical calculations. S.L.T., A.D. and R.C.A. measured capacitance data. K.W. and T.T. provided h-BN devices. Y.C., V.F., and P.J.H. wrote the paper with input from all authors.

The first authorship is an important meaningful thing, but it definitely isn't a guarantee that they key, most noteworthy step was done by the first author, much less the first author alone.
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If the two objects were either perfect spheres or tidally locked, then a circular orbit would continue forever. There are no losses due to pure motion in a vacuum.
To the parent's point, though, passports ARE checked at the point you exit the Schengen area, whereas they're generally not when you leave the US.
There are people actively fighting the dehumanization and there are people building tools to dehumanize and defend their work. In a movie or artwork which side do you think are going to be portrayed as the 'good guys' and who are you going to be rooting for? That is cognitive dissonance.

This is just more evidence of how the lack of a moral compass has led the software community to not only sell out and build these creepy tools but worse defend surveillance and police state technologies without a hint of self awareness in these kind of discussions.

Without push back and dissent it's only a matter of time the software community is completely tainted with collusion as a group of opportunists with zero ethics by the general public like those collaborating with authoritarian police states against the people.
https://www.handprint.com/LS/CVS/color.html
With all the work on making these ML models controllable it seems like they now have a decent concept of things like "tall person" or "wears glasses". I assume it would be entirely possible to replace the last few layers and generate 3d models instead of images. Nobody is doing that right now because nobody has training data for that, and generating such training data is hard (or expensive). But it seems like it should be in reach of someone with a profitable use case.
I participated in the study along with my former partner. IIRC, I was asked at a health check-up if I knew my partner's status, and then asked if we wanted to enroll. It just involved meeting a (very kind) doctor every 6 months, getting a finger-prick test, and completing a form with the number of occurrences of unprotected sex. We did this for at least a year, so I hope the data were eligible.
What is Tumblr even worth now?
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I'm a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience, and I just started a youtube channel to help newbies carve their way into the software programming industry.

The purpose of the channel is to explain the challenging programming algorithms and concepts.

My priority is to provide "High quality" content that is engaging and valuable to all interested programmers.

I'm sure this will take time from my side to craft, but without feedback, I would not know which areas I should improve. Therefore, I'm coming to you today with the first video lesson which explains the concept if Recursion. Please find it below:

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If you want to help, I would appreciate your honest opinion.
As long as the internet remains free and not completely controlled by a few big players.
> I totally understand, though about trust. We've been asking users for feedback for 20+ years, I hope we've shown ourselves to be good actors!

I don't believe you have, sorry (Microsoft I mean, not you specifically). I get the impression Microsoft is the same company it always was, only now it's better at convincing the gullible that it is on their side.

That Windows 10 update prompt for previous Windows versions were obnoxious and downright deceitful, making the 20+ years old traditional 'close window' X in the corner of the window actually download the update instead of doing what users expect it to do.

That's before we even get onto the subject of Windows 10's draconian privacy policies and use of dark patterns all over the OS designed to get people to disable their privacy settings.

Of course, even if they don't fall for tricks like coloring the 'privacy customisation options' link during installation a slightly different colour of blue than the background of the window to make it deliberately hard to read, they will still likely have all their privacy options reset and have previously removed crapware like Candy Crush added all over again in a forced update.

I'm on a Pro version of Windows 10 and I can't even disable the telemetry and constant phoning home every time I launch an application and or encounter a problem (that I absolutely do not need help with) with something I'm running.

I could understand this crap with the Home version. Not on Pro which I fully expected to have a degree of control over like I did with Win7 pro.

As a result of all this, Microsoft finally made my shit list after decades of shady behaviour and anti-competitive business practices and I won't be buying or using anything by them going forward.

Hell I even started PC gaming on Linux, that's how much I dislike the things Microsoft does.
My last company was outright owned by EMF, a brutal reorganization and gutting of company culture followed quickly.
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You are right. So we must look at why this isn't happening. From a moral perspective it should.

Resources and capability are available but the ones at the steering wheel are not willing to allow them to be used. Otherwise it would be done, right?

Does anyone have any explanation for this? How popular would this action be with the people of North America/Europe/Asia? Would it even make a dent in terms of budget when compared to typical foreign aid payments for example?

The Chinese are heavily investing in Africa to gain influence and resources, the Europeans ship off billions of Euros in goods and cash for aid, the US is also buying influence with aid all over Africa.

Is it simply not paying off? There is no short term political or economic benefit here? Is that it?
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Actually still sounds quite expensive... Like that's more than the cost of the drinking water or electricity for lighting for the whole life of the chicken...
UK eggs are safe to eat raw.

The advice warning people to cook them was from the 80s and was rescinded a couple of years ago, thanks in large part to he improvement in conditions and husbandry that the other posts in here are talking about. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41568998

I would also stress that the UK's production is now well over 50% free-range and organic. These concepts are still pretty alien to Japan. If you're only familiar with caged eggs, I would really suggest you get out there and try some other breeds on organic farms.
That’s not saas
I think that can be gracefully solved by the language server. The client is local, the server is remote and each remote has the server corresponding to the correct version.
Please sell it to Pornhub.

Don't run it as a porn site, but run it as an art site for adults.

Restore all the adult content.

Make a decent mobile app, where viewers can like or tip easily.

Help creators get paid, using Pornhub's leverage with their financial institutions
> I host my data in the cloud because I don't want to pay the energy bill of the equipment at home.

Then you pay someone else's energy bill.

> Despite not having concrete facts I believe it is more environmental friendly if we started hosting servers centralised in facilities instead of everyone doing at in their homes.

It's true that running 1000 instances of a software on the same big computer consumes less than running them on 1000 different computers, because they won't use all its resources at the same time. There's also less overhead if you can share their computations.

However, hosting everything at the same place has some environmental issues too. A datacenter needs cooling, and not all homes do. If there's a lot of data traffic between you and the software, that traffic needs to go through the internet instead of being local.

I'm not saying one way is better than the other; it probably depends on the kind of software we're talking about.
Except if you are working for a company that is sending you to the US (your company makes the income). It's easy to argue for 2-3 weeks, harder to argue for over 2 months.
Indeed. The court ruled that all four of the alleged offences were crimes in England and Wales, and the fourth was properly characterised as rape.

(In case it's not obvious, parent's first quote is the court's summary of Assange's case on appeal, not the court's own findings).
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Indeed. From http://www.computer-museum.ru/histussr/13-3.htm :

> Время выполнения операций (мкс): сложения - 5, умножения 45.

мкс = микросекунды
Sadly, fear was the strongest motivator for policies of this kind. If you get rid of increased controls on airports, flying would still be the safest form of travel and terrorism is a negligible danger exaggerated by media reporting. It is ridiculous what latest generation of politicians will leave behind. How can we get rid of this madness?
You say the issue is not insincerity but I beg to differ. Microsoft has never been particularly sincere about the reasons it does the things it does.

It has been a deceitful bully of a company for a long time.

Indeed, one of the main reasons why there is so little trust in corporations is because they are so insincere, anti-consumer and lacking in any kind of social conscience.
Not quite - they provide what is essentially an edge cache.
Or we could go back to the concept of content-agnostic neutral platforms, the best of which have self-moderation available to taste (e.g. subreddit subscriptions).

There seems to be a growing reluctance to accept that a person or a group being allowed to exist on a platform does not in any way serve as an endorsement of that person or group. I believe that the copyright legislation in Europe, for example, has very little to do with copyright, and very much to do with holding platforms accountable for the content that their users produce. The net result is the platforms necessarily invoke nuance-less strategies for sanitizing the content according to a narrow band of what is acceptable.
As Yoda once said... "Only a sith deals in absolutes"
Palantir combines those techniques with one extra thing... Government.

Government is far less concerned about money-efficiency, and nobody working in government has a direct interest in profitability (like being a shareholder would). Hence those tactics work all-the-better.
I once subscribed to a farming management program, developed by a french company that was launching to the cloud market.

Apparently they had bought several other smaller companies, integrated their software into their own program when useful, built huge servers for their cloud service that they also rent.

I knew the program was good - I was familiar with previous versions - so it was kind of a no brainer. The problem was the new cloud thing.

I am in favor of economic rational practices in agriculture (in addition to the normal functioning of markets), so that crops are chosen wisely between farmers and prices do not plunge because of all-or-nothing decisions, and sharing information between farmers is essential.

But data harvesting (no pun intended) of farming practices to the purpose of informing large companies and futures markets brokers of their possibilities can work against the interests of farmers and consumers. The way large corporations treat small farmers is ruthless and they negotiate no terms.

So if my and other farmers' data was being uploaded to the cloud without possibility of local storage, who had access to it? Every crop, production, pesticide, invoice, price was going there!

They wouldn't sell it, they told me. It is stored with e2ee, they assured me. If I ever forgot the password, data would be irrecoverable, they said.

But there was also the problem of internet connection issues, because farms are remote. Would it ever work?

The first thing I noticed after installing the program was that there no important message was shown that informed the user of what would happen if the password was lost. I typed in some new data, saved and exited. Then I started the program and reset the password with ease. There's no possibility of 3FA, either.

So I told them I could not use the program because of my poor internet connection, which was true. They installed a local version that was temporarily available.

But they took so long doing this that I developed my own modular managing system, based in - yes, that's right - spreadsheets. It fits my needs, it is completely portable and it works.

The formulas are getting cryptic, and there are still some things I have to do manually (like sorting lists or generating pdfs), but the files access each other and it works. I have no time to code anything and I don't think I have sufficient knowledge of database software (I am trying to find time to learn MySQL).

Maybe some day I'll make some GUI that handles all of this, in such a way that if everything else fails, I can still access and edit files manually.