skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's only confusing to people who are familiar just with the popularized forms of computer science terms.

Yeah given how often people mistakenly call containers VMs or assume they have VM-like properties (like the ability to run a different kernel), this is tripping a lot of developers up, not just lay people.

> Isolation and sandboxing is virtualization. In a container, the applications seem to have an operating system and machine to themselves.

I don't think this is quite true, generally you can isolate and sandbox something without virtualizing anything. In this case to isolate and sandbox without a loss of functionality, we are virtualizing and swapping swap implementations out from underneath an application/process. That is not always the case though -- if you unplug a machine's ethernet cable it is isolated, but you did not virtualize anything, if you deny access to a folder on disk for a process you are isolating without virtualizing, unless you mean that any kernel interaction (like blocking an `fopen()`) is "virtualization".

> A single Unix process and its address space is also a kind of virtual machine, creating the illusion that the process has a machine all to itself. Thanks to virtual memory, other processes are not even visible; they are in a different name space of pointers. That concept breaks for multi-process applications: processes are aware of each other through manipulations of shared resources like files. Or effects like not being able to bind a networking port because some other process is tying it up. The next level of virtualization is to have namespaces for resource-related namespaces in the system beyond the address space. As far as just the filesystem space goes, we can virtualize with tools like chroot. A group of applications can have their own global /etc configuration, their own version of the C library in /lib and so on. That's the beginning of "containerization".

This is a good summary of how containerization works, and the layers of isolation provided by the kernel -- the approach here is isolation by providing a fake, but that does not mean that isolation + sandboxing = virtualization, that just means that these forms of virtualization can be used to provide isolation & sandboxing.
Prisoner’s dilemma shows exploitation is a basic property of human society
it should be noted that only 3 out of ~3,000 mosquito species are responsible for the spread of disease in humans and just 1 transfers malaria.
There are a ton of other sports to practice -- and some are not competitive at all.

Keep looking, you will find a physical activity that will fulfil you. You might never get the same high as with football and that's OK. There are many other things to do!
Attitudes like this are what leads to systematic vendor lock-in and monopolies. If an open source system can't communicate with a proprietary system, the bug is one of these systems not following open standards.
I’m conflicted. When the video is so long that waiting for it to restart is painful, I think that an actual video with pause/play/seek controls is preferred. At the same time, it’s nice that it autoplays. For 100% text/CLI videos, I prefer Asciinema as it doesn’t involve downloading an 18MB GIF.
The "historic" roof cannot be preserved - it is now gone. The building will tell its history more honestly if the new structure is of the time. It should be sympathetic to the rest of the design, but not pretend to be anything it's not.
If you keep something private, don't publish it or claim it's real, etc, what's the difference between making a deepfake of something and having a fantasy in your head?
The question is moot. France signed the Venice Convention in the 70s, that forbids any significant modification of protected monuments. Therefore the roof must be reconstructed absolutely identically from a visual point of view, using techniques as similar as possible as the previous one.

Rebuilding in metal or concrete like Reims, Nantes etc. couldn't be done nowadays.

Building a timber structure like the one that burned being out of the question (because we lack the necessary stock of century-old oak wood that have been dipped into brine for 20 years before construction, as was the original), but most probably laminated wood will be use in its stead.
That interior lighting did look bad, and his suggestion for using concrete and steel seem reasonable.
I don't think replacing the windows or letting in sunlight would work. I agree that the lighting system should go, but the design and use of stained glass in the middle ages had several purposes, one of which was that the light was a visual representation of God's glory. In the Medieval period there were long-running discussions among theologians about light's divine significance (https://books.google.com/books?id=eXbDBwAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...).

Natural light might be beautiful, but it is transposed through the use of the glass into a wholly religious artifact. You can even "touch" this visual representation of divine beauty by running your hands under the reflection of colored light. And anyway, it's much easier to examine the stories embedded in stained glass motifs with light coming from the outside in.
> At her initial hearing, the prosecutor said the state was not "trying to prove a point in going forward with this case," but that "the state believes that the respondent is in need of some guidance, rehabilitation for something deeper" and "is just trying to help her."

What mental health issue is at play here? Is the problem that the girl exhibits natural sexual curiosity and behavior? As to her desire to record and share her experience, I wonder where that mentality came from? Could it have something to do with the toxic, social media obsessed culture in which she has grown up?

And it is now the job of the state to provide mental health "guidance" under threat of imprisonment?

It was foolish for her to share the video with her "close friends," but there is nothing criminal or aberrant here. It was not her intent to distribute the video to adults (who I totally agree shouldn't be watching it due to her age).

This prosecution is beyond outrageous, and will leave lifelong scars. She is without a doubt the only true victim here, and the state is the worse for having stooped to this. Hopefully the case is thrown out, and the prosecutors who brought it face severe backlash.
That loyalty is built on the back of misinformation, and is strengthened by presenting your opponents in compromising positions. Deepfakes would reinforce this, so they are not an orthogonal issue.
It's not so black and white. There are plenty of successful people that "play stupid games" and are full grown men, likely with the same responsibilities you have, if not more.
I'd say no. It is unnecessarily controversial and it may annoy lots of people. I would certainly refuse to use a software that forced me to see the flag of the country that occupies my land. I would feel insulted.
>Reinforced concrete is 150 years old

Do you mean steal reinforced concrete lasts 150 years or that the technology is 150 years old? My understanding is that reinforced concrete has a service life of 50 years and 80 years if protected with a sacrificial anode of some sort.
I would argue it doesn't matter what you expend effort on as long as you're expending effort. IMO the only true rule in life is that you only value things you expend effort on. Beyond being able to afford the basic necessities it's all semantics. For example if efficiency interests you then working smarter could be your thing, but you'll still need to find more challenges to work on so that you're always expending effort. By all means, do this, but if your goal is to eliminate or reduce overall future effort you're fooling yourself if you think this will achieve some higher state of happiness.

The greater the effort the more rewarding it is, regardless of whether others would consider it rewarding or smart effort.

Once you internalize this it's basically the secret to life and you can throw out all of those self-improvement rags. Of course it's still a struggle in that you'll forget it constantly and have to correct course.
To be fair, the reason for this is that if you try to be creative and don't follow strict processes, things fail a million miles from Earth or blow up entirely.
Enlightenment is just the realisation of to know who you are and know what you have to do instead of thinking you know who you are and thinking you know what you have to do.
> as long as you service users in EU you are still liable.

Not true, I am not required to not offer to EU citizens. They simply can choose to visit my U.S. servers and use U.S. dollars.

Laws aren't global. Laws are based on jurisdiction. EU doesn't have said jurisdiction, unless I am hosting services or have a presence in the EU. Customers from the EU effectively travel to the U.S. (via the internet) to get to said service. The U.S. could force us to follow EU laws, then sure. However, that's not the case today.

You can think of it as: if I call a vendor in China to purchase some widgets. The vendor in China is not required to validate you're following the laws of your land - that's your job. The Chinese vendor just needs to make sure they are following China's laws.
Depending on where you live, politicians may have enacted any number of positive life improvements, like improved public transportation infrastructure, better regulations on working conditions, better pollution regulations, small business development programs, and on and on.

If you live in an area where absolutely nothing good has happened due to government in the last 20 years, your complaint about your local/regional government is entirely warranted.

Chalking it up to "politicians" as a whole is unhelpful; they aren't "all the same" (another thing I hear often), and if one thinks so, one is profoundly not paying attention.
Indeed, I'd love GitHub to support video embed in the readme, but having to go to another page to see the video is a bit of a no-no for me...

On twitter I did use a video instead of a gif: https://twitter.com/MathieuDutour/status/1134448154793914368
The main selling point for Medium for a long time was "cool, minimalist blogging site without all the crap". Now they're not.
>Is that path accessible to everyone
I don't think so, although I feel like it is sometimes constructive to believe it is (from a personal perspective).

From what I know, the 10 hours a day usually starts before teen years (it is common for musicians who reach virtuoso level to achieve "university-level" technical ability before they are 10 years old). For instance, amongst the musicians I've known, playing all Chopin Etudes or Grieg Concerto by 8 years old isn't particularly outstanding - these are easily Diploma level 2/3 works.

What I also know is that a lot of these musicians typically have a lot of financial backing - finding a good teacher and a good instrument is expensive! Unless you're a 1 in a 100-million talent, you probably won't find a sponsor as a child...

Lang Lang is probably one of the musicians I can name who wasn't particularly wealthy growing up...

On the subject of survivorship bias - almost certainly this reeks of bias, we never hear of the dropouts... Presumably those that stay healthy/positive wind up in session-gigs and education.

>I've known a few very skilled musicians

I can't say much about your friends, although my anecdotal intuition feels that virtuoso* musicians' success sits on a pareto distribution: those in the top 5-10 of their individual field are lavished in concerts, records and money. The 11-200 are probably reasonably comfortable and the 201 onwards start having to worry about making ends meet.

This is true for other skill-based professions - look at tennis players for instance, they struggle to break even on their livelihood if they're outside the top 200.

An observation a pianist once told me that scared her was that every few years there's a new star who wins the Chopin or Tchaikovsky competition who then robs the limelight. Adding to that, as musicians have a long career you have a long-tail/pyramid effect where the base is constantly growing, but the rewards are fixed if not shrinking.

*(where a major factor of their success is technical skill)
“With hindsight, we can say the evacuation was a mistake,” said Philip Thomas, a professor of risk management who led a recent research project on nuclear accidents. “We would have recommended that nobody be evacuated.”
I think what they've noticed is a similar arc where both products got initially sold as being universally required and applicable and generational which justified enough investment to spawn a whole industry.

And instead of fulfilling such dramatic hype they're both just good tools that are far from universally needed, not objectively superior to all other options, and there's nothing special about them that will keep them from getting supplanted by newer tools, which is the norm for even the industry even if the tools are good.
This applies to porn, too. If, for example, I was a widower who missed my wife dearly (to give a relatively benign example), deepfake porn of my late wife would be someone else pretending to be her, and it'd likely be obvious to me.
Younger generations, at least in the US, are already having much less sex than the ones that precede them[0]. Sexbots and on-demand creation of digital pornography will most definitely come--no pun intended--and fill a need that's being neglected more and more: having intimate relationships with actual people. It's bound to happen, I would say; especially if isolation, depression and anxiety rates keep their upward tendency.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex....
"If you start censoring too much, then people lose interest in the platform."

It's interesting to hear them say that. I usually see moderators/administrators on the internet characterized as being quick to wield the ban hammer or purge stuff that could harm their brand. I rarely see this other side depicted, wherein mods/admins intentionally hold back because purging too much will make the place no longer cool. Good to know people consider that a concern, though in facebook's case maybe they're taking that sentiment a little too far.
No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes.
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> Let's keep the original style so that future generations can experience it the way it was originally intended.

This is a weird viewpoint. They used timber back then not out of "intent" but because it was the best they had. If they had concrete and steel, they would've used that instead.
Resilient as in despite 10 years of continuous doomsday prognostications, Bitcoin continues to be traded and used around the world. And 1 BTC, this thing that didn't exist 10 years ago, is now worth $8,422.40 USD.

As for utility: I've used it to pay contractors in Europe, for example, without having to figure out which money transmittal service is going to rip me off the least. Tons of expats living in North America and Europe use it to send money back to family in their home countries. People use it to hedge against runaway inflation caused by poor monetary policy.

It could all fall apart in a few years, sure, but it's damn interesting. Being cynical just means if you're right you get to gloat about it, but if you're wrong you're missing something that could be really important.
One of the benefits of static sites like those: They don't need continuous maintenance like e.g. WP would.
Why do you assume they aren't automating it. The obvious thing if I'm a spammer is to hire humans to solve the problem, collect their output and feed it into my ML training. I now have the same dataset that google is using, for my ML.

Actually I'm not sure I need to go to full ML: after a few rounds I can probably just use image compare (not ML) and just feed humans images that I haven't seen before.

Of course round two of the above is to expand on the above. Doing ML for image recognition isn't hard (other than CPU cost). I can also collect statistics, images humans take longer on I will take longer on as well (I can potentially collect eye movement so I have better data than google here - this can feed into ML). Images that humans are unsure of I will fake unsure of by sometimes clicking sometimes not at similar rates to humans.

I don't know what ML google has that isn't public, but we also don't know what scammers have. Ultimately google needs to expose enough data to scammers (who see more captchas than anyone else by nature of their operations) that their ML algorithms have a large training set. Once a scammer realizes the types of data good is looking for it isn't hard to collect other samples for your private training set. Go outside in any city and you will find stoplights and street signs... you now have a training set of data that isn't googles to test on - you need a few cities and seasons worth of course, but that is an implementation detail.
What an awful, dangerous headline. At the end of the day some economic incentive is needed to get people to put land back into forest, healthy pasture, wetlands. This is an in-depth look at the current challenges — the lack of accountability, the potential moral hazard of cheap offsets — that comes off as reckless due to the article’s overall framing.

If you believe in climate change and believe that it’s a civilization threatening crisis, then capturing carbon is critical. Healthy land is vital in that fight. What we don’t have yet — but are moving towards despite what it looks like here in the US — is more vigorous taxation of carbon to more accurately reflect the negative externalities. With high enough taxes on carbon, there would be a squeeze on the carbon credit market and prices would go up significantly. With more money on the line, people would get more serious about accurate measurement and accountability.

It’s currently the Wild West — the carbon market needs to mature and become more sophisticated along side more strict pricing on carbon emissions. A less reckless article would frame the challenges we need to solve rather than blasting that credits for reforestation is bad.
A security breach can result in the distribution of the deepfake?
Maybe a short GIF and a longer full video? I don’t know. This is all super off-topic anyway. I like the project very much.
How could anyone possibly think this was ever about the law? When he first published "Collateral Murder", you knew what it was about, and you knew how it would (eventually) end for him. Does anyone not living under a rock, think what is happening to Assange is even remotely based on law and justice? spoiler alert: it's not!
I mean, the giddy idiot in me just gets excited about the urgent need for a human L2 mission to fix it.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/31/258687278/a-be...

> Simon didn't see the growing population as a catastrophic problem. He explained that we are not like any other species. We have an economy and markets. So, according to Simon, if the world demands more oil, the price of oil will go up, and there will be an incentive to find more, or find an alternative.

> Simon proposed that they bet on what would happen to the price of five metals — copper, chromium, nickel, tin and tungsten — over a decade.

> And the logic was that these metals were essential for all kinds of stuff — electronics, cars, buildings. So, if Ehrlich was right, more people on the planet would mean we would start running out of stuff, and the price of these things should go up.

> Those next 10 years, from 1980 to 1990, crept by. The world population grew by 800 million people. Then it was 1990. And they tallied it up. Simon, the economist, decisively won. Prices for the five metals went down by an average of 50 percent.

> One of the reasons the prices dropped was just what Simon said. The catastrophe Ehrlich was predicting just did not happen. People invented substitutes, like companies switching from aluminum to plastic for packaging.
Medium does literally nothing to help the average blogger get views.

Their network is zero value. It might actually be negative value because Medium is now associated with shitty content.

Source: Have blog, left Medium for static hosting.
Actually it is not _that_ different.

It is similar how you can move constitutional questions from state to federal court in the USA, with the main difference being that EU does not have federal circuits of courts like USA does, but effectively only a supreme court.
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>Even a quick look at CoinMarketCap shows you that there's something a little odd about the current rally.

>Look at the volume column

The really odd thing is getting your volume numbers from CoinMarketCap in the first place when according to this well argued deck[0], 95% of those numbers are fake.

What you're looking at there is completely distorted as unregulated exchanges have a huge vested interest in inflating the numbers to dupe projects into paying higher listing fees and since most of the time, the fake volume doesn't track the waning and waxing of the real volume of legitimate exchanges, not only is that fake volume wrong quantitatively but it's also wrong relatively making it worthless and CMC practically worthless by extension though they do claim to be addressing the issue.

[0]https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...
Audience or not, if I had started writing on Medium when it first came out then I'd be pretty pissed off with the way the site looks and behaves now with its sticky headers, popups and paywalls. I'd welcome a program like this to help me migrate my posts.
No it's not. It's stealing from the future, locking up prime real estate to be a monument to the past. Take a picture, raze the structure, and build something modern out of glass and steel. Then in 100 years we can do it all over again.
I have little doubt BTC price is being manipulated.

Its price was kept very low for the longest time so some very powerful organizations such as Bakkt (backed by the same people behind NYSE) could accumulate most of its market supply. At the moment the price is being artificially pumped up to build momentum until enough people from the public buy into it, then its price will once again start dropping faster than gravity.

You often can attribute the exact reasons why a stock price went up, but for BTC it seems to be a complete mystery black box that even the most well-versed traders couldn't tell you the exact reasons why it went up.

For stock price for example, you just knew in advanced even from last year that Beyond Meat's stock was going to be a hit. "What The Health", an anti meat industry and pro vegans documentary film, was a HUGE success last year and you could see from miles away everything was set up for this trend to become mainstream in 2019 as public sentiments were beginning to swing very positively towards it. For BTC however, everything just seems like a wild guess as no one could pin point exactly what drives its price.
CLT can be made with fast growing smaller trees. You don't need (or even want) old growth timber. So most of this timber will be farmed.