skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal opinion is that I'm not at all surprised by this. The Chinese government is a one-party rule that controls all aspects of life. Criticize the government or the party there and you're gone. They would be foolish, with the things they're known to do, to not take advantage of such big opportunity to spy on many countries. I think it's very reasonable for western democracies to be careful before embedding Chinese (or any other authoritarian country) high tech in their infrastructure.
It’s more than “an ethical concern”. It’s illegal in some jurisdictions currently and will be illegal in a lot more once legislation catches up with technology.
Let me guess, that startup is in southern California.
Changing outfits, that's an awesome e-commerce idea , though would be difficult to overlay a specific article of clothing.

However, someone could use the variables of the autoencoder in such a thing to slide between different clothing styles until they find one they like in particular. Then have those clothes made / printed. Voila, haute couture goes AI
You honestly don't know there are people who may have different ethical concerns than yours?
But we can still try.
Ideals are not meant to be achieved. We should use them as a compass.
If we give up entirely we give free reign to a minority of bullies.
Photoshop has been used for that for decades. Why not ban Photoshop?
I'm glad the NYT has with a single op-ed answered the fundamental question of the American Experiment.

Snark aside, there are entire great works of Western thought on the question of whether men are capable of governing themselves. It is literally the the opening question of "The Federalist Papers," for Christ's sake. A breezy survey of a smattering of social science is bringing a knife to an intellectual gun fight, and comes up well short of making a meaningful contribution.
The hard part is actually finding a viable business, not technical chops.

Still trying to find a way to do it since I don't want to work for a salary all my life.
Be sure to also check out fn-fx.
I've tried both but haven't really done anything complex enough to bring out which one is a clear winner

https://github.com/fn-fx/fn-fx

Fn-fx is a more complex beast and no one seems to really know how it all works internally except the creator who isn't maintaining it.. so unfortunately it's in a semi unmaintained state. But the interface was a bit cleaner when I tried it
This sounds like the tried and true method of defeating a schoolyard bully by punching yourself in the face before the bully can!
Yeah, I was saying that getting the surfaces to adhere sans vacuum seems unlikely for such an imprecise object
How as nobody here connected the possibility that this is caused-by our reduced average testosterone levels [1]?

If nobody else is gonna suggest its possibly environmental chemicals then I guess I get to be that guy.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/196/2598434
Once you are counting the amount of parentheses in a Python vs in a LISP program doing the same and realise the the Python version has more you give up on your parentheses phobia pretty quickly.
This comment bothers me on a few levels.

1. Is there some rule that people are only allowed to make decisions that make them personally and continually happy? There are any number of good and pure reasons to choose a difficult life and also remain human and be able to communicate the difficulties of that life.

2. Why the general disdain for people with more than the normal number of kids? This person that you have admitted do not know is very different from you, certainly, but does not deserve the negative undertones given here.

I say these things as a father of 4 adopted children that are both the biggest challenge and blessing in my and my wife’s life.
The article you cited, to support your claim that NordVPN is owned by a data harvesting company, says the opposite. It says that Tesornet only provided general business consulting to Nord, and that Nord users have nothing to worry about.

It seems there are a lot of back and forth allegations about this topic on the internet. I don't know the truth. That article doesn't really demonstrate anything, though, and your tone seems unhelpful.

As a general rule of thumb, adjectives are often a crutch for weak arguments.

>"Shifty panamanian company"

But they explicitly chose to locate in Panama because it is exempt from 5 Eyes government data spying. That seems the opposite of shifty.

> "Suspicious links to data harvesters"

Have you ever used Google or Facebook? Run a service on GCP? If you run a service on GCP I could say you have "suspicious links to data harvesters." This seems like a scare tactic, lacking substance.
My mistake: We have (32*13) with minimal possible CHAR_BIT is 8. So it either 416 for char bigger then eight bits, or 160 for unsigned eight bits char, or -96 for signed eight bits char. Then it extended to the signed integer value (one of this three values), and then we got result as (int)(status & 0377). For all three cases result will be 160.
The real problem isn't that C++ is that hard to bind. Writing a C style wrapper around the OO style code in Qt is easy. But Qt relies on compile time code generation for event handling, properties and such, and this part is hard to replicate in other languages. It can be done; PyQt, PySide, etc do it, but it takes quite some effort.
Went to an IRC chat room when I was learning C in school. Asked if you could return a pointer to something that lives on the stack. Was talked down by an all-knowing dude telling me to go read K&R again. Proceeded to write a code sample [1] that showed it is possible (it's not really stable but works reliably in recursive calls IIRC).

I do not like this attitude (then again it was just one random dude).

[1] https://www.onlinegdb.com/HyO5VXRxS
This is why I self host algo vpn. I seriously doubt my hosting provider would jeopardize their business by snooping on/messing with a vpn given the breach of trust would cause large customers to ditch them.
I managed to answer all of the questions correctly; I recognized them as undefined. Still, there may be enough definition on the set of computers the program will run on, to do, in some cases (for example, that char is at least 8-bits, and/or that it is ASCII).

But the thing that would be better to do, in my opinion, may be like having LLVM with macros (including standard macros for dealing with differences of systems, and user-defined macros for your own use).
Having kings putting most things to a vote of representatives of sub groups, as per the viking tradition, is actually the main lineage of modern state democracies, however.
If Rule34 holds true there is a paired dataset that could be used for better results — and yes a quick Google search reveals entire websites dedicated to showing the same person in the same pose with and without clothing.

What this project ignores is that there is a LONG list of people I’d rather see with MORE clothes. Take Kim Kardashian for instance, every time I see her I’m like man wish she was wearing rain boots, a wind breaker, and a trench coat, a parka, a scarf, gloves, a sombrero, sunglasses, hockey mask, basically throw the entire Bass Pro Shop winter catalog at her and give my delicate eyes a break.
I used to use boxcryptor + dropbox at one time but now
I use sync.com which is like boxcryptor + dropbox rolled into one.
Nor did Greek citizens even govern themselves. They could vote how much apples should be priced at in the city and who to kick out out of the city. But they couldn't vote on war or major trade or religion or anything of importance.
It is an interesting concept to have these borderless, less limited kindergartens. Another example is a Tokyo kindergarten which was architected to provide more freedom to children, and let them play and experiment as they wish[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5jwEyDaR-0
Firefox uses sqlite for various things
That explains very well. I didn't know that C++ doesn't have a stable ABI. Is it because C++ is so complicated to make a standard ABI?
Maybe so, but this technology allows you to distribute them widely, and even claim that they are real photos. There is no moral equivalence.

If the idea is that this codebase could be used for less ethically questionable purposes, then why was it put on GitHub in its original form, which is clearly designed for producing nudes?
What about people who consentiously want their pictures used with this?
Democracy falls into the same boat as capitalism. It's a total mess and everyone hates the outcomes but it's by far the least bad system and always will be.

That still leaves a lot of rooms to tweak the details and make it as bearable as possible.
Some times I even question the emotional values of democracy compared to monarchy. Monarchy .. is probably too easy to derail into half-dictature. But I'm ready to bet 10$ that in normal cases the people have a better sense of purpose.
Click 1k: How the pick-your-own-path episode was made
https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install
Your ISP could still see the servers you connect to and how much data is transferred, they don't need to look in any packets to know you browse YouTube or PornHub, and when, and for how long.

But its also about hiding your identity from the sites you visit (dependent on how well your browser protects your privacy).
Implement Restful Services in Spring Boot 2.x
Where did you get the idea that satellite constellation internet will cost $10000/m? Or that HFT firms aren't already paying much more than $49/m?
If following a religion has zero downsides in life, then it needs no justification. However, the act of trying to justify religion suggests it’s not inherently optimal.

So, the actual counter argument to Pascal’s wager is this. If there are some true god(s) that care they might have an actual objective scale, but as it’s unknowable any sacrifices for a specific religion are unwise.

In other words we don’t know if the objective scale is a specific belief, doing charitable works, sacrifices on a dark alter, or even maximizing the number of times we say purple on a given day. Further, without specific information you are equally likely to get the scale reversed as correct, possibly both suffering great long term harm as well as sacrifices in life. Thus, with the sum of all possible outcomes averaging to zero, the only net expected result is the sacrifice in life.

PS: I am positing this as a flaw in a logical argument, don’t take it out of that context.
(1) Photoshop was not designed purely for generating fake nudes.

(2) I'm not calling for government censorship, just saying that GitHub (and by extension Microsoft) shouldn't be giving these people a platform.
I find it curious that the author brings up populism as opposition to democracy. I think it should be the other way around: populism can show the danger of democracy. A tyranny of the majority is not a good thing. I think a constitutional republic is the best at keeping the danger of democracy away and it also keeps the country democratic. That is, as long as people care for the rule of law and follow the (likely reasonable) constitution.

>For instance, much of today’s American democracy (one of the best versions on the market right now) would by Athenian standards be judged “oligarchic.”

I fail to see how it would genuinely be called oligarchic. The current president is someone that wasn't much in politics before running. Yes, he's rich, but it still shows that even outsiders can come in and attain political power.

On another note, I don't think people would call the democracy ancient Athenians had as democracy either. Too few people had a say in politics.
Moronic clickbait garbage.

Here's why we are not living in a simulation. It's really simple.

(1) Chaotic systems cannot be modeled with complete fidelity. This is a fundamental principle of complex dynamics.

(2) Our universe is chaotic. This is self-evident from quantum mechanics.

Simulating a chaotic system would offer no advantage. The simulation would have to be as complex as the chaotic reality one was trying to simulate. The simulation and the reality would therefore be identical.

The idea that we might be living in a simulation comes from a fundamentally mistaken idea that we live in a deterministic universe. We don't.

If Newton's laws accurately described reality, we could gain a lot by simulating such a simple universe. But they don't. They only approximate a complex universe.

Likewise, if General Relativity accurately described reality, we could simulate that universe. But it does not, at all. General Relativity approximates a chaotic universe with a geometric description.

People who promulgate the "simulation hypothesis" have confused the geometric, deterministic universe of General Relativity with our own.

Next time you want to try simulating a complex universe, start with a file of truly random numbers and try to compress them. Having trouble? I wonder why. Same reason you can't simulate a chaotic universe.

Edit: this is also why time travel is an outrageously ridiculous idea. ER bridges may be allowed with certain solutions of General Relativity, but they are prohibited by complex dynamics because they would bypass the chaotic process that underlies time's arrow.

Time proceeds because of random interactions with the chaotic background. One can only move backward in time by reversing those complex interactions, which is obviously impossible because each quantum-level interaction cannot be fully categorized, a la Heisenberg.
....there wouldn't be any great loss in this not being available because those people would still be able to be photographed with their actual clothes off.

This is for harassment. Other potential uses are invented by people to try and provide cover for its obvious target use.
My normal driving is 100 miles a month, mainly on weekends. Plus, I assume they’ll improve capacity over time. Even if it meant having to go to a public charger once in a while, it would still be a convenience.
I guess because it's the easiest thing to do, and github the defacto way to give away code. Now, considering that there is very little money to be made from an app that will be banned in app stores, i don't think it's that dangerous.
How to Unlearn a Disease
What precisely was said there? Perhaps they meant the fallout would be similar to that of a megaton range explosion? The long-lived fission products in a large NPP near the end of a fuel load are about the same as those from a 100MT nuclear bomb.
Oh okay with precompuled binaries then that's not so crossplatform. Thanks for clarifying :)
The thing bugging you is what David burns calls a "shouldy approach to life". It's a common trap which can cause misery and unhappiness. I think his book feeling good can help you or Maybe googling the term may also give you so relevant results
It's coming!

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/10/18660344/firefox-subscrip...
They must have just pushed a security patch.
Tweaks like take money out of politics, make votes mandatory, maybe abandon the first-past-the-post system...

(If you can make those tweaks democratically, of course.)
I wonder what the carbon footprint of all the concrete they put down to achive this is?
> but it still shows that even outsiders can come in and attain political power.

Only if you have money.
This says that democracies never last and they almost never exist in their perfect form. So what forms of government last in their perfect form?
Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for. Christmas came early. We were debating if there is a way to create a lisp with no-GC using a borrow checker and also have ML style type system. The answer is, yes!
I'd like to see a proper example demonstrating this, because from what I saw on the linked project's README, the Python version would have about a third of the parentheses.
I definitely felt the p waves in the Seattle quake about 18 years ago. It felt like an initial whump, followed by the shear shaking a moment later.
It's still a bit different, though.

I hadn't heard of these incidents before, but when I read your comment (which would have been censored in China) I searched for "philadelphia 1985" and quickly found an old clip from Frontline reporting on the events (which would have been censored in China) on YouTube (where it would have been censored in China, setting aside that YouTube is blocked entirely).

Wikipedia (which is blocked in China) also has an article (which would have been censored in China if not already blocked), saying that the police first evacuated the surrounding houses and there was a protracted gunfight before they bombed "a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof". This is not quite comparable to the military killing thousands of unarmed protestors.
Considered rclone instead of boxcryptor? If you are worried about data security, I'd be wary of using a closed source encryption service.
Since the OP starts off quoting Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", we need to differentiate between shallow work and deep work.

Running a startup is a whole bunch of shallow work most of the time.

Work where you have to get into "the zone" to get it done, that's not 90 hours per week. Or likely even 19.
What are you interested in? Find a niche community around that.
Is it though? Bikes are stolen far more often than cars and you can't carry as much on a bicycle either. Furthermore, you can't really go shopping with the family as a group unless you have specific gear to allow you to do that, because kids aren't going to travel these distances.

I like bicycles, but actually going to a store with a bike is an annoying experience. One that I wish could be improved.
> Monarchy .. is probably too easy to derail into half-dictature.

Monarchy, where the monarch has actual political power, is a form of dictatorship.

> But I'm ready to bet 10$ that in normal cases the people have a better sense of purpose.

Well, yes, such people do have a "better sense of purpose," in that they lack the freedom to choose a purpose other than serving the aristocracy. Peasants during the French Revolution doubtless knew what their purpose was in no uncertain terms.
4 basically causes the problems though. Who wants that!
By Athenian standards voting for a representative to whom you delegate lawmaking powers is oligarchic. “Democracy,” in their view would have involved staffing political positions by drawing a lottery of qualified citizens.

Elections are an oligarchic feature in the Ancient Greek context since they presume governance is a specialized function that needs a career professional to undertake rather than an obligation of citizenship. Jury duty, in contrast, is an example of a
democratic impulse.
Using Blend feels to me like using Word to create HTML pages - the resulting output is horrible.

CSS layout was indeed a struggle many years ago, but now with flexbox I never failed to put stuff exactly where I wanted, and I barely understand it. And the new shiny thing, CSS Grid, is supposedly even better at controlling layout.
Falsehoods programmers believe about time
Newport's book puts the distinction between deep work and shallow work.

Calling up restaurants and trying to get them to switch to your booking software is shallow work. Needing to sit down and program the complete back end of that booking software including testing by Friday is deep work.

You can only do so much deep work before your reserves of energy are depleted.
Why solve it? Spent fuel can be stored on the surface, safely and cheaply, in dry casks. And stored on the surface the decay heat dissipates into the atmosphere, rather than building up underground.

I have to wonder why burial was being pushed so hard, so early. Maybe they were worried surface repositories would be targets for ground burst nukes in WW3?
> Ancient Athenian democracy devised two institutions that fleshed out this vision. First, sortition: the appointment of public officials by lot. Given the fundamental equality of rights that all Athenian citizens — that is, free male adults — enjoyed, the most logical means of access to positions of leadership was random selection.

There's an interesting unstated implication here: that all members of Athenian democracy were willing to shoulder their responsibilities to the state and, more importantly, all possessed the knowledge and qualifications to conduct the management of the state. Contrast this with modern democracies where both the wise and the foolish each get one vote on any issue, regardless of whether they possess sufficient understanding to have a valid opinion. It does sound like madness, doesn't it?
The fundamental feature of democracy is that it gives people a way to address their grievances that doesn’t require violence. This, in turn, provides for peaceful transitions of power and overall political stability.

For democracy to accomplish this does not actually require that it represent the people. It only requires that the people believe that nonviolent change can occur.

Having a democracy that really is representative of the people and can accomplish good things is, of course, very nice to have. But it’s a secondary goal.

This is why I view Trump as much worse than W Bush even though W was objectively worse on most metrics (like people killed for no good reason). For all his faults, W respected the system. Trump’s hints that he wouldn’t accept the outcome of an election he lost are, in the long run, far more dangerous.
How would a screen reader work with the ASCII art of RFCs? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793#section-3.1
Thank you for posting this Matt. What a wonderful story! It's small acts of kindness like these that make the world a better place.
The difference between bikes and cars is in the mean/variance of time to park.

For a bike it takes about 1 minute or more to stop, detach/unlock your lock from the frame and lock your bike to a bike stand, then take off your helmet. You reverse this when you get back on the bike. The variance is also not that high on this number.

For a car, the mean time varies greatly from location to location and the variance is much higher. You might get stuck several minutes searching or waiting for a parking spot or you might get a spot immediately and be walking to the shop in under 15 seconds.

These differences have some effect on how much people want to bike/drive. I think one way of encouraging biking more would be to work on lock designs and bike stand design so it takes less time to park your bike.
In Queensland, under Revenge Porn laws:

> “The new laws also cover photoshopped images – where an image has been altered to look like a person is portrayed in an intimate way.”
--http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2019/2/13/revenge-por...
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It is not. For example, BlinkHealth created a widget for athena's EMR.

The caveaat that it would only show Blink's price, which was actually not the insurance price (they are not insurance but instead a PBM pass thru, cheaper-than-usual cash price). The data point was not comprehensive, of course... But my point still stands
Well said. Though given the evidence of this column (and the fact that such a lamentably trite piece was so prominently published) someone might want to have a crack at 'Education Is for the Gods'. If education connotes at least a basic familiarity with the major intellectual strands in our history, it clearly has failed us.
Universal Basic Income Fixes the Housing Market
Canada is a member of NATO and yet it cannot assert its sovereignty over the Northwest Passage.
Speed might matter but so do traffic laws - it is a change of mentality that is needed - that this is not exercise and that the journey takes X minutes so leave early.

we all do this for cars in london. we just need to for cycles