skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once that deep fake technology algorithm gets in the hands of the masses (Adobe Premiere After Effects plugin, Instagram/Snapchat filter, Apple Facetime filter, etc) ... so many obvious directions it will take:

- dating / flirting apps

- job candidates being interviewed remotely via webcams will use software to make them look younger

- "facelift" every television personality (news anchors, etc) and every movie actor. Both for creative purposes (younger/older timeline aging), for vanity, and for extending careers.

- generate fake but convincing political ads to put words in the mouth of opponent that he/she never said

- a growing distrust and skepticism of all videos including archive footage because we never had SHA256 authenticated hash of the old videos widely disseminated before deepfakes became ultrarealistic. E.g. There will be a subset of tomorrows kids that will not be convinced JFK ever actually said, "landing a man on the moon". The WTC towers were never hit by airplanes. All that old footage will be dismissed as fake. Video evidence becomes useless. Yes, society will try to counteract it with software the detects deep fakes but some of the public still won't be convinced. (Same as evidence against anti-vaccine being rejected.)
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> a nostalgia trip back to my 15 year old

You're not alone. I had mine around 12-13 I think. I remember how cool and modern it looked compared to the C64 I had before. There were all the great games, but also so much to learn programming wise. We had rather limited resources available at that time (esp. in a small european town), mostly computer magazines, older friends... It was a really different approach to learning.
On the other hand, your search is reducible to a single 'answer'.

To make a counter point - I was recently researching 'things about various electronic and motorized bicycles / scooters'- a subject which a 'good answer' would be some sort of curated content by a specialist individual who is interested in the topic or a specialized vendor who has lots of 'information pages' - but instead of finding much of this at all, nearly every search went to various amazon / alibaba / ebay pages with very little non-commercial general purpose content available.. (not even manufacturer pages were there really)

and 'conveniently', most of the 'organic content' these days is non-texual and tied to youtube, or hidden on non-indexed facebook groups..

net result: a network effect whereby walled gardens drive organic content off of indexes, indexes become more crowded with commercial content, and then commercial content has to be paid to get to the top of the list to get traffic, and one can go to youtube to be user profiled for targeted marketing - how exactly did my purpose-specific container tab yield targeted ads to a completely separate yahoo mail account again??
There's something on this user in this Guardian article : https://www.theguardian.com/news/shortcuts/2019/aug/13/dange...
I don't have this in general, but when you were talking about someone who is quitting smoking I just realised that I have a distinct visual impression of the smell when a smoker really needs to have a smoke. It's kind of yellowish and it falls off them and gathers at their feet like a kind of fog.

I'm a super taster for a few things and I suspect that whatever odor that is, I can detect it better than most. Anyway, thanks for your description!
Are you confusing Silicon Valley with Los Angeles? Silicon Valley is near San Francisco, not LA, so it gets its water from Hetch Hetchy and the delta like other bay area cities. [1]

[1] https://www.zone7water.com/images/pdf_docs/waterways/waterwa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California#/media/Fil...
Except for running wacky voltages through your computer, there's no fundamental reason why USB devices should be harder to protect against than malicious network traffic. The model is very similar - in both cases they're serial data transports. USB just uses devices instead of services, and drivers instead of programs.
Does it make sense to send text to an audio platform?
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and communicate with them. (https://Podcastel.com)
There does seem to be a sizeable number of people who take any request on a webpage as a command, and comply with the email popup. Which would then generate leads.

But, this popup harassment is just going to turn away experienced users. Many of whom will be the educated, well-compensated demographic the site most wants to cultivate. And a subset of that group will have the ability to create or edit blockers, which will then be turned against the offending site. Thus making it more difficult for that company to reach the more desirable users.

That's what I would tell marketing. That wouldn't work for all companies. Some will be thrilled to get a boatload of inexperienced or naive users. But would be nice if the others would start to get worried about what they're losing with their bounce rate.
The steps are all fairly easily parallelizable until you get to a final large scale nonlinear least squares refinement step, and even then there are tricks to make the decomposition tractable. It usually just involves single images or pairs of images with no need for communication between processes until the last bit.
You have to think reference frames here, not timelines.

A reference frame is a coordinate system. Usually with 3 space-like coordinates and a time-like coordinate we call "time". That last coordinate is what gives meaning to "now" between two distant places. But this meaning entirely depends on the reference frame chosen.

In Special Relativity, there are special reference frames called "inertial reference frames". From these we can easily calculate elapsed time for any particular path through space-time.

In General Relativity it is harder - there are generally no inertial reference frames to be found. But we can still do the same calculation using tensor math and something called "the metric". You can actually do the same thing with special relativity, however the metric is dramatically simpler in an inertial reference frame so people usually take the easier approach.

The various measures of "curvature of space" are measurements of how quickly any attempt to describe space-time an inertial reference frame will be wrong. Just as the curvature of a ball makes it impossible to properly describe its surface as a flat plane. (Mathematically this description is very precise.)

Now in a low gravity situation, we can find inertial reference frames that are approximately a match. The almost inertial reference frame where the distant galaxies are moving straight away from us is the one we usually implicitly think of. In that reference frame, this light was emitted 26,000 years ago. But you can pick a reference frame that gives literally any answer that you want.

But that reference frame is a bad description of the experience of timelines for fast moving objects, or what is happening in deep gravity wells. However that is fine, since from that reference frame we can predict exactly what the experience of those timelines will be, and our predictions turn out to be correct.
> Bitcoin and gold imo

Bitcoin makes zero sense as an investment. Doubly so during a recession.
JSF has sensors built into its skin. You don’t just retrofit sensors onto an LO platform.

Retrofitting new computing technology into an aircraft is a huge deal. Just getting a data link into it so it can talk to the rest of the DOD has taken over a decade and I’m not sure it’s even complete yet.

Yes, it’s old. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful, the F15 is far older and still in use and will be for decades, but it was more cost effective to put the money into the new platform instead.
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That is not the claim I addressed. He said Hawking radiation has not been observed. I provided citations that it had.
We initially tried Metoprolol for, but we found that while it stopped the palpitations, the panic attacks still happened just as often. For me, Lexapro really was a win/win drug. My personality hasn't changed much aside from the fact that my overall emotions are a bit more muted. If my normal emotional range is a 0-10, on Lexapro it's closer to a 3-7. There are some sexually related side effects that you may want to look up as well. I have personally experienced some, but I don't consider them serious by any means.

And my attacks, like yours, just started happening out of the blue one day. No real prior warnings.
I have to agree.

Nice work, and looks pretty, but Feedly scratches this itch for me almost perfectly. And it expands well beyond Reddit and HN.

The only better solution would be if I hosted my own and used an open source app. I'll get around to it.
That makes an assumption that the flare was unidirectional. If it's a beam, it could be that Earth was in the beam for an hour, but its duration is anything (like, 1M years)
> Allowing an East Germany situation to befall Japan would've had dire consequences for the latter half of the 20th century

This is a comment that works in retrospect, but at the time the carving up of east europe to soviet and western forces, and the division of berlin was seen as the solution to de-nazifying germany and eastern europe, not something horrific. The horror of east germany was still years, a decade and more, from being learnt.

The US may have desired the lion's share of pacific territory under their control, but the cold war had not begun yet.
At least for the PING flood I think you can just send HTTP/2 PINGs over and over (that's what the Go test case does) and confirm it uses more and more resources as it queues the control messages.
If in the U.S., buy your $10k quota of Savings Bond, Series I: Pays at least the CPI-U inflation rate, liquid after one year, favorable tax treatment, highly convenient.

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You can use the scientific method to dictate amongst alternatives simply by asking about levels of satisfaction, health, etc.
Great question. A lot of early success for us has been through our fully automated and integrated billing approach and our ability to communicate a customized estimate for a patient pre-visit. Also, timing plays a huge roll in success. Never before has there been such an emphasis on creating a retail like experience in healthcare.
It's an interesting case.

I'm personally responsible for selecting the vendor, the package cost around the AU$25,000 and the module to interface with this particular machine was a $3100 line item included in that total, to write the module from scratch using the manufacturers specification for the language the machine reads.

They already had a module they'd written for a very similar machine from the same manufacturer. They've made a few tweaks to it, but are now saying the algorithm from the core product isn't designed to do what I want to do and they doubt head office will approve the expenditure to change it.

It's an industry standard procedure, and we have collective experience with two other software packages that fulfil the requirement by default.

I personally cannot fathom how they would get to the point of saying "no", but it's definitely been an interesting view in to the realm of commercial / industrial software sales, development, etc.

I don't know how I am going to advocate to my employer that we continue to pay the $3000 per year maintenance fee for unlimited upgrades and support when they can't even deliver on what they agreed to.

That and the core software is riddled with minor, but annoying bugs.

If they could fix this issue with the module for our machine, and chip away at the smaller issues over time it would actually be perfect for our needs.
>>The government to withdraw the use of the word “riot” in relation to protests

>Unfortunately, not reasonable.

It's completely reasonable the word riot carries legal implications that should not apply here. It doesn't matter what the common definition of the noun is it matters how the government uses that word.

It's the equivalent of a vegan saying "Meat is Murder" pointing out the technical definitions of the words then expecting all meat eaters to get arrested for at least conspiracy to commit murder.

Not to cast false aspersions but I bet you can't even look at the image in the link below and write the same sentence about the other leader in this photo without fearing for your future.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

Sentence: Obama is Tigger.

Now you write the full sentence : Xi Jinping is ____
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Version 2 syndrome on full display aka the "second-system effect" [1].

> The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems, to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

They "simplified" it by making it more complex and layers of binary/connection complexity... failing to address many common attack vectors and adding fully new attack vectors that should have been expected. Now debugging those in HTTP/2 is harder and in a big binary blob.

I miss text based/MIME HTTP 1.1, simplicity should be the goal always, not more complexity that solves almost nothing, but HTTP/2 did give some big orgs control of the layer/protocol/standard which was most of the driving force.

Much of this could have been fixed lower level in SCTP or something similar on the transport layer, but instead we get another abstraction on top of it all, with more holes and tougher to debug.

Solution: let's do it again in HTTP/3... new standard to fix all the old standards, more complexity that leads to misunderstanding in implementations that leads to more attack vectors. Obligatory xkcd [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

[2] https://xkcd.com/927/
In my case a KVM server to spin up virtual machines in which I can test anything from playing with Kubernetes to Grafana, Elasticsearch, Ubuntu MAAS, or whatever I want to toy with.
For some of the DOS things, I'm not sure fuzzers would be that effective. For the flooding issues, it's about quantity and frequency instead of how the packet is crafted.
2A mentions neither persons nor society, but only the defense of a free State, notably the one the founders were in the process of creating:

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Arguments about 2A's intent are endless, and given the polarized nature of the debate, also futile.
How does one become a name actor then?

Assuming you mean they build up a name and then license their image ... I'm not sure you've met an actor before. This goes against every impulse of a great actor. They're completely obsessed with controlling their image and practicing their craft.

I think you may have meant celebrities.
From my understanding, if you travel at light speed, space is compacted to very tiny distances and time stops. If you take the math of relativity to its extreme, time for you has stopped and your trip took no time. It actually takes no time because there is actually no distance between you and the black hole.

But this is where paradoxes come in because the black hole, stationary from in its frame of reference, would still experience 26,000 years and not see you arrive until then. From my understanding, general relativity solves this paradox with de-acceleration causing the one who was traveling at the speed of light seeing the rest of the universe's clocks' speed up.

So technically, your clock would have not moved 26,000 years forward, but other's would have.
The point isn't the benefit, it's the reduction of impact. There was a pre-existing ecosystem that the dam disrupted, and we find value there (and did, even in the 1830's, though clearly we didn't recognize the science). It turns out, you can bulldoze the dam and get back (at the cost of one ancient and tiny hydro generator) a bunch of the ecosystem. That's good, by pretty much everyone's measure.

So you propose blowing a big hole around the niagra rock shelf. What effect will that have? It's not going to restore any ecosystems that we value, obviously, as those never existed. It would also flood a bunch of exurban/suburban Buffalo and Toronto, which (Bills fans notwithstanding) we do value.

I vote no, obviously. I genuinely don't understand why you think this is an interesting question.
> - growing distrust and skepticism of all videos including archive footage

That's an excellent, and very terrifying point. Governments are going to have a hay-day with misinformation campaigns to rewrite history (even more than they do now).
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> ‘...attention span that’s way to short to..vote effectively.’

I was thinking the removal of the law that evaluates a species’ protection without regard to ‘economic impact’ would lead to each impacted community now having a chance to vote on what’s more important to them, species protection or local economy. And I believe people will organize to vote for the money.
I lean towards the mediterranean diet; loads of fruit/veg, fish, olive oils, grains etc.

Having said that I do enjoy a pizza on occasion :P
This tool is an absolute joy to use. At my nine to five, I work on a library that often times feels clunky and heavy. To use a tool as simple, powerful, and beautiful as this one truly does bring me joy. Thanks for putting the time into this! It's the perfect intersection of drag-n-drop and from scratch.

If you've got some preferred channel where I can drop you a couple dollars in support of this project, let me know.
As a reminder, DuckDuckGo (while being an alternative itself) supports bang operators (https://duckduckgo.com/bang), which helps to prevent Google assimilation.
According to the wiki article, the sentences aren't mandatory. They're presented as a choice where one choice is a period of time in jail and the other is an action in the community and a shorter period of time in jail.

IANAL but, I suspect that since the full length jail sentence is considered neither cruel nor unusual and is an option for the convicted person, that should mean that if they choose a different option, it can't be cruel because they found that option more pleasant than one that is already determined to not be cruel. I guess this assumes that people will tend to choose the less cruel punishment given two options, but that seems like a safe assumption.
I guess that’s true. The .NET framework strategy is pretty consistent. I guess I am still traumatized by the mess they have created with their desktop UI toolkits.
Yeah, having styled-components (not a UI framework) included in the boilerplate would be pretty awesome for something like this.
I'm still on the fence somewhat.

Searching for "best car engine oil" has certain brands displayed straight on the featured snippet. Who cares about the click if Google found your customer for you and got your message through for free?
Apple has status bar indicators for if an application is using the microphone or camera from a background process and when tapping the indicator the OS will try to bring it to the foreground so that you know which one, or if it cannot for some reason it tries to prompt you with the name and asks if you want to disable the app's access.

If your threat model includes Apple themselves it's not guaranteed that first party apps have to use the same privacy-respecting APIs, and Face ID (which does require consent) indeed has a very different UX model for when it is active (lock icons and overlay checkboxes versus status bar microphone/camera icons and red warning indicators).

For what little it is worth, though, it certainly feels like Apple is sincere enough in their "Privacy-focused" endeavors, that I currently don't consider Apple in my personal threat model, but as always that's a subjective judgment at best.
The mind and its outlook is like any other aspect of human nature and the body in that it takes repeated practice/exercise/etc. for improvement. This is one purported reason why those that attend weekly religious service have higher levels of life satisfaction, i.e. being told weekly to contemplate these things exercises the mind and improves life quality (on average).
I've family in Napa, Ca. One of the high schools is literally called Vintage High and their mascot is the Crushers, after grape crushing machines [0]. Winemaking is as a part of Napa as the soil and air.

Wineries are moving up into Oregon and Washington now, following the climate [1]. It takes ~7 years for the grapes to get to a point where you can make wine out of them, hence moving up there now and planting.

This climate crisis is going to ruin Napa and already kinda is. ~81% of the grapes can't manage in the heat by 2080 [2], that's 4 of every 5 vines just dying in the sun. Meanwhile, the Napa Valley Vinters Association's head is firmly in the sand [3] and remains steadfastly confused that climate is weather.

[0] https://vhs-nvusd-ca.schoolloop.com/

[1] https://apnews.com/2a2da3558a1c47f6a2aeec8d409e47c2

[2] https://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-locations/napa-...

[3] https://napavintners.com/about/climate_change.asp
Why would you need to sanitise a plastic bag after use ?
Yep, that must be it. Thanks!
Roughly: rotten apples.

(Not sure if you spoil the barrel or not though.)
On the first day, God created The Deepfake Algorithm. On days 2-6, he waited patiently as the The Algorithm auto-generated history up to and including yesterday. Day 7 is today.
Unless their action involves measurable metrics to gauge happiness, etc.
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Good to get the context. Yes, legislation will definitely help but we feel that technology can definitely make a large difference in healthcare.
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"First the establishment will ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they crack down on you and then you become part of the establishment."
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I'm glad everything he represents is now accepted. I remember watching Pink Flamingos in the early 2000s when I was discovering cinematography and understanding the industry and it's evolution. It has shock value, but it was deeper than that. When I saw his film, it reminded me a little of Warhol in a way.

I'm actually glad the acceptance is so quick, just 13 years ago the United States federal government arrested someone for 'obscenity-related charges' in film production, though admittedly it was considerably more disturbing footage than what John Walters ever produced. *

I truly wonder what's the next set of values to go through this process. By definition we can't know what they are and speculation has a terrible history of accuracy, especially if it is what we know as the truth (as defined by the majority, i.e. the establishment)

Also wonder if as technology accelerates the rate of social change, so will the typically generational cycle speeds of acceptance of new ideas.

* Danilo Croce https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/June/07_crm_410....
From the perspective of providing more habitat to salmon, yes elimination of waterfalls would boost salmon habitat. But that might also come with unintended consequences, such as attracting eagles and bears upstream. "The ecosystem" is something that evolves and builds over long time periods. So when we do major short term damage we're not going to see all of the consequences. That's why something like damming a river may be viewed the same way as blasting out waterfalls; there are long term consequences and many variables at play, and you won't get to find out how the environment responds to it until well after the damage is done.
Ironically, there's finally a decent plastic guitar but suddenly we hate plastic