skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes classic anti-crypto argument: pure dismissal.

It could easily process 20-30x more transactions than Bitcoin do, with the exact same fees. So the "only cheaper because it's not used" is just wrong.

So a cryptocurrency can only be useful if it matches the throughout of VISA? Sounds like a lazy way to dismiss it. I would for example consider it great if we could match PayPal for example.

Which in numbers would be blocks of around 100MB for PayPal's average volume last time I checked. And Bitcoin Cash is around that with 32MB.

Of course there's still ways to go, with the main bottleneck being block propagation (so blocks don't split the network or cause too much centralization due to orphan rates). Of which there are improvements being worked on.

Funny how you cherry-pick the value drop from the top. There's no denying they're too volatile, but you should try to be more objective.
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Not a big fish as many others here, but just for completeness:

https://github.com/sponsors/florianrappl

I'd love if this (GitHub sponsors in general, not my personal account) would be successful - so far doing open-source projects was a great experience!
If only we had some kind of National Institute of Standards and Technology that broadcast the time and daylight savings flags in a machine readable format.
It's because of missing LPDDR4 support. In laptop CPUs it's only available on Ice Lake, which just started shipping. AMD doesn't support it at all.
It's not "just a clock" if it has wifi. If he just wantted a 3-button dumb clock that's what he should buy.

I'm generalising to more complex appliances, but no, just adding buttons doesn't do it (quite apart from more points of failure), even for a clock - how would you set multiple alarms, say one for you, one for your partner, with different times each day of the week. do you have 2 buttons for each day, or what? Of course, in reality you end up with modes, and menus , and a crappy custom UI.

Multiply this by every gadget in the house, and a full UI remote (be it phone, tablet or specialised wireless touch-screen remote) becomes an attractive option.
Not sure why you are ignoring the fact that Sanders and Warren don't have stockpiled profits or billionaire managers taking home the cash not being paid to staffers.
Thanks for asking these important questions!

* What are the challenges surrounding verification that your system functions properly, given that the test material is illicit?

You're right that storing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is illegal, unless you are the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) or law enforcement. What is legal is to maintain a hash of known CSAM. NCMEC, Law Enforcement, and large tech companies maintain their own data sets of known CSAM hashes and, where appropriate, share them. The Technology Coalition [1] has more information on this.
All that said, we can and do simulate the system to verify that it works properly using bench testing with non-illegal content [2].

* Can you speak to the reliability of the system in a sensitivity/specificity kind of way? In other words, what are the false positive and false negative rates?

The false positive rate in practice is very low. We set our thresholds based on bench tests with an expected false positive rate of less than 1/1000 (the thresholds vary based on which hash function was used). Different hash functions are more resilient to some transformations than others (e.g., cropping, watermarks, etc.).

For the false negative rate, it depends entirely on the kind of modification made to the image. For many common operations, it is close to zero.

* Are you aware of any large organizations leveraging your solution?

Thorn builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse, one of the products we build for this purpose is Safer [3]. Perception provides an easy way to get started using the Safer matching service. Safer provides a more robust and complete solution including handling a queue of content and reporting tools. Some organizations using Safer include Imgur, Flickr, and Slack.

But this technology (perceptual hashing) is used by many companies who don't use our tools. Our goal is just to make it easier for more people to get started.

* Do you feel that the availability of these tools obligates service providers to use them, either morally or legally?

Not being a lawyer or a public policy expert, what I can say is that the law, as I understand it, requires companies to report CSAM once they are aware of it. Working in this field I’ve learned two things pertinent to this question: (1) Most people don’t know how pervasive of an issue this is, and (2) There aren’t a lot of easy ways to start protecting your platform from this abuse. No one wants the cool new products and platforms they make to be used to abuse children. Privacy is important too, which is why solutions that preserve privacy and avoid leaking private information to third parties are critical, and perceptual hashing allows us to do both.

[1] https://www.technologycoalition.org/

[2] https://perception.thorn.engineering/en/latest/examples/benc...

[3] https://getsafer.io

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Well, you left out an important sentence just before which says:

> A majority of Cat@Net’s employees are understood to be disabled, allowing the company to derive substantial public subsidies from Poland’s National Disabled Rehabilitation Fund.

> "their disabilities mean that their employment opportunities are limited"

When you have nothing to put into the pot, the perspective changes. Some of those people might be desperate for work, and in such situation one swallows their pride.

Still, not all people would do such things. But I also imagine some of them might be underestimating the power of the work they're doing and thinking "it can't possibly lead to anything serious".
Come. On. Read what you just posted. It does not disagree with the article I posted. 108.8 million tonnes of crude vs 29.1 tonnes imported means only 25% of _all of Canadian_ oil is imported, and of that 65% of it is from the U.S., not Saudi.

By your own quoted numbers only 5% of Canadian crude comes from Saudi Arabia. (20% of 29.1 = 5.82 million barrels, 5.82 million barrels out of 108 million barrels is 5.3%)

The CBC article was 2012. Before Line 9 reversal. You may not want it to be true, but it is. And you actually just confirmed it.

And in fact most of that Saudi oil is going to eastern provinces, not central Canada:

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt/snpsht/2019/03-03m...

Breaks down oil imports by source and province and -- this is the NEB, not a 'left wing' source -- its first sentence is: "Canada imports around one barrel of crude oil for every seven and a half barrels it produces."

Note that the rest of the page only breaks down imports and doesn't show domestic sources, which as I pointed out is 75% of consumed oil _nationally_ and 90% of Ontario's.
WiFi does not actually give out a reliable time signal, at all.

You're thinking of GPS.
Shopping for a radio recently I passed up loads of crap that I believe would have met the same fate as his clock. Internet enabled shit that will probably die once an LED goes out.

I ended up getting a nice, solidly built radio with a wood cabinet that has a volunteer knob, an AM/FM knob, and a tuner knob. No app required.

The one quality of life feature it does have is a little light that lights up when you've hit a signal on the tuner. This is nice because the exact position required for a station can drift. I assume this is due to atmospheric effects and other interference.
What have I done?
shiver

https://imgur.com/a/fJ3j0ww
Sure, but do you seriously think a socialist revolution can happen without a civil war? How do you get rid of those who don't want it? This wasn't the only famine BTW. My great-grandma witnessed cannibalism in the south of Russia (the "bread basket" region) in early 30s. This is the same famine as Holodomor, many people don't know but it affected some regions in Russia too. I heard her first-hand account of it before she died. No civil war, no drought, just communist authoritarian rule. Basically all food supplies were diverted to the cities. NKVD would literally shoot starving people for stealing a handful of grain: worse than Waffen SS ~10 years after that.
My god. This is the equivalent of a Tory saying Hitler did more good than harm.

EDIT: For 'mysterious reasons' the above post has been flagged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4o5n2EGyA

UK Labour politician saying 'Mao did more good than harm'
Similar to what @overcast said: initially I didn't use select_related at all. Almost immediately I saw huge DB utilization with hundreds of thousands of tuples returned for (what I assumed) were pretty simple queries. I realized, as @overcast said, that it was looping instead of asking for it all at once, so I added indexes and appended "select_related" to almost every query. Then I figured it was fixed.

Once my database hit 100GB and a few hundred million rows I had no choice but to sit down and actually learn what each of my ORM commands was asking my database to do. Sometimes I removed a select_related. Sometimes I replaced it with prefetch_related. Sometimes I eliminated an entire filter operation or moved it elsewhere. A few times I injected a greatly simplified raw SQL query instead of relying on complex ORM generated SQL. In four instances I replaced expensive join operations with periodically rebuilt "materialized views" to reduce CPU usage and DB I/O. All was timed with django-debug-toolbar and/or pghero to minimize database impacts and network congestion.

So select_related was sneaky in the sense that I thought I had solved the problem very early on, when I had merely delayed it until much later. If your database always remains small you'll likely never encounter this issue.

The solution is to not fire and forget the application, but to install something like django-debug-toolbar and monitor what your program is doing as the database grows in size. But for heaven's sake, don't worry about that problem today. Get your app working so you can make money. Once it's done, however, remember that your ORM has put a thick collar on your new puppy, and as it grows you'll need to expand that collar or you'll slowly strangle your pet.
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While that is techically correct, the best kind of correct, it is bit misleading not to mention that it was Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that existed for some years during the Russian civil war and formed the Soviet Union in 1922.

For all intents and purposes it is the same political entity.
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A soviet is a local official (elected, I think) in Communism. It is not necessarily tied to the USSR. The soviet system was in place at this time, as is mentioned throughout the article.
Tesla has over $5Bn in cash and positive operating cash flow. You can argue about $TSLA the equity's valuation, but whether it survives long-term is no more questionable than whether VW survives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_(council)#Russian_Revol...
To build a classifier, yes, you are correct. But this isn’t a classifier to identify new content that has never been seen. This uses perceptual hashes to help organizations detect if known CSAM is being shared on their platform.
Do you deliberately have it set up so that $200/month is the only option for sponsoring? People sponsoring you must choose a tier, and currently that's the only one you have available, so nobody can sponsor for any amount except that.
If compared to physical disabilities, Autistic sufferers are sometimes a lot worse off as their symptoms are not visible. Convincing the social services becomes quite difficult.
Most marketing material like this makes my head start spinning after only a minute or so. I can only imagine what extended periods of _thinking_ in marketing/PR-speak can do to someone
Soviet is a council, as in a governing committee.
they are certainly available in france, where I have bought quite a few
If Google is a search monopoly (or really and ad impressions monopoly, which is the core issue for competition) that's another issue to address.
Hey, Thomas Jefferson also said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

Like many of Jefferson's quotes, this one and yours are both out of context, with yours being in reference to a wealthy elite dodging taxes illegally. That context is a bit different than wanting the government breaking up a social media company because you disagree with it's methods of managing free speech.
When Porsche labels a battery operated car as 'Turbo', I think it's time for them to to die.
I think this is actually the desirable behavior. If you've got very long-running connections and you want to force a switch-over you can always drop the connection even if you don't have some in-band mechanism. If you're constantly watching for a DNS change all it takes is one DNS failure to kill a connection (or all connections). In general transient network issues are probably going to be more common than IP changes on your infrastructure and issues caused by the former are harder to debug.
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Turn your Raspberry Pi or NAS into a full private cloud
If by microbes you mean bacteria. Maybe we also contain fungus as well though.

And actually, if you're looking at cell count our cells are outnumbered by about 10:1, it's incredible!
Gotcha! Updated my post.
Lots of weird downvotes of neutral comments - are the Russians bots out?
Not paywalled - "Colombian woman’s genes offer new clues to staving off Alzheimer’s" - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/colombian-woman-s-ge...
I'm sure there's a value proposition in there somewhere, but looking at the way "software as a service" type models have been abused once users are committed and specifically looking at Microsoft's track record with things like the Zune DRM debacle, I think you'd have to be out of your mind to transition your company or team over to this.

I recently transitioned to office 365 a year or two ago. Boy that was a huge mistake. Even though I still have 5 shares available, apparently they require office 365 users to login once a month, or they'll lock you out of your own software. Which makes zero sense because since I still have shares, there's not really a viable way to abuse that.

This recently screwed me during the PG&E shutoffs and easily cost me $1000 in downtime for me and my team.
Wait, what?

I was under the impression that it was like Patreon, e.g. people can donate whatever they want, and if they get to a goal, then that goal applies.

Looking at the backend for the Sponsorship, the copy for it is ambiguous (especially given how Patreon operates); the copy on the page itself is more clear.

I'll definitely fix that. Thanks for flagging!
What's frightening about the future is that we are on track to a 4-5C rise in temperatures which is estimated the earth could only support a billion people (we have 7 billion now). We may face the biggest mass starvation in human history if nothing is done.
I work at Stripe. Sorry you ran into that. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can see why your ID was denied? (We've also been working on improving that flow. I'd love to hear more on how it could be more user-friendly.)
Can you legally exceed the speed limit to pass? I don't believe you can (at least not in most locales).
Just get the simplest, cheapest clock (the $6 ones on Amazon). [Clock Set] [Alarm Set] [Hour] [Minute] is the ideal UI we want.

I had a fancier Sony clock that was designed to make it impossible to set the time. I couldn't figure it out, so I threw it away. Ridiculous!
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You can argue the same concept about Tesla and its constantly lying about autonomous driving.
What about intel?
I don't know if this would work because it just shifts the education down to pre-18. This drastically benefits the wealthy, who can afford expensive tutoring and natalist services that others can't match. It's hard enough as it is dealing with people who have been groomed from youth to be the elite in a culture that enables people to enter a four year college regardless of background; i think it would be ridiculous otherwise.
Its a generational thing. Throughout the Boomer's entire lives the man on the evening news was worthy of your attention. He was a journalist, he was honorable and therefore worthy of paying mind...
This kind of knee jerk criticism of cannibalism is just over the top. Real cannibalism is nothing like this. Only reactionaries who haven't read the latest in cannibalism theory from Zydoniek, Foucariname and Chompsky would possibly put this sort of cannibalism in the same class as modern cannibalism.

Not to mention that many people in the west have had more than a nibble on a fingernail when it's presented itself. Yet again there is a failure to mention that.
I think this is mostly a personal preference. I am used to trackpad in my Dell laptop under Debian, which it is quite practical. But if I have to just click on a link using a MacBook, the experience is so infuriating that my colleague fears for the physical integrity of his computer...
"Constructed perception of reality" is _exactly_ what's going on in Alberta right now.

Read my reply to your comment. All you did was confirm my numbers.
How's PCIe Gen4 treating you? :)
No different then if legacy automakers survive the next downturn. Ford debt is junk rated now (how many $50k-$70k pickups can you sell to marginal creditors?), GM is a retirement/pension system that happens to make cars (and lost $2 billion on the UAW strike), and Fiat Chrysler/Peugeot are merging to survive (Fiat owes Tesla ~$2 billion over the next 3 years for ZEVs to continue selling cars in Europe).

Who has the most to lose at peak car? Certainly not Tesla. They'll shift to selling more utility battery storage, or Class 8 semis. In California, lots of solar/battery business to be had in PG&E territory alone for the next decade while PG&E and CA gov flounder about nationalizing that infra (which is a matter of when, not if). What will other light auto automakers make as demand falters? Cutbacks.

Sure, Tesla has large amounts of debt. This is the best macro economic condition to have it in (low interest rates). They just need to keep ahead of the debt service curve (profit + cash flow). And if we're about to enter a contraction/recession, interest rates are not going to be going up (insert most recent fed rate cut here). Will it be easy to refinance that pile of TSLA bonds coming up for maturity? I say yes, but what actually happens is anyone's guess. They could do another equity raise and dilute existing shareholders with some grumbles but everyone would go along for the ride (me included).

Smart folks argue Tesla is an energy company that happens to sell cars. Close. Tesla is a financial engineering act that converts mountains of capital and customer dollars into energy and auto products (Solar City was similarly a financial engineering act, PPAs for customers funded by bond markets before solar got so cheap PPAs no longer made sense).

Usual disclaimer: TSLA investor, vehicle owner.
$5b in cash... and $13b in debt.
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This is how all branding works. It is, from what I can tell, the very point of branding. Certainly not limited to Facebook alone.
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> A better way would be build a campus in a cheapper place and offer benefits for works to move to this places.

I would support that, but however, there is a vocal minority that complains that it's 'gentrification', since it has the side effect of raising the cost of living.
I can't read this. After having children, the first few paragraphs of parents butchering their own children just hurt too much.
Agricultural output recovered in both Russia and China after massive famine. In fact, there has not since been a famine in China since the last whereas in the century previous famine was commonplace. Is this the part where you say that those countries stopped organizing their agricultural activity in a "socialist" way and that's why they no longer had famines?
But it's not just a photo, and in any case, a driver's license isn't yours either. It's a government issued official document, and they can require that you return it at any time. So there are even more rules to have to worry about now, hooray...

I verified my ID for Freelancer.com once. They wanted a scan of your ID and a picture of you holding up the same ID and a random number they provided. A picture of your ID that someone got off a website is indistinguishable from a picture of a picture of your ID. A picture of you holding your ID is indistinguishable from a picture of you holding a picture of your ID. It could easily have been a deepfake.

I think this is a real problem and the right to communicate isn't stronger or deeper than the right to prevent illegal or provably harmful communications. (yes 'illegal' can become twisted, I'm limiting to just the painfully obvious things that everyone finds unacceptable (except would-be criminals))

(yes 'criminals' is frequently defined in terms of what's already illegal so I'm just making a fine mess here but while we're at it, let's appeal to the expectations of 'decent' people and then we just bounced it back to definition of 'decent' ad nauseum... ok I'm done)
Reducing friction for reporting bugs is key. In Slack for example, you can report bugs via slash-command: "/feedback my X breaks when I do Y" opens a ticket and subscribes you to it via email.
I'm familiar with the "support contract" we're discussing, and it was for "early" access to vulnerability details.
Also sickening is the understanding that the massive horror of the famine (in large part a result of the policies of confiscation of goods) was seized upon as an opportunity to punish the suffering peasants and diminish the authority of the Orthodox Church. I'm troubled there wasn't there an ounce of humanity among leaders, those who would rather grab power than alleviate the suffering. But then, to admit the scale of the suffering and/or to ask for international aid is to admit that the central planning model is inefficient, and the embarrassment of the food aid provided by the United States must have deepened the insult to the (well fed) leadership. A disgusting low-point in human history, for certain.
Thank you for this, I love good book recommendations.
You must have good vision, because it's annoying for me to read.
I don't understand why you say Apple and Google could supply such, because I am guessing (sadly) that even their deep coffers are tiny in comparison to how much money it would take to fund such fixes.
Now that it's live, despite being on it for a few weeks, i'm interested to see if folks use it. I've had support through some other places [1] [2], I guess this [3] is more integrated to github on the whole. While I'm optimistic, people are not in the habit of supporting projects, and if they are it's usually the largest projects. I included what people have contributed in the past for a pretty popular project (2k+ stars on github, about 500k-700k downloads on npm a month)

[1] https://opencollective.com/react-ace - about $100 USD total
[2] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/j - $25 usd total
[3] https://github.com/sponsors/securingsincity - $0 usd so far
To me, it has more do with symbolism than actual utility.

Worryingly I am seeing the same trend in London, UK where I live. At my local train station , which is 20 mins from City, I see the F150, Rams and what not parked. The owner clearly working/taking train into City. They are sparkling clean and occupy parking bay edge to edge.

London where space is constrained, public transport is readily available and rental vans can be arranged on your phone, I fail to understand why City working person would need it except for the messaging impact of owning a macho looking vehicle.