skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I'm very optimistic about cryptocurrency as tech in the longer term, but there are still a bunch of problems to be solved. The specific boosterism of Bitcoin is odd and probably counterproductive.
That's a good one. Expanding on the banking one. It would be one thing if Wells Fargo wouldn't do business with you. Is another that they flag your ChexSystems Report so you can't open an account anywhere else.
You can do that, but many boards are really designed to sit on top of the card. In a robot that walks you don't have that much space and you want to mount everything as firmly as possible to avoid a bad connection from repeated vibrations. It is possible but so far it hasn't seem worth the hassle.
What will happen is that the ads will go underground. You'll simply no longer know whether the person talking to you is an 'ad' or really saying something they stand behind. To some extent this is already happening, but banning ads will push that to the limit.

Ads at least can be controlled by the platform to a degree with user generated content that is much harder because there is so much more of it.
See figure 1b. :)

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
Most people use sub-$200 handsets, so the penetration of iPhones is very low and only the high class uses them. Within small social circles (mostly within the family), they use iMessage. But to communicate with anyone else, they use WhatsApp. I know a few high powered lawyers. They use WhatsApp exclusively.

WhatsApp penetration in Mexico must be about 99% in my estimation.
I don't want to be "that guy", but Bitcoin being pseudonymous is a definite downside when it comes to losing your account. That's why I greatly prefer Monero, especially with xmr.to letting you transparently send Monero to Bitcoin addresses.
It will be funny that, as with other technologies from the past, pornography will be the use case that will finally bring cryptocurrencies to widespread adoption in society
Back in a web browser is just swiping from the left edge with one finger, forward is swiping from the right edge.
There is a great podcast called The Dream about MLMs. I feel sorry for anyone that gets wrapped up in these things.
In fact, star distances follow Benford's law very well through multiple digits.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5794
Exactly. It is so easy to achieve using a dedicated queuing system. You could just as easily achieve much higher throughput by passing a jobId as a message to Rabbit and have the worker pop the required data out of the db. Thats assuming you dont want to just pass in a serialized object. All this talk of it not being a durable system is just wrong. Rabbit has strong durability guarantees across a cluster with queue mirroring, confirmations and acknowledgements.
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Porn is legal if everybody involved is above age and gives consent and is capable of giving consent at the time and that consent is properly recorded and the resulting content is not judged criminally "obscene" by some judge in a hick town. Which is way too many ifs for most banks, particularly given the meager returns on offer.
> if someone puts ads "everywhere you look" then you shouldn't be there in the first place

Really? So I shouldn't be in most public spaces? I reject that notion.

The counter to my statement that I would agree with is "that's just one of the irritations you have to put up with in our society".
As a few others have already pointed out, marijuana is a Schedule 1 drug, and so no bank that operates at a federal level can touch it.

That said, I've heard that the ATMs in recreational marijuana shops are themselves significant sources revenue for the shops.
That's a more workable solution. Still, the bulk of the people will not care.
By that logic, a restaurant should be able to discriminate based on race, since there are other restaurants that could serve those customers.
Pictures of chainsaw sculptures for reference: https://www.google.com/search?q=chainsaw+sculptures&tbm=isch

Some are quite good and finely detailed in my opinion. It's really nothing like what you'd expect after hearing chainsaw. There actually are small chainsaw, maybe even one-handed ones, to do that.
Computer vision, specifically reconstruction of 3D models from 2D photos, as a service.
What was the last version of Raspberry Pi that didn't require cooling?

What's the best-spec'd Pi (or comparable alternative) that doesn't require fans?
That is a very neat solution. The one downside I see is that you need to be much more careful about gracefully handling errors within workers.

For example: if a single worker thread crashes but the process doesn't realise it, it may be possible for jobs to become stuck, because other workers rely on the process releasing the job back to the queue. It's definitely solvable but something to be aware of.
its probably safe to assume that even if rodents are behaviorally trained to follow complex rules, they are mostly pattern-matching, and are lacking higher-level abstraction and communication models like humans do. If they did they would at least attempt to communicate with us, like we do with them. In such a case, an elephant that plays go by patternmatching is no different from a neural network that learned by patternmatching
Who is being accused of being unethical?
> I cannot stress this enough; fear of learning is anathema to software, and trying to hide it behind a veneer of caution is not only disingenuous but potentially malicious as well, maximizing exclusively for the benefit of the individual against the interests of the group.

This is wrong.

You are ultimately getting paid to solve the company's problems. If those problems actually require deployment of a new technology to satisfy the requirements, then it is fine. Note that I said satisfy requirements, not exceed them.

But more often than not, * that's not the case *. If your queue requirements can be served with PostgreSQL, and you already have it, then why not? To do otherwise would be over engineering.

Because you may know a new and fancy technology that would be objectively better. Cool. Now, do you have enough know-how in the company to use it effectively? Do you know what the best practices are? Can you deploy, monitor, audit and patch this in production? If you have answered NO to any of those questions, you'll either hire people or you shouldn't deploy. Period.

And if you have only one person answering YES to the previous questions, you still shouldn't deploy it. Because one day that person will leave, and you are now left the company in a worse situation than it was before. For no reason other than satisfying your engineering itch.

THAT is anathema to working, reliable production software. Toys, you can do whatever.

If you want to introduce something new, you can. But you need to do it responsibly. It needs a reason to exist - a valid reason, not "it's better". How does it being "better" help the company? Will it reduce costs? Maintenance? Future development work will happen faster? Will it make a faster user experience? Scale to the projected company growth?

It will have a cost that will have to be accounted for – including opportunity costs.

> By trying to use one tool for everything, you lose out on all kinds of optimizations, features, and performance enhancements that are specific to the problem you're trying to solve.

You only care about this if you have a reason to care about this. Otherwise it's all irrelevant.
Because, in my limited memory, I didn't remember there being a sidewalk from LAX to, say, Century outside the airport. I don't have a problem with walking that far. I have a problem with walking that far, in traffic, when I don't remember there being a sidewalk. I had assumed that there wasn't one.

For example, walking into SLC airport is not trivial to do. It's designed to be driven to, and that only (or, now you can take the train). I mean, you can walk along the bike trail from the southeast corner of the airport, then work your way through the parking lots of the air cargo places, but I don't think there's a sidewalk from the bike trail to the terminal. And that's the best walking option at SLC.

[Edit: A bit of time in Google Maps shows a sidewalk the majority of the way in SLC, but not all of it.]
I think of it as less a statement about general data sets, and more a statement about base 10 representations.

In binary, every number begins with 1!
Are adds in America totally unregulated or something? Why hold Facebook to different standards from anyone else?

And why are the people who complain about social media the most, also the people who use it the most? Sounds like they’re pretty happy with it when they can use it to push their agenda.
Bitcoin isn't a currency that can fix this. Bitcoin is either censorable (lightning network) or unaffordable when used heavily with slow confirmations and ridiculous fees.

The lightning network is a joke--a frankenstein "Engineering UI" layed over a system to route around bad development decisions re:block size.
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The problem for those providers is often not their own morals per se. But the fear of being related to certain verticals. This oftentimes has a real impact on lost deals from other companies that do have a moral judgment and wont do business with you if you are related say to marijuana selling companies.
> I don't think it's even been at such level

I haven't seen any evidence of that. Human beings communicate and consume information much more than they have before, but where's the evidence that has made the 'problem' worse? We're much less insular than we've ever been before, so any increase in exposure to misleading information has been accompanied by an increase in exposure to opposing view points.

> It can only get you so far

So can any pursuit of the truth. If you want to set the bar at discovering universal truths, then you're going to be disappointed.

> this trend will produce a situation where there won't be any source you trust enough to cross-check against

Good. There should never be a single source that you trust to always tell you the truth.
The difference is nothing. A message can be a serialized object representing a job. Or the message can be a jobId that points to a record in a db.
MSU researchers make wolf diet discovery, highlight ecosystem complexities
I don't think the author would likely deny that printing boatloads of money resulted in inflation in Zimbabwe or Venezuela

They might, actually, since the relationship between cause and effect isn't as simple as that. In both cases, the economy collapsed, causing massive inflation from the supply shock. The governments turned that into hyper-inflation by responding with printing money, but that was effect rather than cause. Even if they hadn't devalued their currency that way, they would still have been in a crisis.

The hyperinflation added an accounting crisis on top of that, but that's more about numbers than about the real problems. It's frequently presented as if the monetary policy were the cause of the crisis and they should just stop doing that, but it's simply not true. What they needed was to fix their specific national disasters -- destroying the farming infrastructure in Zimbabwe's case (after centuries of colonialism putting all of the farmland in the hands of an entrenched elite and race-based oppression of everybody else), and the collapse of the oil economy in Venezuela's (as well as mismanagement of their oil wealth leading up to it).
Sure you can:
https://www.newsweek.com/man-maga-hat-kicked-out-nyc-bar-it-...
The field of AI is not new to me. Quite the opposite, I find that many people in this thread are making fundamental misunderstandings about what AI and machine learning are about. Hence the commenters like the one above which say AI is limited because it is biased towards past data, which sounds ridiculous to anyone that works with AI because using past data to train the model is fundamental to how AI works.

Yes, if people feed in a bad data set the results are going to be bad. Like how a pentagon project tried to use AI to classify Russian vs NATO vehicles. The photos of the former were taken on a sunny day and the latter on an overcast day. The result was that their model was just detecting the average brightness of the input.

But what happens when the data is valid, but people don't like the results because it doesn't match their worldview? Altering the model to match one's world view is not elimination of bias, it's deliberately introducing bias.
The Everything Town in the Middle of Nowhere
sigh, i vaguely remember when local stack was free, back when it was moto (library + rest support), and then atlassian doing the initial localstack, and then handing it over to the community. on the day after docker is done, i'm not sure there's much vc value add in the pure dev tools space, its feeding into a commodity with a motivated community, especially in this case given a cost incentive (per dev licensing) and higher fidelity alternative in using an actual test account.
Chrome broken for days in experiment forced by Google
> valuable data all the time to essentially anyone

if it s truly valuabe it isn't sold to 'essentially anyone'. like high value financial info or security.
Labour pledges free broadband for all homes and firms in UK
Actix is currently popular, but only because the rest of the ecosystem has been waiting for `async-await`, and taking a slow-and-steady approach to getting things right. I'd expect Actix's popularity to take a dramatic downturn right about when Rocket releases a async version that runs on stable Rust.
I have tried this in our dev environment several times and failed b/c it didnt support all RESP2 commands (Using stackexchange.redis as the lib)
The grep author coded with ASR-33 teletype. He didn't eat cheezels at his keyboard AFAIK or mumble. He is a highly educated mathematician.

G/RE/P is the instantiation of the regex model in UNIX, and comes from Ken Thompson directly. Its the same model in ed, and in sed, and awk.
Disney+ Bundle Works Even If You Want Hulu (No Ads) Plan
sorry, i meant valuable in the monetary sense. Wikipedia is very valuable but its market price is $0
This seems conflicting with what I read about its behavior. It should heavily throttle (underclock) itself, but shouldn't destroy itself. Maybe you got a defective unit or the hot thermal environments caused issues elsewhere (again maybe due to some defect).
fwiw, I tried local stack a while ago, and quickly realized that features and edge cases where not really where it worked. it hits the 80/20 rule of apis and a 20/80 rule on error conditions. I switched out to flight recording on the apis to get better coverage and tracking to new features and more customizable err injection.

if this space is of interest, here's a five minute vid I did on testing in aws last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4qdyEm-YA
> I dropped it 3 years ago and haven't missed it one bit.

Yes. I dropped it much earlier than that, and have suffered no inconvenience or problem as a result.
I don't find those takes convincing mainly due to the fact that authors never attempt to do a proper though experiment to test their own hypothesis.

Let's imagine for a second, that US and EU governments get together and for real ban all ads on social networks.

The end-user product of Facebook & Twitter majority of users interact with on a daily basis represent maybe ~20% of the tech that engineers are working on. The rest is some crusty under-the-hood tech geared towards collecting user information, selling/targeting ads, and rearranging your feed in a way that maximizes time you spend on the site. If there's no ads, all this tech is suddenly useless.

Facebook would immediately have to fire 80% of its staff. Its market value would plummet. They'd have to implement subscription model, that majority of users would immediately reject. Even if they accept a huge loss and allow people to use the site for only $5/y, I imagine only 10-15% of currently active users will accept it.

Now when maximising ads is not a priority, people start spending way less time yelling at each other on social media. They need to spend this time some other way.

I'm too lazy to think further, but it's clear that "just ban the ads" is a HUUUGE change that will affect so many things at once, that it's almost impossible to predict all effects it's gonna produce.
If that person is close enough to the car for it to detect and record, it is much like someone entering your 'personal space' at which you tend to be alert. Now people walking down the street - in the same direction do not invoke avoidance, but people travelling the other way - when you may walk into them are detected and avoided. Same with moving cars - in the same lane, going the same way = safer than coming at you in any close land - you will watch and avoid, so does the Tesla car
The author is reporting a statement by the International Energy Agency, not discussing procreation, so she forgot nothing.

You don't think it strange though, that concern around the climate is so much higher with those mostly childless young? Whether they choose to have children themselves or not they will be around longer than their parents and thus disproportionately affected. No surprise then there are XR demos with all ages, and school strike demonstrations growing all around the globe. Why are they bothering? Shouldn't they be fussing about their student loan or holding down a shitty job instead?
There’s been a huge increase in the money supply around the world since the GFC and hardly any inflation. This should not be a surprise because monetarism already failed as soon as it was tried 35 years ago. Simple models of the price level do not work. Output, trade, interest rates, investment, consumption, conflict between capital and labor, it all matters.
An alternative would be a system like M-Pesa. It's based on your personal phone line using the SIM toolkit, though there's also an app. Transactions can only be carried out on the phone with the SIM installed though.

It's great for personal transfers, and many in Kenya already use it to pay sex workers (usually cam girls selling nudes).

Corporates can have numbers (called paybill) where payments are made, though they are vulnerable to government interference. Safaricom (the network carrier running the M-Pesa platform) has already been ordered to shut down accounts belonging to betting firms. But for personal transactions, regulation is hard since nobody can tell why you sent a certain person money.

M-Pesa has never quite gained traction outside Kenya though.
Screw BTC, they could use XRP, it's virtually a stable coin.
> FB could charge for ads-free, but nobody would use it. It's delusional assume otherwise

It seems more delusional to predict the future (nobody would use it) with confidence.

I know framing such things as false dichotomies is kinda what educated Western intellectuals do, but God or nature impose no such limitations on us. We are free to think, negotiate, create hybrid solutions and adjust as necessary, and so forth and so on. We have the ability to largely be the masters of our own destiny, but waking up and making that choice is our responsibility, not God's.
I've been reading Krugman and DeLong for the last ten years, and they've been calling things pretty accurately in that time, so I have no idea what the author is smoking.
I recently watched the "extras" that came along with the "Final Cut" version of Blade Runner. The guy in the art department who created all those images talked about his process, and I found it very interesting.

Almost as interesting as hearing about EJO's work in creating the spoken version of Cityspeak for his character.
estás loco boludo
amazing job
I'm going to assume the Chinese graffiti was written by someone in-universe who didn't know Chinese (or at least Chinese writing) very well.

Like when someone in our world gets a tattoo of gibberish because they think it looks cool, maybe someone in the world of Blade Runner wanted to graffiti some cool Chinese characters they looked up in a dictionary.
It needs a 5V fan, right? You power it from the GPIO pins directly?
Given that busybox is structured as one function per command

int COMMAND_main(int argc, char **argv)

and that it's compilable as a library already, I wonder if it would make more sense to use bindgen or the like to start with the actual busybox C code, but with a (trivial) Rust main function. You'd have the current busybox source compiling an ever-smaller library, and a Rust lib next to it. Then move things over to the Rust side one command at a time.
you should complain to your mayor if they do of course. If however most residents are ok with them, then yeah , i guess other people are the irritation you have to put up with
The universe is not obliged to be grokkable. You have to accept the reality that QM is just plain weird.

The only people who sort of grok QM are the ones who have 'artificially machine learned' it after years of working with it. Arguably that's also true of the people who grok classical physics.
From what I see on YT, "very close" is parked right next to a Tesla in a lot. But yeah, many home cameras record everyone passing by on the sidewalk. Sadly, the US has next to zero privacy protections.
You forgot to put quotes around the word "stopped"
Ads in the US are very lightly regulated.
Banning things tends to lead to the market routing around the ban, via black / grey markets. In the case of ads is hard for there to be a true black market, because ultimately the ad needs to reach a users pupils. But I suspect if you outright banned ads you'd get a lot of grey area, such as promoted posts, affiliate messages, influencers. Things that blur the line between ads and content. Instead I'd prefer a high excise tax on advertising transactions, similar to how we tax cigarettes. That way it doesn't ban advertising outright, but it does change the cost analysis on it, and it becomes a source of revenue for the state that (in theory) everyone can benefit from.
Ah, I see the title turning gray already... just a few more minutes until [flagged]...
True, and as a longtime fan of the IBM Model 'M' that had that configuration and was mechanical and built to last with buckling springs, I'm glad I can get one of these:

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA
It happens... but maybe you are assuming to little.

There are almost no relevant 3'rd party libs that has not been ported at this stage. If they have not they probably have been abandoned and the client codebase have bigger issues. Same for uncovered code bases, and 'unprofessional' Python production code. That's hardly Python's fault.