skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect in legal terms, if you feed copyrighted images into a computer program, the output is a derivative work, AI or no.

As you say, some of the output images are clearly of specific characters, which turns this from "legally grey" into "definitely not public domain".
> Granted it only had preset values rather than a slider...

Yeah and that was always either too bright or too dark.

I'm glad they added the slider now.
not really sure what you mean, can you elaborate on why you would say that?

FWIW, I've met more normies in my 10years of software development than absurd people. Absurd people are just memorable, it's a bias.

If you're actually curious, this username was stolen from an absurd Atlanta based rapper named blunt fang and I get more weed culture association than furry association with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDal4GCyEJA
This is ridiculous. People in NYC stopped going to public places in mass almost a full week before the lockdown order. Had the CDC not lied about masks, they'd have likely used them.

On top of that, the FDA and CDC have 100% botched testing from the beginning.

Americans are highly pragmatic, but we want good information not orders.
Anything for inline comments / annotations?
Keep in mind that this difference only applies to fraud. You can still dispute transactions for other reasons (missing/wrong goods delivered, etc).
Whenever I need to host something small and I’m trying to decide between DO and AWS I always ask myself. Would I rather be surprised by the bill or my website crashing from too much traffic? I almost always pick DO because I don’t want to mess something up and lose a few hundred dollars.
It’s not some conference, it’s some asshole who has the ability to implement that kind of behaviour. I bet loads of people working at that graph conference didn’t agree but either didn’t know or didn’t have a say in the activity.
I'm not sure if any other governments besides the US can just print their way out of shortfalls.

And the US won't be able to forever either, but our politicians will just keep doing it until it's no longer viable.
don't you mean toe pedal?
If we are "throwing out the existing paradigms of road transport” then why not throw out roads completely. Rails are way more efficient.
Dgraph GraphQL Hits GA
Not a company but a personal project:

https://github.com/krisk84/retinanet_for_redaction_with_deep...

I haven't analyzed the TCO yet but the bandwidth costs alone from hosting my curated model of 100GB in the cloud (Azure blob) have greatly exceeded my total operation spend from downloading the entire dataset and running training. By an order of magnitude.
Node.js Bindings for the Intercom API
Jetbrains shows no signs of wanting to be a monopoly player in development tools. I've been a customer a long time, and I think they've done a great job of balancing making money with doing solid work and serving their customers. Microsoft, on the other hand, has a long history of willful domination and exploitation, and they've specifically done that with free products to kneecap competitors.
A landlord who is 'out on the street' because they are no longer getting the rent from their investment property is in no different or worse a position than a worker who becomes homeless because they no longer have a job. A landlord with no back-up plan when rent doesn't come in is someone who made a very large and risky investment but did not consider the possible downside to that investment, and should be punished for their poor investment no differently than someone who takes out a loan to buy a risky stock.

I don't think that tenants have an indelible right to live where they are forever, and a land owner has the right to charge what they see fit for rent, but in these types of extenuating circumstances it would be shameful if landlords did not carry some if not the majority of the burden for their risky decisions.
Some people propose that Alzheimer is in fact a symptom caused by a multitude of different diseases. Similar to how cancer has multiple types and causes.
> <div style="display:none">

No, don't do this. Just use:

<form>
If you are human, please leave this blank:
<input type="text" name="Name" value="">
Name:
<input type="text" name="actualfield">
</form>
I’m pretty sure you can insert or strip periods ‘.’ in gmails too
Selfishness is a strong motivator and one that remains consistently in your life.

You will change your country, city, neighbours, partner, community, and company once you are no longer satisfied with them.

The motivation to improve those is temporary. The motivation to improve your life and you remains till the day you die. The want to live healthier, happier, and better.

The distinction is important because motivation resulting from my selfishness is responsible for things I do for others. That means, I am only improving myself by bettering the environment I live in and everything that exists in it but my end goal still remains a better me.
You'd be surprised how simple it is (but I like simple): It's a bunch of batch files (I'm that old) that basically run the "git clone --bare" command on each repo, and then uses 7z to create a single archive of all the repos, plus text file is included that tells me how to restore the backup to another server (git push --mirror <url>). I included that because I figure when I need it I'm gonna be sort of stressed, lol.

I specifically stay away from anything fancier than plain git commands because I do not want to be testing these backups all the time to make sure they're usable.

Since the 7z archives are just plain files, they are backed up with all of my other stuff via my normal cloud/offline backups that I have.
> Considering Spain was not a democracy until 1975

History of Spain reports more than fifty general elections before this date, starting at 1810. Is a fact well documented and impossible to ignore, unless you want to rewrite the history of the country in the last 200 years for some reason. The universal concept of democracy, of course, has changed with time but this was not exclusive from Spain.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Elecciones_en_Espa%C3%B1...
I don't agree with their framing but xxxxFang is a common naming scheme of wolf furries.
Semmle, maker of CodeQL, was acquired by GitHub in September 2019 (104 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21007776
Cost. We're a small company, five person team and we need a development environment. All our stuff is built around VM and Docker. So scores of little test nodes that get run, or beta environment in the cloud was costly (>$300/mo base, sometimes 3x). For $1000 we put a box in the office we all VPN to that runs all the necessary VM and Docker. The variable, sometimes expensive cost for Test/Beta in cloud was replaced with low fixed cost.
I'm a male and I paid for Gardasil 9 treatments by a medical professional that lasted through my 26th birthday some time ago.

It was a decent bet based on the idea that the money and privilege isn't necessarily going to last forever, while - if I wasn't already exposed to those strains - the vaccine helps.

Since then they've expanded the utility to people up to 40 years of age, instead of cutting off at 26. They've said throat cancers in men are linked to HPV - I can figure out how that happens - whereas it was previously benign in men and they were just carriers causing cervical cancers.

One more reason to date zoomers! The adult ones are attractive and have their shots, whereas older are basically oblivious and likely part of the group that fought against zoomers getting those shots.
I've seen Kraftwerk live many times, and on two or three occasions they've played a bum note, or messed up the drumline, and had to stop and re-sync. So I can definitely confirm that they are playing "live", even for their most recent "3-D" tour.

(Though not, I assume, during the "Robots" sequence, which I assume is recorded. And I think that's actually the whole point of that sequence.)
Not exactly answering the question, but I recently used aliexpress.com and their captcha system is super easy: it shows a sliding button like the one to answer a call on a phone. The prompt just asks you to slide it to validate your input. Not sure how it works, but it sure is a much better UX than when I have to spend 3 minutes identifying for hydrants. Maybe we could make a FLOSS version of it?
Imagine the minimum number of neurons (say, n) needed to 'light up' consciousness. Why doesn't n - 1 work? How can you go from having the lights on to nothing based on a marginal decrease? There must be a spectrum with our minds on one end to a complete absence of running software on the other end. Thanks for reading.
The cloud provider has physical access to the machines. They may have software access to the machines.

I'm sure they're contracted not to do anything bad, but there is risk of an insider incident at the cloud provider leading to an incident the customer can't prevent.
Does anyone know if Pango will render this? Could be a nice way to build i3bar widgets.
> It's odd that it's marketed as a high end performance laptop whereas it's more comparable to a low-mid range desktop.

That's true of nearly all laptops except maybe bulky gaming laptops. The thermal and power limits of laptops mean that they're not really "high performance", they're just high performance for a laptop.
Exactly. All generalizations are broad. But nobody goes around objecting to generalizations every time they see one; they'd get nothing else done. So the pattern in which they do that is always informative.
Yeah, I meant WinUI/UWP XAML. Starting with 8.1 it's been the standard for any new or overhauled Windows shell UI, along with the built-in apps. As you mentioned, this was the original intention for WPF, and the failure of this plan (which the Windows team largely attributed to the dependency on .NET) was the main reason WinUI/UWP and WinRT came about in the first place (as basically a do-over of the Longhorn plans, but ditching the .NET dependency to build on COM instead). So it succeeded at getting Windows to adopt it (at least for a while - apparently in 10X they are starting to use web tech for shell pieces like the new Start menu, although I think the actual window manager itself is still XAML based), while WPF failed.
Australia’s Contact-Tracing COVIDSafe App Off to a Fast Start
to control the costs. after the original purchase, the MRC is a fixed cost for hosting and for the network access. also, for the total control - the network, io, cpu performance does not change randomly. with better predictability our IT team can give more precise SLA.

we're not 100% on-prem, but aws, gcloud and azure are the worst examples of 3rd party hosting - unpredictable and with complicated billing. we're considering the alternatives to big 3 for the "cloud hosting"
If they're both out of money the owner still has a roof over his head.
Good? Is it a good thing to sell caffeine-laden energy drinks to kids & teenagers? Good and bad aren’t the steering properties of the market. Demand is. Demand can also be artificially created, hence the github commits that potential employers are interested in seeing.
I think one thing that could be done, is to offer 3-4 /newest possibles lists, for example by having a select at the top of the /newest page, possible options of the select could be:

- all new links (default)

- links from not frequent domains (less than 2 times this domain in the last 2 days)

- links from not frequent posters (less than 2 posts in the last 2 days)

- 1 link max per user
> Assume people are acting in their best interest, not yours.

This. And even people that actually cares about you, could be wrong due to biases, beliefs, etc.

I guess it depends a lot on the type of environment you were raised.
I'd try not to read too much into chimpanzee behaviour. While they're genetically the most similar to humans, they have quite different behavioural patterns. IMO Orangutans are much more similar to humans behaviourally.
Usually black, actually; sometimes with white dots.
Risky chat.
I Use a Crappy Computer (2010)
Would love some contribution to my resources
If your keys are public they are free to anyone who wants it. They are also sending aws specific keys to amazon.
Yes, it's that easy. Print your document as an image/flat pdf and you won't run into the issues described in the article. If your text editor doesn't support flattening then export the doc as pdf, open the pdf in chrome, go to the print menu, and select "Print as image". You'll know you've done it correctly if you can't select text in the new pdf.
Network storage. MacBooks don't have a lot of space and artists like to make HUGE psd files.

Bonus points for small stuff like RADIUS for wifi and stuff. Groups charging $5/user for junk like that is absolutely awful with a high number of staff.

With a staff of 100, a single box with a bunch of hard drives is two months worth of cloud and SaaS.

TCO needs to come down by like at least 100x before I consider going server-less.
The most significant time that I made this mistake was during the attempted coup in Turkey.

I was living close to Istiklal Street, and I was woken up by a very loud boom. I was pretty sure it was a sonic boom but wanted to make sure. The smart thing would have been to search for "Explosion Istiklal" or maybe even "Boom Istiklal". Instead, I searched for "Bomb Istiklal", and of course I found the 7 people who had leapt to conclusions.

It took me a while to realize I also needed to search for other alternatives, that was a good lesson in the availability bias.
Hundreds of terabytes a day is really not that much, depends on what latency can you accept. I often run computations over datasets that are petabytes in size, just for my own needs. A big data move would be at least tens of petabytes or more like hundreds, or thousands.

Also surprised about latency, latency from what to what? Big cloud providers have excellent globally spanning networks. Long distance networking is crazy expensive, though, compared to the peanuts it costs to transfer data within a data center.

Reliability - again, not sure I buy it. Reliability is "solved" at low levels (such as data storage), most failures occur directly at service levels, regardless of whether you have the service in house or in the cloud.

The rest of your points make sense.
> This is a such an epic situation that I'm sure we'll be talking about for the rest of our lives.

The word "epic" is overused a lot - but not here. It's chilling to think about how historically significant each passing day is going to be.
I disagree regarding Game of Thrones. For me, its major sin is cod-medieval spellings — "Ser Jaime misliked his pease porridge" — and invented idioms — "much and more", "mummer's farce", "nipples on a breastplate". It's usually OK about calling a horse a horse and a sword a sword, and only deviating when there's a genuine difference between something and it's real-world equivalent, such as distinguishing leprosy from greyscale due to the latter's semi-magical effects.
Social security is also being used to subsidize government borrowing (by increasing apparent demand for low interest rate bonds), which makes those vaguely related social programs appear cheaper.
space -> food that's quite a typo.

Aren't we at the point that you could have lots of bots ruining sites like this by posting things like that? It seems doable to do even today. I really enjoy technical/cultural/watercooler conversations with a like group of technical scientific people. hope it doesn't go away.
Selling off an asset also means that you're assuming its value will go down, which assumes some level of certainty over your position. This is not necessarily a safe assumption.
> I always thought that song was about the "love" one feels using a computer.

It's definitely about both. They've always enjoyed writing songs with multiple meanings. Before it was re-written for the live tour, the original lyrics of "Radio activity" are about both Radioactivity, and "Radio Activity".
Germany Issues Arrest Warrant for Russian Hacker
If you are aware, you can feel shedding when you are “asymptomatic”. You can treat this with acyclovir.
That sounds reasonable, but even this little bit causes wealth transfer by setting home ownership just a little bit more off limits to the majority by increasing the supply of slightly too cheap rooms. Thus creating an incentive to the wider more moneyed classes to increase demand on the stock of housing. So while the language used is evokative, the reality is, at scale, all those mom's and pops end up being a very large and powerful group with aligned interests, whose actions also enable even bigger players.
Workers.
Businesses.

The UK doesn't really have capitalism, it has financialisation.
Incidentally, this confusion is part of the reason why actual infinite sequences are written with a trailing ellipsis (9/10 + 9/10² + 9/10³ + …) and not a final term involving infinity. There is no final term—not even 9÷10^∞. So the correct way to write the separation of the leading term in your formula is:

x = 9÷10 + 9÷10² + 9÷10³ + …
x = 9÷10 + (9÷10 + 9÷10² + …) ÷ 10

Note that the number of elements in the sequence is the same no matter how many leading terms you write, so long as the pattern doesn't change. The notation { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, … } and { 1, 3, 5, … } both refer to exactly the same set; the first notation is merely a bit more verbose. Similarly, the parenthesized portion of the second formula above is exactly equal to x, despite being written with two explicit leading terms rather than three.
My parents own a small apartment building in a rural area - about 10 units. They’re there several times a week, and when someone moves out it can be days of work. Not to mention paperwork, collecting, occasionally needing to go to court, etc.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s decent money for the time they put in to it, but it also took a large investment and is absolutely a job. That deserves a payoff, just like any other.
> There have been a few (tried Trello and ZenHub), and they've all turned into a mess, so I recently hit the reset button again and am just trying a github project now

In my experience, this is mainly caused by planning in too much detail, too far ahead. And then your plans change and it's a bunch of cl noise you have to clean up or live with.

The only system I've stuck with for my FLO projects is the following:

- One tag (or milestone) named "someday/maybe". This is for things that are reasonable to do (you'd accept patches), but not worth the time/effort for you to implement personally. It exists so you can filter them out without closing.
- One milestone called "next release". Only add issues to this milestone when you've competed them. Note: don't close these issues yet; keeping them open results in more visibility and fewer duplicate bug reports.

When it's time to do a release, rename the "next release" milestone to the version of the release (ex: v2.4.1), close all the associated issues (making sure they're in the changelog as you go), and replace it with a fresh "next release" milestone.

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In the past I also had a "planned" milestone, but it's redundant with someday/maybe; anything open and not assigned to a milestone is planned.

Red Moon has the same order of magnitude of open issues as Buttplug, and not much of a community.

- If there were a larger community, I'd probably write a high-level roadmap, describing my vision and areas where it currently falls short.

- If there were other contributors or significantly more open issues, I'd add a "high priority" tag, limited to ~10 issues at a time, so there's a way to engage with less noise.
I'm not sure this is correct. GH seems to take their time, and get things right. They're product leadership is really top tier compared to the rest of the tools providers who are often quick to release a feature half-baked hoping to iterate. I've rarely seen a GH feature that's not fully polished and "makes sense" on day 1.

They are the Apple of the dev tools space. Less is nearly always more.
The actual law can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2002/58/2009-12-19

Emphasis mine:

However, such devices, for instance so-called ‘cookies’, can be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in analysing the effectiveness of website design and advertising, and in verifying the identity of users engaged in on-line transactions. Where such devices, for instance cookies, are intended for a legitimate purpose, such as to facilitate the provision of information society services, their use should be allowed on condition that users are provided with clear and precise information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC about the purposes of cookies or similar devices so as to ensure that users are made aware of information being placed on the terminal equipment they are using. Users should have the opportunity to refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their terminal equipment. This is particularly important where users other than the original user have access to the terminal equipment and thereby to any data containing privacy-sensitive information stored on such equipment. Information and the right to refuse may be offered once for the use of various devices to be installed on the user's terminal equipment during the same connection and also covering any further use that may be made of those devices during subsequent connections. The methods for giving information, offering a right to refuse or requesting consent should be made as user-friendly as possible. Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose.

Where are you getting that some cookies don't require consent?
> Preference cookies are not allowed to persist without consent.

OK, I am willing to be educated, point me at the place in the regulations this is discussed.

> Not only is your interpretation of the regulations very highly opinionated, but it’s just outright wrong on some points.

s/opinion/interpretation/

> The guidelines also state that even for Strictly Necessary cookies, the site must explain why they are necessary, something your canonical example of a good site fails to do.

You don't need to do this in a cookie popup consent dialog. You are welcome to carry on thinking this if you want to though obviously.
For car users, that is.
When played live, they spell out "KRAFTWERK" instead.
> You make it sound like someone owes you a response.

I didn't interpret the comment that way.

BTW, I'm not saying your interpretation is "not true" or "crazy" or anything like that. I just think it is better to keep this kind of (bad faith) interpretation private. I think it is useful to remember this HN guideline "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." [1]

The benefit, which is not spelled out there, is that if more of us do this, there will be fewer amplifications / chain-reactions of misinterpretations. This results in a more useful discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes that's right, they destroy the houses when landlords have to sell up. And then they remove the land. It's just a void.
We are just getting started in dealing with covid-19 health and economic issues.

There are no quick fixes and we need to hope that almost everyone does the right thing (wearing masks, social distancing, keep shopping at local businesses) because we can’t really get the economy going until almost everyone gets on board.