skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar argument can be made against downloadable audiobooks, but in that case, they're far cheaper than buying CDs.

As an example, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Primary Phase. The CD version is £20 from Amazon, whereas on Amazon Audible it's at most £8. (I'm not counting the £18 listed price on Audible, as one can simply 'subscribe' for £8, buy the audiobook with the token, then immediately unsubscribe. I put 'at most' because their per-book price is lower with a high-volume subscription.)

In this case, I'm ok with the DRM'ed non-physical version, as it's so much cheaper. It's true I can't easily gift the audiobooks or leave them in my will. It's also true that Amazon has the power to lock me out of my library, and if Audible disappears, I probably lose my library.
It's not devoid of ambiguity, because f[A] usually means the image of the set A under f.
Even if you balance the double charging with a chance to get an item for free (or negative price, acting as a credit), humans will still complain when they get double charged and stay silent when they get the bonus. But of course there's rich people who don't even care they were double charged for something like groceries.

Most of these issues aren't about how many 9's of reliability there are, but whether or not some person is accountable. AI is not itself accountable, only the person in charge of it.

Many companies already give gift cards or whatever when a human mistake happens as a form of customer service, and there's not enough compensation around AI error rates to make them palatable.
If you've never watched Engineering Explained, I'd recommend it highly. It's very high-quality content that deeply explains how engines and other components in cars work.

The video was released well before the article, and I believe the article was posted to spread the video more widely.
Ah I was hoping this was going to pithy/comedic.
I am not aware of any mastodon server like that but there are quite a few pleroma servers that accept fake emails.
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The site says "The syntax is based on the darknet framework...".

What are the differences in capabilities? Not sure yet. I'll have to look more into it, but I was hoping somebody here could tell me if they have experience with both.

Why would I use this over darknet and the variations of Yolo - YOLOv3 or YOLOv4?
Thank you! In terms of 'learning to code' -- I'm actually able to build products end-to-end but have the problem that I end up building too quickly, if that makes sense. What do you propose to do from a building/coding perspective here?

I love the idea of reading support tickets/requests. That's such a fantastic idea overall! Starting today, thank you.
It's mostly illegal there, most govts are figuring out what to do next time, as this ship has sailed
I used to collect physical books, but there are so many new and novel stories out there that I don’t reread most of them. So it’s a waste of space to keep 98% of them around anymore. Purging them was cathartic.
I would imagine the upcoming release of the VW ID.3 is going to be a game changer in Europe.

€23.000 ID.3 vs €20.000 ICE Golf in Germany, from what I understand the Golf is one of the best selling cars in Europe. Also I believe many European countries exempt or greatly reduce emissions taxes on EVs, so that difference could probably be made up quickly.
Isn't that what ZenDesk is too?

Yes, pinpoint can do more.. Will update
Nit pick. There is another imprecision lurking in the quoted statement. Epidemics are subject to power laws, making it misleading to take averages over large populations. US mortality rate may be 29.87/100k, but that is an average weighted by population between 50 states with different geographies, demographies and policies, for example NY's 120/100k vs. CA's 10/100k.
Why? They could have simply named them with AWS Serverless, or AWS Compute, or whatever.

Using these brand names might make it easier to evolve them later, or they really wanted nice sounding names because eventually you'd have to write out long phrases with the AWS prefix, and that's probably harder to market.
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The US has a spectrum of responses. San Francisco and the entire state of California shut down early and hard and therefore is doing pretty well both in absolute cases and per capita.

New York shut down much later and actually sent covid-19 positive patients to nursing homes and New York City kept the subway open throughout, so they represent roughly 25-33% of the US's cases and deaths on its own. If you add adjacent states (New Jersey and Pennsylvania), it gets over 50%.

Iowa never had to shut down because people aren't on top of each other.

Dig into the reports and media that you're reading and watching and pay attention to how many are about New York versus everywhere else.. NY goofed.
It's explicitly indicated on the info page for some applicable Amazon Kindle books that it has no DRM due to publisher/author request - e.g. [1]

I do not believe that is universally true.

(FWIW... I found a lot of SciFi authors request no DRM, as it supports their personal beliefs and values, but that's a personal observation rather than objective survey of the field)

1: https://www.amazon.com/John-Scalzi-ebook/dp/B000SEIK2S
If you unroll/expand description you'll see the quote
Thanks so much! Have you seen any good examples of personas that have been published publicly? Would love to know what you consider ideal here.

Adding everything else to my TODO list. :)
It's not just the tech, it's the lack of infrastructure, especially rural infrastructure. It'll be more than 10 years.
Postgres on GCP is best, def not a network filesystem
This is a 100 x better than their website. I've actively walked away from Amazon products because I could barely make out what it really was and if I could use it for the application at hand. Many thanks!
Machine learning requires a large high-quality dataset, which a lot of companies simply don't have.
Building one takes a lot of time and money. The gains don't outweigh the costs in many cases.

Another problem is that machine learning models are never a 100% correct and not easily interpretable, so they cannot be used for some critical processes.
Good luck with explaining a customer why his account blocked due to a false positive made be the AI.

I think there is still a lot of potential for boring symbolic AI, in a lot of domains you can get results quickly, reliably and if the AI is wrong it's easy to debug.
Tried both. Proton let's you donate as an alternative, but only with a card. I haven't tried cash visa/mastercard giftcards with it.

It's a recent thing they're doing. I routinely create at least half a dozen free email addresses a year, phone number did not use to be an issue. They've locked down pretty tight.
Thats true that such approach also exists.

But it doesn't work well in Go by several reasons.

For example, you usually define interface not in the package where its implemented, but where its needed. Thus you must provide such wrappers in every place where some (subset) of the `Client`'s methods are used.

Another reason is that such thing rejects an ability to use your struct as is, without interfaces (and thus sometimes without heap allocation for your struct).

And, finally, if you want to adopt such approach in proprietary/internal software, where interfaces usually change more often than in libraries, you will change code in N places instead of 1 (in best case); where N is number of instrumentation methods you want to provide "as feature".
Yes, I have been following darknet for a while now. I haven't tried YOLOv4 yet. Any comments on what SOD brings to the table in comparison to darknet?
Lines are infinite, so you can pick two points on any line with a nonzero slope where the second point is exponentially higher than the first. That doesn’t mean the line is an exponential. Both of these views only look at the magnitudes of the two points with respect to one another and not the trend of the growth of the curve from which they were sampled.
Also a fantastic way to represent this. The assumption in fractional arithmetic is that you're always performing arithmetic on things with the same type/unit.

The two formulas on the board are essentially:

1/3x + 1/3y = 2/6z

1/3x + 1/3x = 2/3x

Both are correct, but without units labeled you wouldn't know that.
> Most open source C++ projects are libraries that are meant to be integrated into other applications. Plywood is the opposite of that: It gives you a workspace into which source code and libraries can be integrated. A single Plywood workspace can contain several applications – a webserver, a game engine, a command-line tool. Plywood simplifies the task of building and sharing code between them.

I think this works as a good overview.
Yea in many cases anti spam isn’t censorship.

But in a few very nefarious cases, censorship is framed as anti-spam, or anti-hate, etc.

Google is on the frontlines of this. They banned InfoWars for example, any other “hateful” sites. They regularly change rankings for the sake of clearing spam, but almost always nerf a few legit sites that then are screwed under the weight of the machine.

Just because they do legit anti-spam doesn’t mean the also don’t do a variety of pretty evil things. Their search results are very liberal leaning, for example. Is that “censorship”? If you think the truth is liberal you may not agree, so it’s easy to see how people can justify almost any censorship as legit (oh it’s just spam/the truth/hate).

To me, Google is the most dangerous company in the world, with a proven track record of bias and a lack of taste.
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Storing them is less of an issue than moving them. You’ll get a good workout on the other hand.
Here's mine: Jekyll blog with no js. Git push to my home server [1]. It runs in a docker container with a watch. The simplicity means adding a tor proxy in front was as easy as running another container.

[1] https://goel.io/blog-2020
Plenty. Are you asking me to google it for you?
While it's not DRM free... DeDRM [0] can be run stand alone or as a plug-in to Calibre. I have it auto run when I import a new book to my collection. From there you can do what you like with it.

[0]: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools
Members of the public are expected to meet one standard. There are additional -higher- standards placed upon people in public office.

I don't understand how a law that applies to a certain class of people, but not everybody, is not treating that certain class of people differently.

The law creates the higher standard. Behaviour that's perfectly legal for most people becomes illegal for people in public office because we expect higher standards from those people and we expect these higher standards so strongly we created a law to enforce it.
I don’t disagree with you but I see that as an aside. Millions of people don’t need 2.5 ton SUVs to cart themselves to and from the shops. Yes ok BEV will do it better but we have had scales for longer than we’d had batteries
Even though a lot of engineers want to raise VC (or work for companies that have) the incentives are weird and it can influence your work/job in ways you might not expect.

When you take VC, you're given millions of dollars to build something huge, but it's also a Faustian bargain because you're limiting your range of outcomes.

You might grow a nice, profitable business, but if you can't 100x (or 1000x) their investment, your investors will be unhappy.

shameless self-plug: I just interviewed Sumukh Sridhara (AngelList Engineer, @vcstarterkit on Twitter) about VC from a programmers perspective on our podcast [1] and he's really, really good. If you're a dev looking to learn more about this, give it a listen.

[1]: https://podcast.newline.co/episodes/a-software-engineers-gui...
Related: Fermi's report on estimating yield by dropping small pieces of paper during a nuclear blast and measuring their displacement.

http://www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html
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Well if you don't know what marketing is, I guess that any concept out of ignorance suits it, right?

The same as someone saying that a web developer just copy and pastes code, or that a graphic designer just make squiggles in illustrator, and the list goes on.

I recommend you start by here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing
I agree that demos like this are a wonder of "real skill". But it's bizarre to assert it's the only place it's possible. Yes, most software development is boring business stuff built on unstable towers of boring frameworks and infrastructure.

But there's plenty of room for art in your code. Either straight out art like this; generative computer art is a very exciting aesthetic area. Or just building elegant systems. There's no reason a network caching layer or a machine learning library can't be beautiful and skillful the same way a demo is. (The one exception is terseness; the tricks necessary to shoehorn a beautiful demo into 4k often make code unmaintainable.)

Aesthetics matter.
Reposting my comment from my own submission:

This is a reported issue[0] since last year, but is now apparently going viral [1]. 五毛 translates as "50 cent party", the somewhat well-known CCP astroturfing division.

According to the comments in [1], another apparently banned phrase is "gongfei" ( 共匪 ) , which supposedly translates as "communist bandit".

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/17821466?hl=en
[1]https://imgur.com/gallery/KQPcEkB
I suspect what has changed is that such "alt-right-adjacent nerds" are increasingly seen as credible threats.

Nobody paid much attention to what that guy on gab was saying to like-minded folk on gab... Until he grabbed a gun and massacred everyone in a religious building.

When the threat evaluation models aren't trusted, the spread on evaluation of "credible threat" increases.
While this does seem interesting (minus all the issues with PGP-encypted email), I did find this odd claim about PFS[1]:

> No, OpenPGP doesn’t support Perfect Forward Secrecy. Perfect Forward Secrecy works session-oriented, but E-Mail is asynchronous by nature and often used from multiple devices independently.

Yes, OpenPGP doesn't support PFS. But it's untrue that you need a session-based protocol to use PFS. The Signal protocol (and entire Noise family of protocols including things like WireGuard) beg to disagree.

No, the reason OpenPGP doesn't support PFS is that the design is fundamentally based around long-term keys -- even with separate short-lived subkeys you couldn't practially emulate PFS with PGP.

[1]: https://delta.chat/en/help#does-delta-chat-support-perfect-f...
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I don’t think virus can replicate on cloth? They can’t replicate independent from their host, right?
I have been an AI practitioner since the 1980s, sort of a fan! That said, I like this article on several levels most particularly for calling out possible AI products for business.

I lived through the first AI winter. As effective as deep learning can be, problems like model drift, lack of explainability, and getting government regulators to sign off on financial, medical, etc. models are very real problems.

Two years ago I was at the US Go Open and during a social break I was talking to a lawyer for the Justice Department and he was telling me how concerned they were about the legal problems of black box models.
Diesel engines are based off a south Pacific people's invention who used a bamboo tube with piston to ignite a sliver of wood. Rudolph used it as inspiration for his engine design.

He also intended the fuel for it to be peanut oil or canola oil a crop farmers could grow for their tractors.

Glow plugs are still here sort of although now a heating grid. My diesel truck has it to pre-heat the air to make starting easier.
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Imagine writing software instead of doing everything by hand! That software could just break one day!
This post will be heavily downvoted because you're being a tool. Scant and inconclusive evidence is perfectly sufficient to justify a low-cost, low-risk intervention which might mitigate a global pandemic. Should we demand a RCT for "wash your hands" too?
I took envelope to mean the operating conditions under which the control system is stable. For many control systems this isn't really a confidence interval except insofar as the parameters of the control system are imperfectly known.

For as long as I can remember, AI has been a synonym for "hard CS problem" or even just "hard math problem." It has more use as a marketing term than as a technical term with precise meaning.
It can be downloaded/accessed on all devices, but it gets explicitly pushed to the ones you select. These can be any registered device - kindle or fire but also phones or tablets.
> Task Manager will load in reduced mode if resources are short, like only loading the Processes page if that's what's needed to get going. It's one of the very few apps that won't just "fail and bail" when things go wrong.

Nice example of how to degrade gracefully instead of simply crashing the process. These days most programs seem to assume memory allocation never fails. Some GNU libraries kill the process in those cases!
I had, but it is for unixes, and I am primarily on Windows. I have a Linux box, WSL2, and an iMac, but all of my paying work is on Windows. I like them all, and I like Janet a lot!
Amdahl's Law does a nice job of expressing this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
I'm sure that US, Chinese, Israeli spies would steal that kind of tech, so it would be used by many countries and eventually leaked one way or another.
> The LP and GP parts feel a little wonky though

I think the distinctions the author tries to use are generally wonky, but otherwise, I think you are trying to take the pedantic legal view of the entities. Semantics here are important.

> Same for GP - generally just a legal shell.

Legally sure. In fact you might find all sorts of legal structures about how GPs and LPs operate ("Fund I LLC", etc). Colloquially, however, GP means "the party who actually run the fund day to day" and LP means "party who puts money into a specific fund".
Consider donating them to the Internet Archive OpenLibrary if they don't have them in their catalog. It's very inexpensive to mail if you use USPS' media mail class of mail. I just sent a 13x13x16 box weighing ~10lbs to them for ~$8.

https://openlibrary.org/bookdrive
I see that now. Interestingly, no deaths in the USA though worldwide the rate was ~10%.

To me, spreading to 29 states then disappearing seems more like dying off than containment. In fact, it seems more like "uncontrolled spread" followed by a lowered R-factor in the summer. Which is what the doctors in my daughter's medical school initially suggested would happen to Corona-virus, "just like SARS". Unfortunately this one has a much higher R-factor.
I'm quite surprised by the negativity here. If I was commissioned to make a custom blog site for someone, I would probably go down this route, and use a headless CMS to make it easier for others to generate content. But using plain markdown is not a bad choice if you can't be bothered with, or can't afford a server.

With the stack described as I understand it, the front-end flexibility is preferable to what the likes of what WordPress will give you, and the stack will allow a developer to decouple the CMS backend from whatever plans he or she has for the frontend.

I suppose one can complain about React all they like. I'm not the biggest fan of React, but component based rendering has it's advantages, so I can't see the issue with that choice.

The only thing I don't like, is 'JS all the way down'...
Not because I hate the language (I think the language is fine, and TypeScript is overrated). But just because I'm still not quite sure what the effect on SEO and accessibility might be, when developers go 'full JS'.
Apple is sh*t at stifling competition, they have less than 20% of the world smart phone market and a half dozen major competitors.

Google stifles competition by using their incredible ad revenue engine to fund products like Android and then giving them away for what amounts to "future consideration", effectively destroying the non-apple OS market as well as other markets.
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> But that is not really "treating the DUID as opaque", is it?

Yes it is. Nowhere in this process do I need to take an existing DUID and treat it as anything other than an arbitrary sequence of bytes to be compared to another arbitrary sequence of bytes.

> Also, there is still the problem of forcing devices into DUID-LL mode which is neither the default nor common.

So maybe your use-case simply isn't common, perhaps because there are numerous ways to solve it that don't involve relying on ideal behavior in both DHCP v4 and v6 servers and clients. Take RFC 6939 for example, or just plain hostname based name assignments.
For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.

I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.
No, as mentioned in the FAQ[1]. Though to be fair, this is because of the design of OpenPGP (it's almost anti-PFS by design).

[1]: https://delta.chat/en/help#does-delta-chat-support-perfect-f...
Simple. The goal is to get rid of trash. This accomplishes the goal but others ways accomplish the same goal at much lower expense.
Great stuff from the golden years of the 'net. Archived websites like this show what it was, before it became infected with consumers.
The superficial bashing by foreign journalists of the Swedish strategy will become a case-study in confirmation bias. It's remarkable how eager a large variety of people are to justify their own policies by sloppy and superficial conclusions like for example deaths per capita, like lockdown or not is the only single variable that goes into that.
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True, but there are billions of dollars at stake to make you addicted to social media sites, games, etc.
Take an example from the python founder. He directly said during a talk that he will not mentor any males, with the implied goal of furthering inclusivity.

In my views, refusing to help people because of their gender is maliciously. Making decision about the worthiness of helping a young individual should not be about their gender. Call it a principle.

From reading about the science of discrimination and In-group and out-group thinking, there exist some key finding of human behavior and rationalization. "Us" are individuals and "them" are a homogenic group, and if you treat people like individuals you are automatically treating them as a part of "us". When someone of "us" do something wrong, it is about individual faults and circumstances. When someone of "them" do something wrong, it is a inherent trait of the group and fundamental aspect their kind.

The attack vector can only exist when a set of people are treated as a homogenic group rather than individuals. Inclusivity initiatives should in theory never do this, but defining people as a homogenic group is sadly what most of them end up doing. Maybe it because it easy and quick, or because it makes for good signaling to the in-group. The result is usually the same with the out-group feeling abused and attacked, especially for individuals who been moved from being in-group to out-group and now instinctual feel more vulnerable to attacks.