skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assign the copyright to the victim. Then they can make a copyright claim.

Are you really saying that the way to deal with depictions of child-abuse is by assigning copyright to the victim and then asking the victim to deal with it judicially?

This kind of process is onerous even for regular people in non-dire situations, let alone for children who have just been a victim of sexual abuse. By asking from action coming from the child, you are advocating something that is effectively forcing them to re-live the abuse.

Imagine being rescued by the police or some other group, and then having to independently deal with lawyers in the fallout of the case just to get justice done. This is why we have prosecutors and laws for.

On top of that, it doesn't even make sense from a copyright perspective.

Not to mention how problematic copyright is in itself, and how nonsensical your suggestion is, since copyright can and is used as a much more powerful weapon for censorship, when used against criticism for example.

The current system is much better than this. Not having someone yell "fire" and cause harm, or to have propagation of child-abuse dealt without doing more harm to the child are WAY more important than having absolute freedom of harming others (or, as you call it, freedom from censorship).

To quote Joseph Welch, "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Facial Recognition’s Next Big Play: The Sports Stadium
Looking at it per population is kind of ridiculous when it's very obviously corporations and manufacturing responsible for most green house gasses. The average person barely makes a difference both in regards to pollution, resource consumption and plastics.
Content doesn’t need to be overtly “pro China” to influence individuals towards goals ultimately desirable by the PRC. Information operations can have a variety of goals are a designed to be unnoticeable, unless otherwise intended to be visible (e.g., making it apparent to GRU cyber actors that we had access to their systems during the mid-term elections).

Edit: Here’s a link to the mid-terms operation by US Cyber Com: https://sofrep.com/news/cyber-warfare-us-cyber-command-strik...
> I don't think "add another layer of abstraction to hide the complexity" is often a good solution

I wholeheartedly agree here.

> Docker brings it's own problems too

This is a rather complex statement to reply to. Even thought you might be right, I don't think this applies totally to what is being discussed here.

The biggest issue I have with people advising for or against a certain tool, is that they do that from the point of view of the tool, instead of looking at fit from the problem you are trying to solve. that in your case, would be:

> I have years of experience with messing around with all of the relevant parts of Windows, Mac, and Linux and it never Just Works

As long as you manage to install Docker in all those 3 systems (I have no experience with Mac because I don't use it) both for Windows and Linux installing Docker is a no brainer.

There's a slight curve when it comes to fetching the right image and running it, but your problem is not that one; your problem is teaching Python. So you can take care of that yourself, and focus on the teaching part.

Supposing that you managed to install Docker, fetch a python image and running it (Something that is a lot more easy to do than it sounds), you have python, whatever version you want, and in an isolated way.

For me... it just works.
Rant ahead : the color PocketBook looks nice, but I'll be harsh: their website is atrocious. There is a loading animation that takes seconds to run every time you click anywhere. You can't easily find any relevant information. The "where to buy" page simply doesn't work at all and display no stores, even in Switzerland, their home country. It seems impossible to discover the price of the products, too.

This is one of the worst site I've visited in years, really. It's plain terrible, obviously the nice look and animations were used to sell the website to clueless executive that never browsed the website, it's painful to watch such a train wreck. This site is a sure way to lose potential customers forever.

Regarding ebooks, I have a strict policy of buying only ebooks without DRM. That strictly limits what I can buy, but I'm adamant (some SF, and that's about it). DRM is evil and must die. So I can't use either Kindle hardware nor app. Plus I religiously use only opensource/free software whenever possible.
Whether a system "just works" or it requires finagling is or should be an orthogonal discussion to whether it respects you as a user.

Its reasonable to ask for both.
I give 500mg per day. My two dogs are 55 and 65 lbs.
The amazon product number I use is: B00V45IQF6. They have dosage info on the label for different sized dogs.
>The economic stress of being a landlord, and the bank potentially repossessing your extra houses you don't even live in, doesn't compare to stress of BEING HOMELESS.

That's not true as a universal. Tenants have flexibility of moving to another locations, moving in with friends or family, or making alternate arrangements. On the other hand, foreclosure and repossession would mean the erasure of a family's life savings.

So yes, it does compare, and in many cases it is worse.

By the way, chronic homelessness is not an economic problem. It is equal parts mental illness/drug addiction and polices pushed by activists to prevent providing institutional care to those individuals. Economic homelessness, on the other hand, though it is terrible and happens, it is a transitional state and existing government welfare programs mitigate.

>If you were a landlord and couldn't save enough in the 12 years between 2008 and 2020 ...

This is obscene statement. You have no qualms creating hypothetical fiction in order to extend irrational levels of empathy towards your fictional situations, but you have zero left towards a real group who could be really struggling. And no, landlords are not your Dickensian style villains. They could be working class people who saved their entire lives to purchase another property, or they may be renting out their own house ... and you look at them with disdain. Ugly, through and through.
I read something about naval engagements with soviet ships. The US ships were trying to find something underwater before the soviets did while at the same time not alerting the soviet ships as to the location of what they were trying to find. It became clear they were both looking for one of these film canisters that maybe they weren't able to retrieve in mid-air. People today can't imagine the stakes during the cold war.
> doubt azure or AWS are going to go down with a probability that should worry any business

Were you asleep when S3 East failed to the point that half of the internet was offline or did you just not get a notification?

https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/

> The only danger with cloud providers is that if your engineering team is not exactly smart you can rack up a million dollar bill for a dog walking app

The public cloud has never been recession tested and these next few years may be the only way to do it. The model works as long as there are people willing to pay for Amazon and Azure will raise prices if the base load drops below a certain point.
>This openess makes it easier for researchers to develop new ideas for wireless networks

Could it be used as part of the stack to create city wide non-cellular wireless network for Internet[1], Are there any such current projects anywhere?

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/51-non-cellular-network-mobile-...
The consciousness procedure also has links out to the other procedures. It calls them with inputs based on what they send it. It' a co-recursive system.
Only to the degree that attackers can't figure out a way around them (given months of planning with access to internal systems & documentation).

For instance: I have backups going to an append-only s3 bucket in a separate AWS account, but I don't have monitoring in place to ensure that bucket hasn't been wiped. An email would get generated, but it'd go to the root account holder, who may not notice in time.
I like how easy it is to write a new GPU kernel function.

I have never done any GPU kernel programming but I might give this a try.

I wonder if TensorFlow.js is implemented in much the same way. TensorFlow.js is fairly much awesome, largely because the examples are so well done, getting up to speed is painless.
I can only suggest you to spend some time on thedailywtf.com ... it can be frustating as much as hilarious
The Vanguard ownership and revenue structure is very weird and the subject of multiple IRS and SEC private rulings. It’s not a mutualized organization like a mutual insurance company.

Each mutual fund is a separate corporation and contracts with a management company. This is standard across the industry. The Vanguard “twist” is that all Vanguard funds contract with the same central management company. Each fund also owns a share of this company. The management company charges the funds for its services at cost. This has been the subject of at least one lawsuit, alleging that Vanguard is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by not charging funds for management services at an arms length level.
Now with beta end-to-end encryption!
Show HN: Traindown Transponder – Simply record your training data
No, I think he really tried his best, working more than 55 hours / week towards the end. He had been an architect for more than 10 years in a large corp, and joined this small company I joined too.

I think the expectations, lack of coding practice for a few years, architecture jargon that made him seem like an expert was a recipe for disaster. Not completely his fault.
Agreed, just go buy Genki 1 and 2, sign up for wanikani for kanji ($10/mo).

Then spend the remainder of that $50 the months after that on hellotalk or italki sessions with a native speakers. You can find highly rated japanese speakers (including professional teachers) for $10-$25 an hour and it's one on one training. That's what I would do if I wasn't taking in person classes.
I think you are missing the point. There are many many goals that support the PRC’s strategic goals/interests other than persuading people to be pro-China. If you ever get a chance, look up some of the publicly available US military doctrine on information operations and what the possible uses of it are.

Here’s one to start with: https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp3_1...
You seem unable to imagine yourself in anyone else's position. You hypothesize that Russia will always meekly back down, yet you can't envision a situation in which USA would even compromise. Even worse, your repeated insistence on USA being militarily "vastly superior" shows that you're completely trapped in the mythology and unable to imagine yourself in the your own actual position. USA doesn't win wars. We haven't won a war in my parents' lifetimes. What our military exists to do is spend money. That's why it always "wins" the yearly how-much-money-did-you-waste-on-weaponry competition: no one else is competing! In Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya, in Syria, we have seen that regardless of the marketing, when USA attacks it does so without hope of obtaining any of its stated or unstated objectives. It's always just a bonfire of money and human lives.
How do people like this get hired for a programming job in the first place?
You should try to remember the political scenario at the time. The Snowden leaks had generated an immense discomfort in Brazilian government regarding the fact that US based companies could just wiretap Brazilian communications. WhatsApp didn't have a subsidiary at Brazil, and Facebook Brazil used to say they didn't respond for WhatsApp matters. Since Brazilian justice didn't manage to get WhatsApp to answer subpoenas even for extremely low-profile cases, they tried to force their hand on them. The blocks were clearly a demonstration of force, trying to get companies providing services to Brazilians to obey Brazilian law at least to some extent.
"Don't prohibit speech. That's it. Repugnance is part of life. If you suppress speech, you only push it underground. Light is the best disinfectant."

Speech is not Light

In fact, it's usually the opposite.

Most speech is just crude opinion, and the most popular speech has nothing to do with facts.

The 'free speech' arguments are all very academic - yes, of course' freedom of thought' is important.

But the 'real dimension' is not about political conscience, or the realm of ideas.

99% of people live and breathe on 'main street' not 'intellectual street' (including most of us during our daily lives) and it's not about 'ideas' it's just about bullying, sex and harassment.

Unfettered, every anonymous group becomes dick and boob picks, at minimum.

Do you know how the Rwandan genocide was inflamed? Talk radio. The hosts with large audience would, on a daily basis talk about how the Tutsi/Hutus were 'cockroaches' and 'subhuman' and deserved to die. The level of raw hate was on another level altogether.

Then as little confrontational incidents heated up, someone flipped the switch and the radio started calling everyone to 'get out their machetes and kill the cockroaches' and so it ensued.

This was mostly not a 'war' of 'soldiers and guns' - it was like a zombie uprising, people coming out of their homes with machetes and hacking up their neighbours.

I am not advocating for restrictions on civil opinions etc. - in any reasonable situation, people ought to speak their mind, particularly in academia, in the press etc..

But 'in the commons' (even in so called advanced countries) - things could get out of hand very quickly.

What we've witnessed over the last few years with false information about vaccines, a lot of Trump tweets, QAnon, a lot of false information about protests in every direction - is just barely scratching the surface of how bad it could get.

People will believe all sorts of crazy things and the 'angrier
'it is, the easier it is to get them to believe it.

Even in the US there is a small, but still very significant part of the population that would believe almost anything that Obama or Trump tweeted. If Trump decided to tell his base that 'the 2020 elections were rigged, the Army tried a coup, and you need to storm DC with your guns' there would be people who would do it, for example. Left unfettered, some really bad things could propagate, and the most popular voices would wield incredible power.

'Peace is Hard' Obama I think said, he was talking about geopolitical things, but in the commons it's just the same.

People should be able to discuss ideas freely, we need to protect that, but most people are not interested in that.

Consider what happens when the 'fake news' thing truly takes hold, and almost everything people read is completely fabricated. 'The Clintons leave a trail of Murder' - 'Trump secretly financed Putin's rise to power' etc..

It's a legit problem.
They’re probably going to have to change their name to something that does not have “git” in it: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
I meant “not (tried and succeeded).” English is great.
Daz3D exists. That has models of all ages for character rendering. Third parties have add-ons for models. This is a thing and has been for ages. Poser is another character rendering program.
> no fear of covidiots and karens putting their convenience over everyone's health after the first one or two Karens making a fuzz about masks got deported or remanded to get the mental care they needed

As someone else who is in Singapore right now: the situation is better than in most other countries — there is a $300 fine for flagrant disregard of the mask-wearing law, and larger businesses are required to have someone stand at the entrance to check if people are wearing masks, and to make them sign into the SafeEntry contract tracing system.

But mask-abhorring covidiots still exist. Their excuses tend to be that they're either eating/drinking while on the go, exercising, or smoking cigarettes.
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This is genocide happening in real time. Systematic reduction and elimination of a people and culture. Technology can really be a Pandora’s box of sorts.
There is a step between peer to peer and centralized, and that is federated. For most services, that should be the sweet spot.
Elon Musk Shares the Significant Contribution of China Tesla in Beating Toyota
What hardware do you use to connect the two?
Slide rules to calculators was an incredibly fast technology transition for the sort of people who would have been using slide rules in the first place.

A 5-function calculator was about $100 in 1974 (so about $350 in current dollars) and an HP scientific calculator was 3 or 4x as much. By about the next year, a TI scientific calculator was about the same and by a year or two later you could get an HP--which was the gold standard for about the same amount.

And that was around the price point where making them not just OK to use but mandatory was reasonable at least in higher ed. I was one of the first classes in college where calculators were the norm and slide rules were maybe something you brought for backup at exams. (Calculators were still LEDs so you had to keep them charged.)
Reading is so much easier than speaking for me. Grammatically it's so different, and there is so much conjugation that I am very, very slow to put sentences together when speaking. But reading or understanding spoken japanese? No problem, instantly get it, no translation to english required in my head.
The “E6B Flight Computer” is a slide rule designed to perform various navigation calculations and is still a part of flight training for many pilots today. Once mastering it the old way student pilots are then allowed to use electronic versions or iPad apps that do all the calculations instantly.
What does the server do that the callers can't? Compress video?
Poor man's async await in TypeScript using generators
There is weeks / months of volume well above the current price. No one is “storing value” in Bitcoin. They are speculating, hoping the value goes up enough to unload on the next sucker. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at your comment history, and see you’re a shill for garbage investments.
Aren't short-term treasuries more at 0.2% right now? Looking at yield to maturity here: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/VFISX
As a user it's a pain. I might not want to sign in with my email on the phone or computer that I am trying to use some unrelated service on.
Evolution of SoundCloud’s Architecture(2012)
Where do you get classes for $50/month. I have several friends who are going to Japanese language school in Japan and cheapest is $500/month. Even on iTalk, $50 might only get you 2-3 classes
I dunno, man. I'm pretty well-versed in math and I find this page kind of baffling. I'm sure it's one of those things that is very easy to use once you learn it, but at least this introduction is very daunting. To do a basic multiplication (step 1 in the linked page) I need to use the C and D scales, each for two different purposes. Why not A and B? How do I remember it's C and D? Which part goes on C and which part goes on D? Then step 2 describes what to do if it goes off the edge of the scale, and it involves making an approximation. How do I know how accurate my approximation must be? Why is it to the tens digit? If I get larger numbers do I continue to use the tens digit, or some higher factor? We're only on step 2 and I'm already lost.

This definitely looks like a great tool, and I'm kind of sad I don't have one or understand how it works, but this kind of complex learning and memorization up against dropping a needle on a record you like isn't really a great comparison.
Morris's Algorithm for Approximate Counting
Non-pornographic situations are complicated.

The incident with YouTube was a sign that some people are a little disconnected from society. They went around random videos uploaded by children posting flirtatious comments and highlighting timestamps of them in compromising positions.

You could argue them viewing the videos alone was immoral. But their conduct was just atrocious. I don't know how it got into their heads that something like that is acceptable. I really hope we could teach them a thing or two about common sense, regardless of whether viewing images is moral or immoral.

Training models is complicated. Whoever it is is going to want to have the rights to their likeness. This would be after they are of age. In theory, you may be able to teach an AI with many images how to produce a generic person.

They will never find out is a bad mindset. It is true in many cases they won't find out and they may be better off not knowing what someone is doing. But when and if they find out, it will happen in the worst possible way at the worst possible time and it will blow up really badly.
$50 a month?!?! There’s a lot of ways to use that money. Perhaps a used textbook (Genki is popular) and then Netflix + a VPN. US Netflix accounts work in Japan with native / local content.

I wish there was a good way to get JP TV stateside. Had a SlingBox but it didn’t work out so well.
I've made plenty of friends and even met some from playing video games. Depending on the game you also learn a lot about working in/with a team.
Social media platforms are tools of information warfare and propaganda. This is what advertising is to begin with, and outside of that obvious function most of these platforms are further optimized to drive engagement by presenting misinformation.

The idea of politicians discriminating against the ones they don't like is repugnant, but these platforms already are already used to control public opinion in ways that are against the public interest, and it's certainly reasonable to suspect that a platform such as TikTok (which is controlled by a competing empire) might be used to that empire's advantage.
I've been developing Peer Calls since 2016. It's an open source WebRTC group conferencing solution, doesn't require a user account, has a full-mesh P2P and SFU mode (streaming through central server). Works on Android, iOS, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, latest Edge and there is no app - only a link that you need to share: https://peercalls.com/
Every face on YouTube
This looks great, do you have any other similar lectures bookmarked?
> what if equality of opportunity STARTS with mildly rebalancing equality of outcome?

What if it doesn't? Then you're sowing aninmosity by unjustly favoring some people over others, spend billions of dollars, throw back humanity's progress by not chosing the best person for the job etc, all for nothing.

Before you start, you better be damn sure that you're 100% right. The recent examples with the gender pay gap all but vanishing when you calculate it scientifically do not bode well for these kinds of ideologies even getting the fundamental data right - hard to believe they'll get the therapy right if they fail on that stage already.
One could also make a similar argument about wasting time on podcasts and youtube videos, giving the illusion of gaining wisdom and experience.

I think there is a point to made about dopamine addiction and the businesses that knowingly or not prey on those attributes of human nature, but I don't think this article nor Mr. Rogan's podcast is giving any interesting or useful insight.

Oh well, back to my crosswords!

edit: I also wanted to mention Tobi Lütke (Shopify) who firmly believes in the value of lessons that can learned through gaming:

"It's insanely hard to become a pro in Starcraft, significantly harder than it is to get a degree. So I feel like this should be highly valuable on a CV. My offer to bring in ex pro players is more general than my offer to select for an internship,"

From: https://www.businessinsider.com/retired-gamer-offered-intern...

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dl3o2p/billionai...