skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I wanted to publish video independent of YouTube I would probably use this AWS service

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

The document makes it look much harder than it really is. It really should be a matter of "upload video to S3" and then "run a script" and a while later it is loaded in the CDN and good to go.

The deal breaker for most people would be the cost, something like 0.10 per GB downloaded, with reasonable quality that would be $0.10 for an hour of video.

If YouTube didn't exist it would be an easy sell: compare that to cable where a person with a serious TV habit might watch 200 hours of TV a month and pay $80, that is 40 cents per hour including both the content and the distribution network.

It would be a weekend project to make a web site that ordinary people could upload video that would pipe it through that script into the Cloudfront CDN.

If it were to turn into a hit you would run into two problems: (1) costs for bandwidth, storage and compute and (2) illegal and otherwise troublesome content.

The AMZN price is a sustainable price, they are making a healthy profit, they aren't going to be in a hurry to discontinue the service. (Use "unlimited" bandwidth at a cheap web host and you might get a call where they explain that it as "unlimited" as an "unlimited" cell phone plan.)

You could pay less but you will be spending your time, spending money up front, etc.

You are now dealing with problem (2). That includes: pirate content, beheading videos, incitement to violence, slander, fraud, privacy violations, "fake news", child pornography, other pornography, innocent people accused of posting videos of the above sorts, etc.

Google has lawyers who have gotten a favorable deal with the content industry. That's the easy part. If you go about it with any sense of "justice" or "fairness" the content moderation job can destroy your mental health through this mechanism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_injury

You either take a "delete them all and let [God] sort them out attitude" or you pay somebody else to do it.
Yes, this is Justin Wilson's gumbo recipe. I can't speak for it's authenticity to Cajun ways, but it was easy to make and good to eat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK4umRMJlrs
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Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019
400€ / year is very doable! That bodes well for France's future bootstrapped entrepreneurs.
Technically yes, also VB.net . Reminds me that old joke that any language can run on .Net runtime (a.k.a. CLR) as long as that language is C#. Somehow VB.net is kind of C# with VB syntax and some corners cut that they could not fit.
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They design for an audience that, on average, cannot distinguish betweeen the address bar of the browser and the search bar on the Google homepage.
Not only that, Android IPC builds on top of Xerox PARC ideas.

Although it is very underutilized, you can compose Android applications (Activities) as Lego pieces, with each one doing just one thing right.
> They don't seem to answer "why is Christianity the source of meaning", but rather "why choose Christianity as religion"

That's right. The original question was:

> Why would some point of existence or meaning lead specifically to Christianity?

If you want to know "why is Christianity the source of meaning" that's an easier question to answer: it's because the omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent Creator of the Universe loves you, and will give you everlasting life in paradise conditioned only on your acceptance of His sacrifice on the cross. Or something like that.
I basically only learned how to touch type by playing Achaea. Gotta type fast if you haven't figured out how to make single-character aliases for 'sip health' and 'jab goblin'!
> As our homes turn into offices, where do you draw the line? It's common to cover internet and electricity, but possibly you might also want to cover part of the rent or a fixed desk in the office?

It's common to pay for internet and electricity? I've heard of covering cell phones and things for people who legitimately are on the phone (sales/biz dev), but not down to electricity bills and rent.
So because Google thinks I am too stupid to handle a separate URL box and search box, and they are so much smarter than me that they can write a simple if-else to discern what I want with a few bullshit DNS queries, I’m stuck with a browser that leaks information and fails to do what I want several times a day until I learn to work around this behavior. And the proposed solution is for me, dumb dumb user that I am, to run my own resolver with DNSSEC validation and NSEC caching?

I am getting close to moving to a hut in the woods and forgetting all about the internet.
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Depends on the business.

For a bootstrapping startup, yeah, day 1. It has to be. Otherwise you don't eat.

For an Enterprise business with 6 or 7 figure revenues, a lot longer. Possibly decades. If it gets political, never ;)
Wouldn't that be an argument for remote controlled fighter aircrafts?
Wow! Those pieces are brilliant. I want a few to put on my wall in my home. Would definitely like to see those bring a room together.
Its raison d'entre is to leak stuff to Google. While that's a problem, and probably a worse one, it's not the same problem as leaking stuff to a ISP.
Cooking for yourself exclusively is a challenging but good start, as you will know exactly what went into it.

"top 10" might be the big 8 allergens plus celiac and the concepts of fodmap and glycemic index & load.
I am as skeptical about uber as anyone, but didn't they do this already in california?

Riders can choose their own rates, which leads to users being offered a "closer but more expensive" option. They also got rid of the decline penalty iirc.

https://www.uber.com/blog/california/set-your-fares/
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Uber-makes-majo...
What a clever dual market strategy. Consumer PC games as failed fighter pilot software. Capitalism is incredible.
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Both questions are related and the answer is "it really depends." Small business cyber insurance can be a few thousand dollars a year. I'm sure you can get a better rate (and at some scale it probably becomes almost required) to have pen tests and third-party audits and formal certifications.
The site is not opening for me. I have tried several times. Is anyone experiencing such?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222661
Haha the non-engineers at my place don’t care at all about code quality.

The non-engineers also decided to write their own internal tool, with no review and zero attention to quality. It’s been outputting wrong results that will cost them a few million at least.
Attribution probably gets into some classified tradecraft most of the time.
In this test the AI pilots were given perfect state information. No doubt they will introduce a fog of war at some point, complicating the AI’s job considerably.
Not necessarily. You could probably infer it from a MySQL client in the malware itself and the queries its making to tables and such.
The faces are easy enough, although some are a little odd. It's all of the other stuff that seemed a bit baffling. I can't remember particular instances now, I just flushed the specifics away into the "well, I guess this is somehow easier than words for some people who also simultaneously expect that I just know this, so if it is important they aren't doing a great job conveying it" memory hole.
Alternatively, humans will also do things that the military doesn't want them to do: like loot, rape, and kill non-combats. Not every war is WWII where military leaders actively directs troops to commit atrocities. More often than not, crimes are committed by troops against the wishes of their superiors.
This reflects my experience. The people I work with now use slack exclusively for work and the odd share of more personal items while on vacation/weekend/walk during lunch. We have similar interests so the content is always welcomed. Any important discussion happens offline or on the phone, though. I can’t imagine us using slack for anything outside of trivial, asynchronous messages and events reported by bots.

At most other companies I’ve had people message me about salary concerns, unionization, anger towards a manager or CEO, endless banter about anything but work, etc. The main difference was that these places were run by people who really didn’t care about their employees and slack ended up a reflection of that. A lot of upset, frustrated, resentful venting in private channels.

If slack didn’t exist, these conversations would have happened some other way. There’s no way everyone could keep sane in a bad work environment without some degree of venting or comradeship.
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Check out Dukes of the Stratosphere. It’s an alter ego of XTC, a British alt pop band from the 80s, making classic/psychedelic rock. Some of XTCs other work is great too, especially Skylarking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wluszxDrY

On the bright side, horses are now spared much of the direct experience of modern warfare, so maybe humans will eventually follow.

On the flip side, if the oligarchy-with-social-policies was a knock-on effect of mass conscription during the napoleonic wars, a military with more AI suggests an oligarchy without social policies.

CN covid responders' celebration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVCbgNsVEM

UK covid responders' celebration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bQG9aB8dWY

(to be fair, I think the latter was celebrating 72 years of NHS, so the choice of a folkloric airframe was likely deliberate.)
Latency between the jet and the pilot is an insurmountable problem. You either have a very laggy connection to a human pilot who is far away, or a wireless link to a more local pilot who is vulnerable due to being in a combat zone. Plus, it creates an EM signal that could be disrupted as a tactical weakness.

The latency, though, would be the primary killer. It's why the Air Force still needs to send drone pilots to Afghanistan - you can have a person piloting the drone during the mission out of a container in Nevada, but they don't have enough reaction time to safely and reliably land the thing in Afghanistan. Control has to be handed off to a local pilot who has a lower-latency control link to the aircraft.
Most people include that now, yeah. I think it makes sense, even if it's an evolution from the strict sense of the word. I certainly retain as much as those who read physical books, and if someone asks me if I've read a book, it seems needlessly pedantic to say "no, I listened to it."
I'm currently using rss-bridge and have not had that great of an experience. I put some of that down to the site-specific bridges, but some problems persist:

- I regularly recieve feed updates that mark all articles as "new" (i.e. the bridge fails to recognize that it already exported some articles before)
- I also often receive "error 521" from rss-bridge (i.e. the bridge cannot create a feed), but on manual investigation, the feed can be created just fine. I assume this is due to a lack of request throttling somewhere in the process, but can't be bothered to investigate.
I believe in that 2016 test the AI had control over a UAV. In this test it was an F-16. While similar, the dynamics are not equal.
Instead of http://asdoguhwrouyh, they could probe something like http://asdoguhwrouyh.google or anything else in a zone owned by them, so the uncachable traffic would hit only their authoritative name servers and not the root servers.
It's a Wacom stylus with nib detection on both ends. Not $0.36.
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>but the JSTARs matches the "big plane" better

Sounds like you would know better than me, but aren't both the E-3 and E-8 based on a 707 platform?

And don't you need both? If you're doing an air superiority mission you need an AWACS. If you're doing CAS you need JSTARS, right?
I hope the new one is less of a disappointment. The current one can't even do basic stuff like search through bookmarks/history, has no awareness of various things like tags in bookmarks, overall just still missing such a vast amount of functionality from desktop.
Sorry, I disagree. Even in a single player sandbox game there are still mechanics and a setting you must abide by unless you use cheat codes or extreme mods. Like you say, Rimworld's difficulty setting calls itself the story teller. The Rimworld game is the dungeon master, not the player. Even if I ditch the main storyline in Skyrim, I can't morph into a dragon or visit Cyrodil. Without these restrictions there's no appeal for me over simply sitting down with a piece of paper to write my own story. I've played D&D games with 2 DMs simultaneously, they rarely work out well. Without very careful planning the two DMs will step on each other's toes and create a lesser story overall.

I can see the appeal of using it as a storytelling assistant in creative mode now that you mention it. But that's a different tool than a game.
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For the most part, that’s true for in state tuition but the costs up if you’re out of state or international to the point they can rival many private institutions.
The US Air Force is already looking at this. I believe the plan wouldn't be to tie it to a specific "generation" of fighter, and will allow fifth, and maybe even fourth generation fighters to lead a "swarm" of fighters.

https://afresearchlab.com/technology/vanguards/successstorie...
Holy crap, that is some dark pattern :/ Every website allows you to choose between annual and monthly payments, but but adobe just presents their annual plan in two different ways.
One of the mechanisms of social contracts is pressure. Is this a radical idea? A few individuals always have a different perspective on any deal, and the majority will need a way to enforce the look and feel of community lifestyle.

Such as an agreement for racial harmony.
>Cultural, psychological and perceptual changes in the wider population through the centuries and decades. The same scientific theory, put in 2 different cultural setups has a different chance of attracting its proponents and opponents.

Science doesn't (or at least shouldn't) be a popularity contest as to how many proponents and opponents it attracts. The problem you're identifying is that dominant philosophies and ways of viewing the world change with time, but this is no more true for 'gender studies' as it is for any other field (of science, technology, or anything else) in which the philosophical foundation upon which it is built is so heavily involved in the results. I think a good analogy here might be interpretations of quantum mechanics, which similar to the philosophy of essentialism (for instance) can gain or lose popularity.

Nevertheless, the discussion then becomes a matter of which philosophical underpinning makes the most sense or fits the empirical data. The fact this discussion is occurring does not make a whole field of study 'implausible' as a parent comment said; on the contrary, it makes it richer. It's fine for opponents and proponents to have equally reasonable arguments, but it's unclear as to how this makes a particular science untenable or equivalent to the old scientific racism, phlogiston, or phrenology.
Some results here, impressive: http://schnaader.info/precomp_results.php
Which is interesting because you can’t build a new house for that price in most urban areas even if land and permits were free. The costs of an ADU are typically in the 150-200k range and once you add permits and sewer it’s easily 200+
This is a two month old paper. People have generally agreed it was most likely a false positive due to it only detecting a partial match with a very faint signal and there being no other supporting evidence.

From https://theconversation.com/was-coronavirus-really-in-europe...:

"In coronavirus testing, scientists typically screen for more than one gene. In this case, the researchers tested for three. They had a positive result for the March 2019 sample in one of the three genes tested – the RdRp gene. They screened for two regions of this gene and both were only detected around the 39th cycle of amplification. (PCR tests become less “specific” with increasing rounds of amplification. Scientists generally use 40 to 45 rounds of amplification.)

There are several explanations for this positive result. One is that SARS-CoV-2 is present in the sewage at a very low level. Another is that the test reaction was accidentally contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory. This sometimes happens in labs as positive samples are regularly being handled, and it can be difficult to prevent very small traces of positive sample contaminating others.

Another explanation is that there is other RNA or DNA in the sample that resembles the test target site enough for it to give a positive result at the 39th cycle of amplification.

Further tests need to be carried out to conclude that the sample contains SARS-CoV-2, and a finding of that magnitude would need to be replicated separately by independent laboratories."
>There's a reason that phishing is the go-to infosec attack vector. It's because we still blame users for being tricked into doing things they shouldn't, rather than taking the time to build systems that prevent such vectors from working.

Such system was already built in the bronze age: Troy.
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Exactly this. There are some smaller ones that are constantly water-filled but they have no mosquito larvae either. We already speculated that the water in these small vessels might become too warm because they thrive in the larger garden water tanks here. They are pretty harmless though. No diseases transmitting and the bites themselves are harmless. Also nets at windows are somewhat common here.
That absolutely sucks, and does put the rejections in a bad light, but names don’t directly affect your behavior. Religion is different in that regard.
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What's even worse though is this creates enormous pressure to tweak results such that the findings are publishable.

I know one person who basically couldn't get their PhD because they couldn't reproduce another experiment and after several years of trying is pretty much certain the original results were faked in order to be publishable.
The Battle of Santa Cruz Islands is considered a strategic victory for the U.S. even though it was a huge tactical defeat, because it depleted the stock of trained pilots enough that Japan wasn't able to mount effective resistance for the rest of the war.

Didn't know this. How sad. The more I learn about WWII and its abject brutality, the more I marvel at how much US culture fetishizes it.

Related: this season of Revisionist History has a series about Curtis LeMay and the history of napalm that is equal parts fascinating and sickening.
The problem is going to be keeping an AWACS close enough to command and control the fighters while not risking getting it shot down. An F-22 or F-35 (or even an F-15) is going to be a lot more survivable than an AWACS.
That's exactly what I was expecting from it. A text based roguelike with practically infinite worlds generated by a great text model that I could play for short bits of time.

Maybe I was mistaken in the purpose of it, but that's generally how 3rd party articles talking about ai dungeon refer to it.
> The entire purpose of the platform is to match drivers and riders.

That's fine, but we're talking about legal relationships here, not the facilitating product. If you are going to assert you are legally acting in an impartial role, turning around and claiming partiality for one party (the riders) invalidates that position.
Are you at all familiar with the payload scaling between different orbits and the payload penalty for reusability?
In the US, natural gas averages $11.85 per 1,000 cubic feet. Electric averages $0.13 / kwh.

1,000 cubic feet of natural gas is a bit over 1 million BTU. That converts to 297 kwh of electricity.

that 1,015,000 btu costs:

$38.61 in electric

$11.85 in natural gas
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StarCraft 2, the modern "king of RTS games" so to speak, still uses that model! Determinism based on user input, plus a deliberate lag (~150ms?) in handling user input to allow time for player inputs to be received.
Yoric:

Plenty have been voiced over the last decade. The problem is that none of the observations are ever received in earnest. Particularly starting in the Kovacs years and onwards, MoCo folks have adopted a default stance that if you're not within the figurative walls of @mozilla.com, then there's something you just don't understand as well as the anointed ones do. Meanwhile, none of the moves that the better-knowers have made have ever panned out. And in any discussion that does occur, there are all sorts of rhetorical tricks and intellectually dishonest maneuvers that are brought out to shut the conversation down. The Corporation's insistence on its own competence at this point is a lot like the "I have people skills!" scene from Office Space, only it's not a comedy and just depressing.

There's the separate matter, which is that Mozilla's problem isn't even a lack of money. Mozilla has money (and will continue to have money for at least some time). Mozilla's problem is its profligate spending and that it has chosen for itself a set of decisionmakers with Netscape-levels of ineptitude who can't be avoided.

If course correction is even possible at this point—and it's probably not—then the question is, who are the Hewitts and Blake Rosses and Ben Goodgers in 2020? Has Mozilla leadership even fostered an environment where those types can thrive? (Spoiler alert: the answer is no.)
Exchanging time for dollars is fastest (upwork). Meanwhile think what kind of product you could build for reoccuring revenue.
That depends on the bank and loan. My mortgage, for example, doesn’t include a prepayment penalty.
Someone else brought these two up elsewhere in this thread. Are there no examples of regular people who aren't making tens of millions of dollars a year?
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Heck the WhatsApp groups probably already exist. At my last company, the malicious shit (e.g. "marry, fuck, kill" lists of coworkers, racist / casteist memes, etc.) happened on WhatsApp, not the company chat platform. If you don't discourage a "frat boy" culture, one can develop outside your control. People who do that crap aren't stupid, so they'll keep it off company systems but they'll still do it.
Interesting, got any citations handy?
Well that money could also be restitution for the victims
> everything has existed since the moment of the big bang

That's a very non-quantum view of things. For example, Hawking radiation [1] relies on brand new matter-antimatter pairs of particles popping into existence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
I'm sure someone in these programs has speculated what air combat would look like between AIs where body-based thresholds are removed and machine learning has developed new tactics that are only applicable in a pure AI arena. I'd be really interested in seeing those speculations.