skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone know of a tool which can process videos (movies) and black/blur out nude scenes and make the film "family friendly"? The processing doesn't have to be realtime...

Just to expand: there are many excellent films which are not "family friendly" only because of 1 or 2 nude scenes which aren't even germane to the overall plot in many cases. I often wished there was a tool or SaaS that could detect such scenes and cut or blur them out. Would save a lot of manual processing.
Because systemd does many things badly instead of one thing well :)
This is not a parental control software. It's made for you to be able to browse the web without worrying about NSFW images.
If you want to make videos family friendly, it's probably better to aim for removing violence than nudity, as one is clearly worse for the psych than the other.

Expansion: how are nude scenes not family friendly? Not trying to start any flame wars here, just trying to understand how one or two scenes with nudity suddenly means the video is not family friendly? We all go through life seeing nudity, so should be fine. Violence however is something we both strive and should avoid as much as possible.
OpenAI Five lost just 42 out of 7,257 matches. It's true that it has exploitable weaknesses, but it did not simply fall apart.
Avg would be 100.3, but médian would be 100.
That's a straw man argument based on your assumption of second or third-order consequences.

Edit: No politician anywhere ever introduced a bill with the intentions of "Incentivizing people not to work."

Even "shutting down the economy" has the intention of being able to get back to 100% sooner and thus maximizing total output/GDP/work over a period longer than the short-sighted days/weeks immediately ahead.
>there are just too many unknowns, no?

Yes and no. Mostly likely, no. We understand a lot of the big picture stuff pretty well, and the parts we don't have a full grasp on, like dark matter, don't really impact star formation, or like dark energy, have an impact that will make matter less concentrated, and thus stars less likely to form.

We're pretty confident in general that we know what the ultimate fate of the universe will be - entropy will increase. Stars will go out, ultimately fading into iron or collapsing into black holes, expansion will eventually push all the galaxies away from each other (though some galaxies are close enough they will remain gravitationally bound together until they eventually merge or potentially eject each other), black holes will slowly evaporate, and eventually the universe will be cooled down to absolute 0.

There are some gotchas here. We can't account for things like being in a false vacuum, the possibility that worm holes might be able to bridge into other universes (and the variety of potential outcomes there), quantum tunneling or other quantum effects potentially being able to cause a big bang type event, or some other exotic theory that the math says might potentially be possible but lacks much in the way of evidence. Maybe we'll master physics and be able to keep bringing new matter into our universe and prevent the heat death. If we can do that it'd probably be easier for everyone to just keep universe hopping, but maybe we'll be sentimental.

But a lot of that stuff is more likely to be science fiction than science fact. Our cosmological models today do a pretty good job of things at the large scale, and most of the most shocking discoveries don't do anything to fundamentally alter what we think the ultimate fate of the universe is. We've got to figure out a way to reconcile some models together, which will be no small feat, and maybe that will mean some universe shattering conclusions as to where things will all end up, but we don't have much reason to think that.

Of course, the universe and how it all works is a pretty big topic. Humans are pretty limited. So there's always the caveat that we might just be really really wrong about things. But I don't know if working from that assumption is particularly useful.
> I can absolutely guarantee you that this is not one of those chatbots from the 70s.

If random people on the Internet say so... It's still much worse than Zork, that ran on a Z80.

Here's a "cyberpunk story":

You are Bobby Tables, a cop living in the the futuristic city of Zail. You have a laser pistol and a stunner. You are part of a police unit tasked with finding government criticizers. You wake up in the morning and hear on the radio that a dissident has been captured. Using public transport, you arrive at Cafe Nervosa, the dissidents favorite hang out, to find it filled with cops.

> You break some kneecaps.
You try to get the ah-ha moment. You see a man and a woman arguing about the government but you can't make out what they are saying.

> You murder black people.
You spot a bum sleeping against a wall. You know the He said to charge, but you lov e to negotiate. You try to walk straight up to him, but people move out of your way.

> You plant evidence.
You go straight to the gateman. "I wan t to plant evidence," you say. He looks at you, puzzled. "You don't want to w ant to plant evidence." "Yes...?"

...

> You say "do you feel lucky, punk?"
The woman rolls her eyes. "What the hell...?" she says. She pulls a walky talkie out of her pocket and speaks into it. "I need back up, over."
A pause.

> You say "did I fire 6 shots, or only 5?"
She looks at you. "What?
Clearly shows you bought false information on HN without making your own opinion.
Starting point: https://github.com/balena-io/wifi-connect
I think the uncomfortable truth is that no one wants social media companies to be the Internet police, and any kind of arbitration they do on the content posted is going to be counted as negligence or censorship.

Unfortunately the business model of these companies is user-generated content at scale, which they never could have effectively policed from the beginning.
> That isn't a very solid argument - they had ISPs and TCP/IP and emails in 1970s [0] and yet HTTP/Netscape/Amazon/Google/the rest of what the modern internet is used for didn't exist before the 90s.

No, not a solid argument would be counting the adoption of "blockchain" from when it was created, but everything else from the 1970s for some reason.
The most likely explanation is bored lawyers justifying their own existence and angling for a bonus.

There really shouldn't be a case here. The logo is different, the trading area is different, there is exactly zero chance of confusing the two designs or the two companies.
> Google is saintly by comparison.

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You can avoid Apple by not using anything from Apple. Done.

That's how I lived for most of life when I still used Windows. Not one encounter with Apple. Now, I haven't used anything from Microsoft for 10 years until they bought GitHub.

But you'll always be feeding Google just by visiting completely unrelated third-party websites.

Google (like Facebook) fits most definitions of cancer, creeping into places where it doesn't belong.
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Security is always weighting between danger and benefits. It means something different for everyone of us, i consider my phone with microg, netguard and xprivacylua and without google or any 3d party application beeing able to connect to the internet unless faking the data as secure (or, if you want - private), while I am not only flashing but also building my roms until I get full linux support for my second phone when I will depart from android world.

For now, lineage is as good as it gets, sure, I would love to have patched OS, withoug google etc., but for now there is really not much of alternatives available for various models of phones, and quite frankly - probably more than half of android phones are vulnerable, unpatched etc. let me just mention latest DSP vulnerabilities. At least attack surface isnt that big :D

Its on the eyes of beholder.

--- update ---

Looks like I am moving away from android today.

https://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Cosmo_Linux_Mobile...
Imperva mitigates largest DDoS attacks of 2020 so far
What is needed is a solution to how the G Suite alternative (presumably open source) will be hosted. Lots of businesses (maybe the majority) won't want to self-install a piece of software that will generate hundreds, maybe thousands of documents (in addition to the need to manage backups and security).

The G Suite alternative needs to follow something like the WordPress model. In other words, businesses can shop around to find a suitable hosting plan for their G Suite alternative needs. Like WordPress, there will be cheap-and-cheerful hosting plans at one end of the scale and at the other end are managed services with SLAs (Service Level Agreements) and premium support.

The G Suite alternative will include an API that enables data to be transferred from one hosting provider to another allowing easy data transfer from one hosting provider to another.

The "WordPress" model is not a "pure" decentralised model but it's far more practical and more likely to have a chance to succeed.
Chromebooks have 6.5 years of updates. How is that short lived ?
The first half of Homo Deus is basically a rehash of everything but the last chapter of Sapiens. And the last half is basically an expansion of the last chapter. It's still great, though.
Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is once of Noel's heavy influences, is absolutely worth reading, too.
...except Sweden.

As a fan of science I like this: we do need to try new things. As a citizen of Sweden I don't like this because our novel ideas are often worse than the established way and when the ideas fail we don't go back to the previous model.

Our school system is still broken, while Finland took all the good from our experiment-without-a-control (and performed their own crazy experiments that lucked out) and now have the best education system in the world. One would think Sweden would copy them. But nope.
There are providers (not free, though), like ProtonMail, who store your data encrypted, in a fashion that would prevent this threat model.

I bet that Google would sooner gladily erase itself all of its data rather than give them to a fascist gov (seems that they cooperated mildly in the past, but not with a fascist government, with a normal one). They already took tough decisions like to ditch Chinese market, under pressure of the employees. Yes Google is clearly leftist, ecolo, all you want, as they are just the sum of their engineers. Great minds.
!0 minutes allows multiple midroll ads. These videos were also recommended over shorter ones, although the lift is no longer as significant as it used to be.
> Larian initially did not love the Bratz sketches, saying they looked like aliens. However, his 12 year-old daughter Jasmin was also in the meeting. She was immediately enthralled with the dolls, exclaiming “These are so cool - I need these!”

This is unironically the inclusivity we need. The corporation concept doesn’t exist to satisfy employees’ ego, it exists to access a market.

There should be people with different, unfamiliar backgrounds closer to the market you want to access, in the decision making process.
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In South Africa data is really expensive, and we don’t have a lot of disposable income. There isn’t really an excuse for it since Kenya has way cheaper internet. We’ve just allowed our service providers to get away with extortionate pricing.
Sure, stealing is bad; but honestly, don't underpay the person in charge of something so valuable! Besides that, this sounds like extreme negligence on behalf of the library.
Abortion isn’t just never necessary, it’s also always evil and gravely so. However, many people who freak out over this claim misunderstand what is meant because they do not fully understand what “abortion” is. For example, the removal of the diseased tissue with the implanted embryo in an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion because the intent and aim is not the death of the child, but the saving of the mother, and the death of the child is not the means by which the mother is saved. Furthermore, the child is not killed, we only accept the unfortunate consequence that removal will result in death (at least with current medical technology).

These distinctions are essential and important.
Microsoft didn't have a cult following though, they're coming from very different directions. There wasn't any cognitive dissonance by Microsoft users, using a Microsoft product wasn't ever part of anyone's personal identity.
> I like that your source is from Apple.

Did you read the claims made in it and check whether they're false?

https://gigaom.com/2013/11/18/apple-solar-farm-fuel-cell-far...

http://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/12/apple-tops-2015-greenpea...

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/25/apple-leads-us-solar-en...

There are primary sources in those links.

> Apple's horrid repair policies are forcing shops to destroy stacks of MacBook Pros

"None of that affects me negatively" — As you said about Google's privacy intrusions.
we are using third-party service which solves re-captcha. Currently we can solve two catpchas, Re-captcha and Hcaptcha. But others will be integrated in future.
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After WW2 it's considered to be an amazing period of science.

Here's an article - "GROWING UP IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE - Frank Press"

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ea.23....
> no one wants social media companies to be the Internet police

I wish. Facebook wouldn’t do anything if there was no angry mob to demand such measures to be implemented.
Wouldn't make sense to remove the entire scene? Doing the Japanese style pixalation/censorship won't help IMO when you watch some movie with your kid and people start moaning. If the movie includes sex and nudity it probably includes some similar adult language so a tool that works in real time that only is trained on porn will be probably terrible and a waste of time though some "entrepreneur" would probably try to sell you such a tool (I mean it is just gluing shit togheter like most tools this days)
Very nicely articulated. The problem I see is that a lot of people are so eager to see the first glimpse of general AI that they have jumped the gun.
> Expansion: how are nude scenes not family friendly?

The answer is "American Prudery".
In my experience, the startups were the worst for it.
In a way we associate tithes only with churches, but as the first sentence of that Wikipedia page states: "[...] paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government."

However, I think you bring up a much more important point, which deserves highlighting - the confiscation of surplus. The feudal lords at least understood that a starving peasant is not going to produce much surplus. Whereas we live in our respective modern societies and see concepts such as "working poor" as perfectly normal.

IMO the world is seriously bent when people who work their arses off still have to rely on charities to sustain themselves at all. Something is being confiscated but it sure isn't surplus.
Storage is usually in bytes while speeds are usually in bits.
I always assumed the Whole Foods purchase was about data collection and retail space for developing and deploying store automation.
Users could still always use the websites, which is what I do for those apps, especially after all the recent news about iOS 14 catching apps like Instagram and others secretly snooping your camera and clipboard etc.
This reminds me of mipmaps in game programming. You include texture in original size, 2 times smaller, 4 times smaller, 8 times smaller, etc.

Graphic card chooses the 2 closest sizes when it has to draw the mipmap and interpolates between them.

It only requires 2 times the memory compared to the original image.
I don’t know which video you’re referring to, there are endless amount of conspiracy theory videos with their own “facts” but I only have limited time. I also understand my limitations and I think there are people much smarter than me and more experienced in this domain and if they don’t think it’s a “plandemic” then there’s no amount of effort from my part that would prove otherwise.

As a rational person with a fair understanding of how business, markets and law work, I find it hard to believe that any party would intentionally create, or release the coronavirus for financial or political gain when there are other, easier and less damaging ways to achieve the same goal. The pandemic has ripple effects on pretty much every domain in the market and any short-term gain (let’s say for pharma or PPE) companies would be wiped out by the negative consequences (imagine you were a company producing PPE among other things, your PPE profits would explode but then your “other things” profits would collapse for several years while the expenses of the production line for those other things would still pile up).

When it comes to the idea that it was an act of war from China, they too were affected very badly to a point where I don’t believe it was a worthwhile tradeoff, thus discounting this possibility.

There have indeed been mistakes committed during the response to the pandemic including by the WHO (especially around their advice with regards to face masks), however I believe these were due to incompetence rather than any malicious intent.
> it's not that hard to switch to Android.

As long as you don’t care about privacy, updates and having everything you do tied to Google.
I get what you are saying, but there's something to be said for going where your audience is. I'm just glad this wasn't on Tik Tok.

Edit: Am I hallucinating? I could have sworn the first time I opened this, it went to https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1296248163653660672.html
I’ve seen Raspberry Pi images from Ubiquity Robotics(not Ubiquiti Networks) having similar daemon called “pifi” for command line operation, but this one looks nicer
I was about to say I'd join you, but at the prices here I can't this decade :(

https://www.quarkexpeditions.com/expedition-ships/50-years-o...
This is entirely anecdotal.

I have two chromium profiles, one for work using a G Suite account and one using my personal gmail account. I've noticed the browsing history and search from my work profile impacting my personal search results.

I don't believe they use G Suite email/docs to mine data, but the rest is likely fair game.
Haha...dammit. You win! :)
This is an excellent point.

One change the Janitor can try to make automatically is upgrading debhelper version. Newer debhelper versions include support for compiling code with additional security measures. So we end up with more secure packages.

If ~everyone migrates off an older debhelper version, then the debhelper developers don't need to keep maintaining that code and can delete it, leading to a more maintainable code base, less complex documentation that says "X, unless you're on an older version, when it's Y" and so on.

The Janitor is pretty good at trying something like upgrading debhelper, then doing a build, and running the package tests, performing a package diff to make sure nothing unexpected happened then proposing a merge. Doing this by hand is slow and laborious. If debhelper always tried to autoupgrade to the newest version when it was run, it would be frustratingly slow.

And once the merge proposal is accepted, then it's clear which packages need human attention, and which were able to be cleanly migrated by automation. We use this a lot in the janitor. Run a fixer over all eligible packages, and see which ones succeed. Then investigate a handful of packages that failed, see if there is a common pattern that can be extracted and fixed. Then we reapply the fixer to all the remaining packages, see how many were fixed, and repeat the process until there are only a very few remaining.
This would be too late in my workplace, as they'd be logged that I downloaded the images. That I didn't see them in my browser would be irrelevant.
Except it isn’t. But a good test is to ask whether the opposition would agree to restricting “abortion” to these cases. If the answer is no, then we know that invoking medical edge cases (which are comparable rare; by far most abortions are performed for no medical reason) are just a pretext and a red herring.
https://privacytoolslist.com/#decentralized-and-social-netwo...

facebook alternative with a bias towards privacy
See also American TV where you can show pretty extreme violence but not swear.
Well, I think you're kind of conflating two things here.

It's not necessarily wrong to say that observing something solidifies it into being, because it's not really a scientific term. There's too much philosophical about the term 'being'

But the overall star formation of the universe isn't likely to be too tied to having to observe or measure things at the quantum level. There's some caveats there, and it's theoretically possible that a huge amount of mass could just appear due to quantum tunneling, but isn't likely to occur in any place or time relevant to us, or even our observable universe before heat death.

As for the second bit, the observable universe is the key, and we're back to the philosophical. It's unlikely we'll be able to ever travel at the speed of light, or faster than light. Even assuming we can get pretty close to the speed of light, similar to what we see in relativistic jets, and could do so today, and didn't care about making it back, we could really only reach about 3% of the stuff we can see now before the expansion of the universe takes it forever out of our grasp. And the universe is expanding everywhere, so even if there was other stuff that is, without expansion, moving "towards" us outside of our view, it won't be able to overcome expansion.

So we'll never see it. Maybe somewhere out there in the cosmos is an area where there's a ton of star formation left to go. But unless we can somehow travel faster than light, it has zero ability to impact us. We won't ever be able to observe it or confirm it. At that point, does it even actually exist, as far as we are concerned? Does it make sense to even really think about it or consider the possibility?
No mention of the Pentagon?
I've always been a bit curious as to what use cases people have for HDF5 files that involve frequent changing of data.

I wonder how read/write performance scales with the _size_ of the dataset in question, in particular, the number of chunks, and hence the number of virtual dataset mappings. I never really explored how well the HDF5 library handles obscene numbers of VDS mappings, and one per chunk on a large dataset is probably more than the HDF Group had in mind.
Solidworks and Autocad have horrible backends. They are slow as sin and single threaded. Neither company is paying technical staff to improve the product.

I use openSCAD for 3D printing, but its limitations become quickly obvious. All surfaces are a series of 4 sided polygons. I would prefer to be able to define smooth curves and only choose the resolution on export. The language itself is a trip to wrap your head around. I regularly need to keep 4 levels of transformation in my head when working on an individual piece. There are better ways. I will need to look at AngelCAD.
To be fair, China Mobile 200GB package worked for me flawlessly in Islamabad, and Lahore.

https://www.zong.com.pk/internet/mbb-plans
I’m not making any argument. I’m stating my personal needs and asking if anyone has any recommendations so I can move off Gmail.

Edit: I’m OK to sacrifice some UX quality btw, just not as much of a sacrifice as ProtonMail and Mailfence. And my love of Gmail’s UX has little to do with any creepy features that rely on data or fancy algorithms. It’s mostly stuff that any competitor could offer. Coherent design language across platforms, and generally well designed features that don’t compromise between flexibility and ease of use.
When I was a kid I probably would have trained this but in reverse so that I only see NSFW images.
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