skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The US government has said that it will not participate in a global initiative to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a vaccine for Covid-19 because the effort is co-led by the World Health Organization."

Has the WHO ruled out using the chinese communist party's vaccine?
I am aware of some porn actors promoting "Ethical Porn" whereas paying for porn promotes the creation of this ethical porn. For example, the porn star Jiz Lee has spoken out about it [1] and yes -- Jiz Lee is on OnlyFans.

That said, people will pay for what they want whilst others will pirate for their favorite given reason(s) be it porn, movies, books, audiobooks, &c. Similar for not contributing via Patreon; maybe they'd rather some ads and half the content to not spend a few bucks a month, for example.

Reasons abound.

[1] https://jizlee.com/ethical-porn-consumption-pay-for-porn-ant...
Yeah I saw some dumb laws in Colorado when visiting. I think it was just the grocery stores with the 3% stuff. So ridiculous. Looks like Colorado allowed > 3.2% in grocery stores starting in 2019. [1] Not too long ago you couldn't buy beer in Indiana on Sunday. Archaic.

[1] https://www.5280.com/2019/10/are-grocery-store-beer-sales-ki...
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Certification is a b*tch..
Intuitively there are tons of things we do on our computers that uniquely identify. I am sure the adware companies know a ton more and are not public too. The need for strict privacy preserving tech is needed across the whole stack.
Do you know how much money Google has ever invested in Waymo ever?

I tried to search for a number, but couldn't come up with much. Obviously, this number would be very important in judging whether self-driving will be a loss for them.
The signs of atrophied social skills, caused by Covid-19
I've used both Spotify and Pandora for a while, and generally found Pandora superior.
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Excellent observation. I expect this is one problem among many which would be solved by a UBI or some other form of guaranteed economic security.
walmart is dirty, gross and depressing. I don't want some horrible crap from walmart delivered. Your life has take a serious wrong turn if you shop at walmart. Walmart has lost the plot, Seriously just look at what target is doing and try to keep up. Walmart needs to stop dreaming about competing with amazon, they are not even the same orbit. Walmart sucks!
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This is not the only reason. There are at least 4 other major reasons:

1) Future debt is irrelevant: The US has a culture of "having the college experience". Easy loans facilitates this, but they would never be made without families ignoring their future debt in favor what has become less about education and more about a right of passage. For many, economics is not part of the fundamental decision making process.

2) Demand. High demand means there's little need to compete on price. Enrollment spiked up during the Great Recession as people went to retool for job changes, and while it's come down since then, it's still at historic highs compared to pre-recession enrollment. This might change over the next decade as the %of HS grads entering college has been relatively flat the past few years, and # of total graduating seniors is on a slight downward trend, projected to continue for the next decade.

3) Reduced State Funding: Many states have been systematically reducing their funding to public colleges & universities for a few decades. Right after the Great Recession, higher ed was low hanging fruit for cash-strapped state budget cuts, and dropped another 17%

4) Institutional Debt: With high demand eliminating much need to compete on price, institutions have to compete on amenities & facilities. Beautiful new dining halls, recreation facilities, dorms, academic buildings. Universities borrow, build, and bill the students.
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Various tax breaks introduced in the past 30 years contributed. Direct tax breaks like cost and loan credits. Plus indirect breaks like tax-advantaged savings plans like 529.

A similar thing has happened in housing. Various tax breaks introduced in the past 30 years allow people buy a much higher list price of house (in terms of annual salary multiples) than 30 years ago.
When will China and Taiwan catch up? You're talking about potentially millions of deaths
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Wouldn't that give foreign companies an advantage in bidding for American contracts?
Start 20 shitty Patreon accounts a week, pump stolen content through them until you see any sign of traction on one or a few. Double down on those, rebuilding and re-uploading the content to hide your plagiarism. Focus your future 20 weekly spam Patreons on similar subjects/demographics and cross-pimp any successful one to each others supporters.

Then lie outrageously about how profitable they are and sell them to some other sucker with a get rich quick dream and no work ethic to back it up. Rinse, repeat.

The same crappy minimum-effort rent-seeking SEO-spamming techniques that every "get rich quick building affiliate websites" snake oil salesmen use...
I always find it a little suspicious that all the university rankings in English-speaking newspapers rate English-speaking unversities the highest.

That said, there are definitely opportunities in the USA that aren't available elsewhere.
The mechanical shutter is not going to be that fast. About equal with top-of-the-line rolling shutters, except that the latter can sustain >100 fps.

I'm aware that global shutter cameras are more expensive, though I haven't even found a self-contained one that's notably below 500 g.

I'd like to know the polygon count, both vertices and faces, if possible.

I'll check the site and write more tomorrow, with the sun coming up shortly I should catch some sleep.

Also, yeah, rolling shutter can be compensated, but the impact goes through all the pipeline steps. All of them.

I don't want to re-write the whole pipeline. Worst case I'll settle for an Apertus Axiom Beta.

Also, a global shutter works nicely with a strobo, and a NIR-enhanced sensor works well with e.g. 808 nm light sources. The reason would be around power conservation when the robot has to bring it's own light source.

My last experiment had about 5k or so depth maps getting reconstructed (15 fps 4k Mavic Pro footage, iirc 100Mbit/s), from barely over 20k captured frames that I did full SfM on. The reconstruction density was adaptive, manually choosen to ensure sufficient scene coverage without spending too long on the depth map reconstruction.

The issue is that you have to assume somewhere between 1/60 and 1/500 exposure time for motion blur, if operating without an electronic global shutter. And I like detail, so I'm more looking for something like a 50 mm lens in front of an academy-sized sensor, yielding about 70~90 mm 35 mm-equivalent for the typical 4k by 2~3k sensor.
The second page of that link shows the authors retracted the paper, and they also issued a correction.

> we want to correct a sentence in our significance statement that has been quoted by others stating ‘White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.’ This sentence refers to estimating Pr(shotjrace, X). As we estimated Pr(racejshot, X), this sentence should read: ‘As the proportion of White officers in a fatal officer-involved shooting increased, a person fatally shot was not more likely to be of a racial minority.’
The thing is, if you know enough trips to unmask them, then you can find out about all their trips in that dataset.

As an employer, maybe I can find out an employee wasn't home sick when they said, but took the bus to a station that only serves a competitor's business. Etc.
This is also how ATIS works - these are condition reports for airports that are broadcast on a loop. They tell pilots the active runway (if a small airport), surface weather, etc and any special information.

They're often fully synthesised, but might also have some manual recordings at the end.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_terminal_informati...
> Universality, High Quality, Low Cost. Pick two.

You can get all three. At leat if by high quality you mean that people learn stuff.

What conventional education gives you is signalling.

And part of the whole point of signalling is to burn resources to show off.
FYI, some of us have started working on https://replicache.dev/ instead, which shares some DNA with Noms. But it's not decentralized.