skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be interesting if we could train AI to spot fake accounts. A good sized sample would be lovely...
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In a world where screens are everywhere who needs printers ?

I doubt I've printed out more than 100 documents in the last 20 years.

There are still a few legacy areas where nothing else will do like legal procedures and shipping labels but for the most part printers just don't seem like a broadly useful enough technology to interest most open source enthusiasts.
> homelessness is a weird metric to use

Homeless is not a weird metric to use. It's absolutely a failure of government in the worst possible way. Democrats deserve all the criticism in the world for tolerating that situation.

Still, you're correct that there is bad faith: the bad faith is that Republicans care about homelessness, which they generally do not either.

Democrats deserve criticism for the failures of Democratic-controlled governments, and Republicans deserve criticism for the failures of Republican-controlled governments. In my opinion, they're both bad. Are they "equally bad"? Maybe not, but I won't accept that homelessness is a weird metric. There's a lot of bad faith is ignoring one's own faults.
The ad platform / business manager has always felt like several systems and products bolted together (which it probably is). There's too much legacy crap poking through and breaking things. I find understanding what's going on a struggle if I'm not using it day-to-day

Even doing a simple Instagram promotion in the App has to jump through the FB app for authentication which can hang and show me a blank screen.
It's an article that, based on the title, is clearly negative about a large tech company. No need to assume any kind of foul play, that kind of title is like catnip to a significant proportion of the HN readership.
No exposure to assembly apart from #'disassemble in the repl, just wanted to praise the beautiful page design. Makes me want to dive into Keleshevs book.
I'd really like to see how many times this post was flagged.
To be fair, game of thrones, the first book in the song of ice and fire series came out in [1996](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Overvie...)

The TV show started in 2011.

Kingkiller Chronicles is only 3 books, hardly epic. It's a trilogy. The first book came out in 2007, second in 2011, and nothing has been seen of the third, and presumably, final book.

Brandon Sanderson treats writing books as a job, thus he writes every day. Now you could argue that his books aren't as entertaining to you (subjective) or that his prose isn't as good (a bit less subjective), but he does treat his job like a job. Whereas Rothfuss and GRRM seem to try to do literally anything but continue writing their books.

Sanderson isn't a bot but he has something a lot of people lack, work ethic.
> Will the GCs (since ARC isn't really a GC) be deprecated at that time?

Any form of reference counting is definitely a GC.

http://gchandbook.org/contents.html (chapter 5)
> But to a large extent that egg cannot be unscrambled

Well yes, that's exactly it! If we can't unscramble our eggs how can we can unscramble China's eggs?
I think the point is they gave away a software asset connected to a dying market, not a developing one. This colors my view of their generosity.
It took me a second there; nice one! :-D
how is this different from the same claim made by a team of Indian scientists in 2018/9?
A rather unusual link, but I don't remember seeing such before. You pay X amount flat fee max for the service (travel in Australia), and if you go over the limit in Y amount of time, the rest of the service is free.
I'm not sure I understand your argument. Here is a picture that shows china's growth and wellbeing (life satisfaction). Managing the affairs of nearly 1.5 billion people is quite an accomplishment. I like democracy, don't get me wrong -- but I think the Chinese government has demonstrated themselves to be rather benevolent, on the whole.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/04/Inc-vs-Happiness-...
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Ad hominem. Trump may be awful, but that has no bearing on the argument you're responding to.
I do worry specifically about what defines “misinformation”—sure, let’s ban “the vaccine has a microchip programmed to kill you” or something, but would we ban a vaccine recipient reporting adverse reactions they experienced? This will probably be the most widely and rapidly deployed vaccine in the history of the world, and I think it’s important that any and all necessary information becomes widely available, and I don’t necessarily trust the proper and official channels to always report all of that information.
That sounds reasonable but you don't see mainstream feminism even acknowledge men being disadvantaged against women in certain contexts (family courts, homelessness, etc) and if they do they just blame men for it and continue to advocate for women and minorities only.
> "misinformation" is indistinguishable from "thinks I think are false" which in turn is hard to distinguish from "things I disagree with".

Only if you believe the post-modern claim that there's no objectively verifiable truth and that all narratives are equally valid.

There is a huge difference between "vaccines contain microchips" and "water retains the essence of homeopathic ingredients" on the one hand and "COVID spreads through droplets" on the other.

EDIT: I do agree billionaires shouldn't be the final arbiter, though.
The results are also absolutely terrible.

There are a ton to criticize about google's adplatform (from user data handling to transparency to semi-monopoly to ...) but at the end of day if I make a proper well targeted campaign I get matching results.

Not all of them and there are some obvious false in there (ergo the need for transparency), but for every company who I have personnaly done the adwords campaign, as long as I disable the display network and make sure the campaign is well made, I get my bang for the buck.

On the other hand I'm still not sure why anyone who isn't scam or retargeting advertises on facebook, its "leads" are absolutely terrible in quality. I'm the kind who is willing to spend lots of time and a/b testing on my campaign (since at the end of the day it's the source of my money), but no matter what I do it costs me between 3 and 20 times more on facebook than on google to get the same number of end game sales.

It's a terrible ad network. When I dabbled in adult toys sales a while back I had to deal with adult networks ads and even THEY were better. Honestly it's impressive to me how bad it is.

(ads are purely textual and non retargeted, real products or services with great reviews)
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And almost certainly illegal. If you refused to pay you would probably prevail in a lawsuit, and you might even have a case for extortion or fraud. (IANAL)
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> You need a solid gaming PC (with a 2070 or better).

As a counterpoint, I am using Index together with 1070 Ti and the performance is flawless.
Sadly I have about the same experience as you with my last attempt 2 weeks ago.

I started wit KDE Neon, but it failed to install drivers for my Nvidia card and proceeded to sabotage my sound drivers in the process (they were working fine before).

I then switched to ElementaryOS which did fine with my Nvidia but every time it played a sound it would send a loud crack in my speakers.

Back on Windows which I feel a prisoner of. The thing is sending data all over the internet, I can't even write a diary because I feel like I live in the USSR where I have to pay attention to everything I say or the KGB will get me (to be clear it's just a metaphor, I understand I can write whatever I want on my PC without consequences but I don't like the feeling that my inner thoughts would end up on a server somewhere).
Where do you find confirmed information that 2 million people are locked in cages?
I have Samsung CLP-310 Color Laser Printer from 2008. It was the last one ever, which you can force-reset so it does count how many times a color cassette been used. I can refill those cassettes from half liter buckets from ebay for €10. It is just incredibly reliable.

One and only problem is that only the XP-windows Samsung printer drivers work truly well. But I have 2008 laptop for that.
> (more like $25K!)

Source or I call bullshit on this one.

> And notably none of the organisations was required to retract or apologize as part of the settlement.

Because that is the settlement. To save themselves from embarrassment and having to admit they faked the entire thing. I give credit to Nick Sandmann for being the bigger man here and settling instead of taking it all the way and making sure these media houses get crippled.

Anyways, the point here is not the amount of money settled. The point is that they faked the news and labelled an innocent boy a racist. You still haven't given a reply on that. Not that you are required to, but that is what is the crux of the matter here, not the money.
For those interested, there's a piano-centered dataset[0]

[0]https://magenta.tensorflow.org/datasets/maestro
perhaps ironic, but can you help me understand why the GP comment was downvoted on this thread? I’m genuinely wondering. (the one from throwaway_pdp09)

I’m definitely happy that there’s minimum Karma for downvotes, but how does it prevent hive-mind downvoting?
And yet videogames are prime evidence that users can learn just about any UI you throw at them, if they're even little bit motivated to do it. The Web itself is the second piece of evidence - despite all the UX experts' love for "simplicity" and "intuitiveness", every single website looks entirely unlike any other website. Every UI is different. People manage.

It's the assumption that people won't learn that's a problem. Minimizing unnecessary complexity is a good thing, but removing capabilities for sake of further UI simplification is taking things overboard.

(I'm forming a new hypothesis that tries to explain why this happens: it's because SaaS products are trying to turn a workflow into a service. So anything that deviates from their perfect workflow, including any flexibility, integration points, or general ability for self-help, is ruthlessly pruned. The users must follow the prescribed workflow.)
This. I've seen the same in my personal life. It intuitively makes sense. If someone is just outright toxic without any redeemable quality, you will not socialize with them. It's only when they have superficial charm to cover up their toxicity, you'll be interested or manipulated to have them in their life.
> I think people need to come to terms with the fact that the USA isn’t immutable and no government lasts forever.

I agree with this. The Constitution is outdated in the extreme. We're long overdue for something new.

> A divorce is coming and it’s better for everyone if it’s peaceful when it happens.

A divorce? I don't think that's going to work. Who gets custody of Wisconsin?
What exactly is political about genocide? Genocide is a byproduct of ideological derangement.

American corporations are beholden to China’s massive market and Biden is beholden to American corporations. It is far more likely that Biden capitulates to China than puts any economic pressure on them.
did they moved their stuff to India? Sounds like it.
the drawing software is actually pretty simple and draws "plots", with each stroke being a single plot and the pen lifting after.

What that means is you cannot scan a signature and reproduce it, because the machine won't know where to start and where to lift the pen. We used something like documented here: https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Capturing_Handwriting#Capt...

This produces SVGs which have those individual strokes that the machine can reproduce.
The NYTimes just had a big scoop on Trump's tax returns.

Would it be considered a hack if somebody within the IRS gave those documents to the press? What if the source was a foreign entity working through an intermediary?

That is to say, what distinguishes a source vs a hack is a function of the press' investigation into the authenticity of the materials.

I'm not sure blocking the NYPost is the right call here, much as I hate to say it.
Surely such pressures can be created in a composite matrix material, perhaps with diamond nanoparticles or some such?
Unlike the people in this comic, I'm actually making a point, which you seem to have missed: community, by necessity, doesn't work with absolute freedom. What matters is what we agree to compromise over and why we do so.
I’d bet it would have the same effect simply having a photo of them wearing such attire (outside of work, in an appropriate setting) published on social media. Google is, from what I gather, extremely polarized:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/google-content-moderation-in...

(Not to mention the whole James Damore thing.)
> I’m not saying it’s true

Yes, I did caveat my suggestion. Why not submit a fix if it's so simple ;-)
This is really cool. I'm really enjoying the sounds. Each sound effect button also gives you a completely new sound every time. With an interval set, this could pass as a space age drum machine.
I don't see why you wouldn't limit the spend (or end date) on a single campaign and copy or restart with smaller limits if profitable.

The vague reporting of likely spend/speed of showing ads has always scared me of putting a large budget on a single campaign upfront.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_...

Is the implication that China is better or worse in this regard than the USA or Europe?
"The video platform said it would now ban any content with claims about [planetary motion] that contradict consensus from local [priests] or the [Catholic Church]."

__Any__ qualified individual/institution that deviates from the "authority" falls under this guidance. That means no dissent is tolerated, regardless of qualification of the source.

Authoritarianism is authoritarianism.

> The ability for one person to amplify their voice or ideas via hundreds or thousands of bots, paid assholes, and gullible people who lack the capacity for critical thought is a problem. It's a big problem.

The problem is, actually, "gullible people who lack the capacity for critical thought". It doesn't really matter if it is "one person", or a tightly knit group, or even one's own government.

> The ability for one person to amplify their voice or ideas

A wonderful ability, and a cherished Human Right.

> Truth, facts, and hoping that people can apply logic to find their way to them isn't enough anymore and the people exploiting this advantage are getting better at it.

That is your opinion, and imo highly likely not even an original opinion. Where did you first read that "truth, facts, and [logic] isn't enough anymore"? It a very 'interesting' meme, don't you agree?
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Yes, I mean current times. I have wondered if the games that make me feel like that, are ones that have been "psychologically engineered" to be addictive.
> The US is steering towards Majority Minority, is it not?

It is not, at least not in the context of the present discussion. While whites are set to lose their majority, one of the minorities overtaking them are African-Americans, who cannot reasonably be called immigrants, because they were brought to the US against their will long ago, and they came before the late 19th-century and early 20th-century influx of European immigrants to which many white Americans trace their ancestry.

> That would be great, but isn't the case.

That certainly is the case. The second and third generations of immigrants into Europe are overwhelmingly assimilating to the host countries’ language. They may develop a new register of that European language that mixes in words and idioms from the language of their parent or grandparent’s country of origin, but few maintain a strong identification with the old language.
And they were denying it a week earlier: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
I think Sciter is fantastic I have yet to try it personally but I would love to see it open sourced even if its just a paid license for the source (I think that approach might be better?). Dont judge it for what it can do but for how it does it. It is not as bloated as Electron and company because the author ditched some things from the DOM that are legacy carryovers. Additionally you dont use JS with Sciter but you plug your preferred language to it. It is purely a UI renderer that so happens to support HTML and CSS. I think the only one similar I have seen is potentially Azul.rs but I dont remember if Azul has HTML/CSS support.

Edit: I realize why the authors doing a kickstarter. It is to ensure the income necessary to devote time and effort towards open sourcing the project itself.
It’s the Rift, the problem is more that I like to store it somewhere when not in use because headset + controllers + trackers take quite a bit of space on my desk.

Then have to dive behind the computer to connect a HDMI and 3 USB cables (not enough ports on front).
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Is Nim a systems programming language ? can it operate at the same level as rust and zig ?
rolls the eyes

By the middle 1920-ies there were quite a lot of stray cats and dogs in the Moscow (y'know, after all those events in the span of 1914-1922), and then the city management finally got means and funds to do something with it. So I assure you, there are a lot of holes with hundreds of dead cats in Moscow (and other cities too), without any secret orgs involved.
2.3 million, from Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_....
None of the things you're describing have any effect on the plausibility of the story because they're all exactly what you would expect to happen either way. If a Trump supporter became aware of this sort of thing, he would bring it to someone like Giuliani, who would bring it to someone like Bannon and so on. Then they would sit on it until now because that's standard procedure in politics, because damaging information has more impact when released just before the election.

It tells you that the story is being maneuvered for political advantage, because obviously. It tells you nothing at all about whether or not it's true.
Sorry I don't believe you I have seen that data from some Large UK tech companies and the sex discrimination was very obvious, as well as race, and disability.
You don't know them well enough. A random poll of any mainland Chinese population short of those on the periphery currently being persecuted, I guarantee you they either support what the Chinese gov is doing to the Uyghurs or pretend they don't know what's happening. China is the new Nazi Germany.
That's absolutely outstanding.

You do occasionally find people who are all of very charismatic, honest, and substantive, but it's rare. Usually charisma is used to sell bullshit of one form or another. In my experience extreme charisma is a strong contrarian indicator.
It's a matter of ROI.

There isn't much return or expertise on building an open source 2D printer, as opposed to 3D printers.
I've needed to do it to test with external SAML/OpenID Connect providers since pretending to be the hostname they expect is sometimes the only way to test, depending on the partner.
No doubt about that, but I still enjoy playing to my favorite music much more.
True. But I am happy the mod un-flagged and brought your comment back. At least the mod here is unbiased. It just saddens me that people are so blind. Sitting here in India I can see the fake stories for what they are but so many American citizens are unable to see it. It is unbelievable really.
China is a US population-worth of developed nation and twice that of developing nation, roughly speaking.
The WHO parroted the CCP's line that there was no person-to-person transmission at the beginning of the pandemic[1].

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
I can't stop watching that video. If I had one of those machines, I'd never get anymore work done.
What exactly can he do outside of economics sanction? It’s either that or saber rattling. We don’t want a war with China, that would be a global catastrophe. We just want to keep them in check long enough for communism to inevitably collapse once again.
> Why do you want to curb the infection rate? What’s the end goal?

To not saturate the healthcare system.

> practically harmless

We still don't know the long term effects of the disease, or please define the term "practically harmless".

> If immunity persists... If immunity fades

So you want to expose an entire healthy population to a deadly virus and stop looking for a vaccine based on a couple of "if"?

> But hey, say this on YouTube and I’ll be banned!

Saying it here wouldn't get you banned (probably) but your comment will probably go grey (whenever you care or not).
The NFL is generally the main culprit when it comes to discussions about hiding evidence of the risk. I felt the NCAA was more analogous to the NFL
> [...] i was able to monitor room temperature, and display it on the lcd screen (which is totally useless i admit).

How is that useless? We've been using such a device for a long time in society (replacing the mercury ones). Sure, nowadays with smarthome you can do it on a smartphone as well.

In my household we use a Honeywell for this (non-smart) and we have a smart device under it which shows the current weather and the forecast.

Furthermore, I bought an Enviro+ [1] plus a RPi Zero a while ago, but I still gotta implement/install it.

[1] https://opencircuit.nl/Product/Enviro-plus-for-Raspberry-Pi
Tensile strength is pulling. The diamond anvil needs compressive strength.
Or we could get rid of paper and just print everything on plywood.
This type of censorship is what other authoritarian countries viewed as half assed attempt to censorship. You are trying to censor somethings but need to really decide and every decision is scrutinized by everyone, also from the media. This is definitely a slippery slope towards censorship of even scrutiny
So is this where he steps down and Harris steps up? Let’s be honest, upcoming elections are going to be 100% about Trump. It doesn’t matter who his opponent is. Attacking Biden is pointless, and Twitters reaction was self destructive blunder that will cost them no matter who wins in November
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> why you seem so confident in a widespread democratic victory

I’m not. The above analysis only depends on a lack of confidence in a GOP trifecta. That’s the only case where pissing them off could result in unilateral action and thus consequences for these moves.
They aren't going away in our lifetimes,

GPGPU programming has turned out in the new killer application for C++, whereas shader DSLs are slowly being replaced by C++ dialects, Apple and NVidia are the main drivers here.

Better C++ support has just one of the major points regarding the Android Studio 4.2 update.

Microsoft in its schizophrenic way, rewrites stuff back and forth between .NET and C++.

The increase in IoT market has given C sails, despite its flaws, new wind, as proven that even Microsoft caved in to their "you don't need C any longer", and now provide C11 and C17 on the latest MSVC release, and his the official language on their "secure" IoT stack, Azure Sphere.

There is no way around of making sure C and C++ just get some extra tooling to validate the weak points of the languages, most of that software is not going to be rewritten into something else.
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