skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> is it worth making the switch to apple m1 MacBook

Not now. Wait for an M2 or an M3 MacBook. By then not only the software would be finally optimised for Apple Silicon, it would run even faster than M1 with an M2 or M3 Macbook.

Perhaps the 16 inch MacBook (2021) or the other 2021 Macbooks would probably run M2 or so. So I'd wait for those instead of getting last years model.

> if not then what are some powerful alternatives that we could use that would be as powerful as m1 MacBook

Judging by the statistics, M1 MacBooks are already 3 years ahead. Until the M2 or M3 Macs come in, there would be no point buying these intel laptops.
Proebsting's Law
While I'd like to agree with him here, if John C Dvorak says it's true, you can bet against it nearly 100% successfully.

Look at some of these doozies... [1]

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak
No, it's gibberish that resembles Japanese writing but doesn't actually form real symbols (although some are close)
I fear it can work. I think despite our distaste for some of the censorship that will occur when it comes to social control and etc, ultimately the meat of github and open source would be entirely functional within a CCP run context.

Bug reports about a particular project? Provide a particular leader isn't embarrassed I don't expect anyone to care. I suspect they'd let the engineers fight it out and only care about the output.

If anything social media faces bigger censorship concerns in China... but social media does just fine...
The metadata of our conversations is really more important than the content most of the time. Especially if FB is tracking the conversation participants before and after the chat.

If we chat and then shortly there after you search for some fringe political group, it's pretty safe to see that as a strong indication that I'm involved with that group. Or if my geolocation places me at some political event and we chat during or just after it, you're implicated.

FB doesn't need the contents of messages, they need the metadata plus all the other user tracking.
Zero to Production in Rust: How to Write (and Test) a REST API Client
I've said this elsewhere, but no.

There are two main differences here.

1. The scope of the change. My understanding is that Elasticsearch may use Lucene under the hood, but extends it in ways and for use cases that Lucene was not designed for. The same can not be said about AWS taking Elasticsearch and running it as a drop-in replacement.

2. Perhaps most importantly, Elasticsearch didn't build on top of Lucene, and then decide to call itself Lucene. If you think there is so little differentiation between the product you built and the product you built off of, that you are better off highjacking the name, then I question if you made any meaningful differences.

3rd BONUS difference: It is my understanding that a large part of the core Lucene team works at (or at one point worked at) Elastic[0].

[0] https://www.elastic.co/blog/investing-apache-lucene
What an idiotic recommendation.

Is there any evidence that the mRNA vaccine prevents infection/transmission? Hence Fauci, et. al. saying people must continue all the practices from before.
No, zero chance. There is no way you will get states to agree to forever nullify their electoral influence. If you really want perpetual one-party rule, granting DC and PR statehood are also unlikely but far more realistic than abolishing the electoral college, which will literally only happen when the US itself is dissolved.
I immediately thought of Command — it's a very deep rabbit hole to go down, and the sine qua non if you're into this stuff. But if you are not (1) a defense analyst or (2) a retiree you will be horrified to discover how much time you can sink into reading things like "Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat," or "NATO Defense Expenditures 1970-1990."

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076160/Command_Modern_Op...
Nope, because you just get a 404, even on public buckets, because you have no access to the kms key.
^this. Yes while it may be true that media will benefit from this, it almost virtually guarantees no more Republican presidents. Given that the House is also trending in that direction, the only real place where power still remains with the Republicans is the Senate. Too many mega corporations benefit from keeping the Dems out, (taxes, employee rights, minimum wage, etc.) and they will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo.
I feel like we will continue to run into these kinds of issues to the end of time unless can figure out: 1. How to precisely describe the properties we want the final system to have, 2. How to 'compile' from a higher-level language/layer into a lower-level language while maintaining all those properties. At the least this will require us to: 3. Define the precise semantics of each layer and enforce that every construction in and implementation of that layer adheres to it strictly.

Properties like "no private data is accessible until the user consents", "the final result of the algorithm is independent of the order that messages are received", "decryption must be constant-time and the program must not have any observable effect until the message is known to be verified", etc. Obviously these properties as stated are incomplete and imprecise, but that's my point: we have to figure out how to make these kinds of statements precise enough.

Layers/languages should verifiably maintain these properties through every translation via paths like: eula/privacy policy, requirements, UX, UI, state machine, source code, AST, IR, ASM, machine code. Every one of these layers should have a well-defined execution model that is isomorphic with other layers, modulo metadata. For example: source code === AST [+ comment/whitespace/filesystem metadata], AST === IR [+ name/desugaring/applied-optimizations metadata]. All undefined behavior at every layer must be exterminated by definition or avoided by construction.

One problem is that we throw away too much metadata when moving between layers which makes the task of maintaining these properties through many layers extremely difficult. For example, trying to implement constant time algorithms in a high-level language is nearly impossible to hold over time (robust to changes in source and compiler) because the compiler/optimizer has forgotten (or was never told) what parts must be done in constant time and to not use the partial results of the algorithm until it has completely finished. To implement this, all candidate implementation strategies and optimizations in the lower layer must be identified by whether they preserve constant time execution or not, and optimizer/compilation unit (CU) boundaries inserted to prevent an over-eager optimizer for a non-constant-time CU to observe partial results. Etcetera for every other desirable property and every layer.
While not nearly as mature as the main platforms (like the JVM, .NET, BEAM), the Julia compiler does have some unique features (an extremely aggressive optimizer, a sophisticated type inference mechanism, possibly the most exceptional multiple dispatch support, Go-like lightweight processes), including a macro system that supports reader macros for writing parsers (like this library) and extensible multi-stage compilation (like the IR manipulation that is used in auto-differentiation of source code), which makes me wonder if once all those features (and possibly new ones) become robust enough it will become one of the targets for people creating new programming languages.
Now I know about nyaa.si. Cheers MPA.

Could you guys DMCA something reminiscent of tvtorrents.com? Man that place was great for finding stuff to watch.
It's likely that the nm number will continue to get smaller, since the node name is marketing at this point, and isn't related to any physical semiconductor measurement anymore.

As for quantum tunneling, it is likely to be mitigated or exploited at some point. If not, maybe we'll have to use something else, like gallium arsenide[0] instead of silicon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
Does Imgur make money and is it profitable? As far as I know their "business model" (which actually isn't one, or at least not a profitable one) is "growth and engagement".

Their core product isn't something people want to pay for (image hosting itself can be obtained anywhere, including from cloud storage subscriptions people already pay for), and their social side is at odds with the advertising business model - you need ads to survive, but ads revenue is forever decreasing and people will leave if you put too much ads.
Any good books on Linux networking?

I have started spinning up “bare metal” k8s on a cloud VM and it’s not that hard to get going until you get to anything networking related then I feel like I’ve just jumped off a cliff. I have no knowledge there and the online resources seem to be nonexistent because you’re expected to just use a prebaked solution from cloud providers.

I ended up just installing k3s but I have yet to figure out where the Traefik packaged in k3s can listen directly on port 80 and 443, but the basic Traefik installed via Helm cannot
I let it run for a minute or so and every image appeared to be fully clothed or at least “bikini clothed”. Psychedelically distorted? Yes. NSFW? I guess it would depend on your W.
This article says nothing about how it will be banished and is more like a wish. You need 2/3 of states to change and ratify the constitution. Its not even close to being banished.
These generated "anime" pictures look overfitted to me. It's not convincing me that it's in any way original. I bet large parts of these pictures actually do exist, and it's just mashing its memories of these pictures together, instead of actually having internalized how to draw manga pictures.

Maybe the source dataset was too small, and it was not trained strictly enough, or it should have actually trained on anime stills instead of these Moe manga style drawings.

The state of the art, for example that site that generates images from sentences is much more impressive to me.
Now if only they could do away with gerrymandering
Boobs? Check. Butts? Check. Why not put them together: https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.0/seed3375.pn...
Might have also been included because Malbolge is included in a listicle that is the top search result for "weird programming languages." I wouldn't be surprised if show writers did a search for something close to that phrase, found the article, immediately got the literary reference and included it in the show for that reason.

Also, you probably can't say brainfuck on daytime TV. None of the other languages had interesting names, i.e., glass, whitespace, chicken, lolcode.

Edit: They've probably done something similar with other technical topics, but we don't watch the show to know. Such as, having a rocket scientist on the show talking about building rocket recovery wadding or something after looking through a GIS for "rocket parts."
The app can auto-update itself at any time and install some binaries that do share the key with the server; trust is virtue of every single thing the company (im this case FB) can do and auto-updates is one of them.
When it comes to case law, they have to show intent, and the way they do that is they have to show their software is used for more than just piracy.

So, eg, if it's generic torrent tracker software, it's fine, because anyone can use it in a legitimate way (though it helps if someone actually is using it in a legitimate way), but if this is just for the site nyaa.si and no other trackers, they might lose this case if it goes to court.
what if I live in Gaza and tweet in english badmouth about jews?

won't twitter censor my tweets for hate speech,?

github and gitlab are US companies and censored projects only for the owner being iranian
Correct. Customers are looking for a cloud platform to run their apps, all the services are just features.

Elastic is a feature, event bus is a feature, database is a feature, compute is a feature.
What's the difference between a test and a contract? I agree that code in the ML space needs to be more rigorously tested especially the data flowing in and out. But how are contracts different?
> That doesn't mean that they can choose to change the license anyway.

Under Apache 2.0 and as they did retaining the contributions as Apache 2.0 they can though. As far as I have seen there havent been any legal challenges to the licensing change on this comment section.

> That means that changing the license is not right in the first place.

This is a non sequitur though, the premise that precedes it (that "they can't change the license (legally or under the terms of Apache 2.0)") is false.

> That doesn't mean that they can choose to change the license anyway.
> See anything remotely suggestive?

Maybe. I see:

NYAA_HOST = 'https://nyaa.si'
SUKEBEI_HOST = 'https://sukebei.nyaa.si'

so this is pre-configured to get torrents from a website which offers mainly/mostly/only infringing torrents.

Caveat: IANAL.
Given that republicans have lost the popular vote in every election since 2000 I don't see them getting on board with going to a straight popular vote anytime in the near future to determine the Presidential election.
To be honest I wouldn't bother with an existing code generator. However I would definitely consider modelling your state machine and generating code from that. Also model your state machine hierarchically, especially if it has any kind of complexity. We did that with our NBD client, which has 96 states in 17 groups, generating C code: https://github.com/libguestfs/libnbd/tree/master/generator
Do not take this as advice on removing watermarking, but it sure would confuse the decoding team at Zoom to encounter a file that had been sent over a watermarked Zoom connection more than once.
At least on one image, increasing the 'creativity' slider made the boobs bigger at every step. At the lowest value a shirt was added.
I've played Jackbox games monthly with my family via Zoom. I have a gigabit fiber connection, and they have slower cable connections. The Jackbox timer can be configured to a longer amount, but we've never had an issue with this. Most timer issues have been due to someone being distracted by something else, not the game itself.

Generally, if a group can use any form of videoconferencing, they can use Jackbox. It's no different from one person sharing a presentation. I've only encountered one game that required realtime interaction, and we know to avoid it.

It's pretty easy to get around corporate machine lockdown by using a personal machine to host. Participants are just using the web browser.
For electric thrusters on cubesats, you can basically ignore the mass variations for most high level calculations. Propellant mass is so little and the specific impulse so high that unless you are using all the propellant in one giant maneuver the difference will be minimal.
Neither condoning nor condemning, but: Japan is the same country where shows featuring brother-sister incest are aired on television, albeit late at night. [0] I'm not Japanese, just an anime fan, but from my understanding they (Japanese anime fans) could not give less of a shit about Western taboos and sensibilities.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oreimo_episodes
Coming up with the text and doing the visual layout later are often separate step. And author does not do all the visual layout.
> and recently voted for the CARES act, which transferred huge amounts of wealth to large corporations.

That was a payroll support program like every other country did, plus airline bailouts which were good because they have giant union contracts.

CARES is the greatest anti-poverty measure the US has done in a hundred years and probably the largest downward transfer of wealth in the world. You didn't notice because all left-wing commentators decided to lie about it ("we only got $1200 checks") instead of reading about how the unemployment benefit worked.

https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1322348938339389441
Also an entirely different industry, with entirely different costs, constraints, and production practices. Can we stop using oranges as we talk about apples?

While we're here though, actually, yes, car manufacturers would love it if people would stop buying used cars. In fact, there were whole lawsuits in the past about planned obsolescence, and dealers today often run promotions to get you to turn in your used "clunker" and buy a new ride.
I don't think the founders ever could have imagined the possibility of high-capacity, fully automatic broadcasting of speech when they wrote the first amendment.
I think that people aren't addressing the root cause. The existence of a two-party system is intended to keep parties in power. Yes, there are other parties, such as Constitution or Libertatian, but until things change they are inconsequential.

People should elect candidates, not parties. If we do not stop electing parties, we will continue to elect gatekeepers and politicians who spend all their time creating and then pretending they can't solve wedge issues, while spending money frivolously to bribe people and pay-off the corporations who later hire them.

These politicians, who all seem to hate each other, are friends with each other, and they play citizens for fools. Why don't we all take a step back and stop playing _their_ game? The problem isn't the electoral college, it's the people who we let matriculate and the party system.
Any change to any voting system is likely going to benefit one party more than others, and said party will always be motivated for that reason. This is a given. This should not then imply that we never change how voting works. When republicans want to do the right thing for bad reasons, and when democrats want to do the right thing for bad reasons, roll with it.
Sort of. The provided a functionality that reddit did not, so they weren't really unbundling anything. They smartly realized that reddit would probably eventually provide that same functionality (which they did) so they started down the path of building their own community before that happened.
Deep pockets are only useful as a proxy for getting people to vote. What means more than deep packets is votes. If we can bring in votes that is far more powerful than money.

So get out there and convince voters that this is an important topic. The law will change fast if congress decides that not changing it will mean they are thrown out and some other person who will replaces them. So long as they think few people care it will get lib service. (also so long as there seem to be a signification amount of people on the other side nothing will change)
Hello, Bluetiful There's a new YInMn blue-inspired crayon
"It's Bluetiful. That's the name of Crayola's new blue crayon inspired by OSU's YInMn blue, the pigment discovered by OSU chemist Mas Subramanian. The announcement came after many months and more than 90,000 submissions by fans around the world. The name Bluetiful beat out the other four finalists, Blue Moon Bliss, Dreams Come Blue, Reach for the Stars and Star Spangled Blue. Replacing the retired yellow crayon Dandelion, Bluetiful will debut in new crayon boxes this fall."
I suspect one could make a case, given the history of the MPA/MPAA that they've left both the realm of "good faith" and "belief" long ago. Each incident doesn't get to occur in a vacuum. You can't claim blissful ignorance forever.
As others have noted, this was clearly trained on a small subset of anime imagery. This sort of thing is definitely a thing in anime, but there is also a huge amount of content that does not feature highly sexualized female character designs.
used game sales (as well as used sales of all other media) have always existed.
this was not a cause of any problem for console game developers until around 2005 or so.
the mid 2000s switch to the "next gen" platforms caused a lot of shittiness for gaming. mostly from publisher greed due to the potential for mass profits, and the increased cost of developing at higher fidelity. games were originally for a more niche audience, used to focus more on difficulty over "content" in order to get replay value and lifespan. but if you lower the difficulty you can hopefully get more players experiencing all of your "content", and hopefully you can get them to buy some more after they complete the main part of your game.
Didn't creditkarma peel off of reddit? The key is to build a service that redditors use and become the default service for a huge sub. Like YNAB has done for r/personalfinance.
dev in a linux vm/container on your M1 macbook, then deploy to a graviton instance.
> I don't know much about anime

Well, this is not representative of all anime, but admittedly of a large subsegment.

> but why are so many anime women depicted in an overly sexualised manner?

Because it sells very well to young males, especially the stereotypical basement-dwelling sexually frustrated nerd population. And Japan is the land of the Hikkikomori, after all.

But it's not like this kind of thing doesn't exist in the USA either. Just take a look at some superhero comics.
There's a lot of GAN monsters here. One of the big improvements from StyleGAN->2 was the introduction of Perceptual Path Length Loss (PPL). Has the author thought about adjusting that? Additionally there is StyleGAN2-ADA (recent) which deals better with smaller datasets (I'm not sure how big this dataset is but I'm sure it isn't as big as ImageNet). I'd imagine this would help significantly because most of the monsters are having issues with the body and multiple people, so there's probably not as many samples with that feature in the dataset. I'd be interested to see what improvements these would make.

Some Fun Monsters:

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.8/seed3103.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.8/seed4437.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.8/seed8810.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.8/seed3309.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.0/seed9278.pn...

https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/results/psi-1.8/seed8300.pn...
"the only real place where power still remains with the Republicans is the Senate"

And the Supreme Court, and many lower courts, which have been packed with Republicans.

Not to mention the military and the police, and probably the intelligence agencies too.
Some of the signs are the exact same. I doubt they created these at home. Printing companies were around back then.
Upgrading Kubernetes, 1.11 to 1.18 in a Month
There were more than what I'd call dozens, there's already been over 100 arrests and it's early in the investigation. Also basing this on the videos I've seen. There were hallways full of people packed behind barriers, streams of people going by different locations, etc.

I wouldn't say violence of this sort is representative of Republicans, but Republicans are too accepting of the extremists that this event grew out of. One of them is the leader of their party.
Lucky for them, the reddit implementation is as-of-now still pretty awful.
The problem with Parler was not that terrorists were using its platform. The problem is that Parler refused to even try to ban terrorists from its platform, which should surprise nobody given that Parler was created for the benefit of such groups. Facebook has never gotten a pass on this, in fact they have been widely criticized for failing to be aggressive enough in their efforts to moderate extremist content, conspiracy theories, and misinformation.

In a nutshell the difference is this: Parler was created as a safe haven for people and content that had been banned from mainstream platforms (and the majority of small, non-mainstream platforms).
I'm building Cloudnews [0] to solve that.

You can already subscribe to specific products (Lambda, CloudFront, etc) and get news via email or into Slack.

I'm currently building the option to mute certain aws regions as you said.

For now we only support AWS but Azure and GCP are coming soon.

[0]: https://www.cloudnews.dev/