skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that wouldn't have prevented the "cancer" from moving to decentralized networks. If anything it'd probably accelerate the process.

I think the important point is that most operators of nodes on a federated network are not in a position to benefit from this kind of garbage content, and have every reason (and the tools they need) to keep it away from their portion of the network.
Most regulatory offenses are punished with fines, which are generally paid by the company rather than the executives.

But also, large corporations tend to have lawyers and consequently either not break the rules or have the ability to argue their way out of it. So the main benefit would seem to be to small companies that make an honest mistake.
I'll be in the need soon for an API License Agreement, any recommendations other than this site or using an attorney? Looked at Termly[1] but it's mainly for Terms and Privacy policies.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608530
Sure, it's not for everyone because there is social pressure to leave a kind word for others in your community, and there are other free exchange groups that may fit your style more. No one is required to explain why they need something, but a lot of people feel comfortable saying "my daughter would love this" instead of a lot of "me"s and "next"s. It's a weird vicarious dopamine hit for everyone else reading along; hard to explain if you haven't experienced it.
Anybody try this out that also has experience with Hackintosh that can give a comparison review?
That's why it'd be necessary to record several meetings and see how things change between them.
I mean, I’m going off of this:

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/suspected-pipe-bombs...

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-inaugurati...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al.com/news/birmingham/2021...
Journalists/whistleblowers have had to deal with the same set of issues for digital images and other documents & media for a while now. Visible & invisible watermarks, custom metadata and even non-standard binary manipulation means that shared files are pretty much fully trackable, and complete anonymization is out of reach for everyone but the most technical users.
Indeed, this is just mindless showboating.

One day Trump will refer to this as some sort of achievement or having struck out at "the enemy". That is the point.
Before criticizing this executive order, carefully consider whether you are in possession of any wild bird feathers — a federal felony, whether or not the action was via criminal poaching, or... picking up a feather on a hike.

https://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/29326904495/16-a-p...
That's a totally meaningless sentence.
I've seen the demos of AI systems that can be trained on an individual's voice, and generate new speech in the same voice. If I was waterprinting a meeting, I would train a system like this on the fly on the people in the meeting and use it to dynamically insert filler words (um...) in a unique pattern into the audio stream for each member of the meeting. That would defeat any audio filter tricks or recreating the meeting from scratch, so you would want to summarize/rephrase the meeting too.
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What does it have to do with the democratic process?
I absolutly love the concept. Excuse me, I'm gonna install this on everything real quick. I'll report back (if I don't forget).
dont forget the guy who created debian. his life also came to a sad and tormented end a few years ago.

a lot of smart people you know are on the spectrum, and they also have asthma. its no coincidence that katz did. it isnt fully appreciated yet but there is a connection between inflammation and the dysfunction of the brains metabolic budgeting.
I was simply referencing the origin of the authors of the policies that were then moved to the federal level and tied to funding, which was passed by a GOP congress.

The problem has nothing to do with training, and all to do with legal policy regrading termination of parental rights.

The training is a result of appellate risk for TPR with regards to state effort for reunification.

But thanks for the attack of my character.
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That's a really interesting example. I think I'm having a hard time articulating my question, partly because I don't fully understand the entire stack of software and standards underlying a modern terminal app on a desktop. I feel like there is a lot of historical baggage in that stack, but I don't know where exactly, or why. I was using "the VT standard" as a sort of proxy for that historical baggage, but maybe that's not accurate.
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I don't know what you mean exactly, but: Bitcoin is really stable, it's not under development in the same way Ethereum is. So "bitcoin devs" don't really exist. Whereas a relatively small group of people could potentially change how Ethereum works, a lot.
It's easy to argue that you didn't know, but not easy to prove it. For example, if there is any licensing or professional regulation, and all licensed professionals are expected to know X, then "I didn't know" as a licensed professional isn't going to cut it.
This is similar to the experience of driving a car and listening to music at the same time. When you are in a tight situation, like a very busy road or a narrow street with lots of traffic you'd usually stop talking to the passengers or turn the radio down a bit to "concentrate". It's because you want to use all the mental capacity at that time.
Similarly my first thought would be to reencode it as <96kbit/s MP3.
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And now he's out. The system's not about preemptively stopping theoretical bad acts per se (although if it actually stops real incoming threats, great), but rather, about being able to evaluate and change course when human fallibility inevitably leads to bad policies, bad choices, and bad outcomes. It's a work in progress, particularly as to how we can properly disincentivize future attempts and hold those who actively attempted to overthrow the Constitutional state by force without resorting to Minority-Report style overbroad invasions of privacy, but at least we can do that. These things are such non-starters in China and Russia that the former more or less acquiesced to a corrupt state and the latter has an economy that was so thoroughly disposessed by the few from the people that its GDP is on par with New York City despite 60 times the population, and with no recourse. Change is never easy nor always correct, but at least that opportunity exists here. It doesn't in many places that purportedly have "order" over "liberty" as the central value, as they end up with neither.
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I agree, though this is par for the course on political positions and commentary.

It's rare to see anyone who holds a position that can accept any weaknesses in their position, or strengths in opposing views, despite that the real world is complex and positions relating to it will inevitably have pros and cons.
> It's the design that is the hard part

Design but also requirements. You don't really know what should be built until you have a prototype. And estimating how long it will take to come up with a prototype that does what you think it should do, in other words coming up with requirements, is just the snake eating its tail.
If gists had a UI update to even look like a decent Jekyll like blog it would be used, the UI also could gain a lot by improving on Medium's editor

Anyone interested in getting this built?
You’re talking about rising purchasing power, which is better achieved through rising income than deflating currency.
The line I responded to was about "awarding the contest to the loser," that means transferring institutional power. Not just killing people on TV.

In order for a coup to be successful, institutions need to endorse the new order or have their heads replaced with loyalists. Capturing the symbolic seat of power, or even killing elected representatives doesn't accomplish that. In this scenario there would've needed to be a body of bureaucrats and officers in every branch and every agency who would see the house leader lynched on TV and then said, yes I'm ready to do the bidding of the usurping administration.

This would be hundreds of people, if not thousands, in the highest ranking civilian positions who would all have to endorse or be arrested. Then because this is a federalist system, local governments would all have had to endorse the new system or be replaced. Also, the judiciary. Also, all branches of the military.

Unless you believe we were on the precipice of this happening, it wasn't a coup, and if you do think we were anywhere close to seeing this happen, you're insane and wrong. It was at best a bumbling terrorist attack. More accurately IMO, it was mob violence resulting from an epic failure of crowd control.
Very cool! A modern analogue might be LinuxCNC, which runs on old PCs in a realtime manner, generating pulses and sending them out the parallel port, or sending commands over ethernet to a dedicated step generator board for ultra accurate timing. What's old is new again!
I find when hiking there's a huge toll / boost from being the weakest or strongest link. If I'm hiking with friends who are relatively novice I find it completely effortless whereas with people more experienced than I I find the going far more though. Maybe it's just hard to be the slow one.
At one time, it was harder and more expensive. You could do open loop stepper control with four big transistors, some logic, and a whopping heat sink. Closed loop meant learning how to tune the loop, and also involved the cost of the encoders.

If you're using surplus parts, then getting enough documentation to make a servo system work can be touch and go. Steppers are pretty much brain dead simple.

Even with servos, the entire machine has to be pretty stout in order to ride through a bump that would cause a large stepping motor to miss a step. At that point, if it's a homemade machine, something else will end up out of kilter too, such as your clamping or the workpiece itself.
> FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.

This is really common on Amazon, even for things that aren't heavy/large. Amazon used to be a place that gave you some of the best prices on things, but that hasn't been true for a long time.
I absolutely detest finding Medium articles in search results. Often they contain good knowledge which confuses me even more.

For anyone unaware - it seems a lot of people must be, otherwise I don't understand why anyone would choose to publish there - this is the flow for most users trying to read your articles:

- See a Google search result that goes to Medium

- Click the link and start reading

- Read the first two paragraphs, then see a popup saying you need to login to continue reading for free (the rest of the page isn't rendered, so you can't just block it with adblock)

- Reluctantly decide to login, waiting a few minutes for the email link to click on to do so

- Log in, then have to navigate your history back to the article, as they take you to a different page

- Start reading again, and after the first two paragraphs get a popup saying you need to pay $5/mo to see the rest of the article

- Rage quit your job and go live in the forest

I understand there are ways around the paywall, but that's not what most users are going to do.
Just judging by the torque specs and comparing to a nema23 stepper, seems like it needs an order of magnitude more torque to compare. Note that in the comparison chart they compare to a nema11, which is tiny compared to the steppers used in most hobby cncs.
"YouTube takes 30 percent of donations made through SuperChat, and the company confirmed to The Verge that the same revenue split will occur with creators who enable clapping."

This makes me think that the feature might struggle to gain traction. Why would I donate to a creator through YouTube if they only receive 70% of my money? It seems like YT is betting that the convenience of their donation function is going to be worth enough that I won't just donate to my favorite creators through a less heavily taxed platform.
This is counter thousands of years of legal tradition.

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

> Ignorantia juris non excusat
(Legal principle)

> Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law excuses not" and "ignorance of law excuses no one" respectively) is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely by being unaware of its content.

> European-law countries with a tradition of Roman law may also use an expression from Aristotle translated into Latin: nemo censetur ignorare legem (nobody is thought to be ignorant of the law) or ignorantia iuris nocet (not knowing the law is harmful).

And if Wikipedia is no authority for you maybe the bible is:

Leviticus 5:17: "If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the LORD's commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible."
Which regime would you recommend?
I've done this exercise and generally what you want is a combination of your suggestion (which is elaborated by 'polyphora[0]) and 'p1necone's suggestion [1]

Polyphora mentioned CIELAB as just one example, and it's a good example. I believe state of the art these days is Oklab[2], talked about here[3]. I'd like to pull out a comment from 'jiggawatts in that discussion:

> This is a tour de force of colour theory, and should be mandatory reading for anyone serious about computer colour!

I completely agree.

With regards to 'p1necone's suggestion, k-nearest neighbors is one simple and relatively easy way to separate the colors into bins. I've only done this on a single image, but with multiple images maybe you could also k-nn bin the resulting colors from each image and only return bins which have multiple members.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25828733

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25828773

2: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25525726
Is there a way to make it safe-by-default, such that I can't accidentally stray beyond what the compiler can prove safe?
That seems like the wrong type of job to outsource. You outsource for expert help. This can be done in house with more control over when work occurs to sync with low traffic volume times.
Yeah that's a good point. Just because you've removed the watermark, doesn't mean you've removed all of the unique features.
But its a hoax /s
It’s huge and hard to distribute. This should be a web app, plain and simple. It would get 10,000 times as many users.
So this may be visible on the spectrogram, right?
Oh My God No!

The infection can cause sepsis. You could lose a chunk of your jaw. You can literally die from dental infections.
I'm not sure it's free speech exactly, but the ability to hang put with like minded people exclusively. The internet makes that fairly easy. You just ban everyone who disagrees from your little forum, or drive them off.

I don't see any clear fix though. Even the big sites like Facebook and Reddit have that going on.

Of course, I admit this went on before with things like religious groups that isolated people to convert them to the cult, but it's far easier to generate the effect now.
Also consider if any of you may have sodomized a Texan in the 1990s.
Nah, there are quite a few people into CNC things on HN. :)
The Trump administration has issued many rules in its waning days. For example, they dramatically changed diplomatic practices toward Taiwan and shifted military responsibility for Israel from European Command to Central Command (you can lookup its impact).

The rules won't be put into effect, afaict - there's no time - and are worthless for the American people. If the Trump administration thought they were worthy, presumably they would have enacted them years ago when Trump have could utilized them.

AFAIK, it's like a CEO changing a bunch of policies on their last day at the company. Now the only purpose I divine is to undermine the American government or score political points. You can ignore it, but then there is no reason for it ever to stop.
I can't seem to find a link to the actual codebase? Good to see AWS console finally moving away from angular 1.
When I consider the problem of the Chinese room, I often feel it's a stronger argument that human perception of its own understanding is just illusory, predictable mappings of inputs to outputs. To say we understand things intrinsically and not through a mechanical, artificial process sounds wrong. The ideal AI would be equal to us, and equally flawed from any sort of objective existence.

Discussion of plant feelings strikes me as a dumbed down Chinese room. I'd say plants are just stimulus response machines with no option for debate of sentience or awareness. That's not to say they're not intricate, amazing, or beautiful. But "feelings" imply processing of the feelings at some sort of subjective level, and I don't see any reason to believe plants have this.
Programming is isomorphic to theorem proving (according to Curry-Howard).

Therefore trying to estimate a software project is a bit like trying to estimate how long it will take to prove a new theorem in mathematics, assuming you would know which exact theorem you want to prove.
Why do such risky unpredictable things if you can simply filter out certain parts of the spectrum?
If you’re interested in a garage-size router and don’t have the time to build, I suggest the Omnio X8 - starts at 2k, and all tooling an upgrades will probably run to a total of 3k.

Here’s some tips and tricks:
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This is a nice concrete example with tangible goods.

Commodities futures contracts are a very tangible example, but my understanding is that the pattern is much more general. Most futures arbitrage trades made by large multinationals are fundamentally these sorts of storage cost arbitrage and/or funding cost arbitrage. (Funding cost can be thought of as a storage cost for money/debt.)

For instance, my understanding is that trading stock index futures vs. a replicating basket of single-stock futures is usually a matter of finding ways to secure funding more cheaply than your competitors. In this case, your competitive advantage is fundamentally linked to time, and exiting early reduces your competitive advantage.
Is a /s missing here?

> It's huge and hard to distribute.

That's why it's distributed with every mainstream OS (except for Windows if you don't use WSL) and many OSes outside the mainstream so frequently.

> This should be a web app, plain and simple.

Do we really need YACPWA (Yet Another Crossword Puzzle Web App)? Someone had an itch, scratched it, and distributed it.

> It would get 10,000 times as many users.

And?
Free speech had always had limits. Maliciously yelling "Fire!" in a crowded room is an existential threat.
This is neat, coincidentally I was wondering about a superficially similar problem recently:

Given a list of arbitrary strings, generate a consistent mapping from that list to a color palette of distinguishable colors.

This is distinct from deterministically mapping a single string to a single color (easy) because the intention is to provide a reasonably distinct set of colors, which I think can't be guaranteed when looking at single values.

Bonus: if [str1, str2, str3] -> [rgb1, rgb2, rgb3], have the map update incrementally, so that [str1, str2, str3, str4] -> [rgb1, rgb2, rgb3, rgb4].

I assume I'm restating a version of some existing algorithm, but I don't know what.
Um... Is he 'ordering' to change the US legal system from a common law system to one closer to roman law? Ok.
I don't think it follows that my summary is wrong. I'm suggesting Ethereum people are happy to incentivize investment and stakeholders to protect ETH's value -- but not because they actually care about investors getting a good return, rather, because they want good security properties for their decentralized applications.
Sometimes the way a computer works is a useful model for thinking about your thoughts, but you don't actually think that way. If you believe that you actually do, it can be self-fulfilling, limiting, and even deny your humanity.

You are not a computer, not even close. Unfortunately, we are often temped to think we are. It's a cause of the social disfunction techies are known for. Don't be so self-limiting. To think we are like a computer can be useful, but it can be a crutch.
One of the angles that I haven't seen discussed yet is that an increase in the money supply is a reasonable response to a significant decrease in the velocity of money. With stores closed, services shuttered and experiences unavailable, people are holding onto money longer, and it's changing hands less. If money is changing hands less (lower velocity) you need more money in the system to enable the same amount of commerce.

Once the economy starts back up again, the fed could reduce the money supply in line with the increasing velocity.
No. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is what you say to the defendant who claims they can't be prosecuted because they didn't know. This is about, in essence, prosecutorial discretion.

If everybody was prosecuted for breaking all the laws they didn't know existed, everybody would be in prison.

Also, the old principle was reasonable when the law consisted of things like "don't kill people or steal stuff" which everybody can be reasonably expected to know whether or not they ever read the book where it's written down. That doesn't quite work when you're talking about every obscure detail of the 70,000 pages in the Federal Register.
Wow awesome photos! As someone who has visited Nepal 3x to see big mountains, I've always thought of people visiting Pakistan to be a little crazy. You've definitely made me rethink that!
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Funnily enough, the word "BA0BAB" returns #B688AB, close to #BA0BAB but not exactly it
I completely agree with your assessment. Alcohol is sneaky and before you know it, an alcohol habit that starts out as a "occasional drink to unwind" after a long, stressful day of work becomes a daily routine or focus of your existence.

I never fell into the spiral of alcoholism, but there was a point after college where I realized that I was drinking more than I wanted to for my own personal standards. And I found it was surprisingly more difficult than I initially anticipated to "moderate" the habit. Moderation didn't work for me. I had to make the conscious decision to forcefully flip the switch back off and I made a commitment to never play with that fire again.
> That sounds great in theory, but the problem is that many of these leadership roles if not elected directly are nominated by the president and therefore they are political in nature and those politics can flow down through the organization.

That could be changed though. It's not how it works here in the UK. The ministers in charge of departments are political appointments, but we also have a substantial politically neutral civil service with lots of headroom for career advancement. (politically neutral to the point that you are not allowed to publically express your political opinions - posting them on social media could be a firing offence)
> The decision makers in Ethereum care overwhelmingly about maximizing the value of their massive premine holdings.

That's not the impression I got of Vitalik Buterin at all, nor others at the Ethereum foundation. Maybe you have a different set of decisionmakers in mind.