skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given enough input, it should be able to learn on it's own what a humanoid shape is to a human.

Was the This Person Does Not Exist-a.i. simply trained with pictures of human heads? As it seems to be quite capable of keeping many things apart that are commonly kept apart.
my main concern is pricing. many websites use anti-scraping technologies. scraping the html doesn't work anymore. need to load everything and execute js. for example, I have seen some can detect headless / puppeteer mode too. I ended up creating my own scraping infra using vanilla chrome...

current saas platforms charge by request count. If I need to load everything, the cost will be too high.
Some of the new laptops with Zen 3 Ryzen chips are very nice. They are fairly powerful and very energy efficient. Not quite on the level of the M1 but I believe they are very close. I have a Zen 2 Ryzen laptop and it is fast while having long battery life.
Or anything other than pasty white skin.
I am not making a moral judgement, I am saying that the shape of the business affects the quality and the style of the art.

Movie theaters are dying and it seems like they may be replaced by streaming services like Netflix. The truth is, for all streamers pay they probably won't end up paying as much as theaters. And it is not clear any of them currently make money. What if the model that really makes money is YouTube, and a lot of classic expensive movies are going to be replaced with mediocre user generated content that is extremely profitable to stream? That may sound crazy, but think what happened to radio?

I am not seriously arguing that I know what will happen, but you just have to understand that when there is a good buisiness for high quality, you tend to get quality.
It certainly has. It's no theory of everything, therefore it has limits. For example not explaining gravity.
> The new license doesn't restrict others from operating Elasticsearch as a service. It restricts others from operating Elasticsearch as a service unless they release any source code patches, improvements, and/or functionality extensions they make to it.

If this was AGPL, I'd agree with you. IANAL, but SSPL is so broad that it could be construed to cover the Linux kernel, which is a no-no. :(
Lovely. Mozilla should be advancing the web in similar ways in Firefox.
I disagree, for small subreddits, mods should have all the power they want to curate and garden and develop their community in the way they see fit. The great thing about Reddit is that if a mod is abusive and most users agree, there's absolutely nothing preventing you starting a new subreddit.

Perhaps larger less niche subreddits should have a greater amount of accountability, though, because something like /r/canada can't easily be replaced.

With greater power should come greater accountability. Think a sort of public/private model for subreddits.
I've got an idea that would require no code (at least for an MVP) based on some experiments I've done. I'd be open to having a conversation about the problem.

joel at joel dare dot com
From my link:

Some supporters and opponents of the NPVIC believe it gives one party an advantage relative to the current Electoral College system. Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, a Republican, has argued that the compact would be an "urban power grab" and benefit Democrats.[19] However, Saul Anuzis, former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, wrote that Republicans "need" the compact, citing what he believes to be the center-right nature of the American electorate.[33]

A statistical analysis by FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver of all presidential elections from 1864 to 2016 (see adjacent chart) found that the Electoral College has not consistently favored one major party or the other, and that any advantage in the Electoral College does not tend to last long, noting that "there's almost no correlation between which party has the Electoral College advantage in one election and which has it four years later."[32]
Exactly... that was demonstrated with DeCSS and AACS a long time ago, with shirts printed with colors "encoding" the magic number and whatnot.

I would love for someone to actually code this in the "rockstar" language. With sufficient "base" conversions, you could make any program be represented by the constitution.
> someone with diabetes walking in to pick up a take-out salad from a bar

Can simply not do that in the current high risk environment. There are plenty of places offering take out food that don't require you to go into a room full of unmasked people to pick it up. So voting with your wallet seems like a perfectly viable option to incentivize businesses to take proper precautions and ensure that their customers do.

Also, are you assuming this person with diabetes is properly following all the guidelines? Are they wearing an appropriate mask, and wearing it properly (covering both their mouth and nose with a good seal all around)? Are they washing their hands right afterwards? (Or wearing gloves--my wife and I do that in cases where we can't be sure about whatever we're going to have to touch.) Are they minimizing the time they spend in enclosed spaces that aren't their home? Those are all things you can do to mitigate risk in situations where you have to go somewhere, such as the grocery store.

> It feels legitimately odd to need to explicitly defend the idea that there exist inescapable negative consequences

They're not "inescapable". That's the point. If you know you live in a society where a lot of people are not taking proper precautions, then you can take that into account in planning your own life and taking your own precautions. My wife and I have been doing that since the end of February 2020. It's doable. And since it's doable, I don't buy the claim that there are "inescapable" negative consequences.
I explained my logic in the previous comment and don't feel the need to go into further detail. Demanding sources isn't really a logical argument, anyway.
I read that article and it is very redolent of what SCO argued back in the day. If they had actual proof, they would take legal action against the author of that plugin.
I wish there was something like this for Docker rather than Lambda functions.

I'm new to all of it, but the security groups, route tables, internet gateways and other implementation details of AWS left me feeling overwhelmed and insecure (literally, because roles and permissions are nearly impossible for humans to reason about). AWS also suffers from the syndrome of: if you want to use some of it, you have to learn all of it.

Basically what I need is a sandbox for running Docker containers with any reasonable scale (under 100? what's big these days?). Then I just want to be able to expose incoming port 443 and one or two others for a WebSocket or an SSL port so admins can get to the database and filesystem (maybe). Why is something so conceptually trivial not offered by more hosting providers?

I researched Heroku a bit but am not really sure what I'm looking at without actually doing the steps. I'm also not entirely certain why CI/CD has been made so complicated. I mean conceptually it's:

1) Run a web hook to watch for changes at GitHub and elsewhere

2) Optionally run a bunch of unit tests and if they pass, go to step 3

3) Run a command like "docker-compose --some-option-to-make-this-happen-remotely up"

So why is a 3 step thing a 3000 step thing? Full disclose, I did the 3000 steps with Terraform and while I learned a lot from the experience, I can't say that I see the point of most of it. I would not recommend the bare-hands way on any cloud provider to anyone, ever (unless they're a big company or something).

I guess what I'm asking is, could you adapt what you've done here to work with other AWS services like ECS? It's all of the same configuration and monitoring stuff. I've already hit several bugs in ECS where you have to manually run docker prune and other commands in the EC2 instance because the lifetimes are in hours and they haven't finished the rough edges around their cleanup commands. So I've hit problems where even though I've spun down the cluster, the new one won't spin up because it says the Nginx container is still using the port. I can't tell you how infuriating it is to have to work around issues like that which ECS was supposed to handle in the first place. And I've hit similar gotchas on the other AWS services too, to the point where I'm having trouble seeing the value in what they're offering, or even understanding why a service exists in the first place, when I might have done it a different way if I was designing it.

TL;DR: if you could make deploying Docker as "easy" as Lambda, you'd quickly run out of places to store the money.
"That's what certificates are for"

Could you explain that? I thought that if DNS were spoofed then people could be redirected anywhere else, no matter what the certificate said. I thought that could be mitigated by CAA records, but that too could be spoofed, eg, by your service provider.

How do I prevent the government of China from MITM-ing access to my web site from someone in China, using a Chinese mobile phone with certificates pre-installed and automatically by the local Chinese telco?

"This seems like a very strange semantic argument"

I think you're making the strange argument. If I get a "free" cell phone which has a modified browser that inserted ads when viewing my web site, then from the customer's view those ads are on my site, right?

But of course there's nothing I can do about that. Nor can you.

So why place the responsibility on me?

"if the only broadband provider that serves your area injects ads on non-secured pages"

Have you not seen all of the ads for systems like SecureVPN?

"pervasive passive surveillance"

One of the pervasive passive surveillance attacks mentioned in the ietf link is traffic analysis, which I mentioned earlier. Can you guarantee that if I simply switch to https then the NSA could not use traffic analysis to figure out what users access from my static-pages, public-facing web site?

Do you seriously think the NSA hasn't automated something as simple as remembering download sizes for each page, for a large number of web sites, in order to infer things like this? So do my readers gain any additional security against NSA surveillance by switching to https?

Don't forget that my service provider (in the US) can be forced to reveal details and do tracing without telling me, including providing clear-text access to the logs.

Since I cannot defend against NSA surveillance on my readers, I have to choose a threat model where I can make a difference.

And I can't figure out who I should care to thwart, where https would make a meaningful difference.

Clearly there are web providers which can and should use https to protect privacy against non-nation-state actors. Passwords, money, and the ability to insert code without review are three things which change the balance.

But I don't see any benefit for my basic blog site that's been around for 20 years, and there appears to be a (small?) negative.
That's because it isn't the land that is voting. You're trying to represent a diverse set of people and industries. We shouldn't screw over farmers because laws that work in cities are disastrous in rural areas and we shouldn't screw over cities because of laws that work well in rural areas. We need the farms, mining, energy (solar and wind as well as coal and natural gas), fishing, etc that comes with rural areas. They provide us with food and many of our essential resources. Similarly we need cities and the resources they bring us: tech, finance, logistics, etc. We need both for a highly functioning state. So it isn't so much land as voting but labor and utility.

And I want to be clear, I'm talking about equitable not equal. It seems weird to me that we don't talk about it this way when we do in so many other conventionally left topics (race, gender, culture, religion, etc). So why screw over the other side just because they disagree with us politically? I'm all for proportionate representation but at some point you have to strike a balance. You need both sides of the country to be operating as efficiently as possible and while now we favor the rural states swinging in the opposite direction isn't a balance, it is still a skew. Fairness doesn't always mean equality because the nature of reality isn't equal. Pretending that doesn't exist just creates inequality.
"good faith attempts"

If it's about intent, rather than results, then it's sure a big coincidence that Parler was deplatformed by Apple, Google, and AWS all within a few days.
> No one wants to build their infrastructure on something with expensive IBM/Oracle-costing support.

What's stopping you from running Elastic without paying for support under the new license?
That’s a percentage increase as a byproduct of losing overall weight.
Am I the only one who has significant performance problems with Brave/Chrome/chromium? Is this an OSX issue?
Where freedom of speech falls in the hierarchy of rights is not my concern. What is my concern, is who gets to choose what that hierarchy is and where freedom of speech exists on it.

I'm arguing that the government is not who gets to determine what that hierarchy is, and thereby determine what gets to superceed freedom of speech.
Man’s Best Friend Once Made Nice Wool Blankets, Too (2019)
I read the title as FB instead of FBI and assumed it was yet another hit piece by the NYT or Guardian blaming Facebook for MLK's assassination.
Continuously issuing shares leads to dilution(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_dilution). This has a ramifications for board members like Ryan Cohen who wants to change the company trajectory and also tend to have a downward effect on the share price.
What was Windows/386?
Ok will post this next
Do you have any rough plans for how you would support SAM? Would you be transforming the YAML in some proprietary way or just calling off to CloudFormation on the users behalf?
It would not have happened without the Printing Press, Television, Radio, AK47s designed in Russia and Made in China, the Suez Canal or Saudi Oil either.

Of all possible contentious issues with respect to the Arab Spring uprising (and there are many) - this is not one of them.

It definitely was not an 'inciting' factor.

Frankly, if you want to point at 'the thing' it would be Chelsea Manning's cable leaks: determined to show her own nations foibles, she did nothing of the sort, rather she exposed the vast, totalitarian corruption among Arab state leaders, which lit the match in Tunisia and then elsewhere.

It was a raw, populist uprising against the 'dumb tyranny' of those systems and had predictable results in each of the nations.

It was completely outside the scope of US/Western control, and by and large totally outside the foreign policy objectives of most US/Western players. Nobody really wanted it - way too much instability and risk. There were also no winners, and a bunch of losers for sure, sadly.
Free markets come with the stipulation that Bob trading with Carol does not hurt uninvolved Ted.
What? It's not "coincidentally" correct, and yes, it absolutely is a correct model for phenomena at a certain scale (in fact, for the vast majority of phenomena in engineering disciplines for instance).
Why we should never trust Facebook:

1) well.. their CEO is a scumbag.

2) not only the CEO is a scumbag, apparently there are plenty more where he came from (scumbagland??)of them in there: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2019/02/01/apple-bl...

That second point didn't "just" happen. It was organized. It was planned. It was tested. It was approved. It was rolled out. And I didn't read about 10-50-100 people quitting/getting fired after this fallout. So.. another day at work. This time they got busted. So with CA. So with experimenting on our psychology by manipulating order of showing posts (effectively cancelling out the chronological order).

PS: and right when I thought I would only post positive messages on HN from now one.. a FB post comes up..!!
PS2: I guess FB is useful to some. I wish them the best!! (there is a positive note!)
We do but we’re currently using an Abbott sensor
A third possibility is that there it’s both fundamental problems in American society and wrong information, that make rushing the capital an irrational response to real problems.
Most NES games had a way of saving, except the earliest NES games.

Most of them had codes you'd type in that was a save point. Many had actual save states on the cartridge.

The earlier games got around not having a code by having a secret early on the game that was revealed later on in the game so you could skip all of the parts you previously played.
That's true when it's a one-time job: pull the data and disappear. I also see how this is the case for most freelancers on Fiverr or Freelancer. This is the tool they know, so they use it. However I imagine there is a number of companies that strongly rely on continous data scraping - let it be for price comparison - and I've seen one heavily using Puppeteer
Isn't vue from a hong konger? Seems not too great if the goal is PRC dominance
I disagree. Giving them too much power puts them into power trip mode. And defeats the purpose of reddit: curated content from the userbase.

If I wanted to be told what articles to read by a bunch of mods I'd go to CNN or Fox news.

Reddit mods should let their communities decide and have most of the power. This is the spirit of reddit. Not auto-bans and IP sniffers. They should only be responsible for removing illegal or threatening content such as doxxing.

Mods are very clearly abusing their power. Reddit is alienating some of its core most loyal userbase.

And RPAN also sucks while i'm on my soapbox.
This author goes on a for a long time but I'm a member of cmv and I can tell you exactly what went wrong in one sentence.

Nobody saw the content.

I vaguely knew about the website when it happened but ignored it. I'm on cmv for one reason, it shows up in my reddit feed. It's not interesting enough to spend time on a separate website/app.

What's good about reddit is the diversity of content you can get.
We’re developing our own but currently using an Abbott sensor.
I'm not sure if he's the best example. He wasn't ruined by accusation—whether or not he killed Trayvon Martin was never in question. The question was if it was justified.
Copyright advocates in the past have successfully argued that empty CDs are tantamount to copyright infringement. Some countries (Spain) have even had (still does?) a tax on HDDs and SSDs.

You pay extra when purchasing a harddrive, because it's possible to put pirated works on it.

We've already made that hop.
No, I would rather ES built a sustainable business selling their software with a normal licensing model that makes sure they're getting paid no matter who's hosting it. In that world it doesn't matter if AWS or Google or Microsoft or anyone else want to offer hosted versions of it because ES still gets their cut.

But co-opting open source to grow your user-base and then switching your license because you don't like the reality of what open source actually entails leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
Yeah so it's confirmed to be basically 99% a pump and dump meme stock?
> Their license literally says they have the right to use this code as they're doing, shouldn't be mad at them for that.

Apache 2.0, section 6:

> 6. Trademarks. This License does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file.
They just did a great looking rebrand, at least. Although the building renders look like Jony Ive did them.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90591634/burger-king-unveils-its...
This is a flamebait comment. Not one comment on this article is supportive.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I am talking about code that runs behind the scenes. Management processes, schedulers, server allocation procedures, everything that runs on the aws side of things, transparent for the client.
I never understood why google gives juice to this kind of URLs. It makes URLs longer and is barely useful anymroe but google keeps demanding it.
Excellent read. Curation is a concept that I've grown fond of in recent years. Does anybody know of books that touch on the topic? Whether it's archival, organization, displaying, theming, etc. I love that good curation not only allows you to appreciate a collection, but lets you appreciate it even more deeply the more you appreciate the art of curation itself.
Your conclusion that

receiving funding => being popular => winning

is not necessarily incorrect. But it is also possible that it is the other way around:

being popular => receiving funding => winning

I.e. candidates which are more popular tend to have an easier time receiving funding. Or, it could be some combination. This would also explain the outcomes you point to.
I don't see why not.

British Airways only had a 38% market share when they were sued for abusing their dominant market position in 1998 (which was upheld by the Court of Justice in 2007)
> the Made in Abyss movie actually did show up on a pay per view non-region locked streaming service and... that's literally it.

Made in Abyss? You mean the show that spent its entire broadcast run locked behind two paywalls?

Re:Creators is another one that went criminally underrated thanks to the travesty that was Anime Strike.
> GNU/Linux laptops

Could we do a roll call of experiences so I know which ones work and which ones don't? Here are mine.

Dell Precision M6800: Avoid.
Supported Ubuntu: so ancient that Firefox
and Chrome wouldn't install without source-building
dependencies.
Ubuntu 18.04: installed but resulted in the
display backlight flickering on/off at 30Hz.

Dell Precision 7200:
Supported Ubuntu: didn't even bother.
Ubuntu 18.04: installer silently chokes on the NVMe
drive.
Ubuntu 20.04: just works.
> MS Word maintains a full history of every edit that was made

This is only true while track changes is on, correct? Like can I see the state of a docx as I was writing it last month/year?
I love these commercials (and the Dr Pepper Fansville ones). So stupidly clever.

But man KFC makes me feel so very ill afterwards. I'm not sure what exactly it is: I can eat Chik Filays and Burger King fine (the ~3-4 times a year I get fast food). But KFC, it's been like 7-8 years and I just steer clear now.
It's nostalgically saddening because I remember loving the stuff when I was a kid, especially those mashed potatoes.
The lockdowns would be far, far worse without the internet to connect with others.

I, too, miss hefting a pint with my friends. Sigh.
One I vaguely remember reading about years ago (not as an example, as an actual instance) included where the word wrap occurred, so on some copies a word ended a line and on others the word started the next line.
This reminded me of the Russian/ROMS/AllOfMp3 saga. That was a service way ahead of its time... Even now it is difficult to find such a good catalogue of music in lossless format.
To be fair, many people were stumbling around with how deadly and contagious COVID-19 actually was, and face masks were getting scarce for actual health workers. Fortunately they are cheap to produce, and the scarcity didn't last long.
> Those gatekeeping functions were lessened after the violent Democratic national convention of '68

This point does not pass the smell test. Since 1968 the United States has become a vastly more tolerant, liberal, open and free society than prior to that point. You'd have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to say that the US is more prone to fascism than it was 50 years ago.
A large amount of the American way of thinking is to believe that people cannot and will not change, and so that's not a question that would traditionally be asked.

It's wrong, but it powers a lot of American thinking.