skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone else pointed out, the prison term for rape is about 10 years. So in your society, potential rapists worry about facing 10 years in prison, and in the other, an extrajudicial death penalty. Seems to me the latter might be a better deterrent.

There is no need to theorize. You can just look at statistics. According to Wikipedia, the rape rate in Germany is estimated at 9 per 100,000. (Men and women.) The rape rate in the USA is estimated at 2.1 per thousand women per year. Rapes happen per capita at 10x the rate in the USA as in Germany.

Theories about deterrence notwithstanding, Germany is actually working out better than the USA. This is typical of other statistics that I've seen. Being in a society that has internalized law and order is safer. By about a factor of 10.

(Side note. The internalized US belief in deterrence is why we have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world. And yet we also have higher rates of violent crime than any other developed nation. Deterrence may sound good, but it doesn't seem to work out very well in practice.)
Watching so many self proclaimed libertarians and free market cures all folks twist themselves into pretzels advocating the government should force companies to allow Parler, Trump and others use their services has been very entertaining. Too bad gay couples wanting to buy a wedding cake didn't receive that same kind of support from these folks.
Ask HN: Is it worth switching to M1 Mac as a Linux user
As Linux user,
I would love hear the opinion of my fellow linux users how they feel about the M1 Mac and is it worth making the switch to apple m1 macbook, if not then what are some powerful alternatives that we could use that would be as powerful as m1 macbook
> offer terrible subtitles that are worse than fan translations (netflix, crunchyroll)

This is true sometimes, but usually it's not true because nobody does fansubs anymore. Most subtitled torrents are copies of the official subtitles.

(Also you can't judge a translation unless you speak Japanese.)
I can't help but wonder if such an attempt would even work.

Unless I am misunderstanding the culture that makes an open source ecosystem work, a free and open exchange of information and ideas is one of those fundamental things. When a thing is broken, sometimes you have to tell an authority the horribly embarrassing fact that the thing is broken. With the CCP controlling all information flows and what is or is not fact, then ISTM that pointing out that The Peoples' Authentication Protocol is fundamentally flawed and insecure could get one disappeared just as likely as it would get the protocol fixed.
It breaks up the monotony of all the capitalist propaganda.
Github is as independent from Microsoft as WhatsApp is from Facebook.
Judging from past donations, this anonymous donor is most probably Mackenzie Scott.

Pure speculation, no actual data to back it up, so don't shoot me.
The same reason, just replace with that generations Clear Channel lobbyists. FM/AM Radio is extremely anti-competitive.
True, if you can get your friend to care enough to install this exotic app, you can also get them to install the WhatsApp alternative of the day...
I understand too having been divorced and had to downsize to be close to my son for shared custody. What helped is doing away with a bed and opting for a Japanese futon setup where I fold up my bed and have loads more space to work.
Both your comments rock!!! Yes it's Bang & Olufsen :)
Really? If Github is already detecting credentials that reliably, I wonder why they don't just switch repositories to temporarily private and e-mail the account owner themselves...?
You have not met the staff of these orgs. It is actually not exaggeration to say they live in a media bubble where their studio chiefs are captains of industry that are infallible and are to be served with total fealty.

I once sat in a meeting where some VP at a major client asked (because they were technically daft) if it was possible -in not so many words- DDOS google because "they (google) have all this infringing content on their site"

I had to tell me boss "is anyone going to explain to that guy that what he's describing is A. not realistic and B. not legal?"
The Wikipedia summary of the story with the post office is absolutely fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin#Cancellation_...

It appears that FDR's attorney general put pressure on the post office to revoke Coughlin's 2nd-class mailing privileges. In the end, the privileges weren't revoked, but (due in part to FDR putting pressure on the Catholic church itself), the bishopry commanded Coughlin to restrict his activities to local ministry.
When you look closely at the artwork, you see that almost all of them are deformed bodies. I guess this is how ML systems dream.
Thank you dang! I appreciate your service, even after having my comment above to be flagged :)

Is there a way to let you know about similar sharp edges, in order to avoid writing offtopic comments like mine?
Front End Operations
Very unique developer role. Think SRE but more front end focused. Monitoring user interactions and making recommendations on improvements. Strong background in Front End tech is preferred (React etc), along with user experience monitoring.
but the budget alert is delayed...I bet you're ruined when you've noticed the alert.
> Yes, appeals to authority aren't much use in the present climate. So, that's why he needs to offer convincing evidence. It sounds like he offers none (I haven't read it, just relying on the summary above).

My point was more that a physicist may be an authority on the technology itself, but would not necessarily be an authority on the affects it has on a biological system. That's why it has to be a multi-discipliniary approach rather than people being immediately dismissed for not being physicists.
Why would you think that a physicist would be more of an authority on causes of human disease than an epidemiologist?

> The claim that these are new innovations that "biological scientists can't keep up" is just obviously false on its face so what is he talking about?

Ok his wording is pretty over the top here, but he literally points to a study which suggests as much.

> I'm not surprised at all to discover one of them thinks 5G causes cancer

It was actually the IARC working group for evaluating carcinogenic risks to humans. He was merely referencing their study and findings.
And actually, once again, they're not saying that 5G causes cancer. They're saying that the evidence from their specific study suggests it might, but it's not conclusive, and that further studies are required to get better evidence either way.

Look I'm not saying that the evidence suggests 5G is harmful, I'm just taking issue with some of the specific dismissals presented above as I think they selectively cut out parts of the quotes that actually change their meaning somewhat.
OK, I stand corrected. Apparently, this did really happen [1], but my other comment still holds.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/bomb-explodes-in-u...
What makes you say "both sides" argument is getting tiresome. What will you do to the other side?

What is making you to take one side and against the other side?
“Our license change is aimed at preventing companies from taking our Elasticsearch and Kibana products and providing them directly as a service without collaborating with us.” Change to AGPL was imho the logical solution...
Great reply, thanks will give it a go once I learn how!
Yes, thank you for agreeing. There are two different definitions, and the first (free from disturbance) is the one used in this context. The protests aimed to be non peaceful (eg, causing disturbance) and non violent.
abhinuvpitale, love your suggestion about scaling to a platform to connect "live hosts". One of our hosts is actually an out-of-work actress affected by the pandemic and a big goal of mission is to help more artists affected like this. So, your suggestion really takes this to the next level!
For a small amount of bonus irony, apples themselves are not native to the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
IFixit: AirPods Max Teardown
Ah, you beat me to writing a comment that mentioned GPT-3, but I promise I didn't see yours when I started writing mine. Perhaps human thoughts are more predictable than we like to believe.

Anyway, to make your suggestion of "a new deepfake engine" more concrete, let me include a reference to DALL-E, the recently announced text-to-image engine from OpenAI:

https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/16/openais-text-to-image-eng...
GitHub is Microsoft, right? Well, let them fight I say. Microsoft can simply say "no" automatically to all this bullshit (well, a generic lawyer "no" response) that will automatically get sent back. Good luck for one automation crap to fight with another automation crap - or like someone else said in this thread, this is Garbage In Garbage Out.
Proof of Reserves: Trust and Transparency Standards in Digital Asset Ecosystems
"In a nutshell, the problem for users of centralized digital asset exchanges — as well as custodians, loan platforms and other 'service providers' that custody digital assets on behalf of their users — is that they are required to place great trust in the exchange without formalized and available mechanisms of trust and transparency.

Back-of-the-napkin calculations for the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap, assuming that exchanges hold a conservative 10% of those assets, would mean that exchanges currently custody about $16B-$20B worth of crypto. Again, with little to no meaningful transparency.

The solution: give exchanges a way to provide independent validation and proof that they have adequate reserves of a given digital asset to meet the 'IOUs' to their customers. We call it a 'proof of reserves assessment.'"
Did this receive a name change? I could have sworn I saw it before as "This waifu does not exist."
I am not sure what images you get, but for me it is more wtf than porn. It gets the faces mostly right, it gets the feet sometimes right, the arms are consistently between nightmare fuel and Deadpool regrowing a lost limb.
I bet Microsoft can have it's cake and eat it, too. If enough github users are willing to defend them, they can placate both parties.

Microsoft should be paying us to use github.
Sat Discontinues Subject Tests and Optional Essay
Time will also tell how eg. SSPL will work if eg. Elastic becomes bankrupt, what happens if I can't get a commercial license for it anymore in 10-20 years? BSL:s expire clause ensures that old code never gets unavailable because the business entity has vanished. Does SSPL have any similar protection?
AWS actually isn't that bad when it comes to RSS feeds: Their official blog offers an RSS feed [1], but even better: each of their forum sections [2] offers a (quite hidden) RSS feed with all announcements in that section, which is quite handy if you're interested in news for a particular service only. For example here is the RSS feed for S3 announcements: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss/rssannounce.jspa?forumID=2...

[1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazonWebServicesBlog

[2]: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/
Sometimes it gets arms right. On the rare occasions feet appear, they're totally wrong.

Boobs, the system models very well. This probably reflects the training data.
That doesn't parse. The SSPL does not discriminate against a person, a group, or a field of endeavor, any more than the GPL "discriminates" against people who distribute modified versions of a program by requiring them to distribute the source code of the changes. Further, the requirement of the SSPL does not cover "distributing with", so point 9 doesn't seem to make sense either.
Cyber Leadership Institute – We build cyber leaders
Huh?

EKS => Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Kubernetes is a little different here... it seems a bit more nebulous from an installation/instance point of view. It's a bit like saying we use "Linux". Which Linux? Debian? Ubuntu? RHEL? SUSE?
I had a look at the scoring. It looks like it penalized you pretty heavily for all the "H" letters on the honey.

We added a text penalty because it turns out the model can read and so all the top results were people writing the prompt. Not sure how to tell the model to only penalize bad text but let Ok text through.
If you follow the youtube video posted at the end of the article, you will see that there are another two separate youtube videos as followup of the first one where some of technical details are discussed.
I've heard the phrase that "Competition is good for business" but never in the context "Competition is good for open source"
Exactly, which is why I hope Elastic manages to beat Amazon wih this tactic since it then can be a playbook for OSS companies. In general OSS is fantastic whether free or paid and I genuinely want companies like Elastic to succeed. This whole free software thing is stupid and it is sad to see talented devs getting burnt out because people are cheap to pay for software.
From your own source:

> Numerous Secret Service agents were injured, fires set by rioters blazed near the White House and authorities were searching for car bombs

> The official initially put the number of agents injured at over 50, but that may have referred to the weekend toll; the Secret Service has since said the number injured on Sunday was 14.

50 people injured is a serious attack. It's interesting that leftists are allowed to continue their violent attacks for days, weeks, or months while right-wing movements are immediately suppressed. Yet we're supposed to be afraid of right-wing violence. Right.
I will find out the answer to this question hopefully later this year. :-)

But anyway, I do use Markdown and I have submitted to contests etc. that require Word formatted files. For the most part it's an nonissue. I can use Pandoc to export to Word, provide the reference file with the correct format, and boom, I'm done. None of the judges of my works so far have ever had any issues opening my files.

I agree the publishing industry will never accept Markdown. That's ok. I can use the tools I like and still produce what they need to do their part of the job.
The three Ts is a training prescription not a performance one. Doing the AT or running a 5K are not training. If you don’t feel acute pain during. 5K it simply means you could have run faster. Your body might not be against you but it wants to keep you well away from the outer limits of your capabilities. Which is a bit antithetical to sports
I am not sure I understand the objection (or maybe there wasn't one?) but since there seems to be some confusion in this thread on this point, the electrical efficiency of electric thrusters is very well defined, it is:

η = ½Q·(Isp·g₀)² / P

where Q is the mass flow rate (kg/s) and P is the input electrical power.

Hall thrusters have efficiencies typically ranging from 30% (small HTs) to 60% (large HTs). Gridded ion thrusters have slightly better efficiencies (add 5-10%), mainly because they operate at higher Isp (they would actually have worse efficiency than Hall thrusters when operating in the 1000-1500s range).

Why I object to the (admittedly common) characterization of Isp as an efficiency: it is always better to have a high efficiency, whereas Isp is always a trade-off between mass budget and power budget so optimal Isp is always mission-dependent.
People still don't get this. BLM protests, Capitol riots and now GameStop short squeeze. Social Media orchestrated historical events works and will continue to in the future. Dismissing or betting against them is asking for pain.
This is brilliant. Bookmarked for when I have time to play with it properly. I particularly love being able to step through the assembly code whilst it's running.
Not trying to imply anything. The threshold could be non-zero. The FDA notably has a non-zero threshold for things like allowed rat droppings and hair, insect parts, etc. [1] in your food, since no scalable process is perfect. I’m curious to know exactly how many or what percentage Nazi posts are OK for an app in the App Store.

1: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in...
Another example of the same genre is Le Vingtieme Siecle: La vie electrique,[1] published in 1890.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Vingti%C3%A8me_si%C3%A8cle....
It was interesting to me how many of these were related to making async calls to adjust state resulting in race conditions. In many cases the argument was made that async calls were not justified. Many times we follow a particular call pattern in order to keep things consistent without fully considering whether it's necessary and/or safe.

Also I wasn't aware of the tool named Frida[0] that she kept referencing so I had look that up.

[0] - https://frida.re/
I think what you're suggesting is already possible (in a different way) not by using the blockhain, but by crawling bittorrent's DHT.

Either of the solutions, will let seeders and leechers communicate in a decentralized way, but if there is no one with the original files, it won't work.

So, in this case, nyaa facilitates the seeder/leecher communication, but if the main site is shutdown and users who have the files are not willing to seed the torrents again then the source code is useless.

Crawling bittorrent's DHT is mentioned in this paper [1]:

This paper presents two kinds of attacks based on crawl-ing the DHTs used for distributed BitTorrent tracking. First, we show how pirates can use crawling to rebuild BitTorrent search engines just a few hours after they are shut down (crawling for fun). Second, we show how content owners can use related techniques to monitor pi-rates’ behavior in preparation for legal attacks and negate any perceived anonymity of the decentralized BitTorrent architecture (crawling for profit)

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/...
Says to use desktop Firefox, while I'm on desktop Firefox 76.0
One of those weird Keysian effect that blows my mind. Everyone is just gambling at this rate which is historically terrible for the economy in the long term.
Multiple countries have local app store on Android. I don't see why the app store could not be geo-divided. It might not be the best or even a good way to reinstate some competition however.
>Which government buildings? The police just left the east precinct

Isn't the east precinct a government building?

>And who were the armed protestors, what were they armed with?

Raz the Warlord of CHAZ giving out assault rifles:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/raz-simone-guns/

>And keep in mind that the SPD did considerably more violence to a larger group over that time.

How many people were shot within the protest zone by occupants of CHAZ versus police over that time? By my count, it seems 5:0

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Autonomous_Zone...
My two cents: Facebook has an algorithm they use to decide what posts are presented to a user. They should therefore loose their section 230 common carrier status. They are the ones deciding to put toxic and divisive information in front of users to drive engagement, instead of simply sharing posts in chronological order and letting users control all the filtering.
I mean I love finding those "obvious" improvements too but how do you know you've succeeded without profiling it? ;)
I don't understand why companies obstinately keep adopting the SSPL when it's obvious it makes no legal sense and it is unenforceable. The only reason why nobody has shut it down in court yet is because the companies they are complaining about have plenty of resources to maintain their own forks. By adopting the SSPL they are just pushing corporate developers away and weakening their offering.
Maybe the Index Funds Don’t Vote
Haha - yeah, fair.

Fortunately I didn't pay that much for my setup. Amp and speakers are about 30 years old and were given to me by my stepdad about 20 years ago. Pretty much everything else is second hand from eBay and 25 - 40 years old (CD player, tuner, tape, EQ).

The biggest expense is the subwoofer, which I did buy new because used prices for a decent subwoofer are still pretty high, especially when you factor in the cost of petrol to go and collect the thing (most people don't want to post because they weigh a lot).

The only other new components are an inexpensive Bluetooth 5.0 receiver, the speaker cable (Bassface, which I want to say was about £2/metre - super-cheap by audiophile standard) and gold-plated banana plugs from RS components. All the interconnects are I think Amazon Basics.

So my total expenditure for the whole system is less than £1,000. Fully half of that is the subwoofer. Admittedly, that's still probably a fair bit by most peoples' standards, especially when it's perfectly possible to get very good sound from a hifi separates system for £250 or so (see Techmoan's video series on the topic, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSY1iZqH118), but it's chickenfeed for most audiophiles. Still, I'm definitely not one of those guys: it sounds more than good enough to me and I've no desire to fall any further into that particular black hole.

Except for one thing... I don't have a turntable. So what I'm probably going to do is buy a pair of SL1210s and a mixer to plug in to the system. I'm lucky enough to have a fair number of 12" singles from a freecycle "barn find" type situation a few years ago, and another time-consuming hobby to get through the rest of this pandemic will be no bad thing.

There is both a danger and a satisfaction to mostly cobbling together a nice sounding system from lots of second-hand parts though. The temptation for me is to do the same again with one or two of the other rooms in the house.
I was thinking the same until this part:

>> The identified files and code are preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content to Nyaa.si users in violation of copyright law.

It's one thing to host software that can be used for this. It's another to host software specifically configured for it. Still might be legal. I wanted to see what the linked configuration files actually contain, but they've been taken down.

It still smacks of going after the tools rather than the infringers.
Interesting, I had suspected I was penalised because the actual bee is such a small part of the image, and facing away from the viewer.
Yeah, fair to some extent, perhaps the requirement needs to be for people who purchase devices to have the right to install software on them. Then you can just use an alternate app store / sideload / whatever and Google et al can still curate to their hearts' content.
That's true. AArch64 is already perfectly usable, and what issues there are will be ironed out in good time.
Hate speech is not a thing. It is a falsity that dumb people accept as a form of censorship when they don't like something. There are simply things you don't want to hear and things you do. Threats right? Nope.
It does, in theory.

But in practice, there are zero options for managed hosting of MongoDB 4.0+ outside of Atlas that I'm aware of (and we looked, everywhere). By my understanding, from speaking with some sales/product engineers at third-party companies which previously hosted MongoDB or currently host 3.6, the terms of the SSPL are so vague that its effectively a card that reads "you can host MongoDB, but if you become a threat to Mongo's business, we'll find a reason to sue you, and we'll win". So, no one does managed hosting anymore, or they're still on 3.6 with no intention of upgrading.

Its possible that, if a hosting provider were to try and meet the terms of the SSPL, and succeed in doing that, and get some kind of validation of that success from Mongo or Elastic, then some form of precedent could be reached and that would increase confidence in the SSPL being defensible from a vendor standpoint. But, that never happened with Mongo. Maybe it'll happen with ES, given ES is far more popular.