skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the arguments would be obvious to a programmer, but if you insist...

First off, everyone deserves basic respect and to be treated with dignity. Animals deserve respect and dignity as well (although we don't say "please" and "thank you" to them - I'll get to that in a moment). But you said "everything" deserves respect. That is not true.

You don't teach politeness, or manners, or anything else, as a series of actions to repeat unthinkingly. You teach by forcing them to consider the reasons for doing certain things. There are obvious reasons to be polite to other people. First of all, other people understand what "please" means. Animals don't, and computers aren't sentient. But over-archingly, the value behind treating others with respect and animals with dignity is that life has value. Degrading other living things is ultimately degrading ourselves. If we don't treat them with dignity, what can we expect in return?

Now, if you want to argue that Amazon Alexa is a sentient being worthy of polite respect, that would be a different question. But the argument against teaching a child to be respectful to a machine goes beyond just the obvious dystopian implications. The ultimate reason it's a bad idea is that like any form of obedience training that leads to irrational outcomes, it is ultimately rejected and ignored, because the logic and rules behind it were not inculcated, only the actions.

To sum up: You don't teach rules by teaching how to follow them. You teach rules by teaching why they exist, and when to apply them. A child who says "please" and "thank you" to a machine has not learned any values or learned the point of why we say those things to each other. In fact, it makes the words meaningless. If all you want is obedience and you think your kid isn't bright enough to learn when and when not to apply certain behaviors, then you can try a shotgun approach, but you won't end up with someone capable of thinking for themselves. To me, raising an autonomous person capable of making judgments about new situations is the goal of child-rearing, but then again, I'm not an authoritarian.

[edited for typos]
It's not quite the same, but I feel the Talk pages on Wikipedia are often overlooked as a source of interesting debate, related topics, and other curiosities.
Yeah, another issue I see with this is if people think this has any kind of sway with the police or their departments, they will be less likely to report bad police behavior to police departments. Really, if you want to increase accountability (without policy), advertising heavy usage of police department reporting mechanisms is the best you can do (and it ain’t much).
The amount of businesses who use Instagram and Facebook as their primary method of serving customers is outright depressing these days, as both sites now don’t let you view anything unless you have an account.

I can’t see the menu and opening times for half our local cafes and restaurants, can’t see what’s on for local events in my town, etc etc.

It’s infuriating.
But we're discussing voluntary taxation here - corporations (already masters at tax avoidance under coercive taxation) would never opt in, nor would consumers volunteer to pay more for goods and services when they could simply pay less.

And since neither involves paying directly for a government service, there's nothing the government could deny in the absence of payment.
One way or another, someone has to pay.

Living under a good government isn’t some naturally free good we deserve to be given; we collectively create it, and if you aren’t contributing to that, then like most people, you are freeloading on someone else’s work to make it happen.

“I vote” is better than nothing, but less than the minimum average contribution required to make it work.
Was hoping we would get more info on how and why it passed

The Microsoft mass surveillance law makes sense

MS controls the legislature there

But what allowed Maine to pass an anti-spying law?

Is the sponsor a privacy zealot?

Nobody is getting money, or enough, from MS and friends?
Distill Hiatus
> I wonder if this works with yugabyte

It should work too!

Check this line here[1]. That shows that Yugabyte also has the `ProcessUtility_hook`(same one used in the article) defined. It would be a matter of installing and loading the Supautils extension.

[1]: https://github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db/blob/master/src/post...
Man... Every Soviet schoolboy knows that the existence of an electoral system does not necessitate a democracy. It's not Russia that is your existential problem in US, it's education.
I have a small food forest on my 1/3 plot in US CT Zone 6b. I've a YouTube channel here: https://youtube.com/c/RussellBallestrini

still trying to get to 1k subs since that unlocks a whole slew of features to grow a channel. I'm at a disadvantage until then. My future goal is to buy a much bigger parcel of land and help nature establish a regenerative food forest and figure out enough about trust law to keep it that way in perpetuity after my death.
You can also just buy a regular hard drive that isn't connected to the cloud. But where's the fun in that, I guess?
Ah, the flip-up for the camera. Still records your voice and keystrokes, proof-of-concepts have demonstrated it is possible to capture passwords using sounds. Also the driver can contain malware, and anyway the camera itself can be on battery even if unplugged and use 5G now that the billing is per-data and not per-sim, or Sigfox networks, all of this for less than 10€ of component out of a 80€ webcam. I really don’t understand why switches are not proposed by the largest vendors.
Qualified Immunity has been interpreted so broadly that it is virtually unqualified - it is almost impossible to actually bring a case against a police officer for something that happens while they are on duty.

General incompetence and ignorance of the law have been used as justification for invoking qualified immunity. I'd be willing to bet there is almost no chance of successfully suing a police officer over something like this.
That number is the total cost for all people who died in Canada, extrapolated from Saskatchewan data, in millions of dollars. 6.7B dollars, that is. Considering something like 300k people die in Canada each year, that's around 20k per capita. (This is seriously mixing units because the population of Canada has increased a lot since the study you cited.)

In any case, it's not the correct number. Quebec data from the study I cited showed 60k per capita on hospital alone, with incomplete data to characterize the remainder of the costs.
>there is, of course, the technical aspect: the blurred edges, the repeated elements, the relative placement of things and unrelated objects, a kind of statistical uniformity/ non uniformity. this is technical aspect which shows they were generated by machine and a particular implementation of neutral networks/ai.

I agree there is a specific signature to this algorithmically generated art that becomes recognizable after you've seen enough of it, but these elements have also been purposely employed by human artists for years, they don't objectively prove something was machine generated.

If you didn't know what to look for, you would probably assume “an abstract painting of a planet ruled by little castles” was done by an artist on a digital canvas. And I could absolutely see “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot” as an album cover.

>but then there's also the intentlessness that is symptomatic of a lot of modern art, and symptomatic of why a lot of people don't like modern art.

I think you're inadvertently proving my point. AI generated works feel empty and intentless not simply because of their repetition or arrangement but because they resemble modern art, which despite being created by humans is interpreted by many people as empty and intentless. This interpretation isn't a rejection of machine-generated art so much as a rejection of the aesthetics of human postmodernism.
One problem for the wet market theory is that neither bats nor pangolins were sold at that wet market:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2

"Here we document 47,381 individuals from 38 species, including 31 protected species sold between May 2017 and November 2019 in Wuhan’s markets. We note that no pangolins (or bats) were traded, supporting reformed opinion that pangolins were not likely the spillover host at the source of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic."

That doesn't mean there couldn't be a zoonotic explanation, of course, but it does significantly complicate the main alternative to the theory that WIV was doing coronavirus research in humanized mice and that escaped from the lab.
Dude this thread is buried under several flagged posts. No one is reading this. No one will care about racism here. The things we're saying won't silence anyone.

However, you could still learn something. When you compare two different groups of people, be sure to have something besides "they have the same skin color" to say when someone asks the obvious follow-up question.
Here's one state with median cop salaries being ~$105k[1] a year.

[1] https://www.nj.com/news/2017/05/how_much_is_the_median_cop_s...
I don't suppose you could explain how to originate a chain of title solely through private contract?

In other words, what does it mean that God didn't give a title to the original owner of a property?
Part 2: Delta Variant Dominance in the U.S. and Unvaccinated Vulnerability
The share price seems to hold up pretty well despite these revelations.
There is a Teac 1/2 " that does 8 tracks, you could probably read them one track at the time by judiciously jiggling the height of the head relative to the base of the player. The heads are narrower than a single track so that should work. The analog format is likely simple FSK or some variation on that theme.

It would take 7 passes to get it off assuming only one of the heads lines up with a track at any given time. Keeping the sync between the tracks will be the hard part. I'm in Europe so that probably rules out collaboration on this but if there is some way to get me a sample of such a tape I'll be more than happy to give it a shot.

edit: this machine: https://soniccircus.com/product/teac-80-8-1-2-8-track-analog...
theirs almost no focus either. html, css, js, react, mysql, Mongo, various apis, jquery, and there's more. I'd be surprised if any were hirable after the class
If congress keeps raising the regulatory burden on insurers without actually addressing the root problem it's just going to cause prices to rise until the bottom falls out.

Maybe not bad in the long run but that must be the least efficient possible way to solve this problem.
Can someone here explain why this is news? Isn't it to be expected that a highly optimized production operating system will outperform an OS that's still under development?
Heck, I've been using Linux for a decade and this is something I still aspire to do one day.
Actually the story of SQLite has been told numerous times, but each iteration fills in more of the details. Dr. Hipp is a personal hero of mine. If you're interested in learning more about the genesis of this amazing software, this podcast is well worth a listen.
That's actually kind of where this HN submission started ;-)

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/ee494920bdb301395e2d002590d8e...
Ha, I set my emojis to the precise colour of my skin, someone (I know IRL) complained that it wasn't my race ... like, that was, at the time, my actual skin colour.
Maybe a cop out answer, but Arizona. As far as I know it can be quite hot and sunny (good for solar?) but otherwise there aren't a great deal of meteorological or seismic events there. Somewhere away from PHX should help reduce overhead aircraft risk.
Whatever you do everyday really adds up.

Studying a new language? 3 new words a day will give you a formidable vocabulary in a few years.

A can of coke everyday? The calories will have to go somewhere.
Hidden scrollbars and the Duplicate option are ten years old.
His name was removed after he voiced concerns about vaccine risks on the Bret Weinstein podcast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RNA_vaccine&oldid...
Agreed. I'm still on Ivy Bridge(3rd gen) quad-core i7(laptop). Its fast for all my development needs. I put SSD couple of years ago and its quite snappy.
I hope the library evolves, this has potential to give new build ideas in a very simple to use package !
"... if you prick us do we not bleed ..."
I guess it is downvoted because we don't know for sure whether this incident is caused by climate change, or forest mismanagement or maybe forest fire happens there every second year and it is normal.

Don't get me wrong. Climate change is real. But these blunt claims like "it was raining today and the same day last year there was no rain so we are all doomed" hurt more than help dealing with the issue.

We need more statistics. We need to make less conclusion from single incidents.
NAR and the regional MLSes are different organizations.
The article says

"No good evidence for multiple intelligences (in the sense of statistically independent components of cognition)."

But shouldn't the burden of proof be the other way around? Why is it more reasonable to believe that ability in different cognitive activities can be abstracted into a single component called "intelligence" than it is to believe that performance in unrelated cognitive tasks would be unrelated?
Soldiers watch the US withdrawal from Bagram through the lens of Pokemon Go
Remember that unlicensed content is still licensed. Generally the implicit license of a work is less permissive. So however you feel about this using GPL code, the situation is even worse for most ML models that have no license at all to use their training data.
Windy has similar data (this is from Copernicus).
Or 'personality', or 'celebrity'.

People being famous-for-being-famous is hardly a new thing.
This is whataboutism, as well as ad hominem.

I accurately stated that a source was not a reliable one (it’s a British tabloid, my nan who survived the war knows this but I provided an example of evidence).

> hN is just full of highly propagandized group thinkers.

Rationalism and evidence.
Windows 11 makes it possible to install APK, Google kills APK.

Interesting coincidence.
My kids are way more creative than I at same age... because they watch speed builds on Youtube compared to me in a Vacuum in the 90's.
I absolutely agree that inspiration comes for all sort of things, not only those videos.
I applaud this app, I hope it evolves to offer more value to older kids.
No additional equipment required, unless you want to sail directly upwind
Damagedgoods
Pragli.com | Product Designer #1 | Full-time | REMOTE (US time zones)

Come be product designer #1 at Pragli – We're on a mission to make remote and hybrid work less lonely and more effective. We're accomplishing this by building a fun, all-in-one communication tool. JD here: https://pragli.com/blog/jobs/#designer

Couple things about us:

• We have 6 people, fully remote

• Recently raised a significant new round of seed funding

• Have significant early traction and growth with thousands of remote/hybrid workers using us daily

• Awesome in-person "on-sites" (we had our last one in Hawaii )

Up for a chat? Ping me at daniel@pragli.com!
Does not necessarily mean more intelligent.
As much as they definitely could be doing that I doubt they automatically share every single operation. It's not clear what the target was in Belgium or who wanted it done.
You could have friction between a propeller at the end of the boat and water.
Up until now I have only used Xbox live chatrooms(6 years ago) and have not tried your site yet(checking it out on a Friends recommendation) and I am a novice on what it takes to code or script(?) a site, but could you have a room or page proxy vote button next to each persons chat name that say anyone in the chat could hit and once a majority(enough people "hit" the button) has been reached a troll gets kicked out of their chat? Sort of a "your a Assranger" and we were enjoying the Convo. before you showed up type of thing.? Oh and if the future leader of the known Galaxy is one of the programmers Hello from the Pac N West...you know who you are and you will be someday
(AWS) Infinidash
The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble
The fact that the people who can pull you over, arrest you, kill you, etc. aren’t even elected is a totally separate issue, but perhaps one that ought to be addressed! They’re still absolutely public officials.
This is why some companies and interests are better off staying private. SpaceX is a perfect example. Musk doesn't want to be accountable to shareholders for return on investment and annual results.
It's been around for a few years, is a really powerful and useful tool, and has all kinds of features to explore.

Click on the "Earth" button for the controls.

- You can switch between "Air", "Ocean", "Chem", "Particulates", "Space", and "Bio" classifications.

- Each has numerous characteristics or channels.

- "About" has a really good primer on what's being measured and how.

- You can toggle a number of settings, including the resolution ("HD" for "high definition"). If you've got a large-screen mobile device, toggle Desktop view as well in your browser.

- The calendar/date selector allows going through history, as well as up to about 7 days future forecast for some channels.

- Numerous map projections as well.
Disney trademarked Loki, the Marvel movie character. Some fans were not happy
Yes, just like Usain Bolt who would eat tens of burgers during Beijing olympics, and they both changed gradually, giving more importance to diet

Phelps eat mostly plant based food nowadays https://www.muscleandfitness.com/athletes-celebrities/interv..., when he was athlete, of course you need much more carbohydrates, so you would eat more
That's fair use.
Pleading with a crashed kernel is the closest I've ever gotten to begging mercy from God. (And just about as useless).
The EU is a blessing.
(3) Best dating and hookup apps in 2021 Best
If it did, it would probably disperse untold amounts of crude oil, an environmental disaster. But would it have put out the fire, I wonder.
Is there any implementation that doesn't require a server-side component? One big appeal of RSS is it's plain old XML that can come from anything over HTTP.
> What else would you call a fully armed force not using armed force to prevent rioters (all but a handful unarmed) from entering a prohibited area?

I've seen no evidence for that 'all but a handful unarmed' claim. I have seen interviews with Capitol Police saying they were afraid to use their firearms because they believed they were massively outgunned and would be killed if a serious gunfight broke out.

Even allowing for that hypothetical though, the allegedly unarmed mob a massive tactical advantage[1]:

> “We weren’t battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,” he said in the first public account from D.C. police officers who fought to protect the Capitol during last week’s siege. “We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.”

> Rioters swarmed, battering the officers with metal pipes peeled from scaffolding and a pole with an American flag attached, police said. Both were struck with stun guns. Fanone suffered a mild heart attack and drifted in and out of consciousness.

> All the while, the mob was chanting “U.S.A.” over and over and over again.

> “We got one! We got one!” Fanone said he heard rioters shout. “Kill him with his own gun!”

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/dc-police...
Not quite what you're asking for, but the renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife turned his family's worn-out cattle farm in Brazil into a thriving forest, which is now a nature preserve. [1] [2] There's a segment about it in the documentary about Salgado, The Salt of the Earth. [3] Quite an inspiring story.

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sebastiao-salgad...

[2] https://institutoterra.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_of_the_Earth_(2014_fi...
does it also censor "lesbian"?
If you took a relatively smooth image like a picture of a sky with a lot of high frequency (e.g. sensor) noise I'd expect this method to fail to be exact.

Having a sparse representation in a DCT basis would be an even better metric. You want the unshredding which makes the (e.g.) 8-pixel wide horizontal DCT's have the lowest norm. Because this metric depends on more than just pairs of lines though it's not obvious how to construct an efficient TSP out of it.

One could easily take a TSP solution and post process using the DCT metric, testing out all possible swaps (or near ties in the TSP solution).
i wonder if one still maintains the copyright on public gists they publish? also, why isn't github using human readable URLs?
> Not being bullying target.

Being bullied once is perfectly safe. It happens to virtually everyone many times during they grow up.

> None of those structures is actually danherous in meaningfull sense.

A child can fall and break a leg, but otherwise it is safe in meaningful sense.
18 hours?! I’ve never heard of that for making yogurt. Is that a low temp pasteurization?

I’ve only done the usual 180F, followed by waiting for it to cool, finally add the starter and mix.
Massive siberian forests fires became a regular thing about ten years ago. There is a strong suggestion that artificial fires used to cover up large-scale illegal logging. Russia hangs around the top of deforestation charts for quite a few years now.
Mixed domestic fly-in fly-out worker quarantine with international arrival quarantine.

Suitability of the hotels used for Quarantine is highly suspect, their air isolation is not adequate and covid is lingering in suspension in air, no fresh forced cycling.

Delta strain is 5x more transmissible. So-called fleeting contact is adequate.

Government track and trace app is built to a 15min contact risk model (!)

Delta symptoms unlike prior forms. So people have not been testing because of innate belief "it's just a cold"

Delay to test means hundreds of potential track and trace contacts.

The FIFO worker alone caused huge amounts of dislocation with 700 mineworkers and 900 associated contacts implicated from a week's delay.

Badly delayed, badly communicated and mishandled vaccination programme. We're behind. Also confusing signals from state and federal politicians and health officers and advisory boards on risks to Az in young people. We only just got no fault insurance for GPs to even think about prescribed Az off the recommended age limit. Inadequate supplies of Pfizer, no moderna, no JandJ.

It's a classic story of bad communications and planning. This is what "Operations Research" is designed to maximise for, and instead we get semi rationalised half cooked policy on the run.

Everyone's an epidemiologist now. Bayesian has entered the general language.

Did we "squander the island advantage"?

(59yo Queenslander half way through my Az schedule coming to the end of a 4 day lockdown, which appears to have worked allowing contact tracing and testing to catch up with things. Meantime in NSW it's exploding up, but from a low base. Remember the UK still has 3,000 cases a day but we have at worst, a hundred new cases nationwide and no deaths since the initial 910)
Low.
For some hardware. For everybody else, WD says to buy new hardware.