skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd expect the capability of creating thin enough fiber that you could coil 7.2Mm of it in a single reasonably-sized room, would be quite an achievement in its own
That's why you always have an independent backup system. One that uses different software, developed by a different team, using different languages, and different algorithms.
Perhaps. But isn't google (and facebook, twitter etc) also in a bit of a no win situation? They implement these types of measure and they get accused of censorship and being "arbiter of right vs wrong". They don't and they get accused of helping spread fake news and false information.

Putting aside intent, cost etc. What can / should these companies do that'll make everyone happy?
Once you create or sign a deal its a done deal. You can't renege on that. You sign an agreement with the other person and they will hold the money hostage till either the deal is completed or not.

This guy used escrow.

https://nypost.com/2017/07/17/poker-player-goes-all-in-with-...

>> Tomorrow’s me is perfectly capable of reversing any decision whatsoever I make today.

True. That's why the stakes should not be too high nor too low.. its pretty experimental..
Sounds like they were in it as a way of preventing the IRS from doing it themselves. "We'll offer free filing service, so you don't have to. [And oh by the way we're gonna make it hard for people to actually use it, oh dear is that my outside voice?]"

Which frees up the IRS to go ahead and make a web site that says "Here, file your taxes for free." Which will surely cost more and take longer to write, because of all the hoops government has to jump through for "fairness".
The "policy" is merely a fig leaf to disguise untrammelled totalitarianism and arbitrary abuses of power.

It's sad. I used to work there. What monster did we create, exactly.
Great, so, you post that you used to hate all Vikings... And you're my manager. And now I sue the company because I didn't get a raise, back in the time before the post.

You can't pretend there are no consequences to stating you have feelings that can impact other people. Even if what you're claiming is that you're reformed.

"I'm a recovering alcoholic," says the doctor. "Great!" say all of the lawyers with malpractice lawsuits against the doctor. You just can't avoid those consequences.

People will always hold horrible views. That's not going to change.

Of course there's an incentive to change your opinion - growth. If you need to PERFORM that you've grown, then I think that's pretty dangerous attention seeking. If you want to make a livelihood out of being a leader, where your transformation is part of your credentials, then yes, that's a risk, which you have to calculate.

> That doesn't really help address the underlying issues of racism, -isms, etc, at all....

I'm not really convinced talking does address those. Especially not on social media. I think people have to get to know each other on a personal basis.

It's funny to me how we all run so hot and cold on social media. Right now, y'all are defending social media, in the context of performing that you're reformed on some topic.

Also, so much of this is tied up in the context of employee / employer relationships. Like, if you don't work for a company, you're probably way more free to express your views, to a point.

Like for instance, Bill Cosby wants to do a stand-up tour.

Should he be "cancelled"?

If you feel strongly no, then, well, I guess you can support venues that want to host him.

Some companies are going to shun people like this VP. Maybe you want to support companies that don't.

Or what about the Google Creep [1]?

How much should he have to apologize, or take sensitivity training, etc, before you'd hire him at a company where he'd be in touch with sensitive user information? We're all going to have different answers to that. We can't come up with one rule. So, maybe you want to support companies that give people like him a second chance. I don't feel that need.

There's lots of other parameters that are way more important to me, in evaluating companies I want to do business with, than their being responsible for managing the healing and forgiving process for people who made public mistakes that put the companies they worked for in potentially hot legal water.

[1] : https://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-te...
I won't wade into the entire "suspend oil expoloration" issue but find it lacks a bit of credibility when a territory of 57,000 people that receives an annual subsidy of $540 million promotes this under the guise of renewability and sustainability. The entire existance is essentially a non-renewable consumption.
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> If that gets refused, I instead add a clause that says any period where the non-compete is enforced will be paid at my full salary.

I believe employment NCs should be illegal, but this is the minimum standard a non compete should require to be legal. The fact that companies can essentially force you to stop working for years, without paying, is ridiculous in my opinion.
We are there already with "fact checks". When someone sees a "fact check" pop up on something they post on Facebook, they just say "See? I knew I was right"
You said that the idea of God-given rights was used as the major justification for "the strongest deserve to rule the weak", but that is a non-sequitur; you know that what I mean here is the God-given rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," which decidedly goes against the divine right of kings theory.
'Pfizer Covid vaccine significantly less effective against Delta variant'
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The kiwiSDR news was posted yesterday, but has very few votes. I could have expected it to gain more interest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27849008
I don't have much experience with Googles policies, but is this some "report only" type of thing.

That means it will only be enforced if someone reports a file I created or should I expect some google employees or ai to scan my files for the mentioned content?
> I wonder if, at the end of the day, coroutines are fundamentally incompatible with the notion of a stack

Well it is with stackless coroutines (by definition) but they are a kind of state machine. Without a stack or heap as an escape hatch they are quite limiting (as in they aren't Turing Complete by themselves). Stackful coroutines are much more powerful and give you pretty much every kind of control flow you need (while still being strictly less powerful than continuations).

It is possible for a compiler to detect whether a coroutine should be stackless or stackful, in principle at least.
I do my part by using FOSS. My only sin is using Windows at work because it's what the Engineers use.

My cellphone OS and web browser are FOSS.

My personal and side project server is FOSS.

I even used GIMP for 10+ years before finally giving adobe 10$ so I could knock out a flyer real quick.

I think we all know who the devil in the room is. FOSS fans know who the sinners are.
Disclaimers help. And it's not like they were making up words. But I still feel it was probably a poor creative choice.
I have a machine with two GPUs and a frozen OS with a tensorflow python app that clones voices, and I'd say the quality passes if you run it through a phone bandpass filter.

I've had an idea to use propellerhead recycle to chop the output cloned voice into syllables, and then "play" the chopped parts in rhythm, through autotune.

The issue is you get Eifel 65 sounding autotune if your base vocals are monotonic or way off key. The only way I can think of fixing this is to use something like audacity's pitch changer that doesn't affect the speed of the sample - rough the lyrical tones in with audacity/recycle, then autotune it where it needs to go.

I'd like to say I'm too busy to get this workflow going, but mostly I'm lazy and someone else will do it first - and better - I can't improve the AI cloning software.
Scott Manley had a video on you tube about this recently, don't remember which one, but it may have been where he was talking about the computer problem itself.

As I understand it, there is no current vehicle that combines the Space Shuttle's ability to both dock with a satellite (via a docking arm) and allow astronauts to do EVA.

So I guess James Webb is possibly screwed if it has a problem in orbit like the Hubble's mirror issue. Too bad we won't bring back the Space Shuttle.
I will generally give a company 6 months to a year, if they follow through on all of the items within the offer letter and do not do anything illegal (theft, fraud, harassment, etc.). Shorter employments will be asked about in my experience, and so you need to be able to explain why you left.

The time you give them also depends on the type of company and environment you're in. A year at a startup can be a long time, and you shouldn't have trouble getting a job if you are in a startup hub and good.
I’d love to see the same comparison across a range of images.
So I downloaded the PDF and took a look at it. Its 80 MB of screenshots and photos of newspaper articles of reports of people which died because of the vaccine (or at least shortly after having gotten it).

I wouldn't consider it misinformation, but it is misleading.

There can be several causes of serious side effects, most of which I believe to be either contamination, a pre-existing condition which got its last kick due to a component of the vaccine, or something like this.

In any case, the document notes that around 2500 people have died, and according to what I checked in the database of the CDC, now around 4500 have died. This includes those who accidentally fell down the stair after tripping over their cat, but who got their vaccine a couple of hours before, but that doesn't matter.

So from 34,000,000 Covid-19 cases in the US 608,500 died = 1.79%

From 334,927,961 administered doses in the US 4,434 died = 0.0013%

If you are vaccinated you're protected by at least 40% (used to be 90+) against getting infected and if you do, it will me more likely that you won't have to go to the hospital.

There are a lot of people who tend to ignore this comparison, probably because it makes them feel more important to know about these deaths and we, the sheep, just get silently vaccinated, because they tell us to do so.

The point is, that it has benefits, and also some minor risks, to get vaccinated, yet the article attempts to make you believe the contrary, that the risks are too high. So yes, it is misleading, but in a somewhat dangerous way. There are people who are easily influenced by this kind of narrative.

Now, the question is still open for debate: should Google be allowed to decide if content like this can't be shared over their platform.
They are in a local equilibrium where changing it even in a fashion that would be beneficial to all would risk of loss. Some will avoid risk even when increasing loss for doing nothing is all but sure. People will continue to pay too little to obtain workers losing more money as their number and quality of workers declines while demanding cuts to benefits like food, childcare, and health which are often the only way most of their workers can possibly afford to work there AND eat and live indoors.

If allowed they will continue to do this until they go out of business then insist that the government destroyed their business. Then the banks will lend more money to the next round of idiots who will happily do the same.
Voice has a lot more information than text. With a deepfake, all the information (despite his general sound and rhythm) is completely made up.
This is an interesting problem. I thought and wrote a little about this a few years ago: https://enki.org/2017/03/02/historical-narrators/
If I were hosting said Free Speech Drive, I would be oblivious to the contents of what my users host on their drives. I would not violate their privacy by spying on them. Their files, not mine.
> why wouldn't another intelligent species do this if they possess the technology?

I think the only question we can ask here is "Would we do this if we possessed the technology?". We only have ourselves as an example of intelligent life.
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Can you define "platform" in this context? Is this a legal term?

It's interesting to see this dichotomy between platforms and publishers in these types of threads. I assume it stems from a reading of Section 230 somehow, but the word "platform" never appears in that text.
You know what Manhattan has that SF doesn't.

Subways[1].

Sure developers would love to build more chicken coops for tech bros. But they absolutely don't want to kick down coin to pay for the subway system needed to support that density.

[1] Oh yea SF has BART which was built 50 years ago and not expanded since. And the central subway which is 1.7 miles long, not open yet after ten years of construction and 20 years after it got the green light.
Does someone know, if this phenomenon is this also related to our bad visual capabilities at night?
That is a very valid point and I'm sorry you are seeing downvotes on your comment (so have an upvote from me).

The "My Server, My Rules" point of view is absolutely 100% valid ( and also why I commented about asymmetrical ftth).

But, What I am also saying is this -

At what point did the Google that was the 'Do No Evil' version pivot in to a position such as they are currently taking?

When did the ethos of 'Let's do good things for good reasons for the good of humanity' pivot to what is potentially a Section 230 nightmare?

To repeat my question - Who judges (and adjudicates) what is or is not misleading or confusing?
Good catch! It's one of the variants of ESP cheats.
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This defense seems doomed as money != a specific government-issued currency. IANAL but I suspect this is determined by an instrument serving enough of the underlying functions of currencies, which BC most certainly does.

Also, effective money laundering OFTEN involves the facilitators NOT knowing the nodes in the graph; that's what makes it effective in the first place.
"I'm pulling for (person)!" means I'm supporting them, I'm hoping succeed, etc. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/197857/origin-of...

It's less common outside of a person, certainly, but I've heard it in the context of other things, i.e., "I'm pulling for the home team!". While I'm not sure I've heard it in the context of an ideal, I have in the context of a debate, though that, like the other uses, still involves people and a kind of competition (i.e., "I'm pulling for the affirmative"), which aligns it pretty well with design decisions.
The only surprise is that this offering got as far as it did. Stock tokens were an obvious bucket-shop operation; there's no reading of the law which would have made this legal.
> When you just grab a paper or two at random, you're engaging in a dangerous sampling problem. When the papers aren't grabbed at random, it's even worse.

I think you summarized the current situation perfectly.

It's an inverse Russian roulette of knowledge where only one of the bullets is missing :

hospitalized, gave grandma covid, no go into malls and trains in France, "nudged" into vaccination, dead, perfectly healthy with no adverse or long term effect from anything
> 1. invest money in a supply chain to have parts in stock for the battery assembly(take many months).

They already have this for other parts, it's trivial to extend the model to the battery. The problem is that the battery was not designed to be serviced without specialized tooling and expertise.

It doesn't have to be that way. It was their choice. They made that choice because it costs them less money to service the batteries in bulk at a specialized facility, at the expense of the customer. It's not like the customer has a choice. They already bought the car. What are they going to do?

Here is another option:

4. Design your vehicles in a way where a $1 part can be easily detached and replaced by anyone with basic tooling, instead of charging the customer $18k for a new battery.

This isn't just an issue with Tesla. This is an issue with almost all manufacturers today. They make more money when they replace the entire assembly.

Apple operates in the same way. If one of the keys breaks on your laptop, Apple will replace half the laptop. That's the only option. You can't replace the key. It was designed this way.
One argument in favor of non-competes in the consulting world is that they avoid a situation where Company B undercuts Company A during a recompete, and then poaches all of Company A's employees to staff the project (likely at lower salaries since they put in a lower bid on the contract).
I think rather than "violently" you meant to say "vehemently." If not then ignore this comment. If so then you should probably edit as the two have important differences in meaning.
> Regardless of who it benefits, giving statehood to DC gives more people the right to vote and be represented by their government. Maybe if you find yourself opposing giving people votes because they won't vote the way you want, that's a sign of a problem.

You'll notice that I'm not "opposing giving people votes," and I actually referenced an alternate way to get them representation. I'm just noting that the the main reason someone would choose DC statehood over the alternative is because they want more safe Democratic senators. It's also worth noting that the Virginia part of DC was already given back to Virginia, so there's more precedent for that kind of solution over statehood..
There's plenty of oil in the US. Why invade Iraq?
I, for one, am happy about this decision.

If there's one thing that's became way more obvious to me over the past year and a half is just how susceptible a lot of people are to conspiracy theories and other similar content.

In an ideal world we would have different solutions, however we don't live in a perfect world so I welcome decisions like this. Yes it does open doors for more government control and censorship, but I'd take that if it means reducing conspiracy theories, racism, etc.
Do you also find that this effect is way more pronounced in recent years with LED string lights than colored lights many years ago? I think b/c LEDs are more monochromatic, I will notice a difference between my parent's extremely old string lights and newer sets.
Likely because of the outliers. If you live in a "nice quiet neighbourhood" and an airbnb party house emerges, everyone freaks out.

Horror stories on sites like https://www.airbnbhell.com/ are remarkable. Clearly these aren't typical host/guest experiences, but they seem more societally acceptable at hotels vs houses.
Of course everything is in the interest of the public, so everything is going to be transparent, accountable, appealable, based on clear rules. As usual for Google.
I agree with the first part. But as long as money is created, it has to be either 1), 2), or 3). And in the case of banks, it's certainly not 1) or 2).
We don't get immunity to photoshop in the "I can tell from some of the pixels" sense, but we gain immunity in the sense that we no longer accept every image as representing absolute truth. Plenty of people today still think that video manipulation more sophisticated than an instagram filter takes a Hollywood budget or a lot of expertise.

Once people get more experience seeing and creating deepfakes on their own they'll be less trusting of random videos they see in the future
So, last year when the Wuhan lab leak was a conspiracy theory, it would have been (and was) censored.

But what happens when Google/their allies change their mind and determine that something is no longer a conspiracy theory?
Or bounce an exception for insert duplicate on a unique index.
"We have recently been notified of a potential policy violation and after a thorough review of the video materials uploaded, it has been determined that the content is misleading and contradicts official government records. As a result of this decision, you access terminating to Youtube and other Google products, including Gmail, has been terminated. The decisions is final. This message is auto-generated"

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
The author is correct. Lighting designers sometimes use the effect deliberately to create blue spotlights that viewers can't focus on.

That description doesn't do it justice - you have to experience it to appreciate it. It's very striking and slightly surreal.
It removes the paradox without requiring additional hypotheses, just refining the math. That makes it the most convincing solution to the paradox for me.
Something to consider about "Dark Forest" scenarios is that there's no particular reason to think that a given species would be more benevolent towards its own kind than some other alien species.

If you think about how humans behave, I think if we ever get to the point where we're a multi-planetary species, those two planets aren't going to trust each other very much. If we expand to other star systems with years of communication lag, it'll be even worse -- both societies are going to be constantly expecting a hail of nukes to fall out of the sky one of these days, unless there's either a plausible defense against such an attack, or a reasonable expectation of mutually-assured destruction.
> Under her watch, IBM acquired a cast of companies and tried to assemble a cloud computing arm with little time to do it.

IBM's problem was that consulting and legacy products (think mainframes) are still making money and what the company is known for. These two products aren't attractive for the type of engineer you need to build a world class cloud. This, coupled with less than stellar compensation meant that the critical talent required simply went somewhere else.

What they should have done is invest in cloud computing startups, keep them separate entities and act as a sales channel for these products, for legacy customers only.
In reality Norway is the Saudi Arabia of the north, but with fantastic PR. Really, the best PR that money can buy. Bill Gates/George W Bush level PR, but for a country.

They're going all out on going green in every part of society.. except for not stopping pumping oil from the sea bed and then selling it to people for the purpose of combusting it and releasing the co2 into the atmosphere.

The sad thing is that it seems to work really well for them.

Giant kudos to Greenland for resisting this way and showing the norwegians how to do this.
the rest of us were fine before google did this drive ban. how about they just put a warning on it for morons like you and let the rest of us read it?
I think this is one of those things that sounds nice on the surface but isn't really tenable in reality.

Should they only host or also surface "everything"? Is deranking something censoring? What about not promoting something? If the idea is every thing is given equal weight, then things pretty quickly becomes a cesspool.
After electronic distribution and Amazon's ability to redact the books on your Kindle, this is the next important thing to notice.
>"And as an aside, how many of us really need to be reminded, several times per day, of the scope of the 1st amendment? Really? Isn’t it more likely it’s a tired debate stopper? "

My feelings exactly. It doesn't accomplish anything and literally adds nothing to the debate. Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines imposed and cruel and unusual punishment only apply to the government too? Clearly, we can talk about the spirit of the Bill of Rights and apply that to things that aren't literally the government.
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