skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are fair points to bring up and discuss, however:

1. Correlation vs. causation is unclear. Is the decline in IQ due to the smoking, or did smoking coincide or even result from other life factors that impact neurological development? Drug use is common among those with certain psychological illnesses, but it may be a coping mechanism as opposed to the cause, or otherwise differently related than what you are suggesting.

2. IQ testing is not a robust measure of intelligence or capability. There are plenty of fantastic criticisms explaining the problems with IQ testing being used in academia. At best, IQ scores are simply a measure of how well subjects perform with the spatial reasoning logical processing methods used in IQ tests, and not wholly representative of the intelligence or capability of the subject.
I think the general trend will be to push power users to portable 'platforms', like Mathematica or using another analogy, trading apps like ThinkorSwim
Congress has outlived it's practicality. We have the technology to implement a direct democracy. Fire those old, pasty-faced, morally bankrupt stooges.
> unless users' freedom to own their devices is taken away

This is a really easy problem to fix though, we are already quickly moving in that direction. Every big provider is moving towards more and more hardware and software lockins, and since everyone is doing it slowly consumers aren't reacting. I'd be surprised if general purpose computers aren't seen as a niche market in 20 years and illegal in many parts of the world in 40 years.

Here is roughly how it will happen: As more people are locked in general purpose computing will get an increasing density of bad actors. Big tech will publish studies showing that almost all viruses, malware, scams, child porn etc comes from general purpose devices, and therefore push for regulations to ensure everyone uses a locked down device. Anyone who argues against that will be attacked with arguments such as "Are you really going to prioritize your hobby at the expense of children getting sexually abused? There is no need for anyone but criminals to own a general purpose computer!".
Exactly. Consider the prevalence of wolves vs. dogs.
In a rather low blow, to whet your appetite, here is an entry from H-Fance's quite varied and interesting "Fiction and Film for Scholars of France" [1]:

The Laws of Eighteenth-Century Sex: Thérèse philosophe, one "of those novels which were “read with one hand.”"

https://h-france.net/fffh/classics/the-laws-of-eighteenth-ce...

[1]: https://h-france.net/fffh/subject-index/
Ask HN: What do you see as red flags in a job application process?
(Specifically, in contrast to ones that come up in interviews.)
What strains are you using? Each one has a different effect. Some Lazy, some hyper active some hughly creative and some highly spacey.

If you are smoking just any weed you are getting some random effect that may or may not work for you.
It looks like this would still not solve the parent commnter's problem with monitoring and censorship of "misleading content".

https://workspace.google.com/terms/use_policy.html

In particular

You agree not to, and not to allow third parties or Your End Users, to use the Services:

to intentionally distribute hoaxes, or other items of a destructive or deceptive nature;

Your failure to comply with the AUP may result in suspension or termination, or both, of the Services pursuant to the Agreement.

The availability of paid email hosting and document creation, editing and storage is, IMO, an example of the point I was making.

If, e.g., businesses and other organisations were potentially upset about Gmail scanning (remember Google was sued for this and lost) then that dissatisfaction argubaly provides motivation to avoid Gmail.

That motivation could potentially spread outside of businesses and other organisations. Google's job is to take away such motivation.

Arguably Google Workspaces is Google doing its job of quelling a potential uprising, so to speak. They are taking away potential motivation to innovate away from Google and online advertising. (It also highlights the inherent flaws in a "free" services model. For many businesses and organisations, this is not acceptable.)

Meanwhile, the company's core business remains unchanged: providing services for "free" while generating billions in profits through online advertising services.
So you're changing your argument now, that's fine.

Let's see. Java? Python? Ruby? JS? PHP? Any .NET lang?

Go is on the rise, yes. As is Rust. But D? Nim? Do you really consider those major languages?

Enough silly arguments though. We think it's special to offer options, because one size does not fit all, but we hope a common syntax can fit most. So you have the option to 1) use an external runtime, which makes all your EXEs tiny (say they run in a common system, even against a custom Red runtime you build); 2) compile to native code and get a single, no dependencies, EXE; 3) "encap" your code with the compiled runtime so you can leverage all dynamic features of Red, some of which can't be compiled; 4) compile the runtime so it can be accessed from other languages and environments. 5) Write in pure Red/System, which is basically like writing in C. Maximum control, no high level features. Tiny EXEs, no runtime, fast compilation.

- https://www.red-lang.org/2017/03/062-libred-and-macros.html (please note the Excel+Red Pong demo)
Ford made a premium gas fragrance for EV owners who miss smell of fossil fuels
It’s just an acedote, but: a friend of mine ended up in a gang database for identifying a gang member and stating he went to the same K-8 school as the gang member. This flagged him as someone with “known gang associates”. Years later, it almost cost him a job that conducted a background check, but he was ultimately able to dispute it.
I don’t know what is news and what isn’t. But I know why I find it interesting.

There is a very human element in it. I can totally imagine what goes on in the leakers head: He really knows that tank. He worked with it since forever. And the game developers are wrong. They got some detail wrong. And not just any detail, but an important… no, not just important but a crucial detail! He can tell them, but they wont believe him. Why would they? He could be anybody. So he puts his credentials in his forum profile. But the developers might still be ignoring him. This might happen for a myriad reasons, but he decides it is because they don’t believe him still. Those fools! How could he show them? Ah, he will just upload this manual, that should prove he is right and the developers will be forced to accept defeat!

Super silly, but you can just see how one can walk themselves into this situation.

One can also imagine it from the developers side. They are probably at least a little bit interested in tanks and weaponry. At least some of them. It is possible that they even have aspirations to make a very realistic tank simulator. Some obnoxious loudmouth user drops a leak on them. Publicly! They can’t use this info now or their game might get banned for “national security” reasons. They can’t even let it be ambigous if they have used it or not. If they get banned in the west their business might as well shut down the next day. They have to distance themselves publicly and dramatically. ( Now of course this might not be how it went down. I can imagine many variants. But it is a sticky situation none-the-less.)

The third interesting bit here is the question of what makes a good game. Is a change which makes the tank simulator more realistic also always makes it more fun? Are there also game ballance considerations? Or maybe some detail would barelly change the player experience but would require a complete rewrite of their simulation engine. Is it worth implementing still?

These are the perspectives and questions which made this article interesting to me. I don’t even know what “canceling strangers” would even mean in this situation.
https://iterative-refinement.github.io/images/super_res_exam...
In Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell mentions this happened as well.

Almost as if it's a natural human behavior or something.
Considering FS is free and they are hiring, they must have some sort of monetization roadmap. My bet is either they become paid, they do paid whitelisting, or they provide some sort of sales intelligence to sellers. The first option is the best case scenario. In the latter cases, akin to Facebook, the actual customer would be sellers, charged based on the number of active users FS promises.

ReviewMeta, on the other hand, is clearly donation based, and also seems more honest at the moment (e.g., not claiming to be some sort of “trusted advisor”, showing a big warning that it’s adjusted score is only an estimation).
> Isn't the point of the free market that consumers are free to vote with their dollars?

Can you pinpoint the moral difference between "Google should be allowed to refuse to host content that they dislike" and "Restaurants should be allowed to refuse to serve ethnicities that they dislike"?

It is a feature of free markets that consumers choose where to spend their money; but it is also a feature of liberal societies that the law precludes the majority from driving out an unpopular minority by refusing to do business with them.
That's an interesting thought but unfortunately I'm travelling.

One thing is that the ocean is hardly blue. Not sure why my eyes register it as such, but it's mostly very close to black with nearly equal parts of red and green, at least the parts I sampled. I think a certain amount of this article's claim is predicated on the reader erroneously believing the ocean should become blurry.
2 of the 3 subway systems in NYC were built by private companies.

It was only later that all were merged into one publicly-managed one.
I see only two examples of reference images on that page, but they have quite a few more examples in the paper itself: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.07636.pdf

The results compared with reference images pretty clearly shows that the technique isn't "magical" in any sense of the term - meaning that the ML algorithm doesn't rediscover real details that a human could not infer were there from the original.

While the results are certainly incredibly good looking and an advance in the state of the art, if you were hoping to use this as the basis of an image compression codec you will probably be disappointed. Take a look at the woman's hair on page 16 for an excellent example of this. Even at its best the algorithm seems to come up with something plausible but often wrong (exactly as expected), look at small details around eyes for good examples of this.

It's worth comparing the output to some previous results from an algorithm called PULSE (which they show in the paper). The latter is almost always horrifying in some way. As far as I can tell, it frequently makes assumptions that masculinize the subjects or make them look more white / European. SR3 doesn't seem to have this problem.

(Note: to be clear, I do think this is excellent work. Just trying to qualify the results for those in the comments who are mostly interested in fidelity.)
For a codec, WUFFS might be a better fit than Rust. https://github.com/google/wuffs

In Rust, if I have two u8 variables and I add them together, Rust will try to figure out if it's sure at compile time that this is an overflow and if so reject it, but otherwise I get a binary which might have an overflow in it.

But in WUFFS when you add those variables together, WUFFS wants you to justify why that can't overflow, or, tell it that you know it does overflow and you want wrapping or whatever. As a result, WUFFS gets to be very confident the resulting (awful, machine generated) C is safe and correct.

As you observed, this sort of confidence also permits a lot of performance tricks. WUFFS has some very impressive (ie better than existing Rust code) benchmark scores for the (much simpler) codecs like JPEG or PNG but I don't think there's any reason it couldn't shoot for MPEG or beyond.

WUFFS is no rival to Rust. It doesn't have IO for example. Which is fine, your codec implementation shouldn't do IO. WUFFS deals in blobs of bytes. Bytes you got over the network or from a file go in, and bytes represented a decoded image, decompressed file, or whatever come out.
So could we please have your real name and home address? Be the change you want to see in the world.
> Am I missing a reason this would be a terrible idea?

Nope, people in the Rust community love seeing these sorts of things. Here's one from just last week where someone went through and fuzzed all the popular HTTP client libraries, which went on to become the third-most upvoted post on /r/rust of all time: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/oir1g1/ive_tested_rus...
Court precedence. Like pretty much everything else judges would have to define the lines over decades through court cases.

I'm not sure if it should go that way. I don't like the idea that someone like Disney could hire a voice actor once and then steal their voice forever. And it feels like we are headed down that path.

On the flip-side if you could trademark your voice, someone like Disney could buy up a bunch of trademarks and use them to sue somewhat similar voices. Kinda feels like a lose lose scenario.
Put it in quotes (:
If readers are curious how to get up-and-running with a (non-mining) full node (ETH1) at home, it's quite simple.

This is how I did/do it on my Intel NUC running Ubuntu Server 20.04:

1. Download a prebuilt binary from https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/.

2. Unpack it. Optionally make it (or a symlink) available in your PATH.

3. Create a service definition, enable it, and start it:

[Unit]
Description=Go Ethereum

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/home/user
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/systemctl set-environment GETH_EXT_IP=$$(/home/user/.local/bin/ext-ip.sh)"
ExecStart=/home/user/.local/bin/geth \
--nat extip:${GETH_EXT_IP} \
--ws
StandardError=append:/home/user/.ethereum/geth.log
PermissionsStartOnly=true
User=user
Group=user
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

The script ~/.local/bin/ext-ip.sh consists of:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com | awk -F'"' '{print $2}'

And that's it. geth will start syncing mainnet and will likely finish in under 12 hours (depending on your Internet connection, of course).

Note: the initial sync is intensive in both network and disk IO, you'll need an SSD. Also, running a full node long-term (without pruning) currently eats quite a bit of disk space:

$ du -sh ~/.ethereum/geth

598G /home/user/.ethereum/geth
Thanks @9214. I must have blocked it from my memory.
Almost as if it’s deliberate.
This is simply not true, and a strange argument. Child pornography is discussed because people find it abhorrent. US politics has largely revolved around the prevention of interracial relationships for at least a century and a half, so the idea that people didn't (and don't) find them abhorrent is bizarre and ahistorical.
I've no doubt that it's happened before... Maybe what's really changed here is that we no longer need to convince the human impersonator that this is an acceptable thing to do, because we can just have a machine do it.
My point is not that people don't ostracize heretics, it's that "heretics" aren't a real category that people identify explicitly. Heresy is not a thing, people don't think "you were a heretic" as the reason they're ostracizing you (look, maybe 12th century peasants did, that's beside my point, we're talking about modern politics). People who want to ban these things don't think of this as "banning heresy", they think of it as "banning a bunch of terrible things to benefit society". If you're just going to dismiss these people's perspective as banning "heresy", you're just talking past them. You're not earnestly engaging them in argument.
It's a longshot but does anybody remember some yellow and white web 1.0 kinda site that was called the "list of musical cliches" or something like that? It was full of famous samples, synth patches, etc, and had clips and explanations of each one.
When we grow up and stop wasting so much money, time, energy, and resources on blowing each other up, then we will turn military radars off also.
The normal way to combat this is to have a training set and a validation set, use the validation images in forward pass to measure the performance of the network as it is being trained, but NOT use images from the validation set in updating the training weights.

Basically, evaluate the performance of the network on the validation set, but train it on the training set, and adjust your network structure and hyperparameters accordingly. Networks that "memorize images" will perform poorly.
That is a rather curious argument. Google's management come from Silicon Valley and statistically will have a left bias. It is quite likely that a substantial number of them genuinely believe that, say, attending a right-wing rally is similar to presenting Mein Kampf as truth with no evidence. If they start censoring one it is pretty likely they will start censoring the other.

Also, if they use controversy as their metric instead, they're going to start squashing minority views. It is actually much harder than you might think to decide what is and isn't obviously true, particularly when there is a team of moderators involved (or team of people calibrating the robots which is maybe how Google does it).

Censorship is really dangerous.
I say allow even CP. Take the whole system of control right out of the equation. Make the service 100% free, like sunshine, warming saint and sinner alike.

Then, after we have that working, and we want to remove the CP, find another way. Do it on the client side or whatever.
Apple Donating to Flood Relief Efforts Across Germany, Belgium and Netherlands
a documentary presenting an impersonator as the real person has always been unethical, yes. this one is newsworthy because it was done in a new way.
Stuart and Sons, a boutique piano manufacturer in Australia, made a piano with 108 keys:

https://www.stuartandsons.com/108keys.html

They have an elaborate explanation of why they did it, and they are a commercial outfit, but the basic reason still seems to be "we wanted to see if we could".
I’ve found not all ssd can handle a full node. If anyone is considering this just go w the nvme.
The O’Neillian movement is predicated on the answer to “is a planetary surface the best place for an expanding technological civilization” being no. Long run, this view will be most influential.
Can you explain what you mean? The output with the dock says up to 4K and 8k at different refresh rates.
Not sure if I'll ever need this but this is really cool and led me to learn about Cistercian numerals
They are exactly the same accusation, with the only difference between them whether that researcher is your friend or your enemy. It is, much like security research, easy to predict but hard to be certain which is which until it's been deployed.
How does someone that cannot show their code to anyone expect any help?

That’s just weird.

I guess there’s a reason I’m not writing classified code, because I don’t think I could deal with such nonsense unless I happened to be writing a nuclear launch system.
1. The GP said nothing about any savior company. They said "We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority".

2. You seem to be saying here that you want a specialized agency to do censorship right, as one centralized decision maker. Am I misunderstanding? A Ministry of Truth?
Epstein was a money manager. Seems like a more logical assumption that he was managing Wexner's fortune and then embezzled it or otherwise conned him or blackmailed him out of it.
So then what's your problem with adding a small Democratic-leaning state?

It seems like you're fine with small Republican states that give your preferred party an outsized power over larger states, but don't want the other side to benefit from that same dynamic.

There's nothing logical about giving a population larger than that of two existing states and with it's own distinct history to Maryland. When pieces of DC were given back to Virginia, it didn't come with a population larger than Vermont.

The only reason to oppose DC statehood is naked partisan power.
This was my dads favorite video game by far. Any time we went to the arcade I’d find him with a stack of quarters at Defender.

He played at such a fast pace I couldn’t even see what was happening, it seemed superhuman lol.
Once PoS is activated for mainnet in December (or early next year), the difficulty bomb will be no más.
It sounds like you're proposing that they have to remove illegal-content, but host legal-content, right?

For example: say someone's advertising a new drug of questionable legality (say, Δ-8-THC). Presumably a hosting-company, unsure of legality, would just take that down for violating their policies -- without necessarily asserting that it's illegal.

But if you're proposing that they can't do that, then presumably they'd be forced into making a clear determination on its legality (as they must host it if legal, and must remove it if not). Right?

---

Actually, just to mix crypto in:

Say someone posts a time-locked encrypted-file (a file encrypted such that it'll open after a few hours/days/weeks/months/whatever), and there's reasonable suspicion that it may contain illegal content -- but a hosting-company isn't sure yet, because it was just posted and no one's completed unlocking it yet. Should they be forced to host it?

Now say that an entire community springs up around this: many of the files end up being perfectly legal, while others turn out to be very illegal. How should a hosting-company react?
Also the blue LED on a PS3. Those always looked blurry to me. It’s especially obvious because of the adjacent green LED.
I very recently learned about VR (VSR?) and am wondering if someone can provide information about the tradeoffs relative to Raft/Paxos (which are "basically the same").
Ha, I stopped changing the wallpaper when I realized I would never be looking at it.
Ok, that gets us to maybe 0.3% of the speed of light on something small, which isn't very interesting.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/22140/what-is-the-...
That's a great point. I went with nvme when building my NUC and don't regret it.
Hezbollah Has More Rockets Than 27 NATO Countries Combined
A two month notice period.
Well, PoS is 4 years behind schedule. That's the reason the bomb has been pushed back for 4 years.
> The most boring way to exploit geographic cache locality is "just a bunch of Redii".

I'm not a latin expert, but 'is' is not a latin ending. The closest would be 'es', but then the plural would be Redia or Reda.
No, they're not "ok", but I personally believe that outright censorship is worse. ymmv.
This isn’t true. I’ve tested Novalin with a Dexcom and it’s possible to dose correctly and keep glucose in an appropriate range.
They are not there to improve society, they are there to make money, and if you think different you are a fool.

Republicans fought to make companies people, and to be not regulated. And now are crying when it fired back, because forcing a company to publish or block something is actually stepping on its first amendment right.

You won't really have such platform, unless it is done through a well established non-profit or through government (as long as government is Democratic and checks and balances work correctly).
Defender (1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27814341 - July 2021 (77 comments)
Outside of those on the extreme, market forces ensure that consumers get what they pay for when it comes to computing. The paranoid will always be paranoid, that doesn’t mean the sky is falling.
If this doesn’t convince you that Google of today is nothing more than the unofficial thought-police agency for the political left, I guess nothing will.