skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, she didn't. That's what happens when you let the New York Post write the articles.

The less stupid headline from the Boston Herald reads "Kim Janey invokes slavery, Trump birtherism over question on vaccine passports".

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/08/03/janey-invokes-slaver...

The problem isn't about "vaccine passports = slavery". The problem is that there's a long history of using paperwork as a way to exclude people, especially by race. It was not uncommon, for example, to hold different people to different documentation standards when it came to voting.

The article doesn't say it, but I think she's referring to the notion that black people in particular have a long, ugly history with the medical community and may be reluctant to get the vaccine on that basis. And if so, a vaccine mandate will end up excluding them from a lot of things -- effectively on the basis of race.

That doesn't make her comments right. The vaccines are safe, and if some minorities are concerned, the solution isn't to exempt them. The solution is to make it clear that this is a crisis that we're all involved in, and that the vaccine is a safe way to not only protect them, but to protect everybody, and make it possible for everybody to return to normal lives. The goal of vaccine passports is, ironically, to do away with vaccine passports -- to get enough people vaccinated that we no longer have to worry about passing the disease on.

So she's wrong, but not for the asinine reasons that the New York Post wants you to believe. Because they're a rag, with an explicit partisan agenda and flagrant disregard for the truth.
A couple of days ago, I learned about an audio processing plugin that apparently (I haven't verified it yet) earned its creator US$1M in 4 months. This is a little blob of code that you load into your DAW and it makes or changes the sounds, and you tweak knobs till it's doing what you want.

If you don't see the difference between that and, say, Amazon, then I don't know what to say.

The fact that you can trace a line between a scrappy startup in a converted garage somewhere and a behemoth doesn't mean that they are both the same thing.
> Frankly, I'm kinda surprised if an obvious optimization like that isn't already in place - let those who care about the shape pay more for the pretty ones, and let those who don't save by buying the rest.

Oh but that's exactly how it already works in existing supply chains: "imperfect" produce gets allocated quite well with food manufacturers, restaurants and food halls, or gets donated to foster homes, hospitals, etc. And many supermarkets do in fact stock up with "imperfect" produce.

"Reducing food waste" makes for good marketing. Except it's not that true.
Because this is an out group constantly endangering the well-being of others? It really is one. Or if it isn't, then what exactly is it? Your body, your choices, your consequences, but not mine or anyone else's.

Why is the right to dodge vaccination and masks so important, so absolutely vital, so incredibly on target that we risk the destruction of the Republic itself if we mandate them? Do you also support my right to throw hand grenades into rooms full of people I don't like?

This nation was founded during a smallpox and variola academic where our founding father George Washington forced vaccination upon his soldiers (1). But mandating vaccination against the current pandemic is unamerican? How does that work?

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html
for proofs of "whatever", where whatever is something that can be accrued with money, then it's proof of money, and money is centralized, or at least reallllllly spikily concentrated, so, yeah
It's very unlikely there are US citizens in the US who are Bitcoin billionaires and have not reported it and paid taxes to the government. Unless you're planning to flee the country, at some point the IRS will catch up with you. Remember that Bitcoin is an open, public ledger of every transaction. If someone is a billionaire, paying capital gains taxes is worth their freedom without a doubt.
The US has more people in in prison than anywhere in the world. It is broken.
Are you sure? By the time Windows 95 came out, the Amiga was looking pretty long in the tooth.
Government acting in the interest of its own people?
WA state HB 1168, which passed last year, provides $125m to the DNR for wildfire management and prevention. I know some people involved and the money should help buy them some breathing room to be able to actually be proactive with prescribed burns, thinning, and the like.

https://www.dnr.wa.gov/publications/em_leg_dnr_wildfire_fore...
This could backfire in a huge way. I think a lot of people, even EFF/privacy focused people are fine with a private company doing CSAM detection (or anything really) on uploaded user content since it is actually voluntary.

Now that CSAM detection is being deployed to user devices including those previously sold without it, there's a motivation to circumvent/block it. Unless Apple is doing CSAM scanning 100% inside a 100% secure processor, eventually someone will figure out the specifics of the current perceptual hash algorithm. There are already methods to make perceptual hash collisions. All it takes is one security researcher to publish a tool that creates millions of false-positives for the current dataset/model used by Apple & others to be useless.

Sure eventually they will improve the model/dataset but it just starts a cat & mouse game between Apple/Governments & honest citizens/users which actually benefits the people committing these crimes.
In 1961, Alan Shepard flew to 187 kilometers on NASA's little Freedom 7 pop rocket. In 2021, over 20 years after Blue Origin was started and 60 years after Freedom 7, Bezo's New Shepard capsule flew to 107 km. Perhaps Blue Origin should get their own house in order before they start criticizing their competitors.
I think Trump put a definitive end to the "Sane World" theory. We don't live in one.
I don't think any serious person denies the existence of the virus. Even if you go to the ('ultra' far right?) patriots.win, you'll find very few COVID deniers. The bulk of the sentiment is about rejecting the government's response to the virus and being left alone to make their own choices (good or bad).
I wondered whether this was sarcasm at first. Yes, making iCloud backups encrypted is not an easy thing I guess.
But what if 100% of criminally-insane people realize the “trick” and claim to be misidentified? There literally aren’t all the resources on Earth to do “detailed investigations” about every one of them.

(To be clear, even without such a policy in place, a large number of criminally-insane people already do claim to be misidentified because “they’re not John Smith, they’re Jesus Christ!” And these people do tend to really believe that, to the point where their behaviour isn’t all that different from someone who’s been misidentified. It’d be very hard to define a policy that would precisely delineate which stories should be looked into, vs. which are balderdash.)

We need more simple automated cross-checks to decrease false-positive rates. We need scalable solutions.
Thankfully no one has yet invented a crypto where you receive coins by proving you destroyed physical currency - USD spent on a crypto scam is still circulated through the economy. If anything, according to the greater fool theory, crypto transfers USD from the more gullible to the more manipulative, just as god intended.
Here's a quote from the creator of Calvin and Hobbes that's particularly relevant to the above passage:

> Calvin’s vocabulary puzzles some readers but Calvin has never been a literal six-year-old. Besides, I like Calvin’s ability to precisely articulate stupid ideas.

- Bill Waterson
I'm not sure we can really separate activism from corporate greed in the context of the media. Typically you have a lot of rank and file journalists and editors who are activist and corporate leadership who have figured out how to monetize their employees ideological fervor. Moreover, as "activists" are rewarded financially for their commitment, they become greedy grifters rather than mere devotees of a toxic ideology (consider prominent activist-grifters such as Kendi or DiAngelo). Which is all to say that it seems not particularly worthwhile to try to distinguish between activists and grifters because it seems more like a spectrum than distinct categories and all positions on the spectrum are pretty equally toxic as far as I can tell (you're either propagating misinformation out of zeal or greed and one doesn't seem strictly better than the other).
Zelle is owned by a consortium of the largest US banks [1], and does much more volume than Venmo (because its built into the UX of those participating in Zelle's real time payment network [2]). Congress strongly encouraged the Fed to develop FedNow to prevent Zelle from keeping smaller banks out of instant payment infra. FedNow will eventually replace the ACH system.

Hot take: banks being banks, they'll crowd out fintechs because fintechs aren't chartered banks regardless of the UX (which is why Bancorp Bank is the underlying for so many fintechs).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/12/zelle-the-real-time-venmo-...

[2] https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
What's the point? Once people realise that you control all transactions those tokens you've hoarded immediately become worthless.

You've destroyed other people's "money" at the expense of your own.
Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds
It's an official language of Paraguay
I think the culprit really is the clickbait, gotta get it out before someone else does, media. They seem to rarely fact check things anymore before pushing it out and when they are proven wrong retractions rarely happen. The lines between the democratic party and the media is definitely blurred, which isn't surprising as there are a lot of media execs who end up working for administrations for some time. It really is a worrying trend.
Here are very accessible peer-reviewed primary sources that will answer your question and give historical examples [1][2].

[1] Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2016...

[2] The adaptive evolution of virulence: a review of theoretical predictions and empirical tests
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
Acceptable losses from the sounds of it. I find these conversations difficult to discuss because we all have different ideas of what is acceptable losses.
That is happening. The US has already exported 110M vaccine doses.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-it-has-shared-110-mill...
Correlation is not causation.

This unfortunately demonstrates a common misunderstanding of how to interpret data; if there are more left-handed people compared to the general population in prison, does it mean that the justice system is biased against people who are left-handed?

That may still be true, but you simply cannot draw a correct conclusion without additional data along a different axis.
don't you suspect that in practice they are self-assailing because a known-to-be-taken-over network will immediately go into hyper deflation?
Venmo's core value right now is that it's ubiquitous. Everyone has a Venmo account and everyone trusts it. I paid an electrician through it yesterday -- no new Fed tech is going to replace it overnight, just like Zelle didn't kill it either.
https://cases.justia.com/texas/fourteenth-court-of-appeals/2...

Interesting case. I'm not a lawyer and have only given this a quick read, but it seems that the amount she could owe back was essentially unbounded, the longer she was there the more she could owe back. That was a major factor in the decision against Buc-ee's. See pages 8 and 9, in particular. I don't think this would work against bonus claw backs in general, only if they were similarly considered unreasonable and also only in TX, whose laws were violated in this case. (EDIT: Or states with similar laws, obviously.)

A $10k signing bonus that has a bounded and shorter obligation period could be considered reasonable.

> As noted above, an enforceable covenant must contain limitations as to time, geographic area, and scope of activity to be restrained that are reasonable and do not
impose a greater restraint than necessary to protect the employer’s business interest.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.15.htm

Sections 15.50 and 15.51 are the relevant parts.
This is true. However, email is explicitly not a reliable/guaranteed delivery system, so, despite the fact that is is really quite reliable, we keep that in mind when designing systems that make use of that channel of communication. SMS? Not so much. Idiots persist in thinking of it as reliable/guaranteed.
Similar thing.

What's important to note, though, is that the mutations are blind to their environment. The virus or bacteria doesn't see an antibiotic or antibody and say "I need to adjust this aspect." It's just constantly changing as it reproduces, and some of them may end up winning a battle that the original did not. And then they spread from there as would any strain.

From the purposes of the virus, an unvaccinated person in a poor country without access to vaccines isn't better or worse than one in the US who's simply refusing. It doesn't know. They're both opportunities for the virus to keep replication and so keep (randomly, blindly) mutating.

If the odds of reproducing in a way that escapes people's current antibodies, and making your way outside the host (because a mutation the immune system adapts to before it can be spread dies there) are 1 in ten billion, say... and you leave 7 billion people in the world unvaccinated... suddenly those odds aren't so great. (Numbers entirely fake here, but basically, less likely events become more likely as more time goes by, if you keep giving them opportunities to happen.)

A key advantage of a vaccine over an antibiotic is that it can potentially stops the problem before it starts whereas antibiotics are generally given if you already have a nasty infection. So the amount of virus that's exposed to the immune system in a vaccinated person will be lower, and throttled more quickly, giving less time for it to get lucky, IIRC. But nothing about that would magically necessarily stop a virus that's still spreading like wildfire in a large unvaccinated population from coincidentally developing new traits that help it out. The goal is to vaccinate a large enough population quickly enough that this "spreading like wildfire" situation stops, so we reduce the mutation rate of the virus.
There are plenty of other videos that demonstrate computer vision detecting chess pieces.
Is anyone aware of classification (e.g. word prediction) datasets for low-resource and endangered languages?

If so, we would like to use it for the HEAR NeurIPS competition: https://github.com/microsoft/DNS-Challenge/tree/master/datas...

The challenge is restricted only to classification tasks, and sequence modeling like full ASR is unfortunately beyond the scope of the competition.
More conversation in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28074809

cc: dang
> “The best living metaphor for it all is that you had some bloke on the other side of the planet telling you what to do and then just leaving,” the source claims.

Some poetic irony to this happening to the UK.
Wasn't Dogecoin originally intended as a joke, not a scam?
This entire story is so crazy it sounds like it could only be fiction.

Actually, this would make an incredible plot for an episode of 'Law and Order' or whatever today's clone of that show is.

"But how could the murder weapon have Castleberry's fingerprints on it when we know he's been in a psychiatric hospital for the last 2 years?"

"Maybe he snuck out, and in his psychotic state killed someone. He wouldn't be criminally culpable, but the hospital might be."

"What, then he crossed the entire city undetected, killed the victim, and got back into the hospital all without being noticed? I don't buy it. And besides, he's so doped up on that Haldol stuff, he doesn't even know his own name. He was catatonic when saw him."
Yeah, presumably that's how they gather these stats on vaccination rates across race/age/gender
> fascist anonymous SS shock troops

Can you try again without going full Godwin's Law on your first post in the thread? How can we have any hope of productive conversation with rhetoric like this? (I'm far from a Trump supporter, but there's valid Trump criticism--and plenty of it--and then there's absurd hyperbole).
This is exactly what happened with Ethereum in the early days when a bad actor was able to exploit a third-party contract to the tune of 5% of all ETH.

The Ethereum everyone talks about today is the fork, due to the Ethereum Foundation which owns the trademark leading the fork.

The Ethereum blockchain with the unaltered history is called Ethereum Classic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic#The_DAO_bailo...
I think the idea is that if piles of money grow proportionally to their size, the biggest pile of money will grow the fastest, effectively becoming the central point where power is concentrated.

With proof of work, the same effect exists, thought it involves a loop where hashrate is exchanged for money, which is converted into more efficient hashrate at a TSMC fab.

An actor that openly attacks the network will quickly be blacklisted in either system, but when you control a majority of the money there are other ways to influence the system that don't involve breaking a formal rule.

Disclaimer: I don't have the faintest clue what I'm talking about. I only have passing familiarity with cryptocurrencies, and I've read one or two of their whitepapers.
From Stranger to DA // Using PetitPotam to NTLM Relay to Domain Administrator
I wouldn't advocate assault on an open forum.
Many states ban new hospitals from starting without the approval of other hospitals. NO one wants to effect actual change, preferring instead to deal with superficial attempts to deal with the problem.

That being said, hospitals have not been overwhelmed in the United States. The emergency hospitals we did build mainly went unused.
Here's, among others, one of the absolutely wild examples from Canada: https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/Resear...

Multiple people convicted by evidence provided by a quack of a doctor used as an Expert Witness by the crown.
You’re best bet is to use an extension like “I don’t care about cookies” or turn on the fanboy cookies or annoyances list in unlock origin.

The cookies dark pattern Is everywhere.
> perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children

They are using a library of human verified images to compare the hashes. Probably similar to PhotoDNA[0]. There can be false positives, but AFAIK the algorithms are not trying to identify naked children, but comparing 2 similar image hashes.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
We already have that in the 2.4 ghz band.
Foone's got a patreon, I wasn't aware of it. If you enjoy the content:

https://www.patreon.com/foone
Shelah's productivity is astonishing, but he uses the worst notation possible, his preprints are practically unreadable as a result (not that I'm clever enough to understand them).
Doesn't look like it's mentioned here, but expense of the COBOL toolchain has got to be an issue for its uptake.

Paid toolchains have essentially failed in software engineering. There are some hybrid business models in game engine toolchains, but moving towards more free/open/flexible systems has resulted in huge growth. You can pay for support from certain companies, but that's not quite the same.

If you want to run COBOL, you typically need to buy a compiler, buy specialist hardware, and buy an IDE. There are open COBOL compilers but COBOL compilers have compatibility issues worse than browsers so particular compilers do matter.

The most modern and accessible COBOL development that I'm aware of is JVM/CLR COBOL developed in Visual Studio/Eclipse. You can even run it on Android! But you have to buy the whole toolchain, and it's very much "call us for pricing", not low prices and putting in a card number.

This ultimately prevents new people from joining the community as open/free compilers and toolchains are essentially table stakes at this point, and that means the community is only going to shrink.
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For HN: There is and active community on Reddit exploring this tech using free Google Colab notebooks. A few of us pay Google $10/month for practically unlimited usage. https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/m/gan_art/

For OP: The notebooks have very awkward UX. So, putting a pretty front-end on it is a value-add. But, it won't last. Your base cost is 5 minutes of GPU time. You will very soon be competing with free downloadable programs and much cheaper alternatives. And, I know from a ton of experiments that getting good results out of these systems takes a lot of practice and attempts. Charging $1 per dice roll where most of the time you roll crap will make people angry fast.

What I'd recommend is building a machine with as many 32GB K80 GPUs as possible. They are awkward to build around and quite slow, but cheap if you can find them and have a surprisingly large amount of RAM. Let people use that machine for free to generate low-rez images. Limit 1 GPU per person at a time. And, figure out how to use a low-rez generated image to seed a 1080p version in the GAN using a CPU run with 64GB of RAM. Then take the output of that and AI-upscale it to 4K or something. Charge for the upscaled, denoised version of their favorite creations. Not for every time they roll the dice.

Then hook up with a painting-on-demand service and sell drop-shipped prints of people creations.
There are hundreds of "Linux requests" (most popular [0]) on their forums and they were very resistant to give although a small chance to make it happen.

[0]: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affi...
> I'm sure it's true these vaccines would save more lives in developed nations

One of the main points is that it is also in the average person's self interest to get the whole world vaccinated before a bunch of old people get boosters. It is likely even in the old person's self interest to reduce the odds of a new variant that isn't targeted by the vaccine.

> Suppose a variant pops up that's deadly to children,

Which is most likely to happen in the unvaccinated world. One of the main points is that it is also in the average person's self interest ... etc etc ad infinitum.

Not getting the whole world vaccinated as quickly as possible is potentially catastrophic. No amount of boosters will be any good against a variant that ignores the vaccine-induced immune response (or non-response, really).
Marvell Adds Hyperscale Ethernet with Innovium Acquisition
Is there an extension needed or is this a recent addition?

I've spent way too long reconfiguring yubikeys to act as an OTP device so that they work over RDP.

(edit: reconfiguration is needed to capture the device ID/secret and get them registered to our MFA provider as an OTP token, I realize they do OTP OOB :) )
> Yeah this is the mobile phone equivalent of growing your own vegetables.

Sadly...I know. The unfortunate thing is my recommendation for my family/friends for a phone is an iPhone, because it really is the best for security/privacy today, and they at least support their phones for much longer than an Android.

> I don't want that to be the case, but until the pine phone is here and starts being a reasonable alternative; that's how it is.

Fortunately, I think that time is coming sooner than later.