skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Before the question of what you have the question of if.

Meh. I mean, sure, when all is said and done, everything is constrained by physics and chemistry and imagination has no bearing on this reality. On that we agree, to the point that stating it outright is almost a non-sequitur: a true statement that has no relevance to the discussion at hand.

Human culture, in the 400 years of since the first glimmering of the scientific method, has made gigantic leaps in understanding objective truths about our Universe and what lies within it.

At every step, highly educated people confidently assert that we know all that is worth knowing and everything henceforth will just be filling in the details. At every step, these assertions have been a failure of imagination.

I can confidently state with only historical evidence to go by that our current understanding of the Universe is deeply flawed and will be completely overturned someday. Or if not, it would be because we're just not intelligent enough as a species to do it, and not because we know it all*

It is this sense that I mean, when I say that asserting all life throughout the Universe will have forms like those found here, is a failure of the imagination.

* Everything that we ever will discover is constrained by the form of our bodies, our evolutionary history, our psychology, and to a lesser degree by our cultural outlook and worldview. There are truths about the universe that are literally forever beyond our discovering because we are incapable of discovering them.** Were we to encounter alien entities that made use of such hypothetically inaccessible principles, especially if their physical forms were based on them in some way, we would literally not understand what we're looking at.

** As an aside, that is my favorite explanation for the Fermi Paradox, that the interstellar cosmos is thrumming with the signs of life and civilization, but we only partly and minimally understand what we're looking at, and so miss these signs.
If you are taking about Portland, it really was mostly peaceful protest. It probably would have been completely peaceful if trump hadn’t sent in his fascist anonymous SS shock troops (against the express wishes of both the city and state governments).
This reminded me of an old quip. “The doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”[0]

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/03/architect-vines/
Thank you for the reference for "Breaking Paragraphs into Lines". I attempted to implement something like this (quite naively) a few years ago; to read something in detail makes me realize the impressive lengths people go to in order to do something as 'simple' as breaking paragraphs into lines and further realize how little I appreciate 'tiny' things like this.
> so one can load their own ROM without Goople Play Services

Yeah this is the mobile phone equivalent of growing your own vegetables.

I get it, I'm a techy, but until the day is here where rooted phones aren't treated like a special case: for most people if they buy a droid then it's actually significantly worse for their personal privacy than an Apple device.

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.
it’s strength, both psychological and physical, that correlates most closely with dominance, not size or gender/sex, though those of course tend to correlate with physical strength. a nice property of sexual reproduction (as opposed to asexual) is that you get two chances at having generalized strength in parents, as opposed to one, which correlates with greater family fitness and offspring survival.

this is probably the biggest misconception in mainstream discussions of gender/sex and power (and part of what makes them so tiresome), which threads through everything from affirmative action to sexual harassment to lgbt rights. multidimensional strength fosters dominance, not just gender/sex or simply size. the dominant (or submissive) gender can be performed by either sex. this is foundational for understanding power dynamics (whether sexual, political, economic, social, religious, or anything else).
It seems like this argument proves too much for your purposes, in the sense that it can be used to show that neither algorithm is any good as far as distributed governance is concerned.

While it’s true that you can’t buy Bitcoin (for example) unless someone else is selling, most people aren’t concerned about market liquidity for buyers due to whales being unwilling to sell. The permission to buy doesn’t seem hard to get?

Also, for the most part, people are happy when the price goes up, which is what happens when there are more buyers than sellers.

I guess in theory, money drops could distribute ownership more widely and that would be more equitable, but this sort of inequality (some people have a lot more Bitcoin than others) isn’t normally considered too much of a problem.

But if you’re going to take distributed governance seriously, neither proof-of-work nor proof-of-stake give ordinary people much of a say in how things go. In this way it’s similar to the stock market, where we’re told our votes are meaningful but in practice they aren’t unless you have a huge amount of shares. Participating in governance is usually an illusion and it’s not normally why you invest, unless you’re a corporate raider or something.

Similarly for mining. It’s done to make money.
We have a terrible national heritage here and I understand the reluctance. But this isn't how we handled smallpox or polio.

There really isn't any other option than vaccination given that coronaviruses can reach up to 35% fatality (1). We are extremely lucky right now that the current fatality rate (IFR) is hovering around 1%. That could change.

Or if there is another option, what is it? We are a year and a half into this thing with no end in sight. And it has already demonstrated it can mutate past herd immunity for those who have already had it or who have been vaccinated. But it's also pretty clear that those who have been vaccinated are more likely to survive by a huge margin.

I'm a huge believer in letting people destroy themselves. But I don't believe in letting them destroy everyone else. I'm weird I guess.

1. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Healthy food is expensive and time consuming to make, many Americans can't afford it and also don't easily have access to it.
Necessary for indoor cats? I also don’t really understand why they are wearing a collar when it can break off - info gets lost and you may never find them.
Did you read the article? This is just about exempting non-exchanges from “broker” status i.e. keeping track of users’ personal information, transaction history, and data. The representatives said they agree people not paying taxes on crypto is a problem, but classifying them as brokers is not the solution.
It's tough to see any potential evolutionary path that would make SARS-CoV-2 deadly to children. There are four other endemic human coronaviruses that have been around for a long time, including HCoV-OC43 which is another betacoronavirus genetically quite similar to SARS-CoV-2. The only reason that OC43 doesn't cause many deaths today is that most of us get infected when we're young and build up protective natural immunity. It's had a long time to evolve other variants but so far none of them kill kids.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152166162...
Awesome! Keep up the good work
Maybe the different authors of the website disagrees with each other then, as this paragraph from the website seems to disagree with your statement:

> Nevertheless, most other SQL database engines are statically typed and so some people feel that the use of manifest typing is a bug in SQLite. But the authors of SQLite feel very strongly that this is a feature. The use of manifest typing in SQLite is a deliberate design decision which has proven in practice to make SQLite more reliable and easier to use

https://www.sqlite.org/different.html
interesting! I'm seeing them grouped in the middle. It's a tricky layout, using d3.js's circle packing algorithm, then recursively using a force layout to relax each folder's contents.
@dang - I like this title structure better (instead of listing the companies in the title)
How do antibiotic resistant infections work? I ask as a lay person.
>Compulsory getting a government-sanctioned liquid into my body is a completely different topic. "My body my choice" exactly. My part of space-time.

But you can't "choose" to be separate from society, that's my point. The people in question want to refuse vaccination but still participate fully in society, which is not how a societal contract works. If the consequences for not getting vaccinated had more impact on an individual's participation in society, I think we'd see fewer people "choosing" to not get vaccinated, because they would actually face consequences for that choice. Instead, people are able to refuse the vaccine, still participate fully in society, and the consequences are fully externalized onto those who are unable to be vaccinated.
I think they are probably just going to match the hashes to known hashes of "bad" images.
Aphantasia: People Without a Mind's Eye – 'Out of Mind'
This was done half a century ago, and neither of these got even close to the true orbit. A Soviet dog went further - in 1957. At least Elon Musk's SpaceX has practical, monetary benefits to the taxpayer.

This is not opening up the dream of space travel for the commoners - it's ultimately a joy ride for people who got rich from a broken, corrupt, and an imbalanced system.

I frankly do not understand HN's glorification of this morbid excess.
Right but what are we actually doing to cancel Bill Gates?

The information that Bill Gates had meetings with Epstein came to light 2 years ago but we still had articles promoting the Gates foundation and Gates work with vaccines.

Bill Gates worked with MIT on quantum dot tech: https://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218

Bill Gates donated money to MIT's Media Lab:
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-connections-jeffr...

Will MIT be returning that money as well?

>But you'll find that the biggest critics of Stallman were also the biggest critics of Gates.

>I was shocked. I continued talking to my friend, a female graduate student in CSAIL, about everything, trying to get the full email thread (I wasn’t on the mailing list). I even started emailing reporters — local and national, news sites, newspapers, radio stations. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Selam+G+Stallman&t=ffab&ia=web
>https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
>https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

and yet:

>https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Selam+G+Bill+Gates&t=ffab&ia=web

Nothing.
https://www.mondaq.com/australia/crime/893326/imprisoning-th...

There isn't a large Innocence Project (though a small one has popped up and should be supported) in Australia and there are overzealous prosecutors in Australia, just as in a lot of places (though the competition in America seems to be exceptionally strong). Faith is nice and all, but it doesn't free the innocent. There's a link to support Australia's innocence project, maybe tithe.
I got PhotoLine running under Wine. The interface is not as "sexy" but the capabilities of PL are great and in many ways better than PS or Affinity Photo. PL has been around almost as long as PS but is not as known. I believe two brother from Germany maintain the software. It is much better than GIMP too.
-good point, the direct channel website we have is built using a third party service so its not customisable. The plan is to set up our own platform where we can fully customize the flow and sell food from all our brands in a single order in the near term. Right now focus is on creating the best food.

-nope youre right , pictures are crucial in driving purchases, we'll fix that.

-interestingly Swiggy already moved into the business 2 years ago via a service called "Swiggy Access" where they created their own brands based on data. But it didnt work and they shut down all locations to shift focus back to their core business -logistics. In the longer term we plan on building brands with strong enough customer repeat rates to drive traffic to our own app/website and creating offerings exclusively available on our direct channel to reduce platform dependance.
The other way around. If the database of fingerprints is unauditable, and especially if the database varies from country to country, then it would be very easy to add fingerprints for classified documents, or photos documenting known war crimes, or even just copyrighted stuff to close the so-called analog hole.

Documents could also be engineered to trigger false positives, making it difficult or impossible for a corporate whistleblower to photograph incriminating evidence to deliver to the authorities.

So, if the rumors are true and every iPhone will check every photo against an opaque database of perceptual fingerprints, what safeguards exist (beyond "trust us" from the database keepers) to prevent abuse of the feature to suppress evidence and control the flow of information, and which organizations or governments will have control over the contents of the database? As always, who watches the watchers?
Micro content. Small text, big impact
How small bits of text explain and support your message and make your story complete.
There's a fairly mature one near where I live in London that isn't on the list either. I've submitted it.

Agreed that it's great to know that special interest sites like this still exist.
Well, maybe if everyone drops them an email...

affinity@serif.com
I don't mean to be hyperbolic or off-topic, but wow, if this specific thread is anything to go by, I don't think we can have a nice society at all. We're like monkeys throwing feces around at eachother and can't even agree, after the fact, as to who threw the first batch or whether it was justified.

All while another separate set of monkeys (media), with their own agendas, tell the rest of us stories and interpretations of said feces throwing. Who am I to believe here? Where are the facts? Who is being punished and fired and impeached and imprisoned after we evaluate the facts? Were laws broken? Should there be laws against some of these things?
> But this fantasy scenario is really quite unlikely

Based on what exactly. The delta variant was unlikely. The COVID-19 was unlikely. I think I'll back governments taking precautions against the possible rather than somebody thinking it's a fantasy(def: the faculty or activity of imagining impossible or improbable things) scenario, ignoring the last 18 months of world life.
Permanent residents are also subject to the expatriation tax AFAIK.
Huggingface is really an incredible org. I hope they continue on the same excellent path. They recently raised $40M and I imagine there will eventually be stronger pressure to monetize their work.
Stallman also has the social skills of a doorknob. Bill Gates is quite a bit more charismatic.

I get that he’s autistic; so am I. But autistic people can also be gross jerks who overstep boundaries, and autism should not excuse that.
> The US presidential/bicameral system (replicated in all of its flaws in almost every state) where the President/Governor is directly elected by the people

The US President is not directly elected by the people, even though the people by whom he is elected are not the legislature and he does not need to maintain their support.
I wanted a non-Adobe alternative to After Effects (that also wasn't quite as Final Cut-focused as Motion) for years until I discovered Blackmagic Fusion (now part of Da Vinci Resolve).

If you're not in the VFX industry (I'm not), it's probably completely off your radar, but Blackmagic has taken Apple's "take a loss on software to sell hardware" model to the next level and distributes Resolve for free. The workflow is different from After Effects, but it took me only a few days to adjust from pre-comps to box-and-pin, and its power and flexibility is incredible.
The evidence is not exactly in short supply, but I was not writing an essay intending to prove my case beyond a reasonable doubt.
They're doing perceptible hashes, not file hashes. This was covered earlier in a different article posted here.
But wait, I thought building the company was collaborative? If I collaborated in building the company I work for, why would I want to leave it just to work for a different CEO? If all the workers agree that we need a different CEO, why can't we vote for it? After all, it's supposed to be a collaboration ....
multipasskey

working POC

http://www.multipasskey.com/susdemo/
What will happen is that criminals who actually had bad intent will move off of the platform and the ones who get the brunt of the blame are the innocent who had no ill intent.
We will not be able to have nice things until we get better privacy laws or come up with novel ways to prevent unwarranted snooping. It's sad that it's come to this.
That's a great point regarding a free watermarked trial. I'll look into adding that.
> I'll buy all three Affinity apps again with a Linux or Proton version.

Same here. I already own Affinity apps for Mac and on Windows but I don't see anything wrong with buying next Designer or Photo for Linux (with or without Wine/Proton). However, I know it is massive effort and still very complex errand to deliver even comparable experience on Linux as on Windows. I do still keep fingers crossed for Serif but it is frantic demand.
Thanks for sharing, I as well didn't know about this. I've enrolled/used Zelle (via my bank app) and it's just a travesty of usability to me, after awhile I ditched it (and I don't hear a lot in the news about Zelle these days).

What's your hot take on this new FedNow system vs. what Zelle tries to achieve via ACH? Do you think it'll be more "Venmo-like" (low friction) or will it end up a usability mess due to regulation requirements?
My project is an e-commerce image editing solution with a focus on ML/CV automation

https://modifai.direct
ETH PoS mainnet transition is underway and will be completed early 2022. With this holders of ETH will be able to earn fees from transactions, just by running an application on their standard normal computer. The only encouragement you need to move off of POW is profit motive.
I Overclocked the Ryzen 7 5700G’s iGPU to 2900 MHz, a World Record
Children account for 1.3% to 4% of all US hospitalizations for COVID, depending on the US state.

What do you suggest is done when everyone throws their hands up and medical demand exceeds supply? I fail to see how being unable to admit patients is some impossible scenario.
can you please tell me how can i install Doom?
What if an attacker has intentionally produced an image with the same hash as a well known blacklisted image?

Then they could send you the new image and fuck up your life.
Even then, you are totally free to bring empty bottles through security, then fill them up on the other side.
Except the difference is nudity is natural and sometimes instrumental - for washing, bathroom use, and medical care for example - and denying basic healthcare to your children is not, unless you plan to be instrumental in your child's demise and that comes natural to you.
So they might as well just ask for their ransom via a wire transfer or paypal? Since their identity will be known anyway.
>"popular idea that the UK was covered in dense forest after the ice age until modern times is mostly erroneous these days"

When I was growing up in Scotland, I'm reasonably sure I was told that 95% of Scotland was once covered by the Caledonian Forest. Certainly that's what I've been telling people since then:-) But according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Forest it was estimated to have covered 15,000km2, whereas Scotland is 78,000km2, suggesting it was less than 20%.
Again, while I can see where you're coming from, the fact is I really do find it difficult to believe that they can be all that great while looking around at all the painfully slow software I have to use that was deployed by billion dollar companies and worked on by an army of developers who, presumably, were hired with that very mindset.
https://textpost.me is a sms-only journaling/blogging service I made.
Machu Picchu was built decades earlier than thought
Basically, it is pride that kept him and others from doing it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-shaq-shaquille-oneal-nev...
Hi! Yes we are planning on it :)
All this, while the essential systems to capture vaccine safety signal appear to be apparently broken and based on "voluntary reporting", and the world does not give a single fuck about it...

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/defining-away-vaccin...

https://tinyurl.com/CovidvFluReport
can you please tell me how can i install Half Life?
Wait... are you serious? Please tell me you're being funny... oh God... that's where we're at nowadays... I think this is a sincere statement...
I might actually get two doses in case my natural immunity is bad. And then rip up my vaccine card and will join with the non vaccinated crowd in not being allowed in restaurants demanding proof of vaccinations. Meanwhile as long as I’m not sick I will keep hanging out (as I’ve done this whole time) with my other non sick friends, and giving hugs and generally try to enjoy life.
Sure, but Delta started in India. Because of how connected we all are, if we want to protect ourselves we need to protect the world.
Just a warning: this isn't necessarily true. They'll only do it if there is a political benefit. Otherwise there is no duty to assist you.
You represent a small intersect of people who are both good writers and academics, so your advice is rare and valuable to people seeking to follow in your footsteps.

Any other tips or strange adaptations you've had to make, in order to make good writing work in academia?
I am sure, presumbly in a sane world, computer scanning is only the early stage of the process, human will be invovled to make final judgements and decisions.
But compare practice to DMCA Takedown notices. Lots of false positives, because there's no penalty for mistakes.
It's not really that shocking. In Austin Texas a little over two years ago the city council removed the ban on lying and camping in public places. The result was an explosion of tent encampments all over the city, so much so that just a couple months ago city voters reversed the decision in a referendum.

There are certainly valid points on all sides of the debate, and "lying in public" laws can definitely be abused to harass individuals, but there are also some valid rationale for why they exist in the first place.
Ah, you need to have already bought EAP.
Why not just ask for a paypal or a wire transfer then? If they don't care about revealing their identity?
Not too difficult, though I've never done it so can't say for sure.
Actually, I think your doubt needs some sources. The foundational principle is that there exists at least one of:

* a human that has never once made any mistake whatsoever

* a system composed of humans who are mistake capable but the system itself actually makes no mistakes.

Such a thing seems impossible - if you can point to the existence of such a thing, your doubt is worth entertaining, otherwise it's just contrarianism.
This would just increase the cost of electricity and thus the cost of living for everybody, and won't affect crypto miners much.
This is not misleading at all, GP's point is well founded and backed by peer-reviewed literature, see [1]. I have more references if you're interested.

> All variants right now are significantly more effective at transmission in unvaccinated individuals.

Please cite your primary source(s).

[1] Risk of rapid evolutionary escape from biomedical interventions targeting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909660/