skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And why do you think that is the case? Clickbait, pure and simple.
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Mask wearing in particular requires no trust in public institutions, just basic reasoning about airborne particles. If that's too technical for some, it has also been shown in every single movie about pandemics.

The sheer number of people still rejecting this straightforward mitigation indicates that their bad decisions have little to do with distrusting institutions. Rather the problem is their trusting malevolent leaders who have been misleading them.

As for "closed borders", I've never seen this referenced as a natural "right". Yet here it is dressed up as one, even though it is ultimately a collectivist action rather than an individual ability.

You can of course still argue the benefits of closed borders, and five years ago I would have been sympathetic (the enthusiastic ignorance movement has since burned my assumption of their good faith). It's just specious to call it a "right".
The world has an alternative since the web was born. Just host HTML page somewhere. Those who use twitter just don't care about their readers convenience. That's why I generally avoid any twitter links.
> I feel the current marketing of topological data analysis and similar is directed towards people who have at least taken several graduate math courses.

Oh I don't know about that. Lots of TDA is accessible at an undergrad level, as for example the book by Ghrist that you mention shows. I may be biased as I did my PhD in the field, but I also supervised several master's students, and some came from engineering or science backgrounds with little more math than undergrad level under their belts. They mostly did well and learned the basics of the field enough to make contributions during their thesis work. I would say that the field spans a vast range of applied-ness (from straight up data analysis with persistent homology as merely a tool, to fully theoretical work on e.g. multi-persistence). The more applied areas of the field tends to be far more accessible to people without a deep math background.

> Are there really important topology ideas in topological learning, or it can all be phrased combinatorially?

I think topological machine learning is still in its (very exciting!) infancy, and there's nothing I'd like more than to be able to answer that question! I think there's lots of potential for an extremely interesting fusion of two disciplines. And I never forget something the above-mentioned Ghrist once told me (during a discussion unrelated to ML): Never underestimate the treasure-hunting way of doing research – there's lots of be had from bringing together ideas from seemingly unrelated fields, especially when combining old and young ones. (That's me paraphrasing from memory, obviously, Ghrist is a lot more eloquent than that!)

TDA is in some sense just that: the very old of algebraic topology meets the very new of computation, data analysis, etc. And I think the meeting of topology and machine learning has potential to be very exciting too!

PS: When you say "or can it all be phrased combinatorially?", I wanna point out that topology and combinatorics are not mutually exclusive. This is a nice book that straddles the realms of TDA, topology and combinatorics: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540719618 . See also Matt Kahle's fabulous works on showing the probabilistic properties of certain randomly generated combinatorial topological spaces (in some sense generalizing the classical work of Erdős and Rényi pertaining to properties of graphs that you may know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93R%C3%A9nyi_...).
It was informative and then it started stuff like this:

> Almost the entire anti-trafficking movement is an Evangelical project to get liberal supporters to sign off on a laundry list of Christian anti-sex policies. It’s been one of their most successful propaganda projects. It’s also likely gotten a lot of sex workers killed.

I'm libertarian, do what you want with your body or money but know the risks. That said, someone could also argue that making it more difficult to sell your porn or get involved in the seedier parts of this PROBABLY stopped some people from ruining their lives, staying off drugs, etc.

Again, don't like either argument, but there are two "probably" sides to this.
Nah. You think that you have never mentioned or searched those things, but in reality you're just starting to recognize them as soon as your call ends because your brain has been primed to pay more attention.

This is the same phenomenon as driving with other people and suddenly asking out loud "Hey let's find such or such type of car". Whatever the make (within reason), you'll probably start finding out a bunch of them. That's because you start paying attention, of course, not because there's suddenly a surge of people driving them at the exact time you're looking for them.
No, there are actually scientific papers claiming a common ancestor here.
That's what Permissions controls are for.
You can't score full marks on Android SafetyNet if you aren't using an unmodified stock ROM.

https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/attestation

So yes, some apps will refuse to run and in theory some services could refuse to accept requests from devices that aren't running unmodified images.

I can definitely imagine something like Snapchat using this as they have actually been fairly aggressive at trying to prevent "unauthorized clients" that can save images without notification to the user.
I think I'd rather be in Iran.
Earning money without enjoying it is what coalminers and rubbish-collectors do. People who enjoy their jobs are the lucky ones.
For what it is worth this is one thing the team I work on did before I arrived there and that I now tell new team members:

we actively avoid dependencies, especially redux.

React actually works fantastic without if you do it correctly and we rarley have any hard debugging problems that get my head to feel it will explode.

I had one big debugging job during the last few months and that quickly turned out to be on the backend.
What's a better measurement than calories then?
AMD Launches the Infinity Hub as Its Newest Open-Source Portal
This is just an opinion from a real world example:

I've done some stripping when I was young. I did it because my gf was doing it and was making a lot of money. This was the only way we could make good money without breaking the law.

I've met the most broken and scummy people there is during that time. It ultimately broke our 7 year relationship. You pay an emotional price for making easy money. You have to be very stable to be able to endure that kind of work over time as you deal with a lot of broken people doing very intimate work. Drugs are very accessible and an easy fix to deal with the emotional toll.

People who can work in this industry for more than a year and leave unhurt probably belong in the 1% IMO.
You mean packetized. Digital isochronous landline services existed for decades. The "T" system was deployed by AT&T in 1962. Digital telephony is in fact awesome. There's no reason why "digital" needs to mean "it sucks". The reason voice over mobile networks sounds terrible is because traditional landline service uses a 64kbps isochronous channel and lossless 8-bit/8kHz coding, while mobile uses a voice estimation model that transmits its parameters every 20ms at ~3-6kbps and suffers from frequent frame loss. VoIP can sound much better than mobile but may occasionally suffer delay and loss which never happened with traditional telephony.
Removing him without notice is a pretty low class move by fedora. Especially considering they're still using his code (e.g. https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/blob/00f45403caf07e0e32855... ).
I can't even read the whole page without logging in. I wish people would stop using Twitter as a long-form blogging platform.
I wonder how much of this has to do with the speed of a connection and how much has to do with Jitter? Especially on wifi, Jitter can become a huge barrier to overcome, even if the speed of your connection is extremely high.
iMessage is E2E-encrypted; the only scanning of the content of the network a state adversary can do is by getting Apple to implement it for them, into the iMessage client.

And Apple until now have had the excuse for not doing so, that they have no mechanism built into iMessage that would or could scan for such things, nor (as the excuse would go) is such a technology likely to be either “feasible” given the E2E-encrypted nature of the communications, or “palatable” to their audience (i.e. an argument like “people buy the iDevices in part because of advertised privacy benefits, so such state-level intrusions would lead to nobody buying iDevices, so nobody would be caught by this scheme anyway, so all you’re really doing by asking us to implement it is trying to destroy our company’s share price, probably to help your domestic phone market—and our government wouldn’t take kindly to that kind of market interference. So if you don’t want to be slapped with even more Huawei-like trade sanctions, kindly go away.”)

The implementation of a CSAM scanner is a clear feasibility proof for the set of technologically-equivalent capabilities (e.g. dissident-material scanning.) The fact that Apple have implemented it, and that their users have accepted it and continued to use their iDevices, means Apple has no leg to stand on when denying governments the implementation of technological enforcement for “banning political dissident materials.”
What a joke submission. "Some guy said this" now you're acting like you're some news organization? This should have been shut down immediately. Or, maybe it's a chance for us to reflect on what most news stories really are.
Thanks, I hate it.

I mean it makes sense, surely you can train an AI to make images that humans find repulsive.

I wonder what useful applications this has though as I can’t imagine very many people would be willing to pay for images that gross them out.
Okay, other people dream of attempting these things and Elon Musk actually does attempt them. Is that more clear?

Semantic nitpicking doesn't take anything away from his accomplishments.

If you think Elon Musk or Steve Jobs are just taking credit for other people's work you know absolutely nothing about the history of their companies.

Apple was nearly bankrupt before Steve Jobs took it over, despite having thousands of good engineers working there. It was Jobs' leadership that built into the most valuable company on earth. Other people tried to lead Apple to success and failed miserably. Jobs tried and succeeded beyond what anyone thought was possible. If you think that doesn't matter, or he doesn't deserve massive credit for what he did, you're just confused.

Elon Musk put every penny of his PayPal fortune into SpaceX and Tesla, almost lost it all, all his investors abandoned him, the managers he hired failed him. He was forced to take over leadership of both companies to make them successful, which he did to incredible success.

People like to hate on these guys, to belittle their incredible accomplishments, out of envy, spite, or whatever. The haters fabricate the lie that these guys try to take credit for everything their companies do. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk have both praised their teams and collaborators many, many times. There's no way for them to avoid being the face of their companies, but that is in no way evidence of them trying to take all the credit.

But, the fact is that Jobs and Musk are uniquely deserving of credit for each of their companies' successes. They are the most responsible for their success. That doesn't mean they are solely responsible, a fact they were never confused about, have neither has ever said otherwise.

I'm not someone that thinks these guys are at all perfect people, but if you think they're just lucky, or just anyone could have done what they did, you're just extremely ignorant or lying to yourself to protect your own ego.
...and this is a perfect example of why I don't buy anything "smart" besides my phone.
If you have any specifics as to why that's not true, please do share.
"ice core data shows that the last time melting occurred at the ice cap top dates to the 1880s."

That could have been melting instead of rainfall though, right?
I'd also argue that C# is a worse language to start with than F# if you're coming from Python.
Agreed. I think the system would be superior if it sent the "naughty" hash-list to the client so that the user has some ability to recognize if the "naughty" list suddenly grows 10x in 1 country, and maybe even identify which material is on it.
I had done this in a new browser because my work once used it to stream a meeting, and I was shocked how tabloid-trashy the default front-page suggestions were. I can't believe that's what a plurality of people would want without the algorithms.
There should be a prize for the person who comes up the name for the CSAM version of swatting.
Digital yes, packet switched no. Traditional long-distance telephony was digital and circuit switched.
Not everyone is building another blog or something. Business code can by fairly complex though not technically complex. Nowadays people start their shops on shopify but still hire people to code / customize their needs. It's just not easy to completely replace a human by a more sophisticated product about coding.

Your 100k other developers will continue to justify their positions to improve the model though.
Ask HN: How useful is it to live in a city?
I’m currently listing the pros and cons of moving to a big city from a small town. I have nine pros, and only 2 cons which are + cost of living and having to downsize.

I feel that I am bored out of my mind where I live. On weekends I’m rushing out of here to the city to hang out with my friends or go eat some new food. I also like the hustle and bustle.

I’m also working on my own stuff and feel like all the tech entrepreneurs and meetups are in the city. There aren’t really that many interesting things going in my small town, at least that I’m interested in.

I already come to terms that I can’t afford a house yet in my state. So I’m gonna take a chance and go to the city, maybe it works out from a networking and growth perspective. I’m not sure how I’m working on that from my small town. Please help with some insights or advice.

Also I'm in my 30s now in California.. single with no family or kids.
Very insightful comment. When you run a gazillion dollar company, you don't care about a billion here or there from porn sites, you care about not losing your gazillion dollar business. There are plenty of examples where CEOs were not conservative enough and it cost them big time - just look at Facebook's loosey goosey approach to political advertising, which in the end turned the entire country against them. From a business perspective, it's better to take a small financial hit but continue to run your business without any additional regulatory oversight.
I see the move by OnlyFans as simply trying to appeal to a much broader and larger market. There’s more money to be made outside of porn than there is in it.
I agree, they're awful. But on the other hand the horror market exists so somehow people enjoy seeing things like this (in certain moods).
The BBC has some good history ones: In our Time, You're dead to me
What? The pursuit of knowledge does not require any intellectual hereditary descent from ancient Greece last time I checked. And the capacities of an academic culture is not correlated with closeness to the ideals of the ancient Greeks either.

They rise or fail on their own merits.
Unless you are paying it to your local tax office, of course.
Mac OS X is proof that this can be done if you build a window system from scratch, without X Windows.

But I’m not personally on board the just-use-Linux train. There’s room for innovation at the kernel level.
A family PC has more than one user. I'm sure that the same people don't want to, say, share their browsing history and log-ins or have the same taste in wallpapers.
Early in the sense that we even got the chance to observe galaxies outside of our local group, or the CMB.

The age of star formation is mostly over yes, but not completely yet - and I believe it's figured that no red dwarf can have reached even a tiny fraction of its lifespan so far?
Wow.

I do not believe changes to terms after purchase should be allowed unless required by law. We need a lemon-like law for consumer electronics.

Also, I believe it is important to not buy connected devices and appliances that are not entertainment purposes only.

I’d rather pay $200 extra for a dumb tv that will last be 10 years and guaranteed to not start showing me ads in the menu screen someday.
>What would you say are the benefits of XAML that warrant using another language for UI?

I think the main reason is they wanted a declarative language along side their imperative language. You don't necessarily need to recompile anything to get a layout drawn in an editor with XAML.
Using Vite with Ruby/Rails is also a modern option [1], really impressed after trying it out.

The article "A Rubyist's Guide to Vite.js"[2] from the author of ViteRuby provides a cool deep dive.

[1]: https://vite-ruby.netlify.app

[2]: https://maximomussini.com/posts/a-rubyist-guide-to-vite-js/
Is there data to back up an individual 'set-point'? People think differently, so I can only speak to myself:

If I was heavier than desired, and I noticed my body was gaining weight while I am suppressing caloric intake, I would reduce intake even further. Call the bluff.

Of course, easier said than done. It's perhaps a masochistic mindset, forcing yourself to feel hunger, and obstinately refusing to give in. Since I was young, my conscious response to hunger seems different than many. I can easily ignore it for hours, if I am focused on something interesting. Hunger is an annoyance I typically ignore. The body screams "Wahh, I'm hungry! I'm going to make you feel bad until I eat!" and my internal voice says "Go right ahead. Suck it up, you're fine. I'm having too much fun to tend to you. Maybe you get something in a few hours."

If anything, I probably don't eat 'enough'. But I don't try to eat less. I eat whatever I want whenever I want. I am very happy with my weight. I eat a wide variety of nutritious food. But ultimately it's just annoying that we have to eat at all.
> ...and so I do not believe they would seek to profit from controlling Kessler Syndrome.

I get the feel that logic from /Hollywood/tropes/James_Bond/ is being assumed here. In a simplistic action movie, it's reasonable to say "IF $Charismatic_Corporate_Leader profited from $Bad_Thing happening, THEN he is Totally Evil, secretly controls $Bad_Thing, and caused it to happening as part of his Evil Plans".

The Real World(tm) isn't like that. Elan and SpaceX don't control Kessler Syndrome. They are not the U.N. Space Police*. (Cripes, they can't even get timely launch approvals from the FAA, or a more sensible exclusion zone at the Cape!) "Failing" to have detailed plans & preparations for an orbital sh*t-storm - IF they don't cause it, and aren't badly damaged by it - is no more evil than "failing" to donate $75 million to African famine relief.

*Not a real thing. The point is that SpaceX ain't the law, ain't the sovereign, and ain't on some government contract to provide space emergency services & disaster relief.

(FWIW, I found the first two Starbase tour videos more interesting. Admittedly, they had the advantage of being ~3x longer.)

(Edit - formatting issue from an un-escaped '*' character.)
Stashing water underground is a great strategy for a hotter earth. See also the great stepwells of India. Just because something is old doesn’t mean it’s not effective and sustainable.
There is always the Sir Ranulph Fiennes weight loss diet:

"I went from 15½ stone to nine at the halfway point, despite eating 5,000 calories a day!"

That's 91 pounds - with just one easy trick involving Antarctica:

https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/sir-ranulph-fiennes-interview/
I mean, imho RDF isn't the problem. RDF itself is very simple. As you correctly point out, the stack is overcomplicated.

> Instead of redirecting their efforts to a more general graph model which has actual hype and use by developers

neo4j is basically this. You can also load RDF into neo4j using neosemantics and query it using Cypher instead of using a conventional triplestore with SPARQL, which is nice.
the OP probably searched for 'Crocs'. Even DDG floods the front page with the footwear. I'm not sure this is a great example.
I didn't have time to read the paper, but here is the pdf http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/13800/1/SG_geog_potential...
Of course, tho I would like to stop making ourselves superior from them, and fix the headline with something like "Animals change by proximity with other animals". I think this "human exceptionalism" is changing nature for the wrong.
> businesses like PornHub and MasterCard are terrified of brand association with child porn and sex trafficking

With PornHub that makes sense because the type of content they provide is the crux of their businesss.

But does anyone care or know what MasterCard is associated with? I would not even think to blame PG&E for providing electricity, even if the recipient turned out to be doing some super illegal things with that electricity.

So I am not convinced by reputation damage to payment processors. I am more convinced by unacceptably high chargebacks and fraud, but even there it is hard to explain the about face that payment processors have made here. Curious!
That's not a threat model, that's a set of expectations and desires.

A threat model would be (albeit an absurd one):

I will be fired and blacklisted if an employer determines how many personal emails I send a day
I don't think it's that people are stupid. Blindly trusting these apps to not take advantage or mishandle their access to personal data is also naive.

It's possible to do business without scanning your customer's faces, tracing their contacts, selling details of their transactions to aggregators, etc ... where does the line get drawn?

And that doesn't even address data that is "accidentally" collected.
A General Semantics Anecdote
The not being seen as a porn site ship has sailed for OnlyFans.
Yeah maybe there is something useful here for the gaming industry?

A typical horror movie only has a few seconds or minutes of footage of the actual gross horrifying stuff.

Games on the other hand… I bet someone would be willing to pay for an endless stream of unique gross monsters to kill.
Problems I see:

- Most content produced by people on social media is not good and you probably don't want to see it. Serendipity of a bunch of crappy content "I had a bad day nobody ask me about it" is not something you want, but it is serendipity.

- Social media isn't where you go to get info on Crocodiles, not sure how that would even work? That's Wikipedia. ... or if we're talking social media, YouTube (I searched YouTube and got a lot of legitimate results).
This is certainly true and we had paper books open on the desk at all times at IBM.

Who said the hardest part of programming is naming things? Some people do a better job than others. CSS is really wildly inconsistent within in itself. Is it another case of worse is better? Ugh. Probably.