skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terrible thing is this probably pushes performers to more predatory platforms / aggregators.

I bet this move could somehow be traced to machinations from the big porn industry players. I think if people want to make money doing this stuff and they're legally of age in a place they do it, and if they're not hurting anyone, then you shouldn't get in their way. If it's a free choice to engage in it and they are not trafficed nor coerced nor debt trapped, it should be a way that people can access to generate income or express themselves is that if that's what they choose.

I've heard of onlyfans but I've never even seen any content on there and the screenshots I've seen have just been sort of racy but not explicit and i don't know anything about the background of this decision, but... just in general I think it's easy and useful to frame it from the point of view of freedom of expression and commerce versus a moral panic or crackdown on independent content creators who are empowering themselves with content in a market that pays premiums and they can achieve a better standard of life than by doing other things, and it's better than them working at the behest of or in contract to someone else. So from that point of view I think it's a great thing that people could do this (like uber for racy content or if you want to take it to the extreme: Uber for explicit content) and it's really sad that this platform seems to now be disallowing that I think to the great harm and detriment of all the people who could formerly freely engaged in making their money that way.
> Here you have an extensive well researched article of the BBC, with two different law enforcement officers confirming this is happening

Why would the BBC or the police be worthy of trust? It’s ironic to trust their word when the article goes over the ways the site tries to verify identity and hence age, and they seem reasonable, far more reasonable than trusting the police because they’re the police.

I’m not going to post up my passport but I didn’t come down in the last shower.
I work full-time on my upstart. I have five kids, the oldest is 7 the youngest is 1. I am not sure if I will be successful, but I think it is doable. I might have a superhero wife tho. :)
Office autosave does not modify files in place, it creates new copy with some additional backup/history/unwritten mechanisms thrown in. Modifying files in place is very rare (pre allocation in case of many downloaders like bittorrent/aria2 etc, or straight up disk editing), appending is more common (logging).

>From there, you can build the file's representation in RAM with much fewer random-traversals than the FAT32 linked-list approach.

You can do same thing in FAT by reading whole cluster map at the start. Wiki: "Other high-level mechanisms may read in and process larger parts or the complete FAT on startup or on demand when needed and dynamically build up in-memory tree representations of the volume's file structures different from the on-disk structures." This passage references OS/2 documentation, but its unclear to me if OS/2 employed such optimizations. Later NT builds might have this, as Iv seen large files allocated into empty space in the middle of a disk instead of forcing writes into first available gap.

>B-Trees mitigate the random-reads associated with fragmentation. There are much fewer seeks from a b-tree based representation than a FAT/linked-list style representation

after reading whole cluster map you have same representation in RAM, there is no information disparity. Its less elegant, slower to initialize and wasteful - 2TB FAT32 partition with 32KB clusters means >250MB cluster map on disk. But at the end of the day disk will have to perform same random seeks to read already fragmented file. The magic bullet for fragmentation is a map of free sectors letting OS pre plan where to put files in a smart way, and even NTFS doesnt use fancy data structures for that. NTFS $BITMAP is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_space_bitmap. exFAT has a nice feature of marking unfragmented files in the Directory entry removing the need for FAT traversal altogether.

>Consider this scenario. You have a FAT/Linked list of the following: 0 -> 10 -> 5 -> 7 -> 2 -> 1 So you need to move-head to 0, read, move-head to 10, read, move-head to 5, read, (etc. etc.). That's 6 times you move the head randomly.

or whole FAT table is cached in ram and there is no difference :)
They used it in the experiment.

Not everybody is an evil henchman out to stick it to the Coca Cola corporation.
What was their reasoning for not using Lidar?
The reason I find this sort of study annoying is that it can make it seem that sourcing food that replaces HFCS with honey or table sugar (e.g. Mexican Coke instead of American Coke) will make us healthier. But, in fact, it would be better to just reduce the amount of HFCS in the recipes and get used to food not being as sweet.
it's actually very easy to replicate an ecommerce/dropshipping site. the hard part is getting customers.

In this case they've probably set up their SEO, backlinks, fb ads, etc. so that's what you're actually paying for.

If you already have the cashflow and experience then adding another store might be worth this price tag for saving your time, though if you are new to the industry it's probably easier to start from scratch.
It would have been better to get a code review or to test before checking-in that incorrect code.
Well then I guess in your view no human has ever experienced a catastrophe. One may think many people will disagree (me for example).

How do you call, say, a disease that kills half of all humans? An inconvenience?
I used this exact idea to do not just containers but cross compiled containers with cached artifacts using cachix, https://github.com/openenergysolutions/openfmb.adapters for a size-able example perhaps
Incomes are way up for the top ~30% of earners, not just the ultra-wealthy.
Seems like the heads of banks and payment processors themselves may be the ones with puritanical views. Time for companies to push for and support alternatives (including cryptocurrency) to free themselves from those in the financial industry who are holding them back from profit and progress. If they are so entrenched and powerful that it's impossible for a new company to meet the current needs of the market than the government has to step in. Maybe it's time to break some of these old financial companies up or strip away some of the regulations they've had put into place to keep their monopoly position
Because there are trigrams crossing the boundaries between characters.

E.g. given the bytes ABCXYZ, the trigrams are not just ABC and XYZ but also BCX and CXY. Then the question is, assuming ABC, XYZ, BCX and CXY are all present in a document, what is the probability that ABCXYZ is present in the document? If it's close to 1, then the byte trigram index is about as powerful as a character bigram index.

Of course it's also true that bigrams might be inadequately selective, but the underlying alphabet is probably larger than ASCII if it encodes to 3 bytes in UTF8.

Again I'm not arguing that trigrams-over-bytes is necessarily the best option here, just that it's simpler and a decision to do trigrams over Unicode characters needs data to justify it, and I'd love to know what that data is.
"This is not about arguing over the details of some economic model. The problem is culturally pushing some neopuritan nonsense"

The problem is these companies have accumulated so much power, they can push anything they want on you. They can reach into your device, scan you files, canxell your transaction, etc. and there is fuck all you cam do about it.
Unrefined foods have qualities that make you slow down on eating. Fiber is one of these, which honey doesn't have, but I'd imagine there might be something else in there... all I know is that moderately-active people can eat as much fruit as they want alongside whatever their protein source is.
You are blaming the wrong party! Your friends shouldn't rely on income from one customer who holds all the cards (did your friends negotiate a contract with OF with the help of a lawyer?). Lesson learned for them. They can now run their own sites and do marketing etc. themselves and learn how to run a business.
If sucrase production was limited people would be able to easily poison themselves by eating too much sucrose. Sucrose intolerance from sucrase deficiency seems pretty rare though and I’ve never heard that your body regulates the breakdown of sucrose. Seems rather that the body makes how ever much sucrase is necessary to make sure the enzyme is not the limiting factor.

I think to a first order, sucrose really is 50% fructose to the human body.
New users can't register at Voat currently, so it seems kind of dead anyway.
Cost and reliability.

But Elon says it is because they don't need it.
The 386SX also has a 24-bit address bus, the same as a 286 - which limited it to 16MB of RAM, but that was a huge amount of RAM at the time.
Too expensive + Your eyes already do the distance estimation and they are basically cameras so we can do this just as well or better.
Unfortunately, tangram does not help here, it just adds yet another format to the list. The reason it needs its own format is because .tangram files include all the model reporting information that shows up in the web application.
I think originally it was because of the cost of the equipment. Elon and team saw how expensive lidar was and thought they needed to be able to solve the problem without it. However lidar has dropped drastically in price, so at this point I think they aren't using it just for ego reasons (i.e., we claimed it was possible to get self driving without lidar in the past, so we have to continue down that path)
Because it’s expensive to make since it’s incompatible with normal biological production.
Many distro default to iptables-nft, RHEL 8 went further and is not providing iptables-legacy binary at all. RHEL 8 still has iptables in the kernel, I think to allow container sidecars to still work with iptables-legacy.
Each style has its place. Just like you, I found the "harder" problem sets and related classes much more interesting and exciting. That significantly correlates with me being in this field after all. That is also a poor style to pick for an intro class, as the intro class needs to provide an overview of the field and teach many diverse skills in relatively minimal depth. The intro classes are not meant to teach mastery. Good schools pay sufficient attention to their students to bump up the occasional student that is taking the intro class instead of the more appropriate for them mastery class.
From the article, in the conclusion section: "Apple's NeuralHash perceptual hash function performs its job better than I expected"

Just want to surface that because the title seems a little sensational based on the conclusion.
Can they possibly have such great IP that has any value over any 'I could clone that in a weekend' (i.e. longer than that, but still not long) jobs? Or other incumbents like Patreon?

They have a solid brand, it isn't what they want, but change that and what else is there?

I laughed reading the title, because it sounds just like 'TikTok bans dances', 'Instagram bans food and candid shots that aren't' to me. I don't use any of these sites, but that's the reputation they have/association I have for them; rebranding away from it when the core is so simple just seems nuts.
But that site doesn't accept new users. So in that way it's not different from the old Voat.
Communist thugs will take their majority cut.
Most exchanges do ACH, wires, or other methods. Kraken is opening its own bank eventually, and will take direct deposits.
My understanding of it was purely regarding porn. Or, as an open platform focusing on paid user generated content which naturally was a cesspool for porn. Interesting enough, after a debate about would you date a girl who had an OF account, I went decided to visit browse site last week and couldn't find anything other than highly sexually provocative but legit sounding channels. Mostly of the fitness type because yoga pants and other form fitting attire. But, I actually found no porn. I suppose you have to know what to search for, or who you want to follow. I never saw any content because I didn't pay for any.
Yeah I think so too. But it’s unfortunate because people demonize HFCS for cultural reasons and this article just makes it worse. Like I said, drinking a Mexican coke isn’t going to result in significantly less fructose in your intestine. Even if I do agree that it tastes better. :)
There is this from January, where MasterCard wanted sellers of adult content to have more stringent verification of the age and consent of performers in the wake of the PornHub scandal, which I’ve seen people speculating may be related: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/548279-mastercard-upda...

These aren’t explicitly linked in the story but it would make sense IMO
Too expensive. They also removed radar because of the global chip shortage so they're all in on vision.
How would that qualify as a ‘hostile’ takeover?
Capital gains are income. What bucket do you account for them in?
Communist thugs hate money they can't steal.
It can’t be. There’s a different private hash function that also has to match that particular csam image’s hash value before a human sees it. An adversarial attack can’t produce that one since the expected value isn’t known.
People also promote ideas that benefit their interests.
Those already was only one machines or two, if at all. Also a big issue with arcade games is it's quite expensive (100 to 300 yens per game), especially in comparison to buying occasions.
This is why juicing is bad, specially if you consume it too quickly. Smoothies are better but eating whole fruit and vegetables is the best.
Maybe the government's Autopilot probe will force them to change their mind on Lidar.
I agree, and I think non-elites should also have more access to middle class earnings and status. They don't, and many of them are also frustrated at the lack of opportunities they face. But if I were to say that we have a non-elite overproduction as a result, that would sound stupid, because it is.
I think Elon basically says that long term they will only need vision so they will spend all their time focusing on vision from the start. Maybe lidar will succeed first, but it will be a worse success than vision: redundant / expensive / intrusive.
Sorry, I think you misunderstood me...

> The choices they make are based largely on what they consider the best evidence available to them at the time

But they're not doing this, and this was my point. A lot of political economy is opinion rather than based of fact, and these non-fact based opinions are what politicians are choosing over hard evidence.
>6. Could the real culprit in fatty liver disease be high-fructose corn syrup, not regular table sugar? After all, it says "high-fructose" right on the label.

>Regular table sugar is made up of about 50% fructose, and a common formulation of high-fructose corn syrup (called "HFCS-55") contains 55% fructose. These products are similar enough that there is no evidence of differences in their impact on metabolic health. However, some commercially available formulations of high-fructose corn syrup contain higher proportions of fructose, such as 65% or even higher.21 We do not know whether the health consequences of these products differ from products containing lower concentrations of fructose.

UCSF researchers seem to suggest that this isn't actually relevant

https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/alternate-views-toxic-truth.ht...
Elon’s ego
The question at stake is that there is no we here. Of course you can use the pronoun. But it does reflect the reality.

And one trap here is we must have a we. The old way is to say it must be a collective joint action is not right. There is a reason why we have carbon tax, which is a market solution to a commons issue. Not I am saying you can do that. But individual countries as individuals should be an option.

Sometimes there is no we. We may want to no we as well sometimes ;-)
Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities
When will it pass Jepsen?
It just has to be better than humans.

That's why I think Tesla's approach is wrong. It tries to replicate a human driver. The argument against lidar is "we don't need a lidar to drive, our eyes and brain are enough". Yes, enough to kill thousands of people. You can easily find pictures of involuntarily camouflaged obstacles that take way too long for us to notice, and as expected, vision based system fail just like us, but lidar have no problem.

It is hard for computers to be as good as humans when it comes to vision. That's something our brain is exceptionally good at, and a large part of it is dedicated to it. But here, for true self driving cars to be a reality, they need to be way better than we are. It means that we should throw every advantage machines can have at the problem, and extra sensors are part of it, don't be limited to visible light cameras. lidar, radar, sonar, IR, inter-car communication, satellite maps, use everything.

And BTW, focusing on seeing roads is nice, but don't forget that there is more to driving that seeing roads. People communicate with their cars, sometimes in subtle ways, current self driving tech doesn't, and that's a big reason why they feel so alien and other drivers hate them. Self driving cars should communicate too, and better than humans.
From historical perspective, another side effect of "elite overproduction" is that as "elites" grow in number, they take an increasingly larger slice of the pie, eventually leading to peasants rebellions when enough people cannot even feed their families.

Not sure how it applies to modern society, as we seem to manage food scarcity much better than previous millennia. And disgruntled elites alone is not enough to start rebellions if they lack popular support.
An expert from the article states if you think boosters can be administered to Americans without hampering efforts to immunize 3rd world residents, you're kidding yourself.

I heard on NPR today that the variants are forming in people who are not immunized, so this could actually make things worse.
None of those thumbnails (or visual derivatives) will match the hash value of the known csam you are trying to simulate since it won’t be possible to know the hash value target since that hash function is private.
Also they marketed autonomous driving features as future software updates (including a discount/price hike for early/later adopters). Early adopters would be unhappy if future features required additional hardware.
I don’t know what straw man you’re destroying here, no one claims humans will go extinct without spaceflight. But without any doubt the loss of all space flight will have a major impact on how humanity organizes trade, communications, travel, agriculture, intelligence, war/peace, science.

And sure, ‘solutions’ will be found. Here’s another one for your list that will diminish the impact of the loss of weather satellites: just strap someone to a weather balloon and have them draw what they see, and drop those drawings until the person runs out of oxygen. Is it as powerful/convenient as what we have today? Hardly.
Is this US real estate, US stocks, US bonds, and US social security? :-)

I've tried to diversify to more international mutual funds, but they also tend to have higher fees.
Suppose that you train a neural network to predict the next number in an arithmetic sequence (a, a+b, a+2b, a+3b, a+4b, ...). As input it gets two numbers, the last number and the current number and has to predict the next one.

Suppose you had 1.4 trillion examples in the following test set (using a model with 175 billion parameters):

(1,2)->3

(2,3)->4

(3,4)->5

...

Do you think it is possible to overfit and score perfect on the test set, while failing to generalize?
Why do you need tens of trillions of miles?
Epic vs. Google Lawsuit Answers
> I would like to see some system that also doesn’t collide into any sort of random object directly in front.

The flip side of this is false positives: you don’t want a car slamming on the brakes because of a plastic shopping bag or other soft piece of trash lying in the road. This is a hard problem, regardless of technology employed.

On the other hand, you need the car to distinguish a mattress lying in the road from road markings. This is an easy problem if you have depth sensors, which brings me to my next point:

> But could someone help me understand why Teslas don’t just have the run of the mill Camry collision braking as a secondary measure independently?

Because for whatever reason (hubris?) Tesla insists on eschewing LIDAR/RADAR for 100% camera based systems. Not being able to explicitly sense depth is really kneecapping their system’s abilities.
> Pretty much everyone deals with it and moves on with thier lives like they have throughout history.

On what basis do you draw this conclusion from?

> Do they need animals to serve as their crutch to go everywhere? Don't think so

Are you their doctor?

> You obviously didn't read the article

I did. Service animals + allergies are definitely a problem. Saying service animals aren't useful is your unjustified opinion.

> just want to peddle more weakness justification or virtue signal or have financial incentives

I have PTSD. I have friends who have benefited from service animals. I have considered one. Weakness justification is a frankly offensive phrase for those who are seeking treatment for their ailment.

Why isn't the person who has allergies also fostering weakness?
By encoded you mean it's an image and not text? That sounds like a deliberately obtuse way to do things.

Maybe crop your person data out of the pdf's using some script.. then use mechanical turk or some other piece work service to get your data typed in.

Or try OCR.
I just settle on Cola being a dessert and should be consumed as infrequently as ice cream, and not as a daily vice.
I would say honey vs HFCS is similar. A big reason why HFCS is no good is the raw fructose is easily absorbed (as mentioned) whereas sucrose is a dissacharide that must be broken down (which does not happen as quickly).

The big difference in HFCS vs honey is the quantity that we are exposed to in processed foods. If they replaced all HFCS with honey, I can't imagine it would be very different.

HFCS: 55% fructose, 45% glucose

Sucrose: 50% fructose, 50% glucose

Honey: 50% fructose, 40% glucose, 10% maltose (dissacharide of two glucose molecules).
You're right, maybe "definitively" was over the top. I got a little excited because one of the companies he mentioned was at least partially something I had worked on.

What I am basing my statement off of is second hand knowledge from multiple people at one of the companies mentioned saying that the reason payment processors don't work with porn companies is because of fraud rates.

That's not definitive, but considering the person I was responding to gave us 0 reason to believe his statement is anything other than his opinion and his comment history shows a pattern asserting his opinion as fact. I'm going to assume he's talking out his ass and that I'm slightly more informed on this issue.
Not sure whether you're suggesting that decision makers don't incorporate mainstream theory into their decisions, or whether mainstream theory is just opinion and not based in evidence. I think either statement would be wrong.
I wonder about the swap behaviour. If it's going to go to swap, it means the secret might remain on the hard disk. If the swap is on an SSD, you might not have a way to securely delete it at all due to the wear levelling layer. If it's not going to swap, you piss off the people with laptops who want hibernation. You might need to encrypt it and store the key in the TPM or something. Not sure if that's implemented though.