skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have evidence of this? I’m not asking because I don’t believe you, but because it seems incongruous with my understanding of how rape tends to have an extremely low conviction rate and overwhelmingly the victims of rape are women. I’d be interested in knowing the factors of how both the notion of “courts will side with a woman without evidence” and also “rape has an extremely low conviction rate” exist.
OnlyFans claimed it was the banks, not the payment processors, who were the problem.

Specifically, BNY Mellon, acting in an intermediary role between OnlyFans' banks and creators' banks, allegedly blocked all payouts to creators.
I haven't kept up with Dart, as I kinda fail to see the point right now, so can you elaborate a bit on how you think the current design is going against Gilad Bracha's convictions?

Language evolution is an interesting thing, especially when you've got corporate influence, second system effect etc.
Or simply the need to add stuff, as languages are considered just another product, and otherwise you're considered "stale" in today's market. Weird.
As an MIT alum I have to point out that all the students interviewed are, in fact, Harvard graduates.

edit: except for the only person who actually got it to work.
This article completely misses the causes of the rule changes. Banks and payment processes pushed new rules because they were being held accountable. The changes were all implemented in response to hugely influential NYT opinion piece on PornHub in December [1] that specifically called out payment processors, and preempted a BBC investigation into OnlyFans that was hinted to do the same [2].

The conversation here should about how rulemaking via media outrage is a problem given the public has conflicting morals.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58255865
But do you think some hidden power would organize banks together behind the curtains and ban… porn? of all the possible battles to lead, children and the sanity of adults would be their battlehorse? If so, I admire it.
Why is that relevant in the context of OnlyFans, which is an org too. I just posted an analogue case.
I have to criticize this article for confusing the underlying software for building machine learning models vs. the models themselves. Open Source contributors to PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc. are unlikely to affect bias in data (and thus in trained models). Can anyone here think of reasons why this is not so?
This is what struck me. All the "refactor" did was move the decision of what function to call somewhere else instead of code presented to us.
Probably because when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. Being born in Africa is in many ways getting a lemon in life if you generalise.
Summer never ended after 2008, sadly.
The strange thing is these problems are already solved through cryptocurrency and decentralized social media. We just need more adoption of decentralized platforms. To me, as I hear about these centralization problems more and more, it seems like decentralized platforms are the future.
You're asking them to publicly humiliate an office that is politically incentivized (in SF) to throw them under the bus if they see the opportunity to do so, opportunities which might come along more frequently the more they actually arrest people.
Such an opportunity for a competitor to rise up out of this debacle.
Does anyone know the specific reason banks find the adult industry risky?
Productive
Is this done at an infrastructure level? IE, what level of access is need to just sniff up emails? Can anyone set up a relay or do you have to be a trusted entity?
these days many managers will plead ignorance of on-call bonus pay. our manager tried to put us on oncall and I had to show everybody on the team the page that said they would be gettng bonuses. Suddenly it wasn't an "oncall" but a "unpaid developer rotation"
Haskell's laziness gets you all sorts of control flow that is awkward in or missing from most languages. So I think it's worth checking out.
People are capable of infinite mental gymnastics when it comes to justifying why rules or oppression/suppression they like are different from ones they don't like.

There is the often repeated "imagine your worst enemy had this power" but it doesn't seem to get through to people.
Not that simple. The payment processors have to follow edicts by the payment networks. I've been in meetings where we had warnings passed on from payment networks about consequences if we failed to address a chargeback problem where our processor kept apologising because there was nothing they could do.

You also need to deal with various combinations of acquiring (bank the merchant account linked to the specific payment network is with) and issuing banks (bank of the individual card owners)
You've simply moved the problem. Someone ends up having to take responsibility for managing virtual keyboards, internationalization, layouts, etc., and now you've given the chance for every user of the library to do it differently.
I think it’s true age is a big factor, but I’m not sure if we can rule out young people from straining the healthcare system (depending on your definition of young or course).

In Scotland this week we had 14 people under 10 admitted to hospital and 78 who were 70+. A big difference but not as big as you’d think. The distribution is also not concentrated around older age groups at the moment, it’s got significant numbers in all age groups:

https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker...

Check “Hospital Admissions by Age Group”
You can't make a Sprengel pump without distilling your mercury (it doesn't work if the mercury sticks to the walls of the tubes and leaves crap all over them), and you can't make a vacuum tube without some kind of hard vacuum pump, and, as I pointed out above, the Sprengel pump was the only kind of hard vacuum pump available for decades. (I already explained all of this fairly clearly in previous comments, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28333304.) In fact, the invention of the Sprengel pump produced an explosion of inventions and discoveries, of which the so-called Edison effect was only one.

I do think that that there is no example of any invention from anywhere that isn't based on existing technology, including specifically existing technology invented on other continents, and my reading of the question was that it was intended to make precisely that point, thus concisely pointing out the ignorant fallacy at the heart of the original racist bullshit comment, "I can think of nothing unique, only modification of existing inventions."
From the article you linked, there was clearly coordinated groups trying to overtake:

>The officials did note that far-right groups – like the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters – may have collaborated in breaching the Capitol on the day of the riot.

These aren't scrubs either. Some of them are ex-military, armed civilians coordinating with other groups to breach the capitol and take hostages. This is not hyperbole, it's fact. Just because they didn't succeed doesn't mean it wasn't real.
This has piqued my interest, what's your setup like? Is your entire body extended while hanging or do you need to curl your legs to not hit the ground?
Also the same ones who repeated the 'private platform argument' now don't like it when several 'other private platforms' ban or don't want to do business with OnlyFans because it hurts those who use it for a living, especially those who have 'pornographic content'.

Exactly the same thing how YouTube demonetises specific individuals who use the platform for a living for content that is skewed to a certain political audience.

Do they now realise that this can happen to anyone? As for payment solutions, this is the whole point of cryptocurrencies that will solve this eventually.
Apart from the technical goodies, I really like the calmness in their voices and overall demeanor. Hard to see it in recent videos.
> Does the title imply some sort if 'true' idol exists?

All idols are false, and ultimately are (if you think Stringfellow was right) just a different ways of saying death.

And worshiping them ultimately ends in “the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.”
Also if you read "Bad Blood", in one of the early parts where she is accused of fraud in blood testing, her response is to plan to tell a story of how she was raped. This is a non-sequitir and damaging to real victims of rape.
I agree. Lisp should be considered one of the most successful languages ever invented given the number of descendants it has sprout, as you mention. It's not a weird language at all.

Incredible projects like Guix, Emacs and Datomic are proof that Lisp is still alive and well and can create great things.

I would give Prolog or maybe Forth as examples of weird language that still have a "smart userbase".
Up next: after her acquittal, Holmes will launch a new legal startup, Alibi.
It's been eternally September since 1993.
What about using C++ in LLVM to support rustc?
Your TV doesn’t have an HDMI port?
The problem with censoring is the bias you showed in your comment, with who you selected as examples.

Eg, mentioning the Proud Boys, but not Antifa — the violent street gang who committed billions in arson, murdered dozens, and is still pepper-spraying children in Portland parks. You picked the smaller street gang, likely because you’re politically aligned with the larger, more violent one.

I don’t disagree that many groups are “bad” — but that doesn’t mean I believe we can regulate that without the censorship being corrupted into something worse.
The critical element that's missing from the article--but which likely motivated the article--is that the EU's new AI regulation proposal mandates compliance all along the supply chain (for regulated applications of AI).

In practice, this will likely mean that using open source for these AI applications will become a lot more difficult in a legal sense, perhaps impossible, because there's no single entity that can speak to compliance of open source components (vetting each commit, etc.). Perhaps some orgs will emerge who are willing to monitor and oversee open source software and certify that it meets the requirements of the legislation, but it's unclear how that would work.

I'm not endorsing this model, just explaining the concern. I don't think the tech community really fully appreciates how misguided a lot of the current approaches to AI regulation among policymakers are right now. (Not just this, but initiatives like the current CAHAI work towards a binding international law instrument on AI.)

And yes, like the GDPR, the proposed EU AI regulation has an extraterritorial effect. Under the proposed AI regulation, if you're selling into the EU or to any EU customers but don't have an establishment in the EU, you have to actually appoint a representative to comply with these requirements.
>Africans can pay up to 30% more than the global average to move money abroad

What gives Africans this amazing ability?
Why is this story on HN? It might well be true for all we can know about it, but how exactly does this pointless gossip "gratify intellectual curiosity"?
On Believing Our Own Bullshit
The problem OnlyFans had was they tried to be a legitimately low risk business, but they turned into porn

If they started now knowing what they know, how would they get passed the banks and payment processors?

How does pornhub or others do it?
Yes. There's a cost to checks just like there's a cost to using credit cards. The slowness of checks can be mitigated by offering some sort of access until the check clears. I'm sure there are plenty of creative types who can figure out how to route around the credit card problem. Also checks, credit cards and crypto aren't the only payment options.
A couple of years late for the "Me Too" fad; but, in the right venue that angle might have some impact.
The trade-off is with future evolution of the code. If the common logic changes in the future, then with the first version it has to be updated consistently in multiple places, because it duplicates the common logic. In practice it happens quite often that such code is modified/evolved inconsistently.

The more explicit version may still be the better trade-off, but in general it’s not a clear-cut question.
What about up/down votes? Are people liable for those?

I understand the audience on this site. At first I thought it's just /. But it really isn't.
The lack of charge back is really a small issue. I don't think it applies here. Crypto does solve this problem. Even if there's the lack of charge back, it still overcomes the censorship problem, which traditional systems do not. So do you want censorship + charge back? Or no censorship and no charge back? In this case, I think it's clearly the latter.
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There have been countless numbers of articles about 737Max's failures or A380's financial woe, and yet a single article about Tu-144 and you call it propaganda?

> And 35 years later the West is still unable to match Tu-160

Unable to match what? Aircraft is designed to serve a use case. B52 is planned to remain in service until at least 2050s, despite not winning any records. SR71 is a dazzling aircraft that is universally admired, yet none are in service today.
Many sex workers have been warning against political censorship for exactly this reason: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/532137-sex-workers-war...
In the 1980s we used to be able to buy "shareware" floppy disks for $3 at user group meetings. These things had all sorts of cool stuff on them. We didn't have to worry about our computers being permanently damaged, because back then, unlike now, our operating systems were on write protected, easily copied floppy disks. Our hardware wasn't smart enough to house any trojan horses, so you knew it wasn't at risk.

We had computer security. Not because MS-DOS was such an amazing piece of code, but rather the hardware was simple enough that you couldn't hide a trojan in it.

The job of an operating system is to protect the hardware, and allow the user(s) of a system to use the resources without risk. NONE of the current crop of operating systems we use 40 years later is suitable for the job, not Linux, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, the cloud.

Now that even the cheapest persistent storage is likely to have multiple levels of firmware, it's up to the operating systems to virtualize the hardware, and keep applications from directly touching it. NONE of our current crop of systems do that.

All this "cybersecurity" spending is just a grift if it doesn't deliver actual computer security.
That belief is actually really common in the US. Particularly among the upper middle class (the top 10%, and 90% of HN readers) to convince themselves that when they disagree with people in the working class, who outnumber them by far, that it's really not them vs the majority, but rather them vs a few evil billionaire puppet masters. And of course the only way to fight these evil billionaires (on behalf of the poor, of course. lol!) and their prole slave army is through censorship (censorship by companies controlled by, uh, the evil billionaires of course!). It's the mental gymnastics that allow you to be an authoritarian but still nominally believe in "democracy."
I'm not sure what the story is here. I'm as skeptical of Waymo as anyone but a lot of people basically don't take Uber/Lyft/taxis on anything like a regular basis.

I realize a fair number of readers here probably live in cities and maybe don't have cars. But, in my case, I live outside a major city and, while in normal times, I do take reserved cars back and forth to the airport, I haven't taken a taxi/Uber/Lyft around where I live for many years. I do take them maybe a dozen times a year but that's when I'm traveling.

So the fact that there's relatively little use of Waymo in the Phoenix suburban sprawl where it operates doesn't seem especially noteworthy.
Of course, code that has been speculatively laid out for a use-case that never materialized is not uncommon - a good candidate for refactoring. However, code speculatively laid out for a use-case that did materialize can prevent a refactoring. One should apply the YAGNI principle - judiciously, not dogmatically.

For example, in this case there are really only two user creation types, which could be modeled with just an "isAdmin" flag. However, the likelyhood that a third type (or more) will appear down the road is high, so it is reasonable to speculatively use an enum-like type here.
Common Lisp allows for manual memory management on the low level layers.

That is after all how Lisp workstations like Interlisp-D or Lisp Machines were implemented, and those features carried on into Common Lisp.
That seems to be the American way. We have a genius for the things that feel too easy or simplistic, and then exporting them.

It's the same with our food, our movies, even our politics. People dismiss it even as they embrace it.
I'm a big fan of Javascript. It runs everywhere, is easy to write, is brutally flexible.

I would never call it a "good" language. It is an abomination created by the dev teams at 4 different browser companies over the course of 20 years with no coordination between them.
I know what object tracking is, but how can you do it with zero shots of the object? Curious what this name refers to, but it's quite buried. From the blog post, click through to the repository, then click in the readme on OpenAI's CLIP zero-shot image classifier to find:

> "Zero-shot learning" is when a model attempts to predict a class it saw zero times in the training data. So, using a model trained on exclusively cats and dogs to then detect raccoons.

Wikipedia on ZSL gives this example:

> For example, given a set of images of animals to be classified, along with auxiliary textual descriptions of what animals look like, an AI which has been trained to recognize horses, but has never seen a zebra, can still recognize a zebra if it also knows that zebras look like striped horses.

Coming back to the blog post with this understanding, this part is interesting:

> The breakthrough in our zero shot object tracking repository is to use generalized CLIP object features, eliminating the need for you to make additional object track annotations

Where "CLIP is a neural network trained on a variety of (image, text) pairs." (From the first source again, so CLIP is a pre-trained model, not the algorithm that you need to make the model.)

Looking a bit at the CLIP repository from openai:

> CLIP matches the performance of the original ResNet50 on ImageNet “zero-shot” without using any of the original 1.28M labeled examples

Here it says they don't use any labeled examples? So it just knows that a fish is called fish? This field is confusing and such a rabbit hole ^^
> people who find the whole topic uncomfortable to a large degree ... they don't like being reminded of it. They don't like sex being mixed with other areas of life.

So... ban it for everyone else because they don't like it? Sounds fair and reasonable /s
> Most people won't be comfortable doing this for the simple reason that they'll be going slower than surrounding traffic

People, in general, aren't comfortable engaging in an activity they don't have experience with. A motorist who drives a car for the first time in traffic is not comfortable.

Comfort and confidence come with experience.

> it will piss of drivers

Based on first hand experience riding a bicycle while taking the lane in traffic for more than a decade is that it's a rare occurance. My estimate is that someone shows their frustration maybe once every several years.

On the other hand, riding near the edge or in a substandard width bike lane will result in frequent close passes and frequent close calls with turning traffic (weekly, if not daily).

> which is scary when you're on a bike and they have two tons of metal right beside you

The same rationale could apply to motorcyclists versus motorists in cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks. In fact it can even apply to the latter versus bus drivers, dump trucks and tractor-trailers.

But the way that traffic consisting of vehicles that have different sizes, masses can all share the road is because the drivers follow the same set of rules. It also works for cyclists.

> If the safest way to do something is mildly terrifying and generally viewed as antagonistic

Based on first hand experience, I don't think these assumptions are really valid. If that were the case, then we wouldn't see cyclists on the road at all. But, there are many locations where cyclists ride on the road without bike lanes or separated paths.

> we can't be surprised that most people will avoid doing that thing.

Whether most people will engage in a particular activity should not affect the best practice from a safety and efficiency standpoint. For example, the motorcycle safety foundation focuses on bike handling skills and defensive driving. They're not trying to get more people to use motorcycles for transportation, nor are they trying to get infrastructure built specifically for motorcyclists on existing roads.

Similarly, we should focus on education for cyclists in terms of how to use the existing road network to get to their destinations rather than focus on piecemeal infrastructure that really makes things more dangerous for them by reinforcing bad riding habits that are unsafe.
Are you talking about the time that BLM tried to storm the White House?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-moved...
The "correct" climate is one that isn't changing so fast that we'll need to globally rethink the logistics of food production. It's one that does not include being in the middle of an extinction event.
I never claimed big news, I just posted an analogue case where a bank holds power over an org, in a thread about banks holding power over orgs.

What is your point?
Taiwan will go down like Ukraine. Security Guarantees are toilet paper.
Also interesting that it seems perfectly acceptable to repeat the conspiracy theory you mention (I've seen it several times here, no opinion on it's validity) but if you stay even remotely from other official narratives, you're immediately branded a "conspiracy theorist" spreading misinformation and shut down.

It's relevant here because of how obviously subjective censorship is, which is the strongest argument against it
Is there a difference in your tv spying on you and those devices spying on you? I don’t mean this to sound confrontational or rhetorical, I really don’t know.
Which is anyway just one implementation.

Many tend to mix the choice of implementation language, with other criteria that the authors cared more about.
Sony and LG flagship devices also have the same problems. I've a bravia and our office has an LG c9 tv - the softwdre on them both is unusable. The problem is there's no other real choice in the high quality TV market, and the experiences are still better than before; having one remote for Netflix, prime, live tv and a sound system via ARC is such a huge improvement too.
Care to peddle your bullshit somewhere else? There may have been no 'organized' conspiracy to overthrow the gov't, but they sure as hell were trying to illegally pressure politicians into not certifying the election.
Again,

1) the tools are traditionally not a part of the invention,

2) by referring to distillation as a prerequisite for the mercury vacuum pump operation, you're referring to a tool twice removed from the invention in question, and

3) even mercury distillation itself is not based on ayurveda anyway. It's based on physics.