skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, again, as someone who doesn’t care about Odysee one way or another (but certainly wouldn’t use it to build an audience), I’m not sure the people that do use it because of some sense that it is less restrictive than YouTube or whatever, are going to care.

I just watched his video and then I had to go back and look at the video Odysee promoted. Is it content I like? No. I don’t find a guy in a mask yelling funny or even entertaining. The whole thing feels very juvenile in a 2003 internet kind of way. Looking at the Odysee social media accounts, I don’t like or agree with a lot of their content or politics. For the record, I don’t like Lunduke's content either.

That said, I find his outrage curious and poorly argued. Lunduke can choose to host his videos wherever he wants and can have whatever opinion he wants to have about a platform. But throwing a temper tantrum because a service he shilled for happens to promote content he doesn’t like and then the people in charge of the company won’t kowtow to his demands still strikes me as both a) hypocritical and b) a position most people who are seeking a platform that is anti-censorship won't find compelling. If you believe Odysee is shady (and I personally think most businesses with no direct revenue path other and reliant on buzzword bingo like blockchain and decentralization are inherently sketchy) now because it promotes a guy who screams about ass fucking, but you didn’t think they were shady when they were promoting your anti-vax/anti-mask rhetoric or paying you to write spon-con, I’m going to roll my eyes and discount everything you say.
yeah, I'm blowing my HN cover.
Same thing.

As a trainee I was helping a crew supervise a power plant in charge of providing superheated steam to a large nuclear facility.

There was a bronze plaque on the ground in one of the technical room where some guys had been cooked alive.

Superheated steam and boilers scare the hell out of me.
This is the most hacker news article I’ve ever seen
The Howey Test is absurdly broad. Two kids pooling their pocket money to buy the extra large bag of candy with a plan sell the extra gummy worms meets all four parts of the Howey Test and is unlicensed securities creation.

Reminds me of the Bloomberg article "Everything Everywhere is Securities Fraud" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
At quick glance the communities look very sperate. In my ideal federated dream, most servers would subscribe to most other servers and thus you could see your posts on several of them. Is that the intention here?
If the virtualization story is good, it might still work out. The only concern is the graphics accelerations part. That hardware could be fully handled by the VM though too.
Yep - 100% correct - brain scans can identify early signs of CTE processing after a single season for a soccer player in a defensive or offensive position that heads the ball regularly.
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> You do so have a right to take measures for public health, which may well involve arresting people who ignore the necessary measures.

Do you even understand what a right means? Rights, be it as defined by the US constitution or the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are inherent moral rights, it's not something the government can freely suspend based on some arbitrary utilitarian justification like case numbers. The whole point of those declarations of rights is protecting people from authoritarian governments; if the government has the power to suspend those rights, you have no rights!

Tell me in which declaration of rights is there a right to have armed police attack and lock up people peacefully assembling on the street?

And if you don't believe in rights, believe anything is moral as long as an elected government makes it law, then consider this. Would you still feel that way if the democratically elected government decided it was okay to rape worik's wife/daughter/mother? Would you still feel that way if the democratically elected government decided worik's ethnic group should be sent to gas chambers for cleansing? If not, then clearly you do believe in absolute rights.
Relevant Onion: https://www.theonion.com/pudding-factory-disaster-brings-slo...
This has a long history to it of targeting individuals and whole countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Sanctions_Unit

https://origins.osu.edu/article/economic-sanctions-history-t...
So how does your time machine work? Kerr black holes?
Congratulations on the launch!

You seem to be using Go as well as Python for your project. Are you calling models written in python using Go?

It's rare to see Go used in ML projects(Perhaps lack of batteries like Numpy,Pandas etc.), Which is a shame because I think Go is a perfect replacement for Python and it helps to build production ready ML applications off the bat without the performance limitations of Python.
Out of all the things you mention, privatizing government owned assets it actually a good thing.

Or at least it can be a good thing, as long as the process ain't mismanaged too badly. Governments seldom do the simplest thing of just auctioning off eg a state-owned business or plot of land to the highest bidder.

Most of the time they insists on beauty contests where politicians want to judge bidders' plans. That's a recipe for corruption and cronyism.

Or they only sell off eg a business piecemeal, making a turnaround in private hands much harder.
Surely you could have mode your point ("Changes made by pure fiat don't last") without the diatribe overgeneralizing and insulting a large percentage of the American population?
And only charged with misdemeanor "battery" without any enhancements. Had the perps not been police it would be multiple felonies + enhancements for things like gang activity and firearm possession. Looks to me like the DA does not want to upset the police and their unions and is only doing the very minimum to make an impression that he is working.
In the 80s and 90s I'd find them quite regularly. They were definitely fringe, but numerous. I've got family that's this level of fundamentalist; they took stuff like chick tracts literally and gobbled it up.
One word: play.

I didn’t go to Unix school or do practice reps of building networks. I stayed up late nights building weird and sometimes nefarious projects.

Similarly, I have mediocre results when my schedule only allows BJJ classes but markedly better results when I can just go “play” Jiu jitsu with others.

Just go get reps doing something you love, in an experimental and playful manner.
The SEC can and does provide candid advice. I know entrepreneurs who have had lengthy calls with both state and federal SEC reps who will give straight talk.

This is not that. This is preparation to make a court case to use as precedent to attack the industry.

I feel the SEC is being a bad actor - stifling innovation rather than encouraging it.

Over the last 10 years the HN chattering class has dismissed crypto endlessly. I laugh all the way to the bank and its rise has been inevitable to anyone who understands software and finance. I look forward to the court case.
The security of the Ethereum network is the counterparty
> So your points arethat “some people like authoritarian measures” and [...]

Well, that's how democracy is supposed to work, ain't it?
Next up an infinite infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works that dynamically remixes mashups of said works in the catalog with an auto populating infinite scroll page of song titles…
yeah sure.

Or you know the SEC is allowed to announce /why/ they are prosecuting. And why they are prosecuting a particular alleged transgressor first as opposed to some other having not done so until now. Seems like a reasonable thing to do to me?

Generally ".. a written determination you're in the clear" is the opposite to how law is kind of meant to work. I haven't got a written determination that I'm not infringing basically any law that I'm aware of and I do _NOT_ expect to be prosecuted for anything either. I genuinely don't understand all the laws I'm subject to in making money to put food on the table, nobody does. I do know that I'm doing things other people do and nobody is getting prosecuted for it. I have other heuristics that I use for this. And so do you, I'm guessing. The great thing is if I get prosecuted I can hire a lawyer and they don't know for sure either and will hedge every statement they make as a part of legal advice about everything while disagreeing with every other lawyer. It's an issue. I don't have a solution for it.
Nit: the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states rebelling against the union. Slavery was perfectly legal in Kentucky until December 18, 1865.
I'm not a country. I'm not worried about Uncle Sam taking me down for (1A) protected speech. I am worried about China taking me out for comments like this.
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Well, I wouldn't mention Singapore in the same sentence as China here. But I see your point.
But you can even host your own instance with all the "conservative" communities you want. Why not do that?

I mean, you must be aware by now that those "conservatives" did ruin a couple of actually good communities in the last years (especially in the reddit clone scene) and some people just don't want to deal with those people at all. And they shouldn't have to.
https://medium.com/@coinbaseblog?p=a3a1b6507009

blog.coinbase.com is gone but post is still up on medium. Maybe we DDOS'd it?
> Medical doctors and scientists are happy to use pharmaceuticals for which the mechanism of action is unclear as long as experiments show a dose response curve.

All medical doctors? Or many? Maybe just some? (Doctors over here in Europe certainly wouldn't do this commonly without recommendation of national institutes, as demonstrated by the Cov19 vaccines). I think the underlying question is strongly linked to the actual numbers. You could have 90% of doctors agree with the airborne idea (or admit they don't have the expertise) and with 10% rejecting the idea patients would still be in doubt or pick the thing they like more ("Energy crystals!").
By and large what “isn’t allowed” on major tech platforms is racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. You can still find a lot of non-PC, fringe content on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.

I get that censorship in major tech platforms is problematic, but the sense of martyrdom in comments like yours feels a little overwrought.
Professor Ebright of Rutgers, who previously accused the NIAID and Fauci of systematically thwarting review mechanisms to prevent dangerous research, has posted his findings and analysis from this new information. It once again suggests that Fauci has been lying to the public, or at least misleading them, and that Gain of Function research related to NIAID grants was in fact performed in China:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1435053505169944579.html
Huggingface more generally, but I'd highlight https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B , the currently largest model, which is almost as good as DaVinci in most respects.

It's not about particular models, though, but the ease of use in numerous cloud or self hosted scenarios. What's the value add for Cohere?
Intel’s Salvation Lies in Europe–But Not with Fabs
To illustrate, there is almost no difference between the genetics of humans 20,000 years ago compared to today. Yet there is a vast difference in what people understand and how they interact with the world, i.e. there has been an increase in "intelligence" in the past 20k years without there being any alteration to genetics.

It is also shown by the so-called "Flynn effect" [0], which is a substantial rise in measured IQ by over 1 SD in numerous populations during the 20th Century alone. This is comparable to the mean difference in intelligence between individuals, and absolutely cannot be accounted for by changes to genetics.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
Excel at what you do to get higher pay, so that you can donate more to NGOs and non-profits that solve the important problems.
Australia by and large is also much less grubby than the UK.

(I say, 'grubby' not 'dirty', because I don't know whether the UK is actually dirty. Eg all the buildings just look dirty and drab compared to Australia. Perhaps it's a leftover from centuries of burning lots of coal?)
If you want alternatives to DP that work much better, it might be worth it to take a look at:

1. The Tacit Knowledge Series (which argues that methods from Naturalistic Decision Making are more useful when you are in a skill domain with no good pedagogical development) https://commoncog.com/blog/the-tacit-knowledge-series/

2. Accelerated Expertise — which covers methods from the military to accelerate expertise acquisition (and, yes, some of it uses DP principles, but it isn't really DP) https://commoncog.com/blog/accelerated-expertise/
I guess your company is running on Java and running something else would cost a lot in training, recruiting, understanding, etc. But down the line, defeating the JVM will be understood only by the guy who did it... Then that guy will leave... Then the newcomers will rewrite the thing in Spark 'cos it will feel safer. Rinse-repeat...

(I'm totally speculating, but your story seems so true that it inspired me :-)
On Android, there's Markor. It supports todo.txt, and I use Syncthing to keep it synchronized with my various devices and computers.
*the CCP ~thinks it is~ is more aligned with the best interests of the country

but central planners always think that. Doesn't mean it's true.
A quick Google search for “open source climate change” returns a number of promising projects, such as this list: https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/climate-change
I've done something like that at my last university internship. I wrote about it here: https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/pratt-whitney-redesign

It's the same story as yours, but with human effort. I was about to cut the human out entirely, and fix a ton of errors in the process.
Used to be a fan of him until he actively spreading lies of US election. Turned me off.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-dissidents-back-trumps-...
Can you explain what "don't allow anyone to federate with the main instance" means in this case? Is it like you can host your own server, but the "index" of servers at lenny.ml won't list you unless you meet their standards?

Seems acceptable to me (anyone else can host their own index right?) just trying to understand.
Controversially, I don´t think this is something Facebook can do much about. People like that (I mean those who report her) are this way online, offline, everywhere. The fault is with the people, not the tool they use.

What should facebook do here?

- Find the people responsible and... fine them? Deplatform them? Shame them publicly? Any of these would need Facebook account to be unequivocally tied to one´s identity. Do we want FB to be tied to our SSN/ID card number/DNA sample?

- Ensure better moderation by adding more people instead of machines. And somehow make sure the opinions and morality of those people are... correct? This case is quite clear cut, but in other cases there is much moral ambiguity. Where should the human moderators lean?

- Ensure free speech for everyone. We see where this is going, swastikas and big Qs everywhere and fabebook being sued left and right.

- Ensure free speech for just the acceptable opinions - this is what they are trying to do, with the results we see. Plus it brings a lot of trouble with determining which opinions are acceptable where, which is another can of worms.

I don´t see an answer to this problem... And it seems facebook is struggling unsuccessfully to find it, too.

Edited for clarification.
Could someone ELI5 how the federation model works in practice? From the understanding, there is one entity that owns the core technology but the operators of the servers are distributed and independent. How do they typically manage things like scale, data growth, security, monetisation etc.? Is the experience likely to vary a bit across the operators? And how do users trust which operators then want to join?
Those tips would be written about almost every city in almost every country.

We thought Savannah (in the context of the planned area being discussed) was great. The unique little garden squares are probably the first thing I'd replicate were I designing a new city.
Qubes really needs at least 32 GB. I have maxed mine out at 40 in my laptop and I sometimes wished for more.

If you have the memory, and you can live without GPU acceleration, there is really nothing like Qubes. The biggest benefits to me aren't even the security aspects. It's the ability to test things without worrying that anything unrelated gets affected.

If you want to install some random piece of software, especially commercial software that always comes with an install script (or worse, a binary) it's very comfortable to be able to give that program a dedicated playground. When I want to uninstall it, I run qvm-remove vmname and it's gone.
That is just a nit, as you say. The point is that the Supreme Court had nothing to do with ending the slave trade.
In 2001 we started a GSM-operator on Compaq Server (it was before they were bought by HP) with whole 1Gb(!) of RAM and 2x10Gb SCSI disks.

It served up to 70K of subscribers, call center with 30-40 employees, payment systems integration, everything.

Next was 8 socket Intel server. We were never able to saturate it's CPUs - 300 Mhz (or was it 400 ?) bus was a stopper. It served 350-400K of subscribers.

And next: we changed architecture and used 2 servers with 2 socket Intel CPUs again but that was time when Ghz frequencies appeared on market. We dreamed about 4xAMD server. We came to ~1 mln of active subscribers.

Nowadays: every phone has more power than it was those servers.
Typical react application consumes more resources than billing system.
Gigabyte here, gigabyte there - nobody counts them.

/grumpy oldster mode
I agree, for something like this to take off, you need someone to invest heavily up front in creating a user experience which is worth using - which means content.

The tech is the easy part, you need to have a place that is worth going before the tech will be utilized.
Seems interesting!

It would be nice to integrate something like removeddit to alleviate Reddit's group-think and ridiculous mod behaviors:

https://github.com/JubbeArt/removeddit
> Most eink devices run some modified walled-of modifications of Android.

That's not that surprising is it? Doesn't regular Android have a lot of stuff that would break eink displays since they can't update like LCD?

> Most eink devices don’t support USB keyboards (for example, just something I am interested in), and even if they unofficially do, the companies would flat out deny it for some reason (Boox).

Sounds nasty. Any link to further details about what you're saying? Is it just a simple missing USB host capability or are they actively preventing people from using USB host somehow in software?
And yet MacOS doesn't allow to change the cursor color. On my Windows 10 desktop I set the cursor color to a slightly larger size and yellow color. So much easier to work with.
* ProtonMail advertises no IP logging and overall this is very unlikely. I prefer the more transparent privacy tools that make it clear what their legally required to log and what that are required to provide to LEOs.

* ProtonMail Tor hidden service is mostly a joke. Their signup isn't available over it. This combined with no support for actually anonymous methods of payment make their advertising of "anonymous email" dubious. I understand the challenges involved, but if you can't overcome/mitigate them, then don't make those claims.

* Email is not a secure protocol and most every permutation of webmail is not securely implemented. Unless you're using PGP on the client side you will be trusting the provider.

* The steps required currently to run webapps and verify they haven't been altered are obtuse especially if you want to continue to get any kind of new features or updates.
Same. Windows is literally just a Fortnite OS, and it manages to mess up often enough to be a problem.
Average IQ 80

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...
lol you're kidding yourself if you think having armed citizens would make any difference to authoritarian policy anywhere.
My SQL is a bit rusty, but, to reduce the queries even further, I think you can do:

> SELECT user_id, COUNT(*) FROM comments WHERE user_id IN $1 GROUP BY user_id
> Communicating which rule the video broke could be done without an employee in the loop.

Potentially, though another consideration the algorithm implementers have is to make it difficult to "game" them. If it provides feedback, you make it easier for someone to figure out what will slip through and subvert the it.
Working 40 hours a week is payback enough, what people do with their other time is their decision. I hate the need to always hustle or be productive.

Besides, he made something many here enjoy. Thus his work did have value.

If anything, allowing people to experiment is probably a net win for society in the long run.
Thanks for sharing this it's a very helpful summary on deliberate practice.
Their biggest donors are all Democrat aligned. Of course they say that kind of thing, it drives donations
> Or you know the SEC is allowed to announce /why/ they are prosecuting.

They are, but they don't have to since the law is spelled out.

> And why they are prosecuting a particular alleged transgressor first as opposed to some other having not done so until now.

Gotta start somewhere, and the fact someone else is breaking the law isn't a defense. If it was any two people doing the same crime couldn't ever be charged right? haha.

> I haven't got a written determination that I'm not infringing basically any law that I'm aware of and I do _NOT_ expect to be prosecuted for anything either.

Totally, but the Howey test has been the law of the land for what 70 years? It's prettttty obvious that this is in fact a security. The SEC agrees. Coinbase does not. Ergo, it's up to the judge to decide. This is about as black and white as the rule of law thing gets.
I agree, Perth has always seemed sparkling clean compared to most cities in the UK. Other Australian cities I've visited seemed that way as well.

I think partly it's the light - it's so bright here in Aus that things look cleaner anyway, but also the light and the heat keep things a little cleaner, UV sterilises and the sun bleaches after all.

Aus doesn't have as much of a legacy of concrete brutalism, either, lumpen concrete buildings in the UK that started out grey and end up brown, water-stained from all the rain and oppressive-looking.

And also I think better care is taken. Visiting London after having lived here in Perth for a couple of years about ten years back, I was struck by just how often as I walked around my nostrils were assaulted by smells of rotting rubbish or just plain urine.

So yeah, bunch of things, but it does feel much cleaner here.
One of trends in modern UI is that it thoroughly removes control from the user, especially direct control, so it's refreshing to see an example to the contrary.