skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a stupid idea.

Fund the police, defense & justice, and privatize the rest. All laws (the US Constitution) are already in place.

There's no need for democracy, but those who want it on state or local level could still organize their Lottocracy states and cities if they wanted.

In the EU there's no hope whatsoever, lottocracy or not, as long as the EU exists.
Can you explain how this is worse than random chance?
It's rather lengthy and contains lots of repeated verbiage but I didn't see anywhere in it penalties for unauthorized access or leaking of the PII collected. It lists the purpose for collecting the data, what they intend to use it for, and states it cannot be used for purposes other than those listed in the bill but without consequences for violating those provisions, there's little reason for the organizations who are given access to this data to treat it with respect and secure it appropriately.
As someone who loves Beethoven but could never get into Mozart, I would appreciate a link or dozen to actual, good performances of the pieces you mention as needing special attention. Thanks.
I think they are past their Delta variant wave, and so it actually seems rational at this point as the other variants don't seem to be as virulent - at least not yet.

The US currently has a COVID death / capita rate that is 40x worse than Norway so there will be some debate stateside yet.

Let's all pray that it doesn't come back in force this winter under a new name.
I vaguely recall there was some kind of chat built in to Napster and it was the era when people did sometimes turn off their computers and/or where in some countries they paid by the minute for internet. I recall getting a message from a German on the other side of the world that I was able to read and respond to because I just happen to speak German letting me know he was headed to bed but that he'd leave his computer on so I could finish grabbing my files. Those are the kind of quirky interactions I miss about the good old days. Likewise, the chats and email exchanges in the early 90s before this web thing came along. There were relatively few people on the internet, so the signal to noise was strong and it was easy to connect with experts.
To be fair I am not suggesting people to self-host email because I know it is hard. I am suggesting LIV to people already self-host their email and want an easy web mail.

Of cause LIV is not for every one; I gave plenty of warnings in the README. I only wish to see more people to write or customize software to do email exactly their way so that we can all learn from it.
Off-topic: Start thinking about OCI Open Container Images. Docker went commercial -but to start what is basically some processes- you have podman and Singularity now. Containers are just files running in Linux cgroups.
Because they get dismissed as nazis and anti vaxxers protesting against corona, move on, when in fact these people are exercising their rights of association and freedom of expression. If you have a bunch of crazies in a group, it gets labelled as the crazy group.
shame.
Man, that camera movement reminded me of sim theme park. What a good era of game
The effect of constructionism coupled with post modernism offering an attractive alternative to the complicated math.

And it isn't only half idiots promoting these ideas.

Just take a look at The Craft of Writing Effectively from the university of Chicago, social science of course. You will be even more baffled, it is a hard to believe and difficult to watch lecture. Apparently these things are university approved and now watched in the millions on YouTube.
> No one calls 8x8 block of a NES background tile a pixel

They might, if the point of the NES game was to arrange those blocks into personal artwork.
I switched to digital books, almost totally, several years ago. That's when my bookshelf stopped growing. I could no longer display my erudition (or lack of it) to the world. My Kindle collection is long but no one in their right mind would want to scroll through it. It does not have, as the author points out, the immediacy and tacit tactile interactivity of a library shelf. Still, out of a sense of responsibility to sustainability and the welfare of the young, I have stayed with the non-physical version, with a deep sense of regret about the loss of touch-me, feel-me reading matter.
Does nobody remember the Jargon File?

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bricktext.html
When you said tolerating any violence was unacceptable. It takes violence to protect people from violence.
It's a stupid question, unless they also give you the ecmascript spec and let you figure it out ;)
This is at least partially bullshit. I have a sideloaded version of Telegram for Android, which is capable of auto-update itself and promoted as even more free speech compared to stores version. I also have a Windows desktop client, which works normally with adult content blocked on iOS client.

Both of those clients blocked Smart Vote bot because my phone number is in Russia. At the same time all my non-Russian friends was able to freely use the bot all of the time.
Stephen Thaler is filing junk patents in his own name, naming his software as the “inventor,” and challenging the various patent offices when they reject his defective application form without examining its merits. As the dissenting judge said in the Court of Appeal, “if only Dr Thaler was not such an obsessive and, instead of calling DABUS the inventor, he named himself … none of these problems would arise” [1].

Thaler recently won the same argument in Australia [2], although an appeal is pending. His lapsed patent application (2019363177) can be found in IP Australia’s online database [3]. Putting the legal question aside – whether Thaler’s insistence on naming DABUS the inventor was fatally defective to the application – the patent application is pseudoscientific nonsense, not a sound basis for deep questions about the nature of ownership and invention.

The patent claims two apparently unrelated inventions. It does not explain how they were identified by DABUS or identify any other connection between them. The first invention is a “food or beverage container” with the cross-section of a Koch snowflake, which supposedly allows for containers to stick to each other. The material used for this flexible, fractal surface is unspecified, but plastic, metal or “an elastomeric material” are suggested, along with “potentially flexible food product (for example pasta, dough, liquorice and so on.” It is plausible that the text of this claim was generated by GPT-3.

The second invention is a “neural-flame device for attracting enhanced attention,” that is, an LED that blinks “at a frequency corresponding to approximately 4 Hz and a fractal dimension near ½.” There is extensive citation of Thaler’s own publications, none of which are in reputable peer-reviewed journals. What can be found online [4] fails to show that flickering LEDs have some useful neurological function, or explain what the patent application has to do with DABUS.

[1]: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2021/1374.pdf

[2]: https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fc...

[3]: http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/applicationDet...

[4]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187705091...
On the contrary, this law is entirely about leaking such information to select NGO’s.
Why companies don't post salaries in job ads
How to Learn and Improve Your Python Coding Skills with Free Resources?
I don’t think that genuine believers treat religion like a spiritual Xanax... but I do think, and have observed, that that’s what it can often be. Especially seeing the religious people I know coping with the deaths of loved ones, and in one case the death of their child.
Someone imagined an AI mathematician. What we've got is a parrot…
Gotta be a browser extension that does this for you?
I meant the general practice of government snoops getting non-e2e customer data from FAANG et al.

People get upset or outraged about warrantless stuff, and they should, but it's important to remember that even search warrants in the USA are essentially rubber stamp (unless they specify like "every photo posted to instagram on x date" or some other obviously overbroad thing). The companies' own transparency reports show the scale of warrants/etc versus NSLs, FISA orders, and the other warrantless stuff people take issue with.

Even without FISA 702 (aka PRISM), National Security Letters, et c, providers having huge, long term, comprehensive non-e2e troves of our data (ie gmail, instagram) is a hazard due to search warrants and of course the insane third party doctrine.
It's the authority to interpret the word of god. The authority is delegated by people you already trust to people they are trust themselves. It creates a hierarchy of power. It's easy to manipulate millions of people if you are at the top of that hierarchy. Especially when the people we're talking about have their sense of truthfulness broken at a very young age by forcing them to believe in an entity they can't see
A directly downloaded versions of the app for Android and Windows are much more relaxed on the censorship. For example, they are able to access adult content blocked on iOS version. But they were unable to access voting bot.
Amen to that!

Here's some Turbo Pascal and asm stuff of mine I rediscovered a while back.

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...

I still use TP occasionally on a range of Z80 boards running CP/M:

https://github.com/linker3000/z80porter
and strangely, an exemption is made for Pfizer workplaces in the US!
I love the layers of irony here...The natural assumption to make here is it would be ironic for an ethics teacher to be using napster, but in fact the real irony (imo) is that it is in fact a very interesting ethical question when it comes to pirating. Not something I intend to discuss here but it is something interesting I think about semi-frequently.
The purpose of a permissive license is to encourage proprietary derivatives that come with intellectual property restrictions, EULAs, SaaS with vendor lock-in, etc.

The purpose of a copyleft license is to encourage derivatives that don't come with such restrictions.

Copyleft therefore helps reach a local maximum of freedom for everyone as a function of restrictions on redistribution.
Uh... self driving electric cars actually change 2/3 of the problem. In a couple of iterations it will be orders of magnitudes safer than drivers, to the point where you'll be able to get home drunk in your own car. Also orders of magnitude less pollution where humans live.

Last 1/3 is simple car size, aka congestion. Ironically, this will probably be solved by the Boring Company and teslas.

I'm a huge proponent of bike lanes + e-vehicles. But let's be serious, Teslas really are changing the game. Well, or will, once the price goes down in 10 years.
navani would hate to be referred to as a "mail processing service" lol
Zig’s functions are colorblind: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/
I would like to add another interesting pattern that get exercised when a ticket is work, and forwarding will make it bounce back. You forward only to your IT support team one by one. And each member attempts to waste as much of the requester's time as possible. Each time waster is creative, but usually it consists of minimal efforts in asking question taking maximal effort to answer. Good chance the requester will give up on that ticket before the full team went at it, and would gladly agree to get that closed as remediated. Better live with a problem than a bigger one.
Semi-private under-the-radar solutions are reliable, affordable, and readily available, to anyone who cares to Google for a few minutes. Including Gigabit-size holes and very low [added] latency to Japan, HK, Singapore, and other places.
Every company that could possibly help you is listed in the link provided. There are no others.
There is a sideloaded version of Telegram for Android which can be installed from it's website and even is able to auto-update itself. It allows access to content blocked on iOS. But it was unable to access voting bot.
> have a decent vocabulary and a good feel
> for the different ways to structure an idea

This sign of intelligence is also good for talking to people on their level: Explaining things to children and adults alike while meeting the expectations and comfort zone of both. I've always admired people who can articulate their ideas in a broad range of spoken formats for the intended audiences.

Interestingly, some of the best-known examples of people like this are all physicists: Einstein, and Hawking, and Feynman especially.
They can do whatever they want. If the president isn’t safe from the fbi, then nobody is. The other agencies I think get a lot of unfair press. The fbi are pure shit, if for no other reason than it’s just way too large an organization to police itself. How many fbi employees even are there at this point? I’m sure a few of them (including those reading this post) are good, but the others are pure shit.
Religions hold that their positions are that of the immortal and infallible creator of the universe and hold them sometimes on pain of executing nonbelievers thousands of years later. These lies created from nothing are so resilient because its difficult to amend what you held to be divine truth.

Scientific theories carry with them the premise that they are merely the best theory so far and are subject to revision as new data comes to light. Some may jealously guard the fruits of their labor against newer better understanding and people both lie and fail to do the proper due diligence but the process though flawed because it is carried out by flawed humans is fundamentally different and better.
> I admire your social media asceticism.

Only corporate ad surveillance social media! I grew up on the internet and it is my hometown. I'm on IRC and the fediverse, and still anonymously browse reddit via the api, and run a bbs (link in profile).

Much of the best shit in my life came from weird strangers on the internet.

I love social media; I just hate advertising and surveillance.
Money is a store of value. Money is a measure of wealth.
The Speed of Time
link to link of a writeup of alternate redshift cosmology proposals:

https://saidit.net/s/Physics/comments/8f1p/somebody_linked_t...
One more way PII can be leaked, now enriched with another piece of data: gun ownership. Yet, it’s going to cause zero reduction in gun violence and illegal firearm possessions. So it penalizes legal gun ownership.
This is exactly what gun rights advocates have been saying would come, should owners have to register with the state. All this is going to do is punish and put law abiding citizens at risk. I'm sure politicians will be exempt from having their data shared.
I was surprised to see the author's name, because I actually took History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy with her at uChicago a decade ago.

Her personality really shows through the article - it's highly amusing. She's an energetic philosophy wonk.

To me, this is just a classic case of a husband who doesn't realize that he can never let boredom creep in and isn't keeping things fresh and having enough sex.
Huh, and here I thought Facebook would be the ones to launch a WeChat clone.
I had fun working on the version that's now listed on the RC2014 site!
Or to paraphrase a Finnish saying: a looming disaster has not been confirmed until it has been officially denied.
who cares about them
I wouldn't be surprised if over the time span of a decade, companies which invested significantly into online ads would have gone out of business entirely, and those that didn't even use online ads would still be around.

As a conjecture, it's possible that online ads is anti-commerce - as in those who put money into it die. Over the last 10 years, it's very obvious that internet focused non-tech companies do very poorly in the long run.
Most of your points about coronavirus vaccine research also apply to coronavirus gain-of-function research: scientists have been studying these viruses for decades. They've also been proposing – & sometimes doing! – gain-of-function-like work on these same viruses for years.

And why would it take a "virtual miracle" to accomplish via purposeful lab work the same thing that a 'wholly natural origin' explanation would suggest happened by dumb luck in natural recombinations?

What if it was both 'natural origin' and a 'lab leak'? For example, perhaps a wholly natural zoonotic event created the novelty, but it wasn't circulating in humans until after researchers found that crossover-ready virus in the wild – doing research similar to that in this just-revealed proposal – & brought it to Wuhan for study. Then, either with or without further 'gain-of-function' tinkering, inadvertently let it loose into an urban population?
https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html
Signal made their server code closed source for over a year while they added a scam cryptocurrency coin that has a financial conflict of interest with the creator of the project. They claimed to be "open source" while this was happening.

More recently, they've had egregious bugs such as images being sent to random contacts in your list, an absolutely inexcusable error.
But who is watching Ca.gov?
Do you read Nexta recently? It became a travel news feed with videos of Canaries volcano and ads.
Genuinely curious, what do you contemplate/would law abiding citizens be punished for and what is the risk?
So, what's the conclusion? How great? If there is a censorship/surveillance competition, who will win, GFW or NSA?
Interestingly if you post it to Twitter, the info shows up just fine in the preview image and text.
Yes, it's always easy to simply not comply with the law. That wasn't in question.
what are you? 12 years old?
https://archive.is/cccvf
Only if they decide it is, or if a judge is willing to learn that their entire family decided to commit seppuku while they were at work.
Read the Wikipedia page for them. Follow the links for the founders. Never buy anything from the companies on their customer list.

I didn’t realize BestBuy uses them. I’m never buying anything there again until I see a news article saying BestBuy stopped using Clearview AI.
I don’t need to defend my non nimby credentials here, but to be clear i said “hellscape” because i lived in condos for about ten years and 500-1200sqft on the 20th floor is just not a place most people can raise a family and build a full life.
How well is go-readability working? I was thinking of doing something similar but with Telegram instead.
Did you even open the pdf? This research is done by citizen lab.
> Is the cold pain channel somehow inhibited by the grill

No, cold-pain channel is inhibited, when you touch something normally hot. When you touch something very hot, hoth channels fire and you have "burning hot" sensation. So when you touch something normally hot and cold which are very near on your body, you have overlap (like blurring of channels) and you feel that it's burning your skin.
Okay, and in those states, where do those gun deaths happen? The religious parts? The believers are doing the killings?

Look, I’ll make this straight, because there is a lot of willful ignorance here. Overwhelming majority of gun homicides happen in large cities, where the religiosity is low, and very few in suburbs and rural areas, where religiosity is high. Moreover, people committing those gun homicides are very rarely practicing religious people, and neither are most of their victims.
I'm sure this info will never be used for any nefarious purpose..
Using the color wheel to explain why purple is close to red is circular logic. The color wheel is an abstract human construction that places red near purple arbitrarily. The color wheel does not prove that red is fundamentally close to purple. If you’re stuck on color wheels and the kindergarten explanation, then I understand why my questions aren’t making sense to you, and I’m happy to leave it there.

I’m not sure why you’re jumping to erroneous conclusions about my background, or why it matters to you. But since you asked, and in the hopes that maybe it could get this conversation back on a productive course, I’ve studied and used color academically and professionally my entire life, including human vision and perception, and computer graphics. I’ve written a few papers with well known color and perception experts on the topic of novel perceptually uniform color spaces, for example. But I wouldn’t say I’m a color or perception expert myself, because the topic is surprisingly deep and tricky, it bears little resemblance to kindergarten knowledge of color wheels. I’ve written high dynamic range spectral renderers in the past, studied spatial and temporal tone mapping, written color conversion code from spectral to CIE XYZ, xyY, Lab, sRGB and other spaces, and like you I’ve written programs and articles about transparency. Premultiplied alpha is one of my favorite topics when it comes to alpha channels.

Your JavaScript auto-masking prototype looks really nice. The video didn’t really say much about color, but you may be onto something if you’re pulling your mattes fully automatically. Have you released it or sold it?

Since you asked, I’m very familiar with the Munsell space and RGB. RGB has been practical and useful for a long time, but it’s just about one of the worst color spaces there is. This is why people who care about color specify sRGB rather than RGB, and why people who work in CG production and people who make LCD displays don’t use “RGB” anymore. The three biggest problems with RGB are lack of standardization (“RGB” isn’t well defined), RGB is a very perceptually non-uniform color space, and RGB is a crappy and relatively unintuitive space for artists (HSV & HSB are better, but researchers and color UX people have designed much better spaces & pickers for artists).

Okay, so, with all that in mind, maybe you’d care to take a more careful stab at explaining why you think purple is “close” to red, and what - exactly - that means?
We are witnessing the circulation of mass shame lists designed to deprive people of their livelihood. Whether or not you agree that the people on these lists deserve to be hurt for their political opinions, many innocent people are also being caught in the crossfire. This legislation will have a similar effect.
> offering a combination of financial tools including direct deposit, bill pay, a digital wallet, peer-to-peer payments, shopping tools, crypto capabilities and more.

Reminds me of the episode on The Simpsons where Homer designs a car.
This looks great! I wish I found this at the start of the year. I have been building something similar closed source.
Your reaction to my comment is quite unfair.

After claiming that I am putting words in your mouth, you go ahead and accuse me of only wanting to trash Apple and not caring about having a discussion.

I would have preferred it if you had simply told me to fuck off.
The risk is always the same. Regular people who happen to own guns will eventually have access to that property removed. Actual criminals won't care, because they don't follow the law. It is an old dance, but it placates specific demographic, who is more scared of a tool than of government power.
I added a few screenshots in the README as requested by some comments here. A few also request a dockerfile; however this I can't provide, because LIV is supposed to run together with your SMTP server and read the local files for the mails. If I package LIV together with SMTP server in the same container it will be too inflexible.

You don't really need a SMTP server, or VPS to try LIV. All you need are a Linux box and some mails in your maildir, and getmail can help to achieve that. You can't send mails though.