skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, for example if i was creating art or designing something, say i could use one of these generated sneaker images instead of a stock photo (could be useful, right).

Now the question is, since the training material were images of copyrighted designs/shoes could this get me in trouble?

I feel like there are many cool uses for generated stuff such as generated music or generated code also, but ultimately the uses are held back by existing laws and regulations around copyright and so on. So it really doesn't solve anything that also wouldn't be solved by just getting rid of copyrights entirely.. (sorry, just thinking "out loud")
Agree, even if it compensates by supplying a gradually shrinking compute mask, but not to all operations. But an effect is there, less populated chunks compute faster.
You don't give the banking industry enough credit here. They are involved in designing the legislation/regulations governing themselves.

The market for legal marijuana projected to be $100B by 2030. If the banks want a piece of that pie, then they will change the rules and "fix" the problem.

https://flowhub.com/cannabis-industry-statistics
This is very interesting. Are there any books you'd recommend on the topic which would explain the directions pharmaceutical science is heading towards to a layman?
I get it, and I agree with you 90%. But I think what we've (wealthier, white-er Americans) learned about race in the last 24 months shows that there's a big difference between "isolated incidents" and "decentralized but widespread behavior". I think that with respect to stuff like this, the second phrase is a better description. Any of these things are Gestapo tactics, the stuff of European and Latin American nightmare; the fact that they're not all coordinated out an office in DC is more an American curiosity than a point in their favor. At least that's my view.
Jobs's notorious "Fuck Michael Dell" comment, to his employees, captures what you're saying, for me. A person is free to think what he or she likes of the man, but unlike most CEO's, he wan't mealy-mouthed.
1. Use Firefox

2. Use Edge for Meet or any other situation where Firefox fails.
"now that it is failing people need to go further left, to communism?"

Is it a feature of American politics to bring up communism in every discussion?

It's always some comedic parody too, like 'race mixing is communism' or 'climate change is a communist plot'. Basically a boogeyman of American politics
https://archive.is/G7UEe - you just beat me to it. Looks like archive.is doesn't deal with duplicates in the queue.
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https://thissneakerdoesnotexist.com/editor/?seed=1346
Ask HN: Why is WebArchive so goddam slow?
Every time when I use web.archive.org it is so slow(loading time is sometimes 20+ seconds) I just freak out and leave it. Any reason why fetching historical web pages is so slow.

Here is screenshot of Google's PageSpeed Insights report: https://prnt.sc/1vq8led
There is no US law against that.
Sorry, but no. Those kind of pithy meaningless comments are great for reddit or twitter, but I think these forums have the room for better expression of our ideas.
This is in the context of rust.

> it adds a line to a `go.sum` while with a hash of the code at the version specified

Cargo.lock also contains a checksum

> You can distribute your code without a copy of the dependency

Also true in rust, and the default way of using rust/cargo.

> If the hashes are different, an error is thrown.

Also true in rust.

For an example of what this looks like: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/54b725be37f13b166946...

You haven't described anything different between go and rust in your comment since every feature you've pointed out applies equally to both.
> Russia probably does not count as being a part of the civilized world.

From the rest of your comment I gather you were joking, but please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. It's really easy for it to turn into nationalistic flamewars, which are particularly tedious and nasty and also relatively avoidable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm no apologist for corporate power, but most payment network censorship seems to be driven by government regulations - Wikileaks, sex work, weed, and gambling are all things the government has passed laws to explicitly harm. As such, additional regulation is more likely to cement the current restrictions rather than repudiate them.
Take a look at earnings reports...a company that doesn't grow from last quarter is considered a failure. A company that grows but doesn't hit goals from last quarter is considered a failure.
I've used a credit card at dispensaries many times. Details in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28829949
> ... where you criticize those who would maintain bans on drug purchases, you end up finding your own reasons why to maintain a ban on a different vice.

Well done on missing my point entirely, possibly intentionally. I'm fine with whatever happening between consenting adults. Unfortunately, there's a link between sex work and human trafficking that cannot be ignored [1]:

> Countries with legalized prostitution are associated with higher human trafficking inflows than countries where prostitution is prohibited.

and

> Criminalization of prostitution in Sweden resulted in the shrinking of the prostitution market and the decline of human trafficking inflows.

Sex trafficking impacts people who aren't consenting (including minors).

So what are the negative externalities of cannabis consumption? Long term cannabis abuse can be a problem but pales in comparison to, say, alcohol abuse. Basically, there's no world that makes sense for alcohol to be legal and cannabis not to be.

Also, cannabis legalization has arguably hurt the illegal drug trade [2].

[1]: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-...

[2]: https://time.com/3801889/us-legalization-marijuana-trade/
The GDPR created TONS of annoying cookie popups.

Under GDPR you MUST pop-up consent requests with explicit consent.

Luckily at least the EU website now does them at the bottom rather than the top.

https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en

for an example that is a bit less annoying - the EU website used to do a blocking top banner that was super annoying back when GDPR was being taken seriously, now they just bury it (like lots of others do).
I am not saying it is a conspiracy, I am saying it is dumb, a dumb oversight, yes, which makes it less about health & safety, so much less that it is not, really.

We do body temperature checks.
Notice this is specifically NHS only. Private medical patients are exempt. Only for the prols, then, no one important will be bothered by it.
Firefox is my primary browser too and use Brave as the secondary, and thus far it's pretty much exactly like Chrome/Chromium.

Many bring up the cryptocurrency relation and I do get that (And other than the world-view differences, they've also had some mishaps like injecting referral codes to URLs, but hopefully they have learned from these). But given that both Google and Microsoft are interested in your personal data then Brave does seem to be a better choice than them.
Isn't this the sort of death that warrants the HN black bar?
TBH, the specific approach sounds like a bad one. You can easily swamp a server with small requests and the big ones will never run, which are probably important. It would just incentivize engineers to write smaller queries while your older (Unmaintained ones) ones would never run.

Same with deprioritizing queries that are older in the queue. You’d end up deprioritizing people who’ve already been waiting, so they’d likely try again instead of waiting.

Thus you end up with the feedback loop this article talks about, where you’re amplifying the problem instead of addressing it.
> some guy in Missouri to even consider designing his own bakery oven when you can get them on Alibaba for $500

As someone who has worked in some parts of southern Africa decades ago, and who recently stopped buying off ali (for everything, but mostly beekeeping equipment) there is a Big Thing you are forgetting to tell: Right And Ability To Repair.

Secondhand nearly always means you can assure quality, because it has survived at least one owner. Probably decades of abuse and repairs. You can see where it was welded. You know it has survived years in heat, rain, mud and under stress.

You don't want that immersion pump of your irrigation, to break the moment you drove 150km home. Even if you can afford to buy 10 pumps and have 9 spares, you still need the time, travel and effort of replacing. Sometimes the Ali stuff is really good quality. Sometimes it isn't and there is no-way to tell.

As a beekeeper: having a hivetool break that moment the bees are becoming angry and you need to finish fast, is worth ten times that €18.00 I saved by ordering Chinese tools. Having a hive tip over because some chinese screws turned over and didn't hold a foot in place is worth a hundred times that €80 I saved by ordering a cheap Chinese knock-off.

I'm not saying Chinese fabrication equals bad quality. But I am saying that a lack of QA leads to varying quality. Which means it can be really good. But also that it can be poor. This downside risk is more than enough reason to often skip cheap Ali orders.
We're probably not talking about anything that has "actual evidence".
CA to Restrict Sale of Small ICE Power Equipment
You are missing the point - people can make content on youtube all they want, but that doesn't make it correct.
>Now not only you're not vulnerable to someone pushing malicious code to crates.io

Obviously you're only protected against new compromises. If the code is already compromised you're screwed (but not worse than using normal downloaded dependencies). This does make it possible that you miss security updates and other important features.
No, that's what I said, I'm not totally convinced that reproduction is a biological imperative. I think _being horny_ is, but I think that actually having children is not.
I believe cyptocurrency has the potential to do everything a 1000 times better.

Take security: with natively programmatic money, security providers can be debundled from currency issuers and payment providers. For example with smart contract wallets it's possible to assign your own guardians which act as security backups and who need to approve all transactions, based on whatever conditions you set, e.g. m of n need to sign to approve >x amount withdrawn within y time frame.

This massively opens the space for competition which inevitably increases quality and efficiency.

It's the same with the security of data: the centralized finance approach has all customer data stored by one party. If that party is compromised, you have a massive leak affecting millions of different people. With programmatic money, digital commerce can work like cash, with no private information disclosed at all, to any one, and no private data being collected in large centralized repositories.

There are also basic institutional advantages with programmatic money on autonomous networks: the rules cannot be changed without consensus, so a rent-seeking party cannot use the network's monopoly status to extract economic rent. A centralized authority, like a regulator or a private company, can always abuse monopolistic control over an industry, meaning that risk will always hang over traditional industries, making them unreliable in the long run.
On the other hand there is an argument that financial services are too large a part of the UK economy, that they soak up talent in a way that impacts the rest of the UK and influence exchange rates so that other businesses have become less competitive in international markets. Somewhat like Dutch disease.
> bullshit features like Phillips ligths controls or something

Hah, it really does. Apparently Vivaldi can connect to your Philips Hue lights and change their colors based on the active tab’s webpage color.

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/miscellaneous/philips-hue/
Is size disposative? Whales win.
Rotting Red Sea oil tanker could leave 8m people without water
You changed the threshold from "overwhelming the healthcare system" to "using the healthcare system". and think you're being clever. That won't work here.

>See, what you're saying is: I don't believe you should have freedom.

Save the drama, special snowflake. What we're saying, very clearly is "do your part to save lives".

If you're too selfish to do that, the rest of us don't want to be around you. Not because we think you're jerks (we do), but because you might kill us. Is that unreasonable? Honestly?

Your rights end when they threaten the safety of others. It's been that way since the concept of "rights" came into existence. This isn't a new concept. It's a basic tenet of a working democratic society. It always has been.
To be fair, the last time I checked, LLVM was doing an okay job of generating jump tables from big switches and threading the cases for best jump target prediction --- same thing you'd do with computed goto.

But yes, lack of goto and computed goto are deficiencies, not strengths.
I believe the main library for reader mode is called readability. I played around with a python implementation a while back. Just pipe in your raw html as part of the process. It's good, but not flawless. If I remember correctly, it included some quotes and image text as part of the body for the site I tried it on.
Well, this is who I was thinking of. Apparently the motivation is disputed though.

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

"In her 2020 book, Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan concluded that "Fuchs sought 'the betterment of mankind' [when sharing secrets with the Soviets] ... because "his goal became to balance world power and to prevent nuclear blackmail" according to a New York Times review by the conservative historian Ronald Radosh. Radosh wrote that "this was a post facto justification. The reason Fuchs spied was simply that he was a Communist and a true believer in Stalin and the Soviet Union"."
Stacking our way to more general robots
I also get auras but thankfully it's the worst part of my migraine cycle (actual headache is a 3/10). Probably get one a month. I occasionally get pre-drome symptoms a couple days to a week out. It's a minor inconvenience for 30-45 minutes but they seem pretty benign (also verified by a neurologist).
> Shouldn't be deserialized into a map. but a Array<Map<string,string>> like structure.

But that's the thing: you might actually expect/want a Map<string,string>, but a malicious/broken system might emit something that cannot be deserialized into a Map<string,string>. It's then the JSON parser's/deserializer's job to figure out what to do, as the standards say to do whatever. That in turn causes different parsers/deserializers to behave differently (whatever the implementer thought makes sense), which is a source of interoperability bugs.
Is WhatsApp still a separate company? The real reason WhatsApp exists is to provide Facebook a backdoor into people's contacts so they can infer their social graph. Whatever "revenue" WA earns is peanuts, the real value is the collected data.
Why not just lower the crawl rate? My search engine crawler visits tens of million documents in a week at a rate of 1 doc/second, but a few hundred different domains at the same time.

Going as low as 0.2 dps could easily be doable I think.
I found it frustrating, since most texts make no sense. You can force yourself to imagine a situation where they make sense, but then it becomes tiring.

I guess it's just lightly trained with the captions users have submitted for each image. It's a random meme generator that didn't even need AI if this was the intended end product.

Maybe it being crappy is actually the joke and I'm missing it.
> Under GDPR you MUST pop-up consent requests

You actually don't, if you don't do any activity that calls for consent.
The original post claimed this, with no substantiation:

> University lecturers have been protested or cancelled for decades for reasons unrelated to their topic ... Back in the day it was "edgy" to protest or cancel a speaker due to their support of the Vietnam war.

I don't think I'm obligated to do anything before asking OP for evidence, but sure, I'll show my work, so to speak.

I've been following free speech issues for about thirty years, which a close interest in academia. Obviously, that doesn't overlap with the period under discussion (I'm too young), but in the course of reading deeply about the issue, I've come across a lot of history covering the 60s and 70s (in the US & Europe, in particular). So I was surprised to learn that cancelations I'd never heard of were common.

It's not easy to figure out the search terms for this - it's not like looking for the ten most popular NPM packages. So I tried searching for a few things.

"campus speaker canceled 60s"
"campus speaker canceled 70s"

I tweaked the terms - "1960s"/"1970s" seemed to produce slightly more relevant content, but no examples. Substituting "lecture" for "speaker" and "university" for "campus" didn't improve things either. I dug a couple pages deep in the results and clicked on a few seemingly relevant links, but was always disappointed.

I thought that maybe the ACLU's "Speech on Campus" page might reference an episode, but no. [1] I thought, perhaps FIRE has something on this, but they appear to be more concerned with recent history.

If these events were "extremely googable", I'd expect to have seen something promising by that point, but it wasn't happening. After your second response I thought "Oh, maybe krainboltgreene said googlable but meant duckduckgo or bing", so I tried those, and guess what?

Nothing.

I've got huge gaps in my knowledge. It's possible that OP is right and this is neither new nor different. But I'm not going to take their word for it, and it's ridiculous to expect me or anyone else to spend more than ten minutes searching for (even just) a lead on something that might not even exist, particularly given the confounding ambiguity of the possible search terms and the lack of indexed web resources for the historical era in question.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/speech-campus
It's a very popular site.
The reason the payments industry doesn't like sex isn't human trafficking. It's the high fraud and charge back rate.

When your parent or partner finds out you paid for an OnlyFans membership, you lie and tell them you lost your card. This happens incredibly often, and payments companies don't want to touch this.
A city-level CO2 emissions inventory for Europe
a fond memory of visiting beijing many years ago is all the old folks doing tai chi in various parks and empty lots around the city at like 7am. it made the city feel warm and alive. where i live (in LA), you see folks out jogging and walking their dog at that time, but it’s mostly all solitary activity.
That lines up with my recollection.

While it was much less widespread than today, credit cards for ordering from a catalog or e-commerce was becoming quite common by the late 1990s but, as you say, for an individual, it was hard to accept credit cards pre-Paypal. (I had a small software business through about the mid-90s and I eventually was able to accept a credit card through a local reseller but it wasn't at all a routine process.)
Timelock: A solution to miner/block producer extractable value
Fixing USB-C charging on the PowKiddy V90 for $0.01
Yep that's the one! I guess I imagined the social stuff, or was conflating with shadertoy
> Any of these things are Gestapo tactics, the stuff of European and Latin American nightmare

Absolutely correct. But there's always a chunk of people who want to be in the Gestapo, or have someone to report their neighbours to.

My use of "isolated incidents" was ironic in that's the phrase always used to cover systematic problems that people don't want to address. You can have a lot of isolated incidents if you refuse to join the dots.

Dragging a teenager off to a prison camp for looking at boys is the tip of patriarchy, but the entire infrastructure of people who thought it was OK is also patriarchy.
Right now, a cheap tractor from China is probably a lot more reparable (by you) than the more expensive alternatives. Sure, it will break sooner, but it will be built simple and without DRM'd electronics, making it relatively easy to repair.
Everything the article mentions previously applied to Reddit on a smaller scale. There are historical precedents here so any risk (real or perceived) can be examined without guessing.
I feel like a lot of companies stopped testing for Firefox and those issues get attributed to Mozilla (not that some performance issues aren't their fault, but I've definitely encountered issues that get attributed to Mozilla but are failures to test for a different rendering engine).

I use Safari or Edge as a fallback if I run into issues. Google seems to spend a lot of time specifically optimizing their apps (gmail, meet) for Chrome... so I tend to keep Chrome around specifically for those cases. I still find that Edge and Safari have more issues than Firefox.
If your on the Mac maybe just use Safari. I got a new Mac and decided that I didn’t really wanted to bother installing to much stuff, so I skipped Firefox, among other things.

Safari has been great the last few months. Performance hasn’t been an issue, the only site which still drains the batteri is Imgur and besides obvious tracking, I haven’t encountered broken sites.

On the topic of tracking, I found that many of the sites that break in Firefox do so due to privacy features. The sites work in Chrome because Google doesn’t care to implement the same features.
That's his legacy. He probably didn't want any of the work to go to waste.
> is it selenium replacement

No completely different use case. Selenium is browser automation. Mechanical soup/Mechanize/Robobrowser are not actually web browsers, they have no javascript support either. They're python libraries that can simulate a web browser but doing GET requests, storing cookies across requests, filling http POST forms, etc.

The downside is that they don't work with websites which rely on JavaScript to load content. But if you're scraping a website like that, then it might be easier and way way faster to analyze web requests using dev tools or mitmproxy, then automating those API calls instead of automating a browser.
I actually think what happened is that Jobs was on his way out of the room, having heard enough and happy to let his subordinates work out any possible deal, and took umbrage that a "small fry" would detain him with trying to fix a ballpark figure on the spot.

Moral evaluation of his action I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Libya and North Korea were both exporters of terrorism at the time, such as the Lockerbie bombing and North Korea kidnapping Japanese off the beaches of Japan at night.

India had nukes before Pakistan, and built them because of China, not Pakistan. The order of development was:

US built them because of WW II, to beat Germany to them, and aid the War effort.

USSR, because US had them.

China, because USSR.

India, because China.

Pakistan, because India.
Or, as the saying goes "absolute power corrupts absolutely".
On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services (2007)
My mother has had the same journey. She's had migrations for as long as I can remember and recently removed lectins from her diet. Haven't had a migraine since, it's actually amazing.
Yeah, there’s a big difference between “dudes with guns will throw me in prison for this” and “as a company we cannot in good conscience contribute to xxx.”

Banks and CC companies by usual standards are staying out of things more than average. If it’s not a risk to their liberty or wallets the financial sector is happy to stand back and watch all sorts of awful things.