skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost sounds like you reinvented DEC Sixel.
This seems to be a case of a bad and a lazy survey paper rather than plagiarism. Plagiarism implies misrepresentation of some kind -- usually passing someone else's work as one's own. With the original works cited this does not seem to be the case here.

There are more egregious dirty laundry that perhaps needs more attention than this particular one.

While I was a grad student, a labmate's research paper was copied word for word, at least the abstract, introduction and conclusion. If memory serves, this was in around 2002. Funnily enough this plagiarized paper submitted to a conference happened to get assigned to my same labmate for review.

The are chairs were informed and the paper rejected, but more interesting was the discussion that ensued within our own lab with other Chinese labmate's. They mentioned that in Chinese universities, at least then, it would be considered perfectly kosher piece of work by a student to replicate word for word a good paper that the student had expended effort in identifying, such an act would not be considered plagiarism, perhaps even a demonstration of good work ethic. There was no clear consensus on whether submitting it in their own name in a prominent ML / datamining conference would have been perceived as an act of plagiarism.

My labmate who's paper got plagiarized got lucky that it came to him for review. I can easily imagine scenarios where it needn't have. Also its only because it was submitted to an international conference that it got caught out. I wouldnt be surprised if more of these were going on in more home brew conferences.

The original paper was published in ICML. I dont seem to recall with high confidence the exact conference the plagiarized copy was sent to.
How effective was it?
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A lot of people have no idea how much work is involved in software development. It's just like magic to them.

I've lost count of the number of customers who said "this should be easy, I'm sure you can knock it up in an afternoon" whilst I'm thinking there is probably two years work in what you are asking for.
First thought was about Feynman diagrams :-(
We have these throughout many neighborhoods in my city in central Florida, USA. We’re a college town so I just assumed it was somehow connected to that. Neat that it’s an international thing!
Thanks for sharing. Any ideas for how this could work in this particular case?

One possibility would be to try to buy the land where the bee was found.
Why is everyone discounting the possibility that this is a Coinbase controlled account? They would surely need to purchase the tokens before they list them.
> DALL-E 2 is useful now.

If you look closely at most of the images, they don't look quite right. There are usually artefacts, or slight misunderstandings of the brief etc. Its about 80% of the way there, but I think that last 20% is going to be a lot more difficult.

I'm sure there are some cool applications for this - maybe if you need a quick and cheap image for your newsletter, personal website or an experimental game for example.

For a serious commercial application I would think it would be easier and safer to pay someone.
The cables are not 'mostly glass fibre' they are a tube within another tube and then the standard fibre optic cable is blown through that inner tube like it normally would be, otherwise the whole thing will be utterly unreliable to the point that it will be broken before your trial properly begins.

That said all of the other complexity remains.
This is nonsense for several reasons.

Painting the Ukraine conflict as something to reduce US risk is a view with aggressive blinders. Russia is a risk to European countries, foremost, without a doubt.

The United States absolutely does not want china to invade Taiwan. The loss of the TSMC would be disastrous. The loss of sanctions against China on a similar scale would be disastrous. Russia is not comparable. Russia’s economy was shit. It’s ok to walk them off. The oil is a significant piece but that’s really it. And it hardly harmed the US. An economic conflict with China would be very painful.

This is not scorched earth either. A dead man’s switch on an important asset is a very different thing from scorched earth.
In the Trek universe “the computer is now sentient” seems to happen every few years to every starship even without encountering outside forces.

TNG had Moriaty, Wesley Crusher’s nanites, the Exocomps, and whatever it was in season 7’s Emergence.
Reminds me of the Lord Howe Island stick insect - or tree lobster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryococelus_australis
This is awesome! Will be sharing this with friends with kids.
Accepting or spending Bitcoin increases its utility quadratically per participant (via the network effect).

Utility increases utilization, which increases fees, which incentivize mining.

It really is exactly the same thing as boycotting a company.
Yep, see #susanalbumparty
I think the current approach is to just invent yet another "meta layer" of characters and declare that this particular sequence of bytes/codepoints/surrogate pairs/grapheme clusters/extended grapheme clusters/zwj sequences/whatever else you can think of has a special meaning and does not behave like you think it does. See also Henri Sivonen's essay on unicode string length [1]

So in a way, Unicode is already long past the time where you invent NATs and other hacks to buy you time with the scarcity problem.

[1] https://hsivonen.fi/string-length/
My own view why the Pi succeeded: they understood the market. They were prepared to innovate. Everyone else seemed to be a "me-too". Sure, others came out with products that were more powerful, but then they cost more, and some of the hardware wasn't properly supported. Competitors never really offered a compelling reason why we should buy their offerings.

Take the Pi 0. Before that came out, the field was open for a competitor to see a gap in the market and capitalise on it. But none did. So then the Pi 0 came out and took a slice of the pie whilst everyone was asleep.

Roll on a few years, when the tech progressed, the competition had the opportunity to produce something like a Pi 0 but cheaper or better. What did they do? Absolutely nothing. This allowed the Foundation to once again create another product: the Pi 0 2. The power of a Pi 3, at the price of a Pi 0W (near enough).

The competition is clueless, which has allowed the Foundation to knock the ball out of the pack time after time after time. Upton is Britain's answer to Jobs.
> The API used to call Dunzo is open but undocumented. So if someone from Dunzo is reading this, don't be sending take-down notices. This is a very niche and tiny thing and is unlikely to put any strain on your servers.

I see this as a free promo for Dunzo and hope it hasn't caused them too much trouble.
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I think you’re right. It’s just not exactly what many people coming from other languages expect from generics.

It’s seems like a static polymorphism but not monomorphism, which also is implemented in Go generics but for simple types.
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The issue of Chinese re-unification goes beyond Xi and "nationalism" used pejoratively... Especially, China has a long history of struggling to achieve and hold national unity that dates back millenia before the CPC. This is mixed with the last two centuries of being the victim of foreign aggression.

It's not that the people in Taiwan overwhelmingly want 'independence', by that I mean that they oppose re-unification, is that they do not want the communists (which is the whole reason of the current situation in the first place), and the 'independence' camp is suiting US interests.

Ultimately I believe that the mainland is willing to sustain a level of economic pain to get hold of Taiwan but this would be calculated based on domestic politics, not TSMC's fabs.
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Not for anything portable.
Because it's wishful thinking along the lines of 'oh, great, internet out of my tap, why didn't I think of that'. This is a problem with many technologies that would be great to have but that are a lot harder than they seem to be at first glance, for instance VAWTs have been soaking up funding for many decades now and will continue to do so without ever giving a proper ROI because it seems to be such a great idea that every couple of years it goes through a revival.
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If I was waiting on a bus that was supposed to arrive “imminently” for this long I’d be well pissed off.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/05/11/vitalik-buterin-say...
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The main deterrent against a Chinese escalation in Taiwan is that this is an existential issue for the United States, which undoubtedly along with allies would go to war to defend Taiwan. If China invaded and militarily defeated the U.S. in Asia here it’s the end of American hegemony and the United States would basically be kicked out of Asia.

But it’s a great risk to China to attempt something like this, too great of a risk, which is why it won’t happen. Both sides are pretty satisfied with saber rattling. For China and the CCP it makes much more sense to just wait and perhaps play the soft power game. Although they screwed up with Hong Kong and turned a lukewarm-friendly Taiwan back into an anti-CCP Taiwan. They should have (from the CCP perspective) went after Taiwan first. They’ve had two great opportunities and didn’t take either (HK takeover timeframe and March 2022)
Also City Guesser [0], which has similar POV video gameplay.

[0] https://virtualvacation.us/guess
Yes, it is possible to threaten or insult somebody, but this would not cause brain damage.

You cannot cause cellular damage to a human’s brain by talking to them.
Some people said things like that about Russia/Ukraine a few months ago.
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Please ignore this post. I'm not allowed to have an opinion.
> We don't need different characters per human

Unicode NFTs here we come
He pleaded guilty.
The phrase "The authors suggest developing an ‘automatic mechanism’ triggered once an invasion was confirmed to make the threat more credible." just makes me thing of Dr Strangelove.
HODLing is also speculation. I'm saying that crypto isn't driving useful economic activity like investing in startups or small businesses can do. It's all just people trying to make money by finding a greater fool. Even speculation in a normal market can drive /some/ innovation through capital allocation.
Curious why you think Scratch is cumbersome ? Is it primarily the amount of js the scratch vm needs ?

I got (re-) introduced to scratch few months back while collaborating with some people in the media lab (where scratch originated) and have had fun tinkering with blocks creating funny animations etc. in my free time.
Again, yes, there are many problems yet to be solved.

But on the subject of piracy, it is still pretty rampant even on major platforms like YouTube, to this day — but less so than when they started out. Very fair to expect a similar trend here.
Organic, non synthetic conway's game of life as a service, ONSCGOLaaS:

You pay a slave worker from Amazon mechanical turk to manually calculate the next iteration of a Conway's game of life state. Unlike traditional approaches that use CPUs or GPUs to calculate the next state for a given Conway's game of life state, here the next state is calculated organically, by a human or rather the humans brain. This creates a more grounded experience of Conway's game of life, leading to increased appreciation of it.

Naturally we'd be web3 ready and sell those different, handcrafted states of Conway's game of life as NFT.

We will also offer cheaper, machine created NFT of Conway's game of life states that are calculated by the blockchain VM.

Please contact me if you are interested to invest in this idea.
Since this article has the potential to amplify the problem, it’s too bad they didn’t have a link at the end to donate to a “save the bees” charity.

Perhaps, for instance, lands in those regions could be bought and protected.
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Lol, the Taiwanese almost certainly have much worse scenarios drawn up by their own politicians and security forces.

They don’t need the US to be terrified about living next to an aggressive China.

And almost the entire point of TSMC is to make Taiwan too important for China to attack, and the U.S. dependent enough on Taiwan that it eventually provides Taiwan with a security guarantee.

Only people with blinkers who cannot think beyond the US a would come up with the idea that any of what the US aid suggesting is news to the Taiwanese.
Am I missing something here? It's perfectly fine if not perfect for static blog content.
Some might find `ffsend` useful to securely share files from your command line:

https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
> - It’s not significant in terms of the funds it brings in.

> Crypto was around 0.08% of our revenue last year, and it remains one of our smallest revenue channels.

This alone would be a sufficient reason to drop it if it requires extra accounting work, technical maintenance work, staff training, support work, etc.
Not me. I was making bets about when it would happen. I thought it would be earlier in February actually. Every day Russia waited was warmer temperatures and more missiles and supplies funneled into Ukraine.

But an invasion of Taiwan doesn’t really make any sense. Likening it to Ukraine is poor reasoning because you assume the CCP has the same motivations as Putin, or that there are any similarities in logistics or war tactics. The U.S. would defend Taiwan, and an invasion would require months of buildup and would be an incredibly complex combined arms and logistical challenge. The Chinese have little to no experience in executing any sort of operation like this under real world scenarios. Even if they were to succeed somehow the cost would be unbearable. No. It makes much more sense and fits better with Chinese strategy to play the long game and convince Taiwan itself to reunite.
No they don’t. You trade with other users not coinbase directly
I just this morning installed the M1 native version and it's zappy.
Life, in high school in the early 70s, one of the first programs I wrote was an implementation in basic. Really taught me matrix manipulation and I was fascinated by the pattern generation. Still have it on yellow paper tape! Fueled my interest in comp sci and programming.
Can't be that common, though, or there would be no need for the website.
Jan 3rd is Proof-of-Reserves day, and all of the larger actors have ignored it for far too long. I believe Kraken has committed to it now, which is great.

Also: obligatory "not your keys, not your coins" and "don't keep your coins on an exchange".
It’s HMAC, not PKI, so the key is symmetric. Why it was implemented this way in particular I’m not sure.

https://gist.github.com/marcan/6dde73a9a0c917cd4fc9784a0a73e...
Hive is another good example of the same issue.
For a US citizen, it is illegal to attempt to help NK avoid sanctions which is why the article says "conspired to help". Going and making a presentation on why moving gold bars is the way to go would be just as illegal.
BBEdit was one of the first serious tools I've bought for my Mac, and I'm a happy camper ever since.
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The more conventional phrasing is, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
I think I'd rather have a hand-cranked mechanical design, along the lines of Babbage's Difference Engine -- or maybe something steam-powered. Maybe patch together a few hundred Whac-A-Mole games somehow.
At least in Switzerland the discounted system for fixed-trips is relatively recent (admittedly I left the country a while ago so we may be talking about a different time frame).

I didn't mean to say one way or the other is bad (your use of "prejudices" has a negative connotation, which isn't what I wanted to highlight). I'm Swiss, lived there for ~25 years, and now live in Germany since a good amount of time. And it was funny to observe this difference in expectations and behaviours between the two countries.

I've never seen SBB/CFF complain about Deutsche Bahn so I'm not sure what you mean here. I personally like both groups, their services are really good IMHO.

> Germans might look to save money, but realistically everybody needs to plan their trip somewhat in advance, unless it's a short weekend trip

I mean, I can generally agree here, but the German approach to saving money is waaaay more extreme than what I've experiences living in other countries! People book their trips like 6 months in advance to have some reductions, and will use every single way to save a few cents!

(Note that I'm from the French speaking side of Switzerland, which is culturally quite different from the German speaking side)
No, you have to be more intelligent than anyone who is ever going to investigate you, because any traces you left behind at any point could lead back to you.

When you're doing low-level crime barely on anyone's radar, this matters little. But if you ever scale up, any mistake you may have made in the past could be used against you in the future.
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Controls your stuff.

Take only what you need from it.

(do-do-do-do do-de-do-do, dooo-dooo)

Sorry, silly music/lyrics joke. But it seems to be a scripting-focussed alternative to Puppet and Ansible, at least from what I can see.

So, remote deployment of packages, timed/scheduled configuration changes etc., I think.
Coal generates negative externalities, which is defined as an effect that violates some party's right to their person or property.

Financial interactions are entirely within the realm of voluntarily interactions, and those that are not are already considered fraud, and prohibited.
Munich, Germany has them as well
Debt is not a sword of Damocles hanging over the US. Debt is basically China having sent a bunch of actual stuff to the US in return for a promise that the US will make them whole sometime in the future.

And because of inflation, the value that the U.S. has to make China whole by keeps reducing.

If the US sand China went to war, China could keep waving those pieces of paper and the U.S. would simply ignore it.
At the risk of showing my ignorance... what makes Python's __init__ fundamentally different from Java's constructors? The latter also has access to the "this" reference with some of its state initialized and some not.
Is Python not sufficient for that?

I am unfamiliar with PHP, wondering what benefits it has that might lead someone to choose it for a task today.
It was posted here, on twitter , Reddit etc.

There were significant numbers of pro-crypto people sharing it to get people to vote no.
Interesting OP went from stow to Nix without passing XDG, that seems a common path.

I love the idea of NixOS, but I've so far stuck with (being annoyed by things that disrespect) XDG_CONFIG_HOME because it seems harder to version control Nix config, harder/more annoying or learning to confgure since you're now writing Nix config for everything rather than config for the tool itself. I think I'd always have two docs pages open instead of one.
Mel Brooks joke: a man in a deli notices that there's nothing but salt on every shelf. He asks the shopkeeper if he sells a lot of salt. The shopkeeper says "If I sell a bag of salt a week I'm lucky. But the guy who sells me salt, boy, can he sell salt!"

This is a great idea that "doesn't scale" and could one day be a $1B business. Well done!
They've become more popular in Australia recently as well, I've noticed.

They had a two for one sale of half breads at one point, I was like "what is the point.."
You need to be root to add a file to the basl completions directory, so not really.
Works very nicely - my stick man was able to score a goal and celebrate! Firefox + Android
I have one example. They were doing an article about why it is bad to legalize pig hunting. They quoted an "expert" who said "I've seen deer hunters, and they LOVE hunting deer... so I would expect anyone with a gun to release pigs in other people's land so they can hunt them"

I happen to know several hunters, and that kind of accusation was pretty offensive and far from what actually happens in real life.
If you live in a civilized state where there isn't mandated annual vehicle inspections, you can just go to a shop in a poorer part of time and most of the time they'll weld in a straight pipe so you can hook up the muffler again. Quick, cheap, and good enough.
I recently got into using tomato powder, have you ever tried it? It would mean more work, but much more shelf-life and granularity of how much tomato you actually want.
You should go tell the Taiwanese that. Their entire foreign policy (and through TSMC even their manufacturing policy) is based around the fear of China invading Taiwan.
I don’t think the US wanted Ukraine to get invaded either. But they did want Ukraine to be NATO-aligned in spite of the harmful effect towards Russia’s security and despite its warnings. Morally that might make sense, but geopolitically it was a risky and cynical move. If it pushes Russia and China into a stronger alliance it may yet backfire in spite of weakening Russia and making the EU more dependent on the US.

The very aggressive sanctions (well, aside from gas, oil, etc) cannot be explained by the European history of accepting Russian oligarchs and money of dubious origin nor by the fate of Ukraine which let’s be honest no government in the EU really cared about so far.

The more plausible explanation was that the US told the EU that they won’t defend them unless they show a strong united front against Russia.
It’s a “community” vote so it’s very much for users (readers and editors). Anyone could participate.
This is just an ad for Instaminutes. As was this user's last post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30903830

(And the same person just happened to drop by to add a supportive comment and upvote both posts.)
I think, you don't get the full grasp of "early, friendly internet". Very few people do today. In my bubble - programming, for example, young people can't even imagine that there were times when you could focus on _things_ instead of writing layers of security code around them.
Nice detective work and entertaining
Maybe keep a toaster facing out in the freezer she can put the bread into? Will never be out of shape.
I noted in a previous post that the Beaglebone was was what the Pi should have been. It is open hardware, they are targetting the educational market, and has some interesting real-time coprocessors. But it is too pricey, so neither I, nor many others, bought one. It's a shame really.
I’m super confused. A person has acknowledged that participating in eth (even to accept eth) uses eth, and they are fundamentally against eth… so they don’t use it. You’re making their position sound more boneheaded than it is by adding arbitrary it’s. because the person doesn’t participate in your arbitrary hypothetical making they are not looking at outcomes?
Devils advocate:

The SECs core job is to protect investors and assure orderly markets. But it is not clear that buying a crypto asset IS an investment and one job of markets is to take money away from people who make dumb decisions (like buying a crypto "asset" only because Coinbase listed it). So stopping this doesn't actually fit their mandate any more than stopping people betting on sports or buying lottery tickets does.

And that's without getting into the other points people have listed:

* the SEC is toothless
* FX isn't a regulated market, you absolutely CAN use "insider" info to trade Euros, USD etc.
* its technically AND legally hard to prove insider trading in Crypto (and elsewhere)
* if they did, and Coinbase etc moved their operations to unregulated destinations would that actually make anyone safer?