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> You could equally say that new emojis shouldn't be added because you should use inline images for those.

If emojis weren't allocated out of compatibility concern, this would be exactly my opinion from the day 1. To be honest I'm not still happy with the current emoji assignments and semantics. Not even Unicode people are satisfied either, there are numerous proposals for replacing emoji with something else (example keyword: QID emoji).

> RTL markers shouldn't be added because you should use dedicated text styling for that.

> There are a ton of places that don't support superscript markup.

Unlike most text attributes, bidirectionality is an intrinsic property of abstract characters and thus absolutely within the Unicode's scope. Ideally you can't and shouldn't make some LTR character to behave like RTL characters or vice versa. Bidi control characters only exist to correct automatic rendering, and can be presented out of band (the Bidi specification is explicitly designed for this use case in mind [1]).

[1] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Markup_And_Formatting
I just consider Coinbase and it ilk as "safe" places for cryptocurrency. I don't think of them as ethical in the same way I'd think of an account at TDAmeritrade, Schwab, etc. Traditional brokerage houses have regulations forcing them to play fair, and reporting structures to enforce it.

Crypto exchanges are trying to convince the world they are a more secure place for your coins. Better IT security and highly funded enough to probably make good on any hacks. The synergy is they want to keep me safe so they can keep their reputation (and their reputation gives them more business).

Is that a fair deal? That's for each of us to decide. Keep your coins where you wish.
purpose of web3 is to sell you a token at some 100x multiple of what the VCs paid for it (possibly zero).

the token itself doesn't do anything, but it may carry the illusion of hope in some form...until it doesn't.
Of course there are contradictions. I'm talking about journalistic style in magazines. You're talking about something else.
He is a fictional figure though.
That sounds mostly right to me.

I think many constitutional protections do apply in case the USA is prosecuting an individual, eg even as a non American you could take the 5th if an American court was trying to convict you.

However, when you're asking to enter the country as a non US citizen your options are essentially to do whatever the border services agents ask you to do or turn around and go home.
what is the value of the underlying token if not the usefulness of the associated project?
> You just want to avoid associating yourself with what you consider to be a "bad thing" - regardless of whether your choice makes the world better, worse, or has no impact at all.

In some ethical frameworks, associating yourself with a thing you consider bad thing is bad regardless of the size or type of the outcome of that association.
Some were open for uploads by design, in spirit of sharing things - essentially use the free space left after maib purpose to provide friendly mirrors for things like new projects etc. I recall using Archie to find copies of open source software at the ending edge of that era.

Some also were used as submissions for projects, long before sites like sourceforge started. Especially since plonking a bigger source dump on newsgroups wasn't exactly well received.
I like the idea but it seems like a sorta random use case for a home.
That's a straw-man. You can code type-first without going down the overabstraction rabbit-hole.
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> You just want to avoid associating yourself with what you consider to be a "bad thing" - regardless of whether your choice makes the world better, worse, or has no impact at all.

No, this is not about association, it's about resolve. I do not want to act against my own values. That would make me a hypocrite.

I can't make the world a good or a bad place, I am not God. The world is what it is and it's largely outside of my control. What I can choose is what I should be like, what manner of person I should be, and then hold myself to that standard, not for others to judge, but for myself.

If the world is terrible, that doesn't mean I must be a terrible person along with it. If it isn't, then that's great!
Doesn't this fall into the same category as DALL-E begin able to create reflections in water and smooth surfaces to the elements it adds to images? (Look specifically at the Flamingo examples on their website) I'm sure it doesn't encode the mechanics of reflections either, but considering all the other stuff it can do, I'm wouldn't be surprised if it could learn how those work.

But I'm also really interested in the possibility of finding obvious traces of specific input images on the output. The fact that "The Emperor of the Galaxy, byzantine mosaic" generates something strongly resembling Jesus may be a sign of this. Maybe someone with more AI knowledge is able to explain how possible/likely that is.
But it really isn’t… The indictment mostly sticks to payment information for a reason.

And besides, indictments are not law.
>E-reader: libraries exist and should be used. Paper books are still better.

Are you under 40? Sooner or later your eyes are going to get bad and the teeny tiny fonts most printed books use are going to become hard to read even with glasses. In the bad old days there were a subset of books published in large type but with an e-reader you can adjust the font size of any book to where it is comfortable to you.
Their plan was quite obvious roll in from north take capital, and control major supply lines routes leading to south and east fronts. Then install puppet government and make them give away claims to crimea and eastern provinces. There is a large newly discovered gas field there that putin surely would love to claim for russia.

They clearly failed with north invasion and disruption of supply lines. They are clearly retreating and the military leadership is either dead by Ukrainians or let go by kremlin. You don't fire your general(s) for achieving goals.

Russia is amassing troops on south and east, as probably last attempt to take and hold ground. But that will be much harder now (no political support of puppet government, plus failed to disrupt logistical channels). They have less then a month to do something substantial to claim war goals for their Victory Day parade.
In the spirit of 'travel the world' and based on how I interpreted the city choice at first, I'd love for there to be a mode where you don't take a quiz but just choose where you go next.
Paired with a characters-per-line limit, 4-space indents forces you to better modularise your so that it doesn't nest too deep (which usually happens when your code is becoming too complex) so I guess that's the wisdom behind the convention.
This is nothing compared to the SNC Lavalin scandal which also got hidden in a budget.

Liberal party in Canada has how many ethics violations? How many scandals? 3 more years of scandals incoming all approved by the NDP.
Pretty easy. I'd would try adding a hard mode where the 3 wrong cities are geographically close to the correct city. So guessing "Asia" isn't enough to guess correctly.
Maybe if you throw some more big words in, you will get your point across. Following this thread it is pretty evident that you don't have any evidence for your "all crypto is scam", and are pretty lost when asked for proof.
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> but with monetary policy now in the hand of a select few individuals instead of governments

Bitcoin's monetary policy is fixed. It is in nobody's hand, but everybody who decides to run a validating node.

Monetary policy is controlled by central banks, which are privately owned. On paper, they're regulated by government, but in practice, politicians are easily bought, bribed or have their hands tied. The monetary policy is not decided by the people you elect into government.
I think the words examples provide insight into how the image generation works at several levels. You can clearly see [1] how the glyphs are created by approximately merging several letters in one place to create a new symbol, while maintaining the overall structure of words and paragraphs within a well-composed layout in the page.

I would say that the merit of the technique is not in generating new images, but in correctly associating the images and the concepts they represent, at the right level (art styles at the low-level pixel representation, and objects as recognizable high-level features).

I agree that it will be common to recognize where some reused elements come from, in special for small concept domains or art styles; this image generation is largely making clever collages. However, at a sufficiently fine-grained level, it is not unlike how most human artists create art.

[1] https://39669.cdn.cke-cs.com/rQvD3VnunXZu34m86e5f/images/855...
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Accepting crypto legitimizes crypto.

„Even Wikipedia/Wikipedia, a charity with high ethical standards accepts it, how bad can it be?“ might not be the most well-reasoned conclusion, some people will come to it.

If it doesn‘t disproportionately endanger the „core purpose“ of Wikimedia, why not avoid something like that altogether?
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- It’s not significant in terms of the funds it brings in.

- Crypto has been on a 10+ year long quest for “adoption”. So far it’s been fairly pathetic. Organisations who accept it provide a focal point for crypto advocates to point to, legitimising it and luring more retail investors into the Ponzi.

- The environmental impact is massive, which makes accepting it ethically dubious and does not align with the Wikimedia Foundation’s values.
I thought it was an app to match people that want an half loaf so they can share a full loaf of bread.
That would be innovative.

But no, it only searches store inventories for half-loaves for sale.

I love the laser focus on half-loaves anyway.
The questions I have are:

• Why do you want to keep coding?

• Why do you wan to make PowerPoints, excel calculations, plan budgets, negotiate with different parties, plan resources, etc.?
> I feel like news like this is just here to normalize the thought of a China/Taiwan conflict.

The news is to get clicks. China isn’t going to invade Taiwan.
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Well, the US is a military industrial complex that, since ww2, learned to thrive on fear and war. Its not for no reason they keep pushing for 2% gdp to be spend on defense by their fellow nato members. The US profits from that.
This guy (and friends) are basically the reason everyone hates America.
Why is that a problem?

A custom shirt printing company would offer the generator. It's up to the customer to decide whether the output can be legally sold (or, perhaps, they're not selling it).

Anything you wish can be printed today, any logo of any brand. Only selling it is as a product restricted.
I agree with you completely! As the matter of fact, I prefer this approach. But that is dependency injection at its finest, and something that NewMountain above said is "cognitive overhead" and "indirection".
Rebuild the walls yes, but rebuild the machines? I understood that some important parts are made in the Netherlands.
Nice tool - my muscle memory steers me toward bvi though.
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Some banks allow that, but very likely the card networks‘ conversion rates are going to be much closer to mid-market.
> us being able to replicate creation of a living cell from non living material and then endow that organism with consciousness.

Afaik we are very close to artificially creating living cells. This is one recent example [1]. The consciousness part is similar to AGI.

> Further more it would also imply us being able to replicate birth of stars, black holes, and "the big bang" itself.

Some things might be a logistical challenge rather than one of knowledge. Fusion energy attempts to replicate the way stars produce energy and we already managed to replicate the effect, we are just (many years) shy of maintaining it to produce positive energy.

But you might be right and some things are impossible to replicate. I'm much more inclined to believe we can't replicate the big bang than general intelligence as mother nature replicates general intelligence millions of times each day. And by now we started to have a discussion about believes rather than knowledge, which is a much more healthy way to put it, as we indeed don't know.

[1] https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2021/septem...
probably an employee or contact of an employee.

frankly coinbase themselves are known to accumulate vast acoumts of a cryptocurrency before listing, so its not like they would have a reason to do this in such convoluted way.
My wife does this.

The only complaint I have is that when there isn't space, she forces it in anyway and then you end up with mangled, frozen slices that don't fit in the toaster.
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Could you add a setting to disable "autoskip"?
Based on this:

> *Available in: Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Pune

I’d begin by guessing that half loaves of bread are much more common in India than the US.
As my friend discovered all it really takes is letting it sit in your driveway for a year (COVID) and the squirrels getting at the wiring...
Do you honestly expect to convince anyone when you argument is essentially "I'm right, you're wrong, now go spend an entire day reading a 350 page document that I cannot be bothered to spend 2 minutes summarizing it but trust me, it's in there"?
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Do you have any proof of that? 40% is a pretty strong claim.
Someone on Notebookcheck said CPU choice could be related to the lack of AVX-512 support on the 12th gens. But I have my doubts. Wouldn't the GPU be the most important component for ML workloads in general?
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> We will never know this but if saying that NATO membership is off the table could have prevented the war, they should have pushed for it.

We can reject this as a potential outcome. Putin tells you why he invaded Ukraine. He has penned essays about this with little to no mention of NATO whatsoever. NATO membership makes no difference and is just rhetoric to confuse you.
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> but they still haven't added all superscript/subscript numbers and letters

That would triple the size of Unicode.
Well yeah, I think that most transactions will behave the purpose of active trading, because hodlers aren’t making transactions.

However if you look at the volume traded, versus the total market, I think you get a different picture.
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The entry point for the user is a Chrome extension. After installing the extension, whenever you open a Linkedin conversation or an email from Gmail, Notesally surfaces the number of action items with a text like "5 potential action items detected by Notesally".

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It seems pretty clear that ethics, not legality, was the main consideration here.
In some sense, you can still do! The Ideographic Variation Database [1] essentially allows a definition of new CJK ideograph [sic] as a glyphic subset of existing characters, with a possible processing fee.

[1] https://unicode.org/ivd/
> 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 smell a HN hug of death incoming
If you're jaded by web3, just imagine how people back in the day must have viewed web2. Now take a look at the the top 10 companies listed on the S&P 500.
Requiring to have seen it all is a big problem if you identify as a critic, in all senses of the words. It's easy to be pulled in by irrelevant novelty that is not meaningful to viewers, or become disenchanted and find your critical sensibilities turn against what viewers find meaningful. There's an ideological and philosophical component here that is at the rift between critics and viewers.
Sometimes people should be able to do nice things without it getting abused, no?

In The Netherlands, in the nicer neighborhoods we have something called a ‘buurtbieb’ aka a ‘neighborhood libraries’, which is a weatherproof cabinet where people can put surplus books that other people in the neighborhood can borrow.

Of course you could take all the books or use the cabinet to store candy, but why would you?
And yet, the media framework have engineered the beliefs that the large masses should think one particular way when it comes to these things very successfully.
Their name is their name?
Libraries have realized that they need to move away from printed books for years. Besides things like offering ebooks (and e-magazines; I read The Economist and The New Yorker free of charge thanks to my library), libraries often have various social gatherings -- story times, book clubs, etc. If physical libraries will continue into the future they will be more community centers than just warehouses of printed material. Which will never completely go away; if nothing else main libraries have rare book collections where the physical artifact of old books is of interest.
I’m not sure how scale affects whether something is “non profit” or not.

This decision has been taken by the community, aka users. This isn’t a decision the WMF has taken, nor have they responded thus far.
This is probably an edge case, but I work in lab software that uses chemical symbols and having sub and super characters saves lots of headaches. I can just store "CO₂" in a database, query it, and display it back as a simple string, or display values in scientific notation like 1,3×10³, without having to use any formatting.

But to be honest I'm not sure what the parent comment wants to see added because at the moment having all the letters from A-Z, numbers from 0-9, and plus minus and equals signs as both subscript and superscript seems to be enough.
There were some Amazon couple speculating on real estate in Long Island City, Queens, NYC where Amazon was potentially opening an HQ.

Amazon didn’t, and the coupled sued the condo.

Trying to find the article.
Food sharing in general should be encouraged (as a fickle single man I end up throwing away a lot of food, after e.g. opening a jar of tomato sauce and consuming half of it and leaving the other half in the fridge to use "soon"), but that's odd if it only looks in stores.
I reckon the move to automated deployments in the cloud, must have made it relatively easy to cycle through accounts.

Any mid-size hosting companies these days has an api, so you write scripts to deploy your (pretty simple) services on Host A with account A, and when the ban happens, move to Host B with account A, then back to Host A with account B, then host B with account B, then host A with account C, etc etc.
A technique that is in trial for 15 years is a failure or a scam.

There is a company that has been working on tidal energy for more than two decades now, they are always trialing stuff, it costs millions and it has so far produced less power than you'd need for a lightbulb. And yet they keep getting away with it. This may well be such a scheme, after all, how many complications can there be before you've seen the bulk of them and you can decide to roll out at scale and for which situations the tech is suitable (and for which it isn't).
Love this kind of walking around videos (I watch them in an old VR headset when I cannot fall asleep). I see it uses videos from YouTube, are they collected in a playlist somewhere? :)

This is my favorite channel on this subject https://www.youtube.com/c/rambalac
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The Bronco Sport to a light amount and the Volvo XC40 come to mind as alt-takes on modern SUVs as well.
I think that this was more a margin issue, ads were higher margin so Parse got deprioritised, and eventually killed.
Coinbase regularly "goes down" or at least large amounts of users unable to login whenever there seems to be a "bank run" - which conveniently will help reduce the downward pressure on the price plummeting, so whatever billion dollar buffers or reserves waiting to buy during large selloffs they have - to also counter a total crash - would have pressure reduced on them as well; it might be a very short period of time that a user might need to be blocked out from selling in order to stop "hysteria" or panic selling.
It can already do that to some extent. You can erase bits you don't like and give it a new description to fill them in with.
They'll be in another sleeve.
The effort put into this video I’ve only seen matched by on YouTube by “Stuff Made Here”

While I can’t say I understand everything that’s going on, I am simply amazed by the creators talent and knowledge.
Yes they can and do. The DI container in .NET core does this upfront and will thrown an exception if it detects circular references.
Here in Finland the classic way was to wait for winter, slip a wet the rag rug under the carpet and let it freeze and then just sell the car ASAP.
Most European countries do not have US troops on their soil. Hosting foreign troops means that the country has a weak military, or in the case of Germany additionally that it lost a war.

It’s not exactly something to be proud of and makes those countries vulnerable to political pressure from the US and a primary target in case of large-scale war. Beats being occupied by a hostile power by far, but being independent is still the best.
You would have achieved similarly amazing compression results if you had converted your PNGs to ordinary jpgs - no "state of the art stuff" required. You say you don't care whether it's lossy or lossless as long as it looks good - why were you using such an inappropriate format for photos on the web in the first place?