skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can certainly rip a page out and sell it, by doctrine of first sale. Only one person can have the page at a time.

What you can’t (legally) do is copy a page of your book and sell it/give it away (though maybe one could argue that a mere page would be a small enough excerpt to fall under fair use).

VidAngel (and the hypothetical 10 second streamer) fall under the latter, since streaming inherently makes a copy. As you pointed out elsewhere in the thread, it would be perfectly legal (but completely impractical) to cut up a VHS tape into individual scenes and resell those pieces of tape, since no copy was made.
Well you told me my initial interpretation of what you said was wrong, so I tried to find an alternative meaning behind what you were saying. But now I see my initial interpretation was accurate. You are indeed saying that, if Twitter isn't omniscient, then it won't be able to avoid being used to oppress and propagandize because it's not possible moderate perfectly. This is the just the perfect solution fallacy.

"free marketplace of ideas"

This is a culture war talking point that is ignorant of the reality of social psychology and the social contagion of bad memes. Suicide contagion, stochastic terrorism from ISIS supporters in Europe and white nationalists in the US who were mostly radicalized online, the rise of populism in the US since 2015, wokeness ideology spreading to all institutions in a few years. You think you can just shine a light on bad ideas and they'll go away, but the exact opposite is true if they play to people's tribal instincts and resentments. Heck the rise of fascism last century was partly memetic propagation due to the mass production of culture. If you want to form a worldview based on social psychology, then it should actually be based on social psychology.
Jokes: You know it when you see it, OK?
There are R and Python packages to download daily price data from Yahoo Finance.
I wonder if Google violated HIPAA by sending patient to doctor communication to a third party (CSAM).
> all black tea is roughly the same

Maybe tea packets are. Try fresh loose leaf black tea sometime, it doesn't have to be expensive if you buy online. Assam would be close to packets, Keemun, Darjeeling or Lapsang Souchong would be definitely different.
I read it was common to make the Irish woman slave to breed with the African slave, so that the child would be part African and owned by the slave master,

This made it very uncommon for the Irish slave to leave, as she would be leaving her child.

I read accounts of pale skin red headed children being sold at slave markets marketing as African.

But, this could just be some right wing talking points. I honestly don't know what's real online anymore.
In the OPs example 1 provider censored and another didn’t. It made global news. It wasn’t subtle. Therefore it wasn’t insidious and was clearly not equivalent to systematic governmental intervention.

Again, I’d be happy to discuss how western governments use soft power and financial incentives to accomplish their censorship goals. It’s an important topic. But I’m not going to do it from the basis that it’s equivalent to governmental action at the barrel of the gun.

I also won’t accept a boxing match where you can kick and eye gouge and I’ve got a hand tied up. If you think either of those things is equivalent, great, it’s your right in the west. It’s not in the regimes you are tacitly defending and I won’t explicitly condone it by engaging.
8x DDR4-2666 -> 2x DDR5-5600 is half the memory throughput too. That was the first thing that made my head scratch; having much bigger cores & still lots of PCIe throughput, but way less memory bandwidth.

That said, 8x DDR4-2666 also scaled up to 64c chips in Naples, this isn't unreasonable.
No: Having 12 notes is a neat but accidental outcome of the musical scale.

On the derivation of the scale:

Two pure tones go good together when they have "ratios" of frequency. So, 440Hz and 660Hz would interfere in a pleasing way. This is the same way that it's "nice" when tiles on a floor match your gait in a way you can follow a pattern, or when two blinkers sync up.

So, it's nice when tones are fractions of one another like 3/2, 4/3, 5/3, etc. A ratio like pi/2 would sound weird, and very close frequencies (like 440Hz and 440.5Hz) would interfere to make a beat of 0.5Hz. (I'm sure we can all agree that a ratio of 4/3 is a much nicer fraction 440/441. In practice, this doesn't matter much, because we rarely use pure tones. This is why equal temperament scales don't sound abysmal.)

A natural ratio is just "2/1". This division gives you your octave. One octave up from 440 is 880. One octave down from 440 is 220.

This plays nicely into the second problem: Human perception is logarithmic in many things, tone included. For a musical scale to be perceived to have equal differences in pitch between notes, it needs to be roughly evenly spaced on the logarithmic scale.

So, we need to select a set of frequencies in [440Hz, 880Hz) (where 440Hz is arbitrary) that (1) arenice fractions of one another, but are also (2) evenly spaced on the logarithmic scale.

By nice mathematical luck, the 12-tone chromatic scale fulfills that!

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On the questionable qualities of "12":

I don't think the nice divisibility of the number 12 matters here, in a scale where only 7 of the notes (with the most pleasing ratio) get the title of "major". Notation is written on a musical staff where the other 5 notes are folded away.

Furthermore, if you swap out the base of 2 for a base of 3 and re-derive the scale, you get other scales. One is the Bohlen-Pierce scale, which has 13 notes. I derived a similar scale one time, and I remember finding a 7 or 11 note scale. I forget which exactly, but the point being that these are prime numbers.

So, I'm wondering, how would 12 being divisible matter for music? I don't compose much, so I mean this question genuinely.

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On the main point:

> I'm not sure that the linked article, or the current top comment (Circle of Fifths) meaningfully extends beyond this "useful parts" hypothesis.

I ask this in good faith: Did you read the linked article before commenting?

If you didn't, then :\

If you did, then I'm curious:

The scale derivation I described here is described in the article, with nice visualizations. If you did read the article, how do you now have this take? How could a 10-tone scale fit into this, and how would having a less nicely-divisible number matter?
Especially ironic given nunchaku as a practical weapon is really not that great, especially in the hands of an amateur. A common kitchen knife or an iron rod (or even a good sturdy stick) would probably be more dangerous. It may be a great tool for a martial artist to develop valuable dexterity and speed skills, but as a practical weapon... It's common though for politicians to ban things out of sheer ignorance and following cultural stereotypes borrowed from fictional movies.
Brutalitops!
> If customers demand reversible transactions, you will choose reversible transactions or you will not have customers.

I think most customers pay with credit cards more because of convenience (or rewards, where applicable).

There's a myriad of QR payment systems popping up around the world (e.g. WeChat, UPI, PayNow) that are getting considerable adoption — and those aren't reversible. They're popular because customers don't have to worry about carrying enough cash with them.
Working in WSL (Windows 10) Ubuntu on Ryzen 5600X; uses ~11GB of RAM and takes 2m04s with the default settings.

This is the first time I've played with a text-to-image model. I was aware that so-called "prompt engineering" can be tricky, but it's wild to see it for myself. A single space character can be the difference between garbage (or nightmare-fuel) output and output that captures the spirit of the prompt pretty well.
I’ve no doubt that the newer cpu will use more power, but the numbers are made up. They’re picked by the marketing department using a formula, and calling them “watts” to try to make them look like energy used or heat dissipated doesn’t make them real. They don’t correspond to numbers that you can actually measure in any way.
PET Beverage Bottles Diligently Turned into 3D Printer Filament
I would absolutely pay for this service if it allowed me mute the audio during door knocks, door bells, dog barks, and squeaky toys. Have you ever seen a dog instantly wake up from a deep sleep because they’ve been summoned to play? You’re basically obligated to pause whatever you’re watching and play.
Thanks for sharing, and I totally agree! I'd respond by defining writing in this case as merely putting words on the page. No backspacing (save to correct typos), almost as if we were writing by pen.

Writing is a very separate process from editing, and the two processes need to be kept very separate; the editing is where the cohesion is developed and tightened up. Naturally, research is also a separate process.

Susan Sontag said every writer is four people:
1) The nut, the obsédé
2) The moron
3) The stylist
4) The critic

Similarly, professor Betty Flowers would define a writer as “madman,” “architect,” “carpenter,” “judge.” More here: https://herbertlui.net/the-four-inner-beings-of-a-writer/

In this case, the act of writing and putting thoughts together can represent the idiot/the moron/the nut at work (although upon reflecting, those words are unnecessarily mean and harsh). In other words, our chaotic energy gets a chance to play. More here: https://herbertlui.net/insights-from-the-idiot/
The definition of the "writer's block" is to "have a think instead of writing."

It may look like you need to think, but you need to write down what you are thinking. Thinking of an outline? Write down the outline. Thinking of a timeline? Write down the timeline. Thinking of the background of a character? Write it down. What do you do after you go to England? Write your experience down.

Just write.
I use Discord frequently. It's just IRC or Slack, although the userbase skews younger, so indeed there are more GIFs flying around than usual.

Channel muting (and category muting, and server muting) is very important.

I also recommend visiting the "Appearance" and "Accessibility" sections in the settings: perhaps you prefer "Compact" mode, or would like to disable all animations (including GIFs).
> in OK?, 5 + 2 * 3 evaluates to 21, not 11, because addition and multiplication have equal operator precedence.

wtf

> At some point, the High Counsel Of Programming Conventions got together and decided that variable names need to stretch for miles. It's time to reverse that decision. Familiarity Admits Brevity, which is why these days I don't even say goodbye before hanging up on my wife. You should be intimately familiar with your codebase, meaning all of your variables and method names should be short and sweet. You shouldn't need to use juvenile word separators like underscores or camelCase because if you can't capture the meaning of a variable in a single word, that's a sign that you need to refactor.

> For this reason, it's idiomatic OK? to limit all variable and method names to eight characters, all in lowercase, and without underscores.

> Some example abbreviations:

> invalid valid

> characters chars

> MaximumPhysicalAddress mxphsadr

> accrueYesterdaysYield() ayy()

> hostEnterpriseYellowBorderBackground() heybbg()

> You may disagree with this idiom, and that's okay, because it's enforced by the compiler. You're welcome.

omg I am dying laughing
Google, not being a provider of healthcare or health insurance, cannot violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

If Google deputized a VP to hunt you down and murder you in your sleep, that also would not violate HIPAA.
> (so essentially, UBI for students)

Except that it isn't UBI for students. It's nothing even remotely similar to UBI. Those students still need to pay for housing and food and everything else. The loans students get aren't just free money in students pockets either. It's just "free money for schools" with extra steps and those schools are happy to take the money and pocket it.

Imagine if we really did just give every 18 year old kid hundreds of thousands of dollars in free money that would never need to be paid back. That'd be a terrible idea for a lot of reasons, but while schools would probably still benefit the most, they'd also have to compete with all the other things those kids could spend that money on and prices likely wouldn't be quite as bad.
My (somewhat cynical) explanation is that they want to deter people from taking these types of medical pictures on their phones, since that makes Google's job easier.

Rather than improve their AI to avoid more of these types of false positives, or invest in their customer support teams to deal with these situations, they can eliminate this entire class of false positives by scaring people with articles like this.

EDIT: which if true, is kind of extra fucked up when you consider the potential consequences of delaying medical treatment for a child.
Agreed, I think that's a good way to put it. That other collectives kind of "nip" at the larger ones and cause them to implement defenses.
MySQL Locking Functions
Are ACH pushes reversible too?

I have a weird, occasional fear that some of the companies I do business with might eventually enter a Chapter 7/11 bankruptcy of some sort, and that my ACH push payment could be clawed back.
There are some assumptions about phase in there.
DALL-E won't steal jobs. But Stable Diffusion (a publicly available model similar to DALL-E) will flood the job market once people bolt on various GUIs. E.g, https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho... is a Photoshop plugin that uses Stable Diffusion as a backend for interactive image generation. Stuff like this will make it much easier for more people to become >90th percentile illustrators (as defined today). This means the market for many digital arts degrees is going to become glutted and salaries are going to crash like a rock.
Obesity is a problem of modernity and specific cultures made up of people who didn't used to be obese generations ago. Are the populations around the world in which people aren't generally obese just filled with a large subset of the population constantly starving...or we agree that no such large subset is simply destined to obesity.

If we agree on this, then your argument isn't that people are destined to obesity, but rather that once they're obese, they have patterns of behavior that are extremely hard to break over a long term basis. That isn't the same as saying that weight loss is a futile endeavor, it's just saying that people who are obese are very often going to fail to stick to the patterns of behavior that resulted in weight loss.
I think you are focusing on the wrong questions.

1. Do you believe harming humans is bad?

2. Would you choose to eat them if they taste just like chicken?

Perhaps the reason you choose not to eat humans is because it is illegal and is punishable to kill humans for food whereas killing animals for food is still acceptable in society. And hence it is an easy low hanging moralistic fruit to be vegan.

It is also likely that you might be harmed if you consume human flesh.(Hello, prions!) There are multiple deterrents to becoming a cannibal vs eating like a non vegan.

You haven’t made a moral choice at all when you consume animal flesh while still believing that harming animals is bad. Just like you haven’t made a moral choice at all when you appropriate other artists’ work without their consent. There is no ‘moral choice’ made here because you chose not to choose when there is no stick to be afraid of..

The only reason why it would be easy for AI art to exist is because it is not punishable. There is no law against it.

In other words, people will continue indulging in their whims as long as there is no stick to punish them.

Your thought?
Go appeared 2009…
Can you give a bit more perspective, what do you find Discord confusing relative to? Because my comparison goes to IRC and Slack, and I find both of those far harder to use.

As it stands I can't say I see where you're coming from. It's a chat room, or really a series of chat rooms. If you have something to say or ask you find the appropriate channel and post a message there. If someone needs your attention specifically they'll @ you.

I'd say a chat room like this is strictly transient. Think "call", not "e-mail". Don't expect it to serve as an index of information, just treat it as more-or-less real-timely communication.
Thanks so much for sharing this, I really appreciate it! If/when I write a follow up to this piece, I'll need to include this story and read Thompson's book. That fragment you shared reminds me of what consultant/author/teacher Roger Martin wrote at Medium:

> The most important advice I ever received on writing was from a fellow named Bernie Avishai, a great writer/editor and friend, to whom I was complaining about how much editing my writing took. He observed that the reason that I was complaining about editing was that I probably believed that I thought in order to write. My response was “Duh, of course, I think in order to write.” Bernie explained that instead, one writes to think. The human mind can only think so much without seeing a written manifestation of its thinking. You need to write down your thinking, however primitive, in order to be able to look at it and say: “That is not quite right.” Then you will be able to figure out how to make it better. And then by looking at the resulting improvement, you will be capable of saying: “That is still not quite right.” And so on, until it is a much more sophisticated view of your thinking.

The lesson for me is that editing is a feature of the writing process, not a bug. Now, I don’t begrudge editing. I realize that it is just part of the process of helping me think. I love the process of editing! Nothing that anyone sees from me on Medium has been edited less than a dozen times. Each time, it is a slightly better expression of what is in my head.

Via: https://medium.com/creators-hub/the-management-strategist-wh...
Brilliant, as usual. Her patreon is woefully under funded, given the feats being performed. Hopefully that's not her primary source of funding.

Reminds me of when slack was sold for 30 billion dollars, and Boston Dynamics sold for 1.5 billion. Feels like the market rewards the wrong things sometimes.
I think busyness, work hours, productivity, and context switching are all conflated with each other. They're interrelated but not the same.

When a lot of people talk about being busy, they're not so much saying "I had to do 50 hours of focused work this week," they're saying "I did 10 hours of focused work, because clients kept emailing me and we had a bunch of meetings, then our biggest customer's DB got corrupted for preventable reasons and we had to recover it, but we never test our restore process and so it all went wrong."

This is touched on in the grey box side-note and elsewhere in the article. Writing software is not usually a factory floor job where hours worked is linearly correlated with output. Removing slack from your team (not the app, the "free time" that gets filled with urgent incoming tasks or maintenance work) has long-lasting consequences for everyone that may be counterproductive.
Whatever comes out is what... Corporate? The tenants highlighted on that page seem independent. Their copy entirely targets independent small vendors. I've seen one or two franchises operate from them but we're talking single digit percentages.

A successful independent restaurant gets a 2 or 3 percent profit margin. Big name restaurants get a lot more than that. They've got a plan, workshopped broadly appealing products, and name recognition that gets butts in seats even in the most competitive, epicurean scenes because they're a known quantity. Many people value comfort and safety over new, fashionable, and refined experiences in their food choices, even occasionally. If a Michelin starred restaurant in the US served a burger at their bar, it would probably be the best selling item they had.

If corporations can tack a few new delivery menus onto their existing kitchen for the price of some web consulting, then sure. If it means shedding all the value they've built over the years to do a no-name pop-up located in an office building outsourcing the technical infrastructure they've already built? Not likely. Even for medium sized local restaurant groups it's probably not a great fit unless they already had the big expansion plan in place.

I think you're subconsciously reacting to the bland, tech-ish aesthetic these places adopt because their uniform online presence is included in the rent and their branding was done by someone on fiverrrr who wouldn't know the difference between the food scenes in San Francisco and Cheboygan if you funded their yacht, let alone for the $60 they bid on the project.
I'm impressesed by the initial performance numbers, the price, PCIe 5.0, Having 8 lanes to the PCH instead of 4, 10gbe on most motherboards. It's good that AMD is continueing the trend where users don't have to upgrade their motherboards every generation.

The main catch is DDR5 being expensive and compatability issues with four DIMMS[0]/ teething issues.

(Personally, I wish AMD released a 5900X/ 5950X with 3D V-Cache. The 5800X3D is nice, but I also need cores.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu9U7TVNImI
Crazy, this article was rising on the homepage of hacker news. Got up to number nine when I checked and then all of a sudden, I refresh and it was gone. Demoted to page two. It’s a shame too cause more people need to read this.

I think DALL-E will end up more as a tool to provide inspiration for artists as opposed to one that will replace them. I can see AI working the same way in other mediums in the future (music ideas for musicians, for example).
Three TV episodes in the 80’s is not a lot of samples in 10s of thousands of prime time TV.
Okay! This is fascinating, I've long meant to dig into the relationship between writing and memory.

I do also think if you were to revisit a specific note, you might find something interesting along the way—a fascinating byproduct of writing physical things down is sorting through all of the texture before and after it. https://twitter.com/HerbertLui/status/1564087803029630976