skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unspoken and underlying the author's entire worldview seems to be, "the more new things, the better," a not uncommon tunnel view in the engineering world. The purpose of regulation, ideally, is to ensure that whatever activity/process is being regulated is worth the cost(s) for the majority of people. Defining those terms and making that decision is precisely the job of regulators, who are ideally accountable to a democratic base. In the worldview where all that matters is "growth," people suffer. Running water is a huge quality of life win for EVERYONE. If you ask most people what would really help make their lives better, it's not gonna be colonizing mars, building tunnels under LA, whatever, it's gonna be access to resources we already have. Healthcare, clean water, clean air...perhaps we should think more about engineering as it can be applied to expanding access, and not so much to "making new things," which most people don't need or care at all about.
> I've been a beginner in plenty of games, and it sucks to be matched against someone far above your skill level in most games.

I used to think this way until I started to understand what it takes to become competitive at high levels. The most efficient way to improve is to play with and against people better than you. If you take your ego out of the equation and pretend everyone is there to teach you, it's hard NOT to learn something.

Tangential to that, a lot of people would be honored to play against a GM in chess. Yet when placed against actual GMs doing some variation of a "3000 elo speed run", they throw a fit. What? Maybe its cultural. For a while in SC2 GSL, there was a side show where a random amateur for the audience got to play against a pro. You could clearly see the reverence most of the amateurs held for their opponent.
Crazy comparing Europe to North America. In Europe it feels like you always see some structure. In North America a large number of the refreshes are empty roads and large empty lots.

It shows that we really dont have a land problem in North America. It's a permitting and transportation problem
Image to Prompt is discussed in this article. I’m scared to find out what adjectives it would use to prompt my bio picture..
https://replicate.com/methexis-inc/img2prompt
At this point I assume anyone who brings up “‘fire’ in a crowded theater” is deliberately trolling.
your assertion that a random kid in 1950 had pretty good odds of a positive outcome compared to a modern kid having ‘very little’ chance of being happy.

Didnt say a random kid. I said a kid randomly air dropped with no resource nor parenting. I didnt say what kid. I actually dont think he'd end up easily okay today, I could be wrong. Anyway my point was more about illustrating the complexity of society today compared to before, its not about sheer accuracy.
+1 for this list.
Choosing composition over inheritance is generally a good idea, but if the language doesn't support declarative/automatic delegation, building good compositions becomes tedious. Still, inheritance, when used for code reuse, breaks LSP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle) and the problems typically manifest, months or years down the line when you try to extend such areas of code
> livelihoods depend on... centralized points of control

This control they have has nothing to do with centralization or decentralization. They get it through the data-economy we live in - monopolistic companies syphoning petabytes of information about us to build impenetrable moats of data that smaller businesses can't compete with. Currency isn't even on their radar. It's irrelevant. When that cash or coin needs to be transferred into real tangible value, they'll be taking their share, regardless if the system that transaction is running on is an Pentium 3 AMEX COBOL server, or via the mining rig that came out last week consuming the energy from burning a small rainforest.
Because it's been an active court case?
If I may, I made one using restic that seems much easier to use [0]. You only need a dumb storage host and no database. Restic takes care of the indexing and we use snapshots just like commits.

[0] https://github.com/CGamesPlay/git-remote-restic
I would have assumed this is normal strategizing for countries to do in sports, though perhaps without the same level of coercion? Obviously you want your strongest athlete to compete and you want them to get an easy win instead of tiring them out.

Teams certainly do such strategizing in sports like cycling.
> For instance lets say CDC recommends people to wash their hands with water/sanitizer. There is a group of experts who question the efficacy of it. These experts should not be punished. Least of by layman/politicians/lawmakers/noobs who have no clue about the subject matter.

They should not be punished if they are honestly wrong and are attempting to find the truth (or of course if they're actually right).

They should be punished if they are actively spreading disinformation, meaning they know or should know that it's incorrect.

We currently have a _lot_ of people spreading disinformation because it pads their pocketbook.
I didn’t see Japan mentioned. I wonder how the popularity of onsens (gender-separated nude spas) compares with the declining popularity of European mixed-gender nude beaches.
lack of sha256
Regarding the Atari VCS (2600) it should be mentioned that the functionality of these ports is actually defined by the TIA (Television Interface Adaptor) chip. This provides the following capabilities (to be configured by a port register): dumped ports (for 4 paddles on 2 ports), latched ports (what we know as joystick ports), but you may also disable these latches, by which "these ports become two general purpose input ports" (Stella Guide [1]). Moreover, the ports can be configured to read two keyboards of 12 buttons each (4 rows of 3 columns), which was actually used by a few games that came with special controllers. Finally, port A, which handles all these controller inputs, can be configured as an output port using an 8-bit data direction register. (Meaning, you could set this up for full serial communication.)

So the Atari game ports were much more general and versatile in concept than just providing a connection for digital joysticks or paddles.

[1] http://atarihq.com/danb/files/stella.pdf
Len Dawson of the Kansas City Chiefs. He just passed away last week.
You're right but I can see a future where an image can be analyzed by an AI and get the minimum amount of data to recreate it.
Great read, thanks. Large babble models indeed.
There is some measure of not making the same mistakes twice, to be fair. Your first few weeks as a brand new founder you might accidentally find yourself debating which bank to use for days or a week; the second time you'll never make that mistake because it will have been entirely inconsequential the first time.

Basically, it gives you the opportunity to do less "work that looks like work" because you did that before and was ineffective. You'll find plenty of other ways to do that, but at least you've narrowed the scope of stupid things to do a little bit. :)
Cameras facilitate making 'the body' a commodity in a way they couldn't in the past i.e. cameras, and the ability to share photos with others are both ubiquitous now.
Yea. It's moved off into the Gulf of Suez now.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:43...
Is the compiler expected to run only where a JS interpreter exists? (Which, at the time TS was created, consisted solely of Node?)
You would need a lot of capital to do that, where's it coming from and do the people who have it really want to be sanctioned, lose privileges to fly basically anywhere, have bank accounts, or travel anywhere at all?

Like everybody involved has to be fine with being airgapped entirely from the western banking system and any allied country or risk quite a long time in prison.

Who's got tens or hundreds of million dollars and wants to risk it evading export controls for a percentage profit?

Perhaps you don't understand, your Kazakstan bank would freeze your funds for the Americans because they didn't want to lose the ability to transact with any bank attached to the US or any bank attached to any bank attached to the US. The financial reach of US courts is long and not many people with lots of resources want to be blacklisted from ever traveling, spending money, or doing any transactions with the west.

And do you think the CIA isn't watching some random ex-soviet satellite state startup with sketchy funding sources buying enough A100s to build a supercomputer and then producing nothing with them? It's their whole job to look for interesting things, and they find them more than is imagined. If you hear about it, they're doing a bad job.

Everybody's entire phone records and so much more are part of an NSA dragnet. Do you really think large transactions for high potency computer equipment is being ignored?
Operation Nasal Vaccine–Lightning speed needed to counter Covid-19
The problem with that isn’t the goal but the means to achieve that goal.

Perhaps if they trained their players with a collective mentality where the greater good justifies letting go of personal success, this would make sense.

But I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. Most Olympic athletes create a personal goal system, especially if competing in an individual discipline.
Winning a gold medal has a profound meaning for them.

Helping their country to win a gold medal by giving up their personal chance to do it and winning a bronze medal instead has way less meaning.

So you’re not wrong, but it’s still pretty fucked up if you ask me.
Perhaps Google has begun practicing Last Thursdayism

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism
There's no point going into the weeds in a discussion ten posts deep when we deviate from the broader topic. It discourages community engagement from the discussion we're having and the main thread and derails the thread as people have to scroll past it to see other comments. This is not why people are here, even if we feel passionate about the topic.
I wish I was one hundredth as optimistic as University press release drivel.
“quality is better than the original, and it is astonishing for a compressor to achieve 100%+ quality.”

Wow. Sounds like we’ve got a new standard image format on the the way. With a continuous “truthy” scale rating.
Since we're trading anecdata I haven't had a single zipper problem in 10 years+
We didn't / don't even know the proper dosage for the vaccine...

Personally, I stick to the research on mRNA technology prior to 2020 -- it doesn't work effectively and carries a lot of risk.

Some basic unanswered questions:

- How long does the mRNA last inside the cells? i.e. how long will your body produce spike proteins?

- What's the appropriate quantity of proteins to produce a decent immune response?

- In a batch of "vaccines" what's the quality and density of mRNA being injected into cells?

- What are the long-term risks of creating proteins in this manner? (5, 10, 20 years out)

- My wife was recommended the COVID19 vaccine when pregnant (in 2021) - what was the risk profile? It took a decade to learn that for the other vaccines (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/vaccines-during-p...)

Just to point out how crazy that last point is... They recommend it on the CDC website (been recommending the vaccine since 2021):

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/recommend...

Yet, here's a paper published Aug 10, 2022:

> Overall, studies monitoring people who have received covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy have not identified any pregnancy specific safety concerns. Additional information on non-mRNA vaccines, vaccination early in pregnancy, and longer term outcomes in infants are needed. To collect this information, vaccination during pregnancy must be prioritized in vaccine research.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35948352/

Here's another one from May 3, 2022:

> Pregnant women were largely excluded from initial clinical trials investigating the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines; however, they have since been included as part of the routine roll-out of these vaccines.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9061132/

People / "Experts" know what they are doing and it's a massive experiment.
I don’t want anyone on the planet to be able to see a picture of me naked and it has nothing to do with the perception they’d think something was wrong with me. Merely a healthy interest in personal privacy.
German here. I made this up, but I think it fits: vorausschämen

A quick search confirms that other people were already using the term. :)
Hmm I’ll have to check that out, thanks for sharing
Yeap, I don't understand this security stuff, I don't know why we just don't turn it all off.
As an aside, my life has been much easier since I learned you can 'sudo su' your shell and then everything just works.
It'd be higher than 30%. As larger orders would likely get a discount off MSRP. Where-as buying through a middleman removes that 'bulk order' discount
You missed an important point, though - he didn't start with Twitch, he started with Justin.tv which eventually pivoted into Twitch. He didn't start with PMF, he moved into it.
Sudden onset as far as I can tell. I woke up almost entirely unable to move anything on the right side of my body, and was only able to speak individual words with significant effort.
As a proposal reviewer, I see these words and other strategies (like putting in the abstract "I published in this nature journal") a nudge against the chritical mindset required for providing fair feedback. On the other hand, if you are humble, you might not excite enough the reviewers. Anyone with a suggestion for a sweet middle point?
And? If somebody is not offering me a job because of some image of me on a nude beach I am glad they sorted themselves out for me. I would not want to work for people like that.
Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley review
We’ve been there, done that, and AFAWK nobody died or even experienced serious hardship (other than those responsible)…

It was annoying, and costly, but nothing more.
The G4 cases with the handles on the edges were so nice.
I knew about the previous cryptography restrictions, but I also knew that the Supreme Court overruled them by ruling (as I understand it) that “code is speech”. I’ll have to check out the other links though
You would think but there seems to be some kind of randomization added to the image creation. You can use the same prompt over and over again and get different images.
>cameras by themselves don't mean much

Couldn't disagree more. Years ago if you dropped your trunks at a beach and there were ~10 people around who didn't know you there there were virtually no potential consequences except a little embarrassment from a few total strangers (who you'd likely never see again) seeing you naked from a distance. With cameras your nudity is captured in HD from a distance and potentially distributed to the entire world, in perpetuity.

>but that's now starting to fade away as young people are aware one dumb moment can live on forever thanks to social media

Even if its true that shameful and/or embarrassing moments captured on film are less of a social stigma among young people (because they are so common now), that doesn't mean there isn't a massive difference today due to the ubiquitous presence of cameras. In my opinion this ever-present recording has significantly changed society and the way people behave - and not for the better.
> There are some minor kinks that need to be worked out, such as the fact that each image takes around a day to generate on mobile, but this is more than acceptable in certain domains. Website visitors, for example, are well-accustomed to such loading times, and would barely notice any difference.
I think usually is a very strong and very incorrect word here.

I understand what you're getting at, but I think you greatly underestimate the amount of incorrect assertions that need to happen before a sensible consensus is reached. Historically, in the body of science, we're wrong something like 99% of the time until someone gets it right.

Also, your comment is a straw man argument. The law isn't going to chastise people questioning existing mainstream views, only the ones spouting horribly incorrect information. Noone is saying it will do that, other than you and other commenters who didnt read the article.

Last, are you really questioning the benefit of washing our hands?
> What is Krebs' false positive rate? I think low enough that a simple, clear explanation of why it happened is sufficient.

Pretty damned high. From doxxing completely incorrect people over Twitter beef to over-trusting sources like this, he's had a number of controversies over the years and has demonstrated his unreliability as a source of information.

> There's no weasel words or evasion here - he owns up to the error, apologizes to affected parties, and retracts all original posts.

Actually he carefully does not own up to the error:

> Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.

By including "which includes providing false information to the press" he's effectively saying it wasn't his fault. Did other press report on it? Did other press ignore the follow-up for nearly a year after it became apparent the source of this information was the person committing the crimes? It would seem to me that owning up to the error wouldn't look so devoid of any responsibility.

He then writes:

> As a result of the new information that has been provided to me, I no longer have faith in the veracity of my source or the information he provided to me. I always endeavor to ensure that my articles are properly sourced and factual.

> This time, I missed the mark and, as a result, I would like to extend my sincerest apologies to Ubiquiti, and I have decided to remove those articles from my website.

"This time, I [failed to ensure my articles are properly sourced and factual], and as a result, I would like to extend my sincerest apologies to Ubiquiti, and have decided to remove those articles from my website."

The paraphrasing I've done is a more direct way of taking responsibility than Krebs has done. Note in his version the complete lack of ownership, passive voice, and key -- the separation of the problem from where the failure occurred by a paragraph. That's all designed to essentially shirk responsibility here.

Given Krebs' other tendency to get things really wrong, I think it's time people actually viewed him as an unreliable reporter. Especially given he seemingly ignored/dug his heels in about being taken for a ride on this and that then begs the question: How many other instances like this are there that we just haven't heard of or seen?
To nitpick a joke, jpeg cant have infinite size, since the format only supports at most 2^16 × 2^16 pixels.
When I use the same seed and same prompt, I get the same image.
To sleep, perchance to dream..
Cool, was just thinking how great this would be in VR. I'll give Wander a shot!
In CS this is just false. Nearly all of the CS research we fund could be done in inexpensive office space with no administrators. The one exception is DARPA-funded robotics research, and even then it's only a subset.

In wet lab disciplines the story is more complicated. But there are many possible configurations that are more efficient than the current university-as-gatekeeper system.
Would a democracy be practicing a genocide on its people for eight years and counting ? Would a democracy promote right wing extremism, much less arm them with heavy weaponry (eg 155mm shells and artillery)? Would a democracy embed such people and war criminals into its own military? To shoot its very own troops if they dared retreat from a suicidal order? Would a democracy shell a nuclear waste repository for days on end when this threatens a good portion of Europe with decades long lasting effects and a loss of major breadbasket region areas for agricultural production over these decades.

Tell me, what sort of democracy is this?

Would a democracy murder its own citizens and stage propaganda psyops to deceive the remainder of its population?

Would a democracy condone a project such as the below mentioned, and even be directly collaborate with its founder and members:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myrotvorets&actio...

Chechen proverb (allegedly) "A man is not the one who knows how to fight, but the one who knows exactly who his enemy is".

As far as I can tell, to get back a democracy you need to do away with a junta first.
They still need the manufacturing capabilities of Taiwan, exactly like USA, which is also unable to manufacture GPUs, but they have already designed their own datacenter GPUs (see other comments above), so they no longer depend on NVIDIA or any other US vendor of GPUs.

So this GPU export ban has come much too late, exactly when it no longer matters.
Probably shouldn't have to say it but, that's the joke.
> Buttons may be less convenient but at least any fool can replace them.

Buttons are choking hazards to infants and toddlers. Zippers are far better for clothing for them when needed.
It seems they used their own proprietary solution before starting to support git: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_DevOps_Server#Source_con...
I'd like a device which translates this to something actionable. Attach it to the meower's collar, and I'd know when to run for my life.

(Yes, cats scare me.)
Covid is exceptionally harmful to the obese for some reason. That's well known since 2020, but I don't thinkg anybody knows the reason.
I believe this is what changed legally:
> One of EFF's first major legal victories was Bernstein v. Department of Justice, a landmark case that resulted in establishing code as speech and changed United States export regulations on encryption software, paving the way for international e-commerce

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
- https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sqreen-assets/whitepapers...

- https://www.goldfiglabs.com/guide/saas-cto-security-checklis...
"let builders build" and bemoaning regulations while celebrating Uber seems absurd when you remember how Uber's self driving car program ended and how their finances look.
Did you get that money back (I’m not to familiar with financial protections back then)
this is very cool! i've actually never used restic, and should. i currently backup with git-remote-gcrypt and tar[1].

1. https://github.com/nathants/backup
Onto snowpack and glaciers obviously. If this keeps up all of Canada could be under the ice, making the supply chain issues even worse.

If you want to survive the coming winter, buy safe assets like crypto. Fortune favors the bold.
i use that........ on firefox ever since it first came out
I was too tired to elaborate, thank you for doing it for me.
It’s the inversion of your propositional case, however. His claim is not that the vaccine has caused extra deaths (the sun goes dark) but rather that if the vaccine is unsafe in -some- or all causes then mortality would increase on average. (if more people get sunburned from a hotter sun, we will see more skin cancer) It follows, and my interpretation of the data is that the vaccines are causing some issues or not giving enough protection for some individuals while working for others, and obesity and other factors also increased.

Terribly boring, wouldn’t you agree? But often the boring data is the correct data, or in other words: averages tend to represent a trend better than outliers.