skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because mass-market customers by and large are cheap, stupid and easily parted from their money. If they weren't one of these companies would have figured out that producing quality printers/refillable ink cartridges makes more money, and consumers would avoid the scams. It clearly doesn't work that way. See also payday loans, sub-prime mortgages, most targeted credit cards (the cards are fine, but they target people they know have a higher chance to misuse them), food and alcohol in stadiums, the car rental company that tries to up-sell you from the Toyota Corolla to the more expensive convertible, etc. If you're in a mass-market business and not trying to scam people as much as possible you're leaving money on the table by definition. It's only when the scams are actually illegal that the risk becomes too great to tolerate, and even then some bet that they can get away with it.

Also people are printing less than they used to. So much single-use paper is now a QR code on your phone or completely digitized. I bought 10 reams of printer paper about 5 years ago for home use, my family has worked our way through three over the years. When the kids get old enough I imagine the bulk of it will be used for school papers. On the business side we've seen a mass digitization of most documents, my company is steadily getting rid of the last of the old file cabinets as any relevant info in them is scanned/archived. So volume is less, and existing printer companies need squeeze more to maintain profits.
That's a fair point. I tend to think in prose rather than visually, so I don't have diagrams already, but it would have been a good idea to put together graphical things to go along with the post to make it a better explanation! Good suggestion. Are there drawings or diagrams that you think would have been particularly useful?
I studied 5e rules pretty thoroughly and I liked them a lot in theory. Still, (1.) I'm looking for something even more compressed (2.) I really like the whole OSR ethos of higher risks, less widespread/more expensive magic, accent on problem solving, rather then grinding/war-gaming, etc.
Certainly there are places without Internet access. That said, as someone who leads group hikes, I'm not sure I could in good conscience advise people, in general, to just leave their phones at home when they go hiking if they want to get off the grid. And, if I was regularly in remote places with no cell phone reception these days, I'd probably think something like a Garmin InReach was probably a good idea.
Apart from the wheel there is a second ingredient to your recipe that is not as easy... we're getting close though.
What's the latest on bloodboys?

That is : periodic blood transfusion from healthy young vegan donor.

It works very well. Rejuvenates ancient billionaires.

Surely it's superpopular among the oligarchs. Probably not the kind of thing you want in the news (vampires!).

The technical term is Parabiosis.

These guys offer the service : https://www.ambrosiaplasma.com/
> given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running.

This is bullshit, there are a plenty of alternatives.
> Printers are the most mechanically complex computer related product

1. Even more so than cars?

2. Printers are also one of the few devices that need to measure liquid by the picoliter.

> products bought are bought for lowest price. Or at least reasonable price. You get what you pay for. And what is paid is often very little. Thus poor quality and need for other revenue streams.

This reminds me of the perennial discussion on airline quality. People comparison-shop by the sticker price, so the entire industry evolved into nickel-and-dime scams instead of having honest all-inclusive pricing.
I guess that well behaved devices took offense of being put in the same category as printers. And I understand them.
A protection racket implies collusion between attacker and defender, where the defender comes to you offering “protection”, but then comes again as an attacker to those who refuse. CloudFlare aren’t a protection racket; they’re just an ordinary for-hire private security service, for businesses in “bad parts of town.” They don’t come to anyone; people come to them. And they have any facility for originating outbound requests from any of the sites they’re protecting, so they can’t be used to facilitate an attack, either. (Any more than you’d say that the private security firm hired to guard a mob hideout “facilitated the attack” when the mob leaves their hideout under the firm’s care to go attack people elsewhere.)

> procedures to get nation states that are a clear and consistent threat to everyone else off the Internet

This is the thing: cutting off diplomatic routes is almost never the right approach, even during a hot war. Even when someone is punching you in the face, you don’t want to tape their mouth and ears shut that they could be using to negotiate no-longer-punching-you-in-the-face.

The Internet is like the Olympics: it provides a way for the common people of different countries to see each-other’s good works and learn to respect one-another; even as the leaders of those countries, and asshole minorities within those countries, are making the news and fanning hawkish sentiment. Throwing out the counterbalance in such a scenario is something you’d expect an Emperor Palpatine figure to do, to engineer a war.

Tangent: the biggest tragedy of the modern era is that the US, Russia, and China have entirely-separate popular social networks and blogging/vlogging platforms. The rare Russian YouTuber (living outside of Russia) talking to an English-speaking audience about their real feelings toward the Russian government does so much to build bridges between countries; but there would be a ton more of them if YouTube and VK had a federated video sharing arrangement, the way YouTube does with e.g. music videos hosted on DailyMotion. If a posting on VK or Weibo could “spread out” to Western audiences without someone manually picking it up and reposting it on Western social networks, we’d see so much more cross-cultural engagement and understanding. If someone on Facebook could add someone on VK as a friend, even…

I have a strong feeling that if highly-evolved aliens ever tried to uplift our civilization, they’d start by demanding the removal of any artificially-imposed culture-level barriers to human-to-human communication.
There really aren't any sadly. Maybe cast magnesium, like in sewing machines. It'd be better if the printer was built out of some bio-polymer plastic so it just fell apart after 20 years. But we're rapidly getting to a paperless society so give it 10-20 years it'll be less of an issue.
This was my first thought too, even for large studios, even for existing media. Would be neat to see the comparison between an existing animation or stop-motion that was done at 12 fps and see it scaled up.
As the discussion already shows there's 2 ways to interpret what you mean with geopolitical aspect. Assuming it's the privacy one, could someone elaborate on how feasible it is to use a drone in isolation?

For example, I have Huawei headphones, but did not download their app. Even with bad intent, there should be no way they can 'phone home' over regular BLE, through my device's default audio drivers.

Same for a password app that doesn't have internet access allowed or a WiFi device that's on a closed network (only works if they don't need cloud to function of course).

Perhaps this kind of isolation is not possible for a DJI, maybe because they have 3G or (need) WiFi on board or in the app that's connected to the world? The further away this need is from the core usage, the easier it may be to 'block' or replace it with something 'Western'.
I wonder - when was the last time you were in Russia to speak so decisively about the country and Russians?
I wish more people used FF.

The anti tracking stuff breaks tons of sites (because of bad coding) and devs don't seem to care since FF marketshare is so small.

So maybe FF is 3% slower than chrome or whatever. Isn't that a fair price for not going back to the IE6 days?
From Pew Research (2010), the decline in marriage is offset by rise in new families:

The Resilience of Families. The decline of marriage has not knocked family life off its pedestal. Three-quarters of all adults (76%) say their family is the most important element of their life; 75% say they are “very satisfied” with their family life, and more than eight-in-ten say the family they live in now is as close as (45%) or closer than (40%) the family in which they grew up. However, on all of these questions, married adults give more positive responses than do unmarried adults.

The Definition of Family. By emphatic margins, the public does not see marriage as the only path to family formation. Fully 86% say a single parent and child constitute a family; nearly as many (80%) say an unmarried couple living together with a child is a family; and 63% say a gay or lesbian couple raising a child is a family. The presence of children clearly matters in these definitions. If a cohabiting couple has no children, a majority of the public says they are not a family. Marriage matters, too. If a childless couple is married, 88% consider them to be a family.

The Ties that Bind. In response to a question about whom they would assist with money or caregiving in a time of need, Americans express a greater sense of obligation toward relatives—including relatives by way of fractured marriages– than toward best friends. The ranking of relatives aligns in a predictable hierarchy. More survey respondents express an obligation to help out a parent (83% would feel very obligated) or grown child (77%) than say the same about a stepparent (55%) or a step or half sibling (43%). But when asked about one’s best friend, just 39% say they would feel a similar sense of obligation.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/11/18/the-dec...
Transport them? What are you talking about? The Soviets had bases all over the place in Eastern Europe.

The case being discussed here, Eastern Germany, was just behind the iron curtain, remember? Soviet troops were at ~300 locations on the GDR territory, ~50 airfields, over 300,000 soldiers, over 4,000 tanks.
Yes, though this is probably due to a unique situation rather than anything else.
8chan literally had sub boards dedicated to child pornography. Kiwi Farms is where people make fun of other people. They're really not comparable unless you believe "not being made fun of" is a human right.
I suspect a decent chunk of that is unreported/deliberately obfuscated covid deaths.
This article would have really benefited from an easily-creatsd line chart trending life expectancy over time. It would have given a lot of context to the drop. I was surprised at the oversight by both the NYT journalists and editors.
Here is the proof of the result:

https://www.sligocki.com/2022/06/21/bb-6-2-t15.html

It is very accessible and makes fascinating (by geek standards) reading.
>You're insisting on drawing a rigid binary of "inconsistent" versus "perfectly consistent"

It is a binary distinction. Something that's almost completely consistent is not completely consistent, therefore it's inconsistent. I'm not saying it's equally as inconsistent as something that's totally inconsistent, but it is inconsistent. Maybe you're interested in measuring the degree to which things are consistent, but I only care about whether they're consistent.

>the only alternative is "inconsistent" which is categorically worse than than no moderation by sheer virtue of the binary category that it's assigned to. This is the perfect solution fallacy.

It's not, and I will tell you why: in my opinion, an okayish criterion that's applied consistently is better than a good criterion that's applied inconsistently. The best compromise is the one where all the parties are left equally dissatisfied. And why is that? It's because it's easier to convince everyone that one is being fair than that one is taking the optimal course of action.

>Right, so if literal authoritarian Islamists became the dominant paradigm and Sharia was imposed on you by force you have no problem with it simply because that's what won in the marketplace of ideas.

That depends on what you mean by "have no problem". Would I think everyone is completely stupid and possibly seek to move to some place else? Yes. Would I take any steps at all to prevent that, beyond possibly arguing against such ideas? No.

>this is nihilistic moral relativism

I'm a moral nihilist, yes. That is to say, I reject that idea that morality exists, at least by some interpretations of the word.

>I know you conservative types don't really believe in moral relativism, it's probably just disingenuous posturing because you know right-leaning opinions tend to be banned more often in social media in the current moment, so it's helpful to adopt a stance on censorship that seems more principled and logically consistent. The left did this in the 1960s. If it was just ISIS propaganda being banned and nothing else I know I wouldn't be hearing any of these nihilistic relativistic arguments.

1. I have no idea where you got that I'm conservative, but of all the labels I would apply to myself, that's not one of them.

2. There's no point in continuing if you're going to unilaterally ascribe beliefs to me and assume ulterior motives. You can just imagine how it's going to go and pretend that you're correct.
Who has been trained not to say anything negative about capitalism? I've heard and made many complaints. The number of people who complain about inflation profiteering is quite significant. If anything, unchecked capitalism is peaking. We may only be in for a plateau, but we may even be about to see another generational change about now.
Family unit decline is a symptom not the underlying cause, it's a small part of the matrix of issues, it's often invoked as a means of blaming something inherently unchangeable, undefinable and unregulateable as a diversion.

And everyone does talk about it, I hear about it 3 times a week and it's because it's a useful distraction and a wedge to force legislation of personal moral choice.

It's like saying all problems individuals are having are caused by the individual. Somehow society, culture, governance and macro economic forces have no effect.

If you think the breakdown of the family unit is the root cause, let me assure you, homeschool familes are facing the same issue in our current environment.

Of course if we want to embrace absurdist reductionism the REAL problem is the dysfunction of churches abandoning their societal role for political power in the 80s, family's DO break down and now we have no "generally apolitical" relational safety net outside of the workplace, so social dysfunction can promulgate with no positive feedback loop of increased social cohesion to stop it. We need religious, areligious and apolitical societies that will facilitate mingling of social classes and are focused on the social good.
Oh, they sure can win and for our future I hope they will.
Same reason the airline industry has universally garbage quality: customers comparison-shopping by sticker price and sticker price alone.
https://podcastnotes.org/high-intensity-health/attia-7/

Around day 3 or day 4 of a water-only fast or (the potentially easier but still effective option of) of a fasting-mimicking diet fast.
What’s more, I believe it is possible to release code with a closed license, permitting analysis without allowing derivative work.

Edit: IANAL but here’s a resource:

> You're under no obligation to choose a license. However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work. If you're creating an open source project, we strongly encourage you to include an open source license. The Open Source Guide provides additional guidance on choosing the correct license for your project.

From https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...
I think the best way to hand that stuff off to your children is to wait until they get to a point where they hand off can happen, when they are adults, and then hand them a highly curated set of photos on a USB drive and let them do with it what they will.

The key is in the curation though, it is unlikely that your child will want to sort through thousands of blurry, duplicate, or unrelated photos. 100 really good and special photos/videos are better than a mixed up mass of 5,000.

If you are concerned with passing away before your son is of age, just make sure there are multiple backups, and the sign in information for anything that isn't local is communicated to his guardian.
In the us the regulations say "minimum power required" but no more than 1W eirp, which means the radio can be less than a watt with a directional antenna.

Good 802.11 radios can do 1000mW.

A microwave oven magnetron and a simple aluminum waveguide is many hundreds or thousands of times more effective radiated power.
What gets lumped in with accidental deaths? COVID, Opioid Crisis, and Obesity make sense to me
The article states effectiveness requires taking the drug as a young adult, precisely the time most people are not thinking about mortality.
TL; DR Can growth sustain without the S&M burn? (Here, the short durations of its loans bite.) And, can they sustain a low loss rate?
> Heh, I'm not calling for tanks rolling on anyone else but the Russians at that moment. But taking down national assets? Hacking them back to steal information just like they do against us?

What makes you think the US military + CIA aren’t already doing plenty of this to Russia et al? They don’t talk about it, because plausible deniability is an asset. And because the US has so many allies to route traffic through, that plausible deniability can be very plausible.
~1% of all deaths. Most of which are suicides.
Amazon doesn't care.
I think this is a false choice.
You can order these drugs in bulk from chemical vendors for research purposes (i.e. non-human use). Chemscene, to name just one, sells Rapamacyn at 1440 USD for 5g.

EDIT: I clearly don't recommend you buying this and taking it by the way. You're never quite sure about the purity nor about how to dose this effectively as a layperson without access to a lab. It's also possibly completely illegal, depending on your local laws.
> I would venture to guess that the author doesn't have a full understanding of what the AI is doing or how it works.

Actually he does.

> There are a gazillion artist who take clear inspiration from other artists

Inspiration is not the same thing Stable Diffusion does.

We can't even define inspiration in a proper manner, but for sure we can say that if someone wants to draw comics in the way Tezuka made them, they have to study, exercise, rinse and repeat for at least a few years.

No human can scrape billions of images and take inspiration from all of them, not even in 10 life times.

Also, no human will make something similar to something else seen for the first time in 10 seconds.

Not even if it's "La Linea" from Cavandoli.
Hard to say. What we know for sure is that it 100% does NOT have ANYTHING to do with the safe and effective vaccines. I can’t believe people would even think that!
By letting it go. I used to horde, multiple formats and offsite... then I just let it all go. I've got a local copy of files on my machines plus a backblaze copy, that's it, I don't need tens of terabytes of data I'm almost certainly never going to use.
I found it especially confusing how certain numbers were presented as the 2019-2021 delta and others the 2020-2021 delta without any way of seeing all the data together. Thanks for linking to the original source as when I looked for it last night I found it difficult to find.
Even in France there has been strong political opposition to support nuclear plants, their renovations and new development, so the situation in France is not indicative of a well run program. In particular no new development in a while meant that a lot of local expertise has gone away
OVH, Voxility, ddos-guard.net and many more.

Shit, even tiny providers like BuyVM offer good enough DDoS protection.
> western society

No, just America, and even then the famous free speech has always had significant exceptions. Usually by the process of defining stuff as "not speech" or "obscene". Free speech surrounding sex is censored, most recently by FOSTA/SESTA.

The stable consensus also relied on mass media not being a complete free for all. The airwaves are censored by the FCC. There's a limited number of big producers who are vulnerable to political pressure, giving you things like MPAA censorship and the conflict with the RIAA over rap lyrics.

The phenomenon that you can say to a mass audience "this person is a degenerate, wouldn't it be great if someone harmed them" and sit back and wait for it to happen is genuinely different.

(Only the other day I found out about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Film_Corp._v._Industria... , in which for a period of about 20 years the Supreme Court held that films weren't free speech. Going back further you have to explain Comstock laws, and so on.)
> Covid might be over but…

How is it over?
>You simply can't fix systemic health issues with a pill, shot or a multivitamin.

I feel like this is the biggest impediment to universal healthcare in the usa. When much of the developed world implemented it, around late 1960s. You had fully recovered from debt of WW2, working economies producing lots and the cost of healthcare was low.

Today in universal healthcare systems you are seeing much if not all of them reducing. For example, https://ca.news.yahoo.com/5-changes-to-ohip-now-in-effect-20...

It goes without saying as well that most shots, pills, or multivitamins are not covered at all. How about the myriad of problems that simply aren't solveable.

>obesity correlates with higher covid mortality and this article mentions quite clearly that alaskan life expectancy decreased despite succesfull vaccinations.

With obesity comes diabetes and uncurable disease. The medicine for which is not covered in most countries and not to mention has gotten very expensive. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/reports-publ...

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diet-for-type2-diabetes.html

If you went to a grocery store or restaurant the probability that it's full of sugar/carbs is extremely high. If suddenly tomorrow everyone switches off sugar/carbs, we would have immense food shortages. So we can't really encourage people to switch off carbs.

>Worse yet, obesity seems to be increasing rather than decreasing so whatever any politician, healthcare service or advocacy group has done the past 20 years, the USA is still not closer to a solution to the lowering life expectancy. Covid might be over but there will always be a next crisis.

Don't say all/any.

https://globalfoodresearchprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/202...

Newfoundland's very popular liberal government implemented a sugar tax recently.

I think it's a great idea and those who do it first will benefit in the long run. Flipside, I don't think government should be allowed to do anything with food. No restricting, no taxing, your extent is only in the 'everyone agrees with' category. Food inspectors for example? We can all agree that's important.