skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would applying a lossless compression algorithm to the data such as zip or 7z after the algorithm you describe reduce the file even size even more?

Wondering if FLAC already does this or if such a feature could be added?
Not to split hairs, but their response seems to be passivly discriminates rather than actively discriminates.
I was just going through the page on Kiwifarms about the person behind the dropkiwifarms campaign and the stuff they have said is shocking. I would say it is on par with anything I've read on Kiwifarms and they're getting 30,000 people to "ratio" their posts so they have a massive audience.

There is no winner in this entire saga of internet drama.
I don't know a great way to manage this data issue regarding children and teens besides disallowing them to sign up.

But if you give an incentive to a child to sign up with an adult birthdate (actually getting onto the site), I don't know that this actually helps solve the problem.

Back in the day you had to put in credit cards to sites for a "test-charge of 1.00" to make sure you were an adult. I wouldn't do that nowadays. So what do we do?
The content was 100% real, though the "I found this laptop and it happened to belong to Hunter Biden" story was obviously a pretense to release content that had been obtained illegaly — likely from a hostile foreign state.

I guess it wouldn't have looked good if Rudy Guliani came out and said "the Kremelin gave me compromising videos of Joe Biden's son".
You are conflating compression and verbatim copying which are two different things and obviously not what they're talking about.
The leaks like a sieve and causes explosions hydrogen? The one that even NASA is having trouble keeping in its pipes where the want it?
No, it did not used to be that "all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting". That has never been true. It has never been widespread. Heck, swatting as we know it today wasn't even remotely common until quite recently, and doxxing has been actively frowned on and treated as potentially criminal since, like, the 80s.

I dunno what you think you're arguing, but it's nonsense.
those people didn't try Borland's tools :)

(same as people who <3 visual studio today obviously haven't tried JetBrains...)
This house does not exist
Because what they care about might not be the content of the show, but particular political views.

For example there was quite a vocal group when the first trailers came out and they found out that (shock) not everyone in the show is white.
Tri-band LTE router with WiFi 2.4 only takes 4W, under speedtest 6W. Enabling WiFi 5GHz adds extra 1W.
> this will allow companies to blanket drop all salaries in the guise of "being fair."

That's an argument for unions, not an argument against this law.
I am not color-blind, but there are shades of colors that, depending either on light source, what other colors are around, or just how I'm thinking about what I'm looking at, will switch back and forth. I can pick out purple from violet, but I have had some clothing that will either appear purple or grey depending on how I am thinking about it (really). Similarly, I have a hoodie that is a timber green that at times appears brown, and a pair of corduroys that are brown that at times appear vaguely purple. I am nearly certain these shifting hue effects of the dyes were intended by the manufacturers.
> the added complexity of needing [...] half a dozen build tools

You don't need those for the Web. You can choose to use them. You can choose not to, too.
That is not true. The all-or-nothing mentality is why vegetarian purists do little to curb mass meat consumption. We don't need to choose between industrial society and destroying our habitat. We can have both if we're thoughtful about what indulgences we allow.
Oh, yes, well, I know I said you couldn't trust Business Insider, but if no less a credible and unbiased authority as Keffals says something, then I must humbly stand corrected.
> Also, https://github.com/macos-fuse-t/fuse-t/blob/main/License.txt appears to be "playing lawyer"

Do you have any specific concerns with the text of the license? The text seems clear enough that there don't appear to be any potential liabilities from using the software in a personal capacity.

As I understand it, the worst that could happen is that the license/software author could unknowingly incur liabilities from statutory or implied warranties - i.e. they left out some important exclusions that could be brought to bear if a plaintiff successfully construed the license as a contract.

(IANAL, but I've read a lot about software licenses over the years and have dealt with a legal challenge related to dual commercial/OSS licensing)
It's just a coincidence that there are so many threads with titles like 'what is the final solution to the _____ question?'
> started swatting people I read about in the newspaper or yellow pages, would the newspaper or yellow pages be to blame?

If you were organising these through the newspaper’s classifieds, yes, obviously, everyone would get in trouble.

> journalism and free speech is inherently risky but necessary for the maintenance of free society

There is zero journalistic value in bomb threats. There may be something redeeming hidden away in those forums.
But nobody should be forced or expected to do business with them.
For the most part, no one cares to do so is why.

Hell, 99% of all computers are still running on non-checksummed filesystems, if not 99.99%.

For the most part, only a tiny minority of people are even aware of bit rot, let alone have anything they simultaneously care enough about to protect against, and have enough ownership of it to attempt to try.
Academia is pretty corrupt or corruptible (well, it's humans after all). If CS research isn't corrupted at the moment, it will be if it being corrupted becomes useful.
I created a todo app based on Marc Andreessen productivity hacks explained here: https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_personal_productivity.html

which is pretty much how I used to get things done but with a notebook. it's v1.0 and very simple but the simplicity is on purpose (all other todo apps require a bunch of clicks to add a task!)

feedback is appreciated.

PS: don't sue me Marc, I checked the trademark for pmarca and doesn't exist, also the real name of the app is pmarca productivity porn aka PPP
The right way is to move away from gas and invest in renewables.
Complicated solution for a "simple" problem. It will probably not work.

Why not build more garbage incinerators instead? Proven, readily available technology, that can solve immediate danger of not having enough gas for heating.

Unfortunately, EU is biased against it (https://zerowasteeurope.eu/press-release/european-parliament...), maybe it is time to change that stance.
Why would you assume significant damage must be obvious at the time? You don’t notice the specific genetic damage that actually caused cancer, and it’s killed vastly more people than bullets.

Hurricanes are infrequent and don’t inflict devastation over nearly as much area as heat waves can. Hurricanes are obvious like bullets, but add up the numbers globally and average over a decade and they’re not that big a deal.
Interesting read, although I know nothing about chess.
I feel like we are at the tipping point where the ability to generate scenes/faces/houses/art that can reliably fool human senses becomes commonplace.
I believe it was an all cash txn
The problem is that the extra payments to renewable energy providers under the non-CfD model are a pure windfall for them that doesn't help to incentivise increased supply, since they're not likely to be there in a few years - consumers can't afford those energy prices and they go away once we have either a sufficiently big recession or sufficiently large amounts of renewable energy. Also, governments needed to subsidise the current renewable suppliers that are benefiting from the high prices in order to get them to build in the first place, so it made sense to structure that subsidy as a two-way CfD since letting them keep the extra has no real economic benefits and a whole bunch of extra potential cost for energy users and the rest of the economy.
This reminds me of a kickstarter project for motorizing a folded paper plane:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/393053146/powerup-40-sm...

Still available: https://www.poweruptoys.com/products/powerup-4-0
This is why I think network fees are a good metric. As long as anyone can become a block creator, you can’t pump it without losing money.
> They would not use that naming if they intended to support the official ARM ISA in the long run.

Given Apple's marketing priorities, my guess is that the intent you speak of had zero weight in their naming decisions either way. They have no interest in raising the profile of ARM chips in general, and every interest in promoting their specific chips as amazing.
Nice startup idea for the criminal/illegal scene. Ok, we all know that these activities are illegal and shouldn’t be discussed, but for sure there is a market for such things. I can imagine a VaaS page like a combined eBay/Craigslist format.
If you had a crystal ball and could magically determine how many incidents of harassment per daily active user were coordinated on KF vs. Facebook, which site do you think would come out looking worse?

Or... Let's say a group of a dozen people got together and decided to make life a living hell for their target. They are going to mock the target mercilessly, following up on any online interaction by posting vile shit, sending nasty DMs on every platform they can find, etc... Nothing illegal, but just being awful.

But let's say in one world, they're coordinating this stuff on Facebook, and in another they're coordinating it on KF. Now let's say the target gets logs of the coordination, and they report it to the site where it happened. Which site do you think would be most likely to take action, FB or KF? I think the obvious answer is that FB is much more likely to try to put a stop to the harassment.

Also, for you to claim you're arguing in good faith when your entire response to a reasonable argument was to mockingly agree with it and say "Very illuminating!" is really rich. If you want to actually convince people of your points, you're going to have to do a lot better.

For the record, I really don't like that KF has been forced off the internet the way it has. But you're not going to convince anyone by being sarcastic and pretending that KF isn't an awful place where users try to do awful things.
He seems to explicitly cooperate with US law enforcement[0], what you're referring to is the new zealand government trying to get them not only to take down the chirstchurch shooting video but also give them the IP of everyone that posted it so they can prosecute them. The only jurisdiction that matters to him is the US, so i'd assume that's where the servers and the company is located.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220707041302/https://kiwifarms...
Some proof would be nice. This is just conjecture. Maybe you are lying
> and the latter clearly pushing for a permanent division of Ukraine

No, Russia is clearly pushing for the eradication of the Ukrainian nation and, as a longer term goal, the re-establishment of the Soviet Union in one form or the other (this means invading and destroying other countries).

> negotiated settlement in Ukraine and a lifting of sanctions on Russia

It's so easy to say that as somebody clearly not living in a country in the "sphere of Russian influence", isn't it? Let others die so you could enjoy your cheap energy. Sorry, I can't take this comment in good faith :(
Who knows? As you said, there's a pretty clear channel for it, and would be advertised as a feature for all those devicves.
Number of nodes always and necessarily > number of people in control of those nodes, never the other way around. Node count is an extremely cheap pseudo-signal that implies decentralization of control, but is in no way correlated with it.
Client-Side Rendering
"Any number of other forums" is not the topic of discussion here. If you can find any posts on Kiwi Farms which encouraged or celebrated swatting and were not ridiculed by other users and/or deleted by mods, please do so. Since this is so common, this should be an easy task, right?
I hope you don't design things that other people use, because that sort of attitude is why so many thing suck.

There is a lot of point in, if not getting aggravated, striving to do better in the things you do.
Unless you’re looking at something else, it’s not per day, it’s a credit system that amounts to about 1 cent per image. How many images do you plan to generate a day?
In an ideal world (in this world) we would be able to both deal with bad actors and not have mob rule at the same time.
Couldn't find their api to get the numbers..
In addition to what others have said (FLAC is lossless but compressed, and about 50% smaller than WAV), FLAC (plus a few other tiny files) is also the de facto format for archiving audio CDs (it can do other quality than CD quality, but it's mostly used to backup CDs).

When you rip one of your CD, a good ripper shall verify that your rip is 100% bit perfect (by verifying that the hash of your rip matches an online database of hashes of CDs ripped by other people). These rippers typically do rip to FLAC.

FWIW on Linux I've had good luck with "whipper" in the past (haven't ripped any CD that recently) [1]

[1] https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper
In the not to distant past, movie studios were not allowed to own movie theatres. The FTC was very wary of large companies using vertical integration to take over the market and keep movies from smaller companies from being shown.

What you're seeing here is the future. Amazon produces the movies, finances the movies, distributes the movies, controls how they're reviewed (they also own IMDB).

Oligarchs never trust what they don't own.
What they said:

> The signal is digital until it gets to the speaker so there is no loss of quality after the initial encoding

isn't true - the original encoding is decoded... and re-encoded, losslessly, by the Bluetooth protocol.
Another question is what percentage of those is hosted on AWS?
Yeah, it’s amazing that things like Stable Diffusion can make coherent looking images. But why? Why convert iconic EGA and VGA *art* into algorithmic representations? To me, it doesn’t improve on the originals in any way. I would never play a game with the graphics replaced by these. To me, it is the constraints of older technologies that led artists to create imaginative works that transcended the materials available (big pixels with a limited palette) and helped create worlds where your own imagination could run wild. Replacing these images with photo realistic Thomas Kinkade-esque treacle is an abomination.
Well it depends. If you try to go off-grid/rv and already sorted out heating & food prep then every Watt matters.
> just saying vacuum tube research was nothing like quantum computer research.

That's what I'm saying. Vacuum tubes had various evacuated tubes as their precursors which had uses in experimentation and industrial applications. This led to a step by step development process with continuous subsequent innovations building on each other. Quantum computing on the other hand is kind of an all or nothing proposition with many problems that must be solved which only produce value when functioning as part of the whole.

I don't think the development of classical computing is a good analogy either as the shared memory computer had various electromechanical precursors that had utility all of their own.
That probably depends a lot of the country. Both are illegal here in France (for racism, if it's insulting or hateful in particular)
It's from active connections here: https://explorer.dash.org/insight-api/status
No one in this specific situation is being persecuted for their beliefs:

The coordinator of the DDoS attack (Who I am apparently not allowed to say the name of or my comment will be instantly flagged after posting) is being persecuted for their shady history and actions, which includes being a prostitute and sponsoring the (paralegal?) distribution of transgender hormones to minors.

The KiwiForum is being persecuted for the gossip and personal information that they have been (re-)publishing on the previously mentioned person. As well as some threats like swatting which have allegedly been attributed to them.

Both sides employ a public figurehead who abuses their para-social relationship with their supporters to extract donations from them. So in this sense, the "persecution complex" is an artificial mechanism whereby they drum up support.
A lot of mainstream speakers are pretty bad, but I tend to think that once you get above a couple watts the quality-for-money tatto ratio goes up quite a bit.
That link is full of screenshots of Kiwi Farms. Where exactly are the goalposts here?
Parent is alleging 100% supply from coal since they claim there’s 70% thermal loss in the charging of BEVs

Coal is circa 20% of the supply in the US. About the same as nuclear or renewables.
> Parsers should be fail-fast and deterministic

Raise your hackles about the choice not to fail fast if you want, but when they fail, they do fail deterministically. It's a too-common myth that they don't. (A little perverse that people who make a big deal out of others unable to follow spec, but by doing so prove they haven't checked what the spec says—because if they did, they'd know this...)
It doesn't bother me much (if the show is good, I don't realize it after maybe 5 minutes), hence why I said "I wouldn't mind..." instead of something harder. But it'd be interesting to see what would happen if shows were expanded frame-wise like this... The 16:9 cropped widescreens you mentioned take something away, whereas expanding the frame with AI adds something, and theoretically if you don't want it you can just matte it out and still have the original. It seems like a more advanced version of Ambilights.

I think we still have a ways to go before the results would work well without looking like those nightmarish deepdream videos where things are constantly shifting, so society will have plenty of time to discuss the merits.
This is really timely - I just started to replay some of my favorite Sierra titles "Hero's Quest".

1 and 2 (unofficially) have VGA ports that updated the graphics. So, I may have to run some screen shots through to get an even newer backdrop.
> A ton of the reported nodes are actually running on AWS

So? That doesn't mean anything, Amazon doesn't control the nodes just because they are running on its infra.
Solving the Witness with Z3
After 2 episodes we still don't know what the central conflict actually is.
A public ledger only ensures that you can see through this if you can verify ownershp of wallets, because as we've seen repeatedly, you can programmatically create an entire eco-system of fake wallets trading back and forth. What's the cost? I can trivially create a series of bots that just trade their coins back and forth with each other forever. It'll create huge volumes. Now the reason you don't do this on real chains is because the transaction costs will cripple you. But transaction costs aren't real if the currency you're paying them in was entirely fictional to start with.

From the outside there is no way of verifying that any chain has any real activity without verifying ownership of the wallets.
I don’t think that’s giving people enough credit. Sure, if you master for CD to exploit as much dynamic range as possible (as is often done with high end classical music) then CD quality is truly amazing and vinyl can’t even come close.

But, a lot of popular music out there isn’t mastered for that use case (high end ABX testing). On the contrary, there are tons of CDs that are extremely compressed (in the dynamic range sense) so as to sound as loud as possible on the radio [1]. If you compare one of these CDs with an earlier (or even contemporary) vinyl release which has been mastered correctly then of course the vinyl will sound better!

Unfortunately, because we’re dealing with a Wild West of media, new and old, floating around in the marketplace we don’t have the luxury of a perfect ABX comparison, and so people will continue to buy and prefer old formats. It is for that reason that we can’t dismiss them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
The US does not use imperial units. Imperial units are those defined in the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824. What the US uses is the US customary system, where units have the same name as the Imperial ones, but not the same values. Now, the US customary units are defined in terms of SI units anyway, just with annoying, non-integer conversion factors.
Page 11:

>> Businesses or public authorities that develop or use AI applications that constitute a high risk
for the safety or fundamental rights of citizens would have to comply with specific
requirements and obligations. Compliance with these requirements would imply costs
amounting to approximately EUR € 6000 to EUR € 7000 for the supply of an average highrisk AI system of around EUR € 170000 by 2025. For AI users, there would also be the
annual cost for the time spent on ensuring human oversight where this is appropriate,
depending on the use case. Those have been estimated at approximately EUR € 5000 to EUR
€ 8000 per year. Verification costs could amount to another EUR € 3000 to EUR € 7500 for
suppliers of high-risk AI.

Lmao bureaucrats estimating the cost to companies, delusional.

>> The Commission will be in
charge of monitoring the effects of the proposal. It will establish a system for registering
stand-alone high-risk AI applications in a public EU-wide database

>> Title II establishes a list of prohibited AI. The regulation follows a risk-based approach,
differentiating between uses of AI that create (i) an unacceptable risk, (ii) a high risk, and (iii)
low or minimal risk. The list of prohibited practices in Title II comprises all those AI systems
whose use is considered unacceptable as contravening Union values, for instance by violating
fundamental rights.

>> Title V contributes to the objective to create a legal framework that is innovation-friendly,
future-proof and resilient to disruption.

Innovation friendly lol.

>> At Union level, the
proposal establishes a European Artificial Intelligence Board (the ‘Board’),

>> Title IX creates a framework for the creation of codes of conduct, which aim to encourage
providers of non-high-risk AI systems to apply voluntarily the mandatory requirements for
high-risk AI systems (

"To apply VOLUNTARILY the MANDATORY.." what kind of double speak is that? How can something be voluntary and mandatory at the same time...

>> AI systems providing social scoring of natural persons for general purpose by public
authorities or on their behalf may lead to discriminatory outcomes and the exclusion of
certain groups. They may violate the right to dignity and non-discrimination and the
values of equality and justice. Such AI systems evaluate or classify the trustworthiness
of natural persons based on their social behaviour in multiple contexts or known or
predicted personal or personality characteristics. The social score obtained from such
AI systems may lead to the detrimental or unfavourable treatment of natural persons or
whole groups thereof in social contexts, which are unrelated to the context in which
the data was originally generated or collected or to a detrimental treatment that is
disproportionate or unjustified to the gravity of their social behaviour. Such AI
systems should be therefore prohibited.

This part is good.

I haven't read the rest.

EU shooting itself in the foot again and then asking themselves why all talent goes to USA.
This is 2 years old, has something changed till today?

I'm genuinly asking, as I've never used grammarly.