skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why yes.

Let me quote myself from a discussion I was having this morning with a friend who is a tenured professor of philosophy working on AI (as an ethics specialist his work is in oversight),

we were discussing the work shared on HN this week showing a proof-of-concept of Stable Diffusion as better at image "compression" than existing webstandards.

I was very provoked by commentary here about the high "quality" images produced, it was clear that they could in theory contain arbitrary levels of detail—but detail that was confabulated, not encoded in any sense except diffusely in the model training set.

"I'm definitely inclined to push hard on the confabulation vs compression distinction, and by extension the ramifications.

I see there a very meaningful qualitative distinction [between state of the art "compression" techniques, and confabulation by ML] and, an instrumental consequence which has a long shadow.

The thing I am focused on being, whether or not the fact that a media object is lossy or not can be determined, even under even forensic scrutiny.

There was a story I saw this week about the arms race in detection of 'deep fake' reproduction of voice... which now requires some pretty sophisticated models itself. Naturally I think this is an arms race in which the cost of detection is going to rapidly become infeasible except to the NSA. And maybe ultimately, infeasible full stop.

So yeah, I think we're at a phase change already, which absolutely has been approaching, back to Soviet photo retouching and before, forgery and spycraft since forever... so many examples e.g. the story that went around a couple years ago about historians being up in arms about the fad for "restoring" and upscaling antique film and photographs, the issue of concern being that so much of that kind of restoration is confabulation and the presumptive dangers of mistaking compelling restoration for truth in some critical detail. Which at the time mostly seemed a concern for people who use the word hermeneutics unironically...

...but we now reach a critical inflection point where society as a whole integrates the notion that no media object no matter "convincing" can be trusted,

and the consequent really hard problems about how we find consensus, and how we defend ourselves against bad actors who actively seek their Orbis Tertius Christofascist kingdom of rewritten history and alternative facts.

The derisive "fake news" married to indetectably confabulated media is a really potent admixture!"
This is a global thing. Subreddit a cannot shadowban accounts.
Twitter is also more aggressive with verification challenges when I use a VPN.
Welcoming, not welcoming; you don't know my position on totalitarianism, you just know I've read 1984 and have opinions about the validity of parallels with modern day.

For all you know I prefer "Brave New World" analogies!
The best game was Phoenix, made a guy from Croatia, smooth gameplay, tight controls, sound effects, difficult and a bit short but enjoyable.

Diamonds was also very good.
Yeah, America only has three of four years of mandatory Holocaust education right now, not nearly enough. We need 3 or 4 times as much at least. Why don't we have a mandatory Holocaust class every day of the week from 1st to 12th grade? We just don't take this issue seriously enough.

A few hours of lecture about the Cambodian genocide should be sufficient though. We need to focus more on the Holocaust specifically; that's the important genocide and the rest can safely be treated as footnotes in history.

/s
I did not read this post as fame and shame. OP just shared his experience with Reddit.

You can get shadowbanned on Reddit for minor offenses if you get banned from large subreddits and reported by people too many times.
> The list of obligations would include prohibitions on combining data collected from two different services belonging to the same company (e.g. Facebook and WhatsApp);

Would this not simply kill the kind of integration that Apple has between its different services? Or any of the smart assistants?
For visualizing the timescales, there’s a great app. Walk 4.6 km through 4.6 billion years of time.

https://apps.apple.com/app/deep-time-walk-earth-history/id11...
on the other hand, that makes Rust's learning curve way way more gradual than C++.
An intermediate programmer with 3 months of Rust experience can reliably and confidently cobble up the libraries together to contribute to the project. Whereas such programmer will be a heavy burden (for other seasoned devs to guide/review/feedback) in a C++ project.

Also, building low-level libraries that work correctly, efficiently, relatively-safely in C++ is NOT a simple feat, and requires years of experience (on API design). With unsafe Rust you can just fuzz/brute force out the unsoundness with the safe API.
One reason to like the "Prime Drag Race" is that it's easier to check whether you just cheated by mistake - because there's a correct answer. Ah, I forgot to actually do the computation, no wonder this new version was so quick!

I'm pretty sure the Java benchmarking code is bogus, and I'm also pretty sure the Rust benchmarking code is bogus, and I have no idea whether the effects cancel out, or are even meaningful. I think if I was presented with this code my question would be "What is the actual problem? What are we actually trying to do, because this isn't anything"

Because this is a wait-free algorithm, the most practical arrangement is to do unlimited produces, and measure the consumers, then separately do unlimited consumption and measure the produces, but even with this, you also want to measure the transformation rate and that isn't done here so far as I can see.

What if I told you the Rust does 10 000 transformations per second, while the Java does only 100? What if vice versa? Suddenly the "performance" takes on a different hue in each case. A single overall number without this information is at least somewhat misleading, even if (which I don't think is assured here) the measurements are both against flat out runs.
Is Timescale suited for keeping the history of the data and then query against any point in time?
Isn't it the job of the representatives in a representational democracy to have working mechanisms to understand what their constituents' demands are? Shouldn't such mechanisms be equally accessible to all constituents irrespective of their ability to spend $$?

Also, don't the representatives have pre-election issues based manifesto when they are seeking votes to get elected? Shouldn't they stay true to the promises they made?
"We've investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong."
Nowhere in your comment did I find the contributing fact that Sweden has a drug war. It’s not 50yo ethiopian bus drivers shooting its young adults in drug gangs.
Surprised I have not seen "quiet firing" in print yet.
I agree, I can't even get to any of the twitter 'posts' by clicking on them - all major social media is blocked (by me) in my hosts file - which rules out a lot of the low-effort reposts from twitter.
As a sidenote, Databend's elevator pitch sounds quite good: from what I've seen there's quite a lot of complexity in managing co-located storage and compute like ClickHouse, Druid and Pinot. Leveraging object storage instead seems like a good alternative.

Do you have some experience with it?
Apple uses dc zva on ARM.
Yeah, my point is you can’t blame ATSC 3.0 for making use of the existing standards. And it’s not too different from how a lot of mobile/wireless technology depends on patents.
It's not about which title is better (I agree OP's better) but the guideline saying do not editorialize the title.

So either a bad/irrelevant guideline or not properly enforced.
As far as I know, GPLv2 is still incompatible with the license for Openssl 2.
"Statements are executed but don’t produce any result value ... Expressions evaluate to a single result value ... A spread (`[i, ...thisIsASpread, j]`) is neither of those. A spread can evaluate to zero values (if you spread an empty collection), one value, or many. It’s its own kind of thing."

The last part of the article is what comes out of this new-kind-of-thing when you add it to a language as a holistic concept.
There is apparently no performance degradation due to other improvements in malloc.
Are you sure it is the best performing? The article only compares to influx and timescale, which are very far from the fastest timeseries databases out there. How does it compare to clickhouse? I found this https://questdb.io/blog/2022/05/26/query-benchmark-questdb-v..., but the numbers are so far off (and clickhouse is much slower than timescale in their examples) that I kind of struggle to believe them.
We are seeing a deeper and deeper split between Google (webm/VP9, webp, AV1, strongly pushing their formats) and Apple (HEVC, HEIC, Atmos, completely boycotting Google's formats), with Microsoft caught in the middle, supporting neither that well.

Apple's stance is especially interesting because it's unclear to me what they gain by pushing license fee encumbered formats.
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There is a standard that has some recognition and uptake (though needs more) - Global Privacy Control. It’s been adopted by some browsers and publishers, and IIRC is a requirement for CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) compliance.
https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
I see this kind of "talking point" a lot when talking about crime in Sweden. But, if you actually think about it a bit, it doesn't make any sense. For example, your point about how "If a husband rapes his wife daily for a month" counts as 30 rapes - first, which jurisdictions in Europe would consolidate 30 rapes into a single rape count? Second, do you have any reason to think that the daily rape of wives by their husbands drives the high rape count in Sweden? I'm trying to imagine what you think is going on - the wife drops in to the police station to say "Hello, for the past thirty days my husband has been raping me" and the officer says "Okay, we'll mark down a 'one rape' on our books here." It's also an obvious rhetorical trick to compare present day rapes in Sweden to archaic laws that existed in the US until ~50 years ago. Why would you do that except to obfuscate?

It's also disingenuous to talk about how Sweden's rape definition is broader. Do you know that? Have you reviewed rape definitions throughout all of Europe, or are you just repeating what Sweden's crime council says? If you took Sweden's rape definition and applied to every other country, or any standard rape definition and applied it to every country, how would Sweden rank. Have you done that? Or...

When I write that Sweden is a regional leader in rape, what I mean is that Sweden's numbers, Sweden's rape stats, are higher than the numbers reported by every country in Europe. That's not perfect, and I agree that "rape capital" claims are complicated to evaluate - but it is first, true, and second an objective comparison (reported figures to reported figures). What you mean when you say this is a "right-wing trope" and a "deliberate misreading" is that there might exist measures, which you haven't shared or which are highly contrived, by which Sweden's rape rate is only in the top third or so of Europe.

You write that "rape victims are more likely to report the crime when they have respect and trust in the police" but this is just more misleading "Maybe this" type of stuff. Do Swedish women trust the police more than the women of other countries in Europe? Have you ever looked into that? Swedish police have extremely low clearance rates for rape - why would Swedish women have special trust in them?
If anyone is able to discover the referenced "study", please let me know. Or was this just something confabulated by the author?
My own belief is there is one universe, it is cyclical, and just is. No beginning, no end, just cycles between states.

There is no big bang. There is a minimum size state that could resemble a big bang.
Dan… you think divisive to call out censorship by its name? Interesting viewpoint coming from a moderator of a news aggregator website with a built in echo chamber mechanism.
There’s a specific technical way to express this but “use complex language about the future of a subject not currently present”

i.e. nothing but a modern human has the language and/or worldview to say “Sally wants hamburgers for lunch tomorrow by the river”
I don't think it will change much.

I think for claims that you think are important to determine an objective truth value for (like who the President of the U.S. is), your determinism mechanism is based on trusting sources you deem reliable and looking for broad agreement among many sources you deem to be independent. You're probably not just looking at a single sourceless video of Ronald Reagan behaving as if he's the president and believing that claim because the video couldn't possibly have been faked.

And for other claim that you don't think are important to determine an objective truth value for, I don't think you need very high-fidelity evidence anyway. For example, people have no trouble believing claims that corroborate their closely-held ideologies even with very low-fidelity fraudulent evidence, or even claims made with no attempt whatsoever to provide even fraudulent evidence!
The post is missing to mention the ecosystem.
True, but the AFT says they actually gain weight.
It kinda sucks that the name of this concept (shadow ban) is completely ruined by analphabetic luddites (hyperbole, don't worry) calling every platform that ignores them a bunch of shadowbanners while it might simply be a case of an eventually consistent database, a hype algorithm that chose someone else's message, or a feed curation mechanism that simply doesn't include everyone else's messages.

A more usable term might be 'muted' or 'hidden' instead of a complete 'ban without letting you know'. Internally it's even more likely that they work with an extra reputation system next to the visible karma system where new accounts are simply given 'bad' reputation way sooner than they should. Considering mod-communication works fine, it's probably just shoddy spam protection systems combined with a recursive problem of not having enough reputation to post, which is required to gain said reputation.
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Yes, it's great. I've been buying maximum amount for a few years. It's basically my emergency cash fund. Sure it's locked away for a year but once you get it started it's liquid enough and it gets better rates than any savings accounts, CDs, etc.
I remember registering for Reddit with Tor, then posting my first comment, only to have it invisible when I browse in an entirely new browsing session. So I tried my trusty residential connection and then I was able to post without any shadowban in place.

I concluded they place a 'score' on your IP. Obviously Tor has low reputation, so they ban that. I imagine residential IPs due to their traceability actually helps Reddit in some cases where if you say something off-color or highly inflammatory or outright illegal, then they have grounds to call law enforcement and track you down.

Hackernews does this too. I can't create throwaway HN accounts on a VPN/Tor because my first post is always shadowbanned, but my residential IP is never banned, and my posts show up in /newest every time.

Also: Welcome to the Internet!
You are thinking of string interpolation. The idea behind string templates, the feature the example is showcasing, is effectively a way to define a function that can be called with similar syntax to string interpolation.

So DB."SELECT * FROM Person p WHERE p.last_name = \{name}" would basically be a function call like DB("SELECT * FROM Person p WHERE p.last_name = ", name), which would do the right thing to parameterize the SQL.
What they suggest rarely fits the common sense model because they blindly follow best practice suggestions often outdated and without understanding context.
How does the browser actually render a page this wide?

Is there a framebuffer containing the whole page, or is it a display list of vector objects that gets clipped by the page's bounding box?

On which platforms would this page cause the browser to run out of memory and crash?
I am uninformed as to how running a Google search as a guest user on ChromeOS has different privacy implications that running that same search using another operating system.

Sure, if I carried around a privacy-centric Linux box and told my guest to use Tor browser, I could see how that could change the privacy picture. But that isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.

If you believe that having the guest user run their search on a typical Linux, Windows, or macOS machine would be better for their privacy, I would be interested to hear how.

Also, if they’re running the search in guest mode and they don’t log into a Google account, nobody can know who’s making the search. It’s not like they’re looking through the webcam or something.
Did you read the article or are you intentionally asking me questions that The Intercept has already asked notable scientists? Lab Leak theory isn't unfounded, it comes from a fact-based position that already went through numerous layers of questioning because Peter Daszak declared the general question it was trying to answer (eg: Is it possible that gain of function experiments escaped the lab) racist.

Even if you don't buy Lab Leak theory the various tidbits about EcoHealth are quite alarming. At a bseline they accepted a DARPA contract to do gain of function research. Is that a way that we want our government functioning? An NGO with very little oversight that does very little oversight taking government money and giving it to institutions in other countries. All of this the Intercept article also talks about.

Edit:

Based on this users comments I now understand they're not asking questions in good faith.

Their profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=themitigating

Other comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=themitigating
This is a pretty accurate description of OpenZiti.

The incremental approach is something that many of our customers go through: start with tunneling agents (quick and low investment), then transition to application embedded solutions
On Windows, there's that lowest priority task (Zero Page Allocator) whose sole purpose is to zero out the freed pages and add them to the available pages list. This way, allocation tasks don't have to wait for zeroing.

IIRC, Zero Page Allocator's priority was so low that it was even lower than the lowest priority available to Win32 API's.
I built the website, and also the underlying algorithm! I'm really excited about the website since it's my first project with Astro -- my new favorite SSG framework, after having tried the rest.

Happy to answer questions! :)
No they are not. They should blame many things for that. Globalization, Government policies towards the inner regions and to some extent even themselves. I grew up in the interior and it was awful in part because the people made it awful.
Hiring SWE contractors is almost always a labor law dodge.

Working as a contractor isn't really that lucrative. As a contractor, you have to do things like track mileage, don't take days off, etc to make it pay.

And then there's the creeping uncertainty of being on the bubble every single day ...
It's like a genie wish. You have to be very specific in what you are asking for.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Dolby Vision is actually a mess of a standard, with several different not-quite-compatible "profiles." Streaming video is Profile 5, UHD Blu-ray Discs are Profile 7[1], and iPhone Dolby Vision is Profile 8. Profile 7 cannot be converted into Profile 5 [completely incompatible and different algorithms!], devices that implement Profile 5 can't necessarily play Profile 7, but Profile 7 can with difficulty be theoretically converted into Profile 8 which is basically stripped-down Profile 7 with quirks[2]. Basically, Dolby Vision is fragmented within itself. Fun stuff.

[1] And within Profile 7, there is the difference between the MEL (Minimum Enhancement Layer) which just adds HDR data, versus the FEL (Full Enhancement Layer) which actually adapts a 10-bit core video stream into a 12-bit one for FEL compatible players. Not all Profile 7 implementations can handle FEL, but can handle MEL. So even the profiles themselves have fragmentation. FEL and MEL are, within Profile 7, actually HEVC video streams that are 1920x1080 that the player reads simultaneously with the 4K content. So a FEL/MEL player is actually processing 2 HEVC streams simultaneously, so it's not a huge surprise why it isn't used for streaming DV.

[2] Profile 8 comes in 3 different versions, Profiles 8.1 through 8.4. 8.3 is not used. Profile 8.1 is backwards compatible with an HDR10 stream, Profile 8.2 a SDR stream, and Profile 8.4 an HLG stream. Big surprise that iPhone uses 8.4 because HLG can be seamlessly converted into SDR or some other HDR formats when necessary.

https://professionalsupport.dolby.com/s/article/What-is-Dolb...
Darwin and FreeBSD have huge install bases, and can run many *nix applications, as android can too. OS developers often think about compatibility, at least, when they’re not contractually prohibited from creating their own OS to begin with.

There’s no technological reason that you can’t run popular Android apps on other OSes. Other OSes already support running Android apps. The primary reason this isn’t more common is anticompetitive.
The keyword for that is instance or panoptic segmentation.
>Irish/Italians made the east coast

Do you mind explaining what you are referring to? I'm a bit ignorant of this era of US history. I thought the east coast was the "original" US - that is, the thirteen colonies. Specifically New York was most definitely "made" by this point, even before the US was a thing. The New York stock exchange was founded in 1792, just 16 years after the country was founded. And trade was always big in New York. I don't know much about the rest of the east coast so I may be missing some larger historical context here but I was under the impression that NY was the most important sate by far on the east coast and continues to be so.
> if we sustained a 1% annual population growth for another 13000 years

And if we sustained a 0.03% annual population reduction rate (like South Korea recently experienced) there would be less than 100 people on Earth after just 600 years.

So I agree that exponentials can get away from you a lot faster than you might expect, but I also think that trying to predict cultural norms 13 millennia from now is likely to be counter-productive.
> They just take down the internet.

Or kill a lot of people if they rebel. Which is what Iran did just before the pandemic, and which the media only briefly covered. They machine-gunned people in the streets by the thousands and the West barely batted an eye.

It was as bad as Tiananmen Square in 1989, but you'd never know it going by the media coverage then or since.
This just in, food is also misused and proven to cause ill health in the majority of people, stop eating food now.
"yet the vast majority of SD voters live deep in the countryside"

Is that true? AFAIK SD vote mostly concentrates around and in Malmö, an urban agglomeration.

"feel like they are losing and have been losing for a few decades now."

As the article mentions, one of the main topics of this election was "law and order", not "the countryside is losing".
I feel people are overlooking the OP's mention of parallel improvements in storage and speed of access. While there are physical limits to this, I feel like capabilities will continue to expand not so much in terms of pure speed as in better automation of parallelization and resource allocation.
Very fair point, and I understand the necessity of data collection in some cases. I do feel like that's a cost that's incurred voluntarily, though, and shouldn't fall on the shoulders of users/customers. Some people might not want data to be collected to begin with, so the cost ends up being your company's fault and not theirs.