skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some hope in Solid (https://solidproject.org/), if only because Tim Berners-Lee is spearheading the project and Bruce Schneier leading the security/crypto side of it.
Not really. It's pretty much just a fact.
Ehhh too much work, suck out the nucleus with a long straw and spit it far enough
Thanks!

I’d love to integrate our crawler with GitHub Actions and make it a self-updating dataset…

There’s so much stuff to do!
I think a much better way would be to ask the best friends of people to anonymously rate their friend and how they date. The best friend will be close enough to probably have a good idea. Obviously they like the person if they are friends (so there are biases here as well) but they might be more likely to notice patterns the person is otherwise oblivious to.
These are not the reasons I like Java at all (I still use Java 8). My reasons are:

1. C-like language - Flip between C, C++, Java and JS with minimal thinking about syntax.

2. Build once - I can build locally and deploy the byte code straight to production. I don't need to worry about the production server having the right packages as long as everything is bundled in my JAR.

3. Libraries just work (mostly) - It doesn't matter if the library was written yesterday or 10 years ago, as long as it was written sanely, it should just work.

4. Garbage collector - Really in top class. I can create and throw away huge amounts of RAM and not have to worry about leaks and have it dealt with realitively little performance impact.

5. Memory safety - Never having to worry about pointers, segmentation faults, etc.

6. Exception handling - And if all else fails, Java will ultimately give you the opportunity to recover from many different scenarios. This may seem like lazy programming, but actually it's for the edge cases you can't think of. If your program does happen to crash, you get a very good stack trace.

Java may be cumbersome and repetitive is some areas (and perhaps the newer additions to the language deal with this), but I would take them every day of the week.

The only thing that has really left me wanting is C-like performance and networking capabilities. Most other things I want to use are very well implemented.
I guess digging 10-15 meters of that tunnel towards the Earth core with a shovel would be enough for an average person to lose 20 pounds :)
If your use case fits into capabilities of such language, and you have the necessary libraries, and bindings, etc., then why not?
Why I Left Gitpod
Interesting. Kind of like Scale AI for generative AI.
Perhaps the Web Share API [1]? Once you've got the share prompt up, the end user could use AirDrop or similar?

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Share_A...
People are always going to make these arguments. Yes, I know that there's scientific evidence that your mass effects your weight and that hunger, metabolism, etc. effect your mass. But we have to look at effect sizes. Whatever diet you try, you are only every going to have, at most, a modest effect on your own mass which will indirectly lower your weight.

I challenge people to go out there and start launching chunks of matter on escape trajectories from Earth. Yes it is hard, yes it takes a lot of energy, but you will start reducing the force of gravitational attraction acting on you. These are real results, not just a temporary change.
Something I think would be helpful would be to replace a "definitions" section with a "terms" section, with three subsections:

General Terms of Art provide a vernacular English explanation for widely-used legal terms within the section. Example: "Joint tenants. A legal term meaning that the tenants not only hold a single undivided parcel together, but that ownership of the property passes to the other tenants if one tenant dies. If a tenant sells their interest, and the remaining tenants entered into a joint tenancy at the same time and on the same deed, the remaining tenants remain as joint tenants."

Specific Terms of Art describe terms of art used in the particular contract or act. An example would be "protected health information" or "covered entity" in the context of HIPAA.

Terms of Clarification are standard vernacular English terms that, for the sake of reducing frivolous navel-gazing, are defined precisely. An example would be "uniformed services" within Title 10, or "machine gun" in the Gun Control Act.

A layman could read the two terms of art sections and should be able to understand most statutes or contracts.

A lawyer familiar with the general terms of art could read the specific terms of art and understand most statutes or contracts.

Terms of clarification could be consulted only if the precise scope of a term becomes an issue.
I would think the same and can only assume that apple is not as much of a monopoly as google/android in the EU. I think Vestager &co also wanted to have a solid case (as evidenced in the appeal losses right now) and the apple one was more difficult to establish? I don't know.
Disclosure, I work at Timescale.

We are kindred spirits I think! I did this too [0] a while back at a previous company and it actually served as part of the inspiration for our compression work! It's fun, but a bit difficult to query at times. Our compressed columns do also get TOASTed and stored out of line.

I'm not sure that it's going to be much more efficient than the Timescale format once it's compressed, we have some pretty good compression algos, but I might be missing something about your case, we generally can achieve close to 10x compression, but right now you can't write directly compressed data, so you would save on the write side I suppose.

It is true that you need to put the uncompressed version into memory at some point, but we do try to limit that and in many cases you end up IO limited moreso than memory limited. We're also thinking about doing some work to push processing down towards the compressed data, but that's still in the "glint in our eye" stage, but I think it has a lot of promise.

(As a side note, TOAST is still the best acronym around ;) ).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPoz1OPuRUU
Are the social media companies doing the printing?

If I am a phone company and I detect that people are talking about anti-vax stuff, can I disconnect the call? What if it is a party line?

Generally, newspapers print content they write. Not content written by Joe Q. Public, they often change the content of their writers using editors or don't run stories to push a narrative. In doing so, they are responsible for the content and stories they create.

Social media companies seem to want to be telephone companies with no responsibility when it suits them but also have the power of editor when it suits them.
I’d the book is a one-off you see this a lot. The best podcasts are with people who aren’t promoting a specific item, just themselves as experts. You get more variety that way. In general if they’re on a book tour, I only listen once no matter how much I like them.
You don't even need to find examples outside of America.

The Amish have also been in America longer than Italians as a prominent immigrant group.

They haven't "integrated" as a function of time in the sense that's being discussed here.

All such historical comparisons are just cherry picking, or finding historical comparisons that fit the author's biases.

One could also claim that Sweden will eventually end up splitting apart along religious lines, as happened in the Indian subcontinent with India and Pakistan.
> standards formulated by trusted experts, professionals, and academics with long track records like MPEG

I genuinely can't tell if this is humor or not. If it is, bravo.
Hosting costs money regardless of whether the underlying codebase is open source, but why would anyone pay for a URL shortener? Maybe those things had a use a decade ago but I don't see a use for them nowadays and definitely not enough to pay for one.
It's the black-and-white condemnation of preventative measure as ineffective, the conflation of "it's not perfect for each person but valuable in the population" with "it's worthless and a violation of my rights" that gets the downvotes.

I'd say that history will have a lot to say about everyone.
What a load if bullcrap.

Those kinds of posts are just giving me a reason to do it, out of spite.
But Google approves forks that are AOSP compatible as checked by an automated test suite. And if Samsung wanted to, they could stop selling phones with the Google apps and switch to their own AOSP fork. They've already laid much of the groundwork after all.
> That is completely false.

I suppose but only because C++ is everything and nothing. C++ compilers are borderline self aware because the spec is 'write literally whatever you want'. Skynet was obviously a C++ compiler ;)
The article doesn't say how they add liquorice to vodka, anyway I've tried at a friend's house some vodka to which he simply put one or two liquorice roots into the bottle before letting it sit into the freezer for some days/weeks. It tasted exquisite.
I am unsure how your response relates to my comment because I specified residency. I'm aware countries don't often issue ID cards to tourists or other non-residents.

I specified residency in my comment, because I (mistakenly, it seems) thought your mention of not paying Russian taxes or living in Russia meant you were a resident elsewhere. I'd be curious to learn more about what country issues almost-year-long visas without involving some sort of residency status.

It seems generally reasonable that people who have not actually formally immigrated from Russia and obtained residency elsewhere are affected by sanctions on Russian citizens.
Generally, distros supply security updates. For example, Debian picks a version for a release and makes sure it has security updates for the entire release. Sometimes this requires backporting patches because the version is no longer supported upstream. This means an app can be shipped that will work for the life of the release without changes, while staying secure.
That’s partially true. Reddit assigns moderators to your subreddit as well and if you don’t moderate in a way they like will force you to remove certain moderators or even ban your community.
... I think the perl code actually compiles (err, runs) though. :-)
The 1% have far more than 1% of the influence.
> one thing to fire employees who breach contract & another to tell them what they can do when they are not working.

Those can definitely be the same thing (in America).
How much demand is there for phones that run Android without Google Play Services?
Wasn’t that “by definition” for a few millennia, then “that’s not good enough, let me invent set theory, oh no there’s an irreconcilable flaw and now I’m depressed” followed by nonchalant whistling by subsequent mathematicians?
It's true, spending time eating can distract from the only real way to lose weight, which is by reducing the mass of the planet Earth. Stay focused, everyone! Together we can do it.
Oracle Cloud admits users could access other customer data
I've never even heard of a power tool from any of those companies
A little late, but this is only somewhat true. Stock buybacks only make sense if the stock is cheap to fairly valued. You need to think of buybacks in terms of a return on equity. If a company spends $10 billion buying back stock of their overvalued company which later falls 50% in value then that company is allocating capital extremely poorly. Companies should decide whether to buy or sell stock depending the company valuation. Tesla is an example of a company which has made some incredibly smart decisions from a capital allocation perspective not from buybacks, but by issuing stock when their stock is high.

That's not to say companies won't do buybacks though, just that they have a duty to shareholders not to blindly buyback their own stock if they believe they could allocate that capital better with an acquisitions, etc. At a time like this when unprofitable, yet very innovative companies have lost a lot of value relative to big tech companies like Microsoft and Google I'd argue that they might be better off allocating that capital more towards acquisitions than buybacks.

This is also why I don't really understand why shareholders of Apple support their current buyback program. Given their stock trades at a near record-high valuation both absolutely and relative to the market large buy backs makes very little sense from a capital allocation perspective. Although I guess they would argue there is literally no where else to put those billions of dollars. Still, that doesn't mean it's a good thing for shareholders, just that they're now forced to allocate capital poorly given their size.
> Why do we celebrate athleticism, musical talent, and other forms of ability in others, yet also feel so fiercely insecure about other people's IQ test scores that we have to co-opt the term "intelligence" itself?

Possibly because we see intelligence as the ultimate limiting factor to any kind of success. It's not entirely untrue, but it doesn't paint the entire picture. My IQ isn't even above 100 and yet I'm making over thrice the average American income as a software engineer, drawing PCBs, making hardware devices, and debating people online every day over things like Typescript; the idea that IQ is everything doesn't ring true to me.

As a counterpoint, something like musical talent can be highly subjective. An artist can make a piece of music that is "perfectly" composed and performed, but the guy who used Garageband with some unique samples can get more plays on Spotify. Athleticism is no exception either, as anyone who has watched the Olympics has seen how ridiculously subjective the judges are (especially in gymnastics and skating). Measures of either sports or musical ability predict very little outside of their respective domains, whereas IQ is correlated with many things.
Sure, and alcohol, soda, candy, processed foods negatively affect physical health. People “know” this but obviously think the satisfaction they get from it is worth the negative impacts.
Like that's better than the 14 day no questions asked return policy the EU already had. The one they smeared to buy a new law allowing such malpractice?
Woah! I had no idea something like this would be so far along.

It seems like they're on the right track. I think the key is to keep scope creep to a minimum. As soon as someone tries to add DRM, for instance, the whole effort will go up in flames.
I personally think that WASM images will eventually displace (or merge with?) OCI images in server-side use cases. It remains to be seen if this will happen by the current OCI-focused stuff (Kubernetes mainly) adding capability for WASM apps or the WASM ecosystem developing its own parallel tooling of the same type (somebody coming up with "Kubernetes for WASM"). I think the latter has the possibility of being much cleaner, but there is a lot of momentum behind the former.
I'm not sure I'm convinced.

There is a lot of variation in details between human bodies that are covered by clothing.

You can infer some things, like skin tone and hair color, from other parts of the exposed body with pretty decent accuracy. You can infer general body shape from how the clothes fit. But for things like size, shape, color, hair, birth marks, moles, surgical modifications, etc. of various concealed body parts? All those vary wildly from person to person. Unless you have a reference image that you can use to answer those questions - I can't imagine that you will be able to infer those. If you can't infer those, you aren't getting the real body of the person you are trying to undress. You're getting a dream of what that person might look like if they were to remove their clothes - a dream that is not accurate.

Not to discredit what you are saying: those dream images are definitely going to cause an entire generation of discomfort. But the cat is out of the bag and has been for some time. Artists were already capable of creating images like this without consent - but it required more talent than most humans poses to get that onto paper. Photoshop made it possible too. AI is making it even easier.

Society is weird about nudity. To be fair, I am too. We have all of these constructs built around the human body and concealing it that many of us have bought into.

At it's core, I think the fear of this tech and nudity is that it will be used to "steal dignity" from folks. The question is: can you steal dignity from someone with pencil and paper? Is a photorealistic sketch of your friend unclothed sufficient for them to have lost their dignity? What about photoshop? How about passing your photorealistic sketch through an AI to make it even more photorealistic? At what point have you robbed someone of dignity? Robbing someone of dignity is a social construct, in some ways this form of dignity stealing is something we _allow_ people to do to one another by buying into that construct. I do feel like the narrative we should be pushing is "that isn't my body." If we invest in breaking the construct, my hope is that we can remove the power this holds over people.
That is absolutely true. I'm not trying to tell anyone this isn't a hard challenge. But I think we can all lose weight this way given enough effort.
First thing that came to mind was Elena Ferrante, but also one of my favorite authors, K.J. Parker (who is no longer pseudonymous but was for a long time).

But why does it have to be fiction, and why does the author have to be anonymous? There's a big difference between being anonymous and being a social media influencer: I'd guess most of the best and most influential fiction and non-fiction authors have fallen in that range.

The thing to avoid is a world where publishers would say "Sorry, Mr. Faulkner, we won't be publishing your little book until you get a few more followers."
There were many claims that voters were illegitimately purged from the rolls, which is pretty much the equivalent.

I should actually note here that I didn't vote for Trump, either time, nor did I vote for Clinton or Biden.

I just hate hypocrisy.
We're not even close to ready for the population growth we're getting
and the second says well regulated militia. The courts care about what their interpretation of the intent of the clause is, not the actual words in the clause.
It could also draw the attention of the Physics Nobel committee. Oodles of physicists have been working on the folding inverse-problem for decades.
I assume that's why he didn't bother answering — you just take the volume of rubber, divide by the covalent radius of carbon, and plug into A = 4 pi r^2.
NAFTA was the North American Free Trade Agreement.

This was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. Even if you could make use of it, it ended in 2020.

Perhaps you're thinking of NFO?
From what I remember it basically does not work in any browser based setup - have to use Netflix apps or dedicated software?
I have to admit my bias up front -- as a user, I hate pre-alert screens in general. But this wording:

> Our screen also said "Enable Location" or "Not now"

is one of my pet peeves. It's that "not now" that does it for me. The lack of a "No" option, and having a "not now" option, is a big red flag to me. At best, it's just manipulative. At worst, it hints that I'm going to keep getting asked about it over time.

Either way, it's removing the ability to say "no", which feels scummy.
iOS 16.0.2 with fix for camera shake bug
Just build a plinth 364.3 km tall, and place the weight watcher there. With air and water, if we're being nice.

(sqrt(190/170)-1) * earth radius
Maarten Schmidt, First Astronomer to Identify a Quasar, Dies at 92
Yeah that's why all the Hongkong key shops exist because Valve is so fucking generous with its prices
In my opinion, absolutely. The "protein folding problem" has been widely regarded as one of the biggest challenges in molecular biology for over half a century, and Alphafold has effectively solved it. I would put this up there with Sanger winning the prize for discovering how to sequence DNA and Kary Mullis for inventing PCR... this will have widespread implications for allowing us to understand, and even design proteins.
Why is it always that layoffs get reported but hires never? I mean, many of these companies have become bloated and it's probably time to lose some flab.

Google currently has 170,000 employees. What are 170,000 employees going to do at what's essentially a software company? My guess is that the company could lose much more than 10% of its workforce and probably be better off.
I wonder how CLIP search would work for finding errors in the dataset.

For now, a workaround is to create your own "glitch" collection in krea.ai and store there images with artifacts.

If you end up doing it we will add a "download all" button right away :)

And all the prompts from each collection could also be added to Open Prompts for sure.
Oh the horror of market transparency.
This is idealistic thinking however there are countless cases where a ban was done by a bad actor or bad algorithm, with the only recourse being a user taking their ban to another platform to complain, and if they gain enough traction on another platform then they get the ban reversed. Unfortunately that only works for large creators while small creators have zero recourse for unjust bans.
(Someone who works in streaming)

While I see both sides, I don't agree with this strategy. In fact, I think the public should be more aware of just how damaging Google/YouTube is to the streaming ecosystem and if you really stretch this argument, the planet.

It is true - HEVC's original licensing structure was a nightmare, but it seems to have been resolved and we now have hardware decoders in nearly all modern consumer devices.

This is also becoming true of Dolby's formats. maybe I am biased or not as informed as I could be but they did the R&D, worked with some of the brightest (pun intended) in the industry and created a production-to-distribution pipeline. Of course there are fees, but vendors are on board and content creators know how to work with these standards.

Now here comes one of the largest companies in the world. HEVC? Nope - they don't want to pay anyone any fees so instead they're going to develop the VP9 codec. Should they use HLS or DASH? Nope, they are going to spin DASH off into our own proprietary HTTP deliverable and only deliver AVC HLS for compatibility reasons. Apple customers complain and after years they cave and support VP9 as a software decoder starting with iOS14. This means millions of users eat significant battery cycles just to watch anything, including HDR video.

Then we get to Chrome. HEVC? Nope. Dolby? Nope. HLS? Nope. The most popular browser in the world doesn't support any of the broadcast standards. It's their way or fallback to SDR and the less efficient AVC codec.

So now anyone else in the streaming industry trying to deliver the best streaming experience has to encode/transcode everything three times. AVC for compatibility (and spec) reasons, HEVC for set-top boxes and iOS, and VP9 for Google's ecosystem. If it wasn't for CMAF the world would also have to store all of this twice.

In the end, to save YouTube licensing and bandwidth costs, the rest of the industry has to consume 2-3x more compute to generate video and hundreds of millions of devices now consume an order of magnitude more power to software decode VP9.

If and when Project Caviar becomes reality, it'll be another fragmented HDR deliverable. Dolby isn't going away and Chrome won't support it, so the rest of the industry will have to add even more compute and storage to accommodate. In the name of 'open' and saving manufacturers a couple dollars, the rest of the industry is now fragmented and consumers are hurt the most.

YouTube weirdly admitted this fragmentation is becoming a problem. They can't keep up with compute and had to create custom hardware to solve. Of course, these chips are not available to anyone else and gives them a competitive edge:
https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/youtube-custom-chips-arg...