skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The users and buyers of human sex slaves sponsor the human trafficking industry, and find it worthwhile.

Who is the government to say otherwise?

Oh yeah, that's right, the government SHOULD actually make policies to cut down on negative affects of things that some people want to do. You know, because that's the whole point of government.
Oh come on. It’s just a polite way of saying they’ve had a cooperative relationship and have made a good faith effort to comply with the laws.
It’s not about crashing, it’s about exposing memory that could lead to security vulnerabilities.

And FFI? As in the Unix extensions? That’s the operating systems calls, not the language. By that logic, python is as dangerous as C++.

It’s crazy how so many people on this thread say rust is the only choice because of memory safety, and are now bending over backwards trying to claim memory safety is no big deal. So much so FFI is now being brought up smh.
If version 2 is worse than version then obviously a lot of people will use version 1. That doesn't make them entitled.
Mathematics and its History by Stillwell.
> the problems with regulations and politicians is they end up with an "accept cookies" checkbox on every web page

The GDPR does not require these.

There are website operators who want to use your personal data without consent to benefit themselves and erroneously believe sticking such a banner on a webpage allows them to.

That's entirely on those website operators who make up their own rules.
What's needed is TOUGH privacy laws. No access to data without warrants.
Surely this is also a consequence of knowledge expansion? Up to a certain year some people could credibly be said to know everything scientific. There just wasn't much of it. I couldn't imagine verifying with my own eyes even a small subset of one field today. I doubt there's one person alive who's seen 5% of, say, all metallurgy with their own eyes.

How would we ever progress without a change in method from observation to belief?
Not even close. Crypto handily beats cash here.

Cash has slower transaction speed (snail mail vs <30 min).
Requires additional supplies to use (pen, stamp, envelope).
It’s illegal in the USA to send cash in the mail.
No way to get delivery confirmation without risking deanonymizing yourself.
Title is grossly incorrect and leading to inflammatory comments. Proof of work has not been made illegal, new proof of work operations that use fossil fuel energy are blocked. Existing proof of work operations, and new operations using non fossil fuel energy are not banned at all.
> Amazon is unusable at this point, and I don’t get how they have so many customers.

At least in Germany, using Amazon is often the easiest way to buy copies of foreign-language (often, but not always English) textbooks about scientific topics.
Musk has already fired what, over 80% of employees? If your rationale is that they were all underperforming then you clearly don't actually care and are just using this as a convenient wedge to push your agenda. If they weren't all underperforming, then Musk arbitrarily fired a bunch of people for nonsensical reasons.
> If you can't process/digest copyrighted content with algorithms/machine learning then Google Search (the whole thing, not just Image Search) is dead.

Not if Google honors the robots.txt like they say they do. Hosting content with a robots.txt saying "index me please" is essentially an implicit contract with Google for full access to your content in return for showing up in their search results.

Hosting an image/code repository with a very specific license attached and then having that licensed ignored by someone who repackages that content and redistributes it is not the same as sites explicitly telling Google to index their content.

A much closer comparison IMO would be someone compressing a massive library of copyrighted content and then redistributing it and arguing it's legal because "the content has been processed and can't be recovered without a specific setup". I don't think we'd need prior court cases to argue that would most likely be illegal, so I don't see how machine learning models differ.
Unclutter is already used as a name in the macOS space.
CNN stole my video [video]
What's the matter here? Writing code is the easy part while this guy apparently has bigger fish to fry than staring at a debugger.
AliExpress also has strong buyer protections, which you would have seen had you ever ordered from there. You have to confirm delivery for every order else the seller doesn't get the money.
That's worse than Ellison?

There's more than profitability that makes a good CEO. And Jack at least didn't run Twitter into the ground.

FWIW it seemed that Twitter was on a good trajectory when Jack left as CEO.
Two different licenses. They've had an issue with GPLv3 since it started to be the default license of most GNU coreutils and their other programs. That's why Bash was never updated for so long.
I have a feeling the different sports corporations/leagues have done the research on this. I can't find any offhand, but maybe someone else has more luck?

Maybe it's the beer sponsors that want the game to be as easy to follow as possible, enabling a higher alcohol intake? ;-)
Everyone that is hyper critical of FSD needs to try it before they dunk it. It might surprise you. It is not perfect, but it is extremely capable IMO.
Scotland raises £62 billion in taxes, and gets a block grant of £41 billion.

62 is bigger than 41.
I just finished setting up my POW mining rack at the office. We don’t have heat and the rack was unused so now we’re generating heat and hashes. I would think this is just as efficient as an electric heater.
Another theory: SiriusXM bribed carmakers to install satellite radio receivers and to not install HD Radio. The first part is assumed given how Satellite radio receivers are (were?) installed close to universally, even in pretty basic cars. The second is a pretty plausible extension of that.
To quote from BofA's site:

"We also are making our operations more sustainable – including achieving carbon neutrality and procuring 100% renewable electricity in 2019, a year ahead of schedule."

Drastically lower than Bitcoin if this is anything to go by. So low you might as well put BofA into a fossil fuel burn limbo contest.

Given that result took less than three seconds of searching, I'm wondering if you have an ulterior motive in targeting BofA specifically.
I think the question is whether a effective feedback loop exists.

If a local dealer does something bad they quickly receive corresponding response.

A big corp is detached and anonymous. As long as there is no broad boycott there are rare cases where response really reaches them.

If a big corp has a sales force the sales force is responsive to feedback, however the corp then quickly turns anonymous to them and whatever they put in the system doesn't reach the right places ...
Making a serial monitor from the EMF Camp 2014 badge
So, the US Copyright Office will already refuse to issue a copyright for text-prompt-generated AI art, at least if you try a stunt like naming the artist to be the AI program itself.

However, even if an image is not copyrightable, it can still infringe copyright. For example, mechanical reproductions of images are not copyrightable in the US[0] - which is why you even can have public domain imagery on the web. However, if I scan a copyrighted image into my computer, that doesn't launder the copyright away, and I can still be sued for having that image on my website.

Likewise, if I ask an AI to give me someone else's copyrighted work[1], it will happily regurgitate its training set and do that, and that's infringement. This is separate from the question of training the AI itself; even if that is fair use[2], that does nothing for the people using the AI because fair use is not transitive. If I, say, take every YouTube video essay and review on a particular movie and just clip out and re-edit all the movie clips in those reviews, that doesn't make my re-edit fair use. You cannot "reach through" a fair use to infringe copyright.

[0] In Europe there's a concept of neighboring rights, where instead of issuing you a full copyright you get 20 years of ownership instead. This is intended for things like databases and the like. This also applies to images; copyright over there distinguishes between artistic photography (full copyright) and other kinds of photography (20 years neighboring right only). This is also why Wikimedia Commons has a hilarious amount of Italian photos from the 80s in a special PD-Italy category.

[1] Which is not too difficult to do

[2] My current guess is that it is fair use, because the AI can generate novel works if you give it novel input.
Taking notes of these
government involvement is the root of the problem, care used to be familial and community responsibility which we abandoned. I'm already paying the highest average tax rate since the war to pay for current pensions that are unfunded and thereby expect future generations to give me their money when I'm old. Poor outcomes
> More generally it is troubling that the ban implicitly is an attack against general purpose computing.

ASICs that mine Bitcoin are _anything but_ a general purpose computer. It's like saying "banning coal rollers is an affornt against general transportation". I personally would be pretty okay if the ban was against Bitcoin mining ASICs instead, knowing that it does nothing to restrict any other computing freedom.
Work area / subject specialty (and/or interests)? example:

a) transactional systems / game networks over low bandwidth networks

b) embedded systems / ai object detection
Is there anything audio generator that can do video game sound effects or foley
I wouldn't paint everything in black and white. For what concerns the discussed legislation, I think it would be more correct to legislate about goals and leave everybody free on how to achieve them (when needed).
For most products, at least in Europe you can get the same cheap junk of Amazon listings from eBay at 20-40% lower prices, and usually (slightly) higher quality one from brick and mortar stores at the Amazon price.

I avoid Amazon in principle since many years (unless I _really_ need a product there), but that has never been hard, considering that most smaller stores always offered me more convenient prices, less hassle in searching, and the relief of not giving money to such a controversial giant.
Then we can look at the reliability of this year's models. The 2022 Kia EV6 has a reliability rating of Excellent (5/5).

The 2022 Tesla Models 3, S, X, and Y have reliability ratings of Very Good (4/5), Good (3/5), N/A (not enough data), and Good (3/5), respectively.

Consumer Reports does tend to rate Toyota vehicles higher than models from most other makes in general, but the Kia EV6 in particular has been evaluated to be an excellent vehicle.
This is strictly specific to my workflow, but:

- My notes contain all the knowledge I have accumulated.

- I extract new knowledge that is worth being remembered from my notes into my SR system so as to add it to my long-term memory (there is some knowledge that is good keeping in a file but that doesn't necessarily need to be learnt by heart).

- After a few months, I remove that knowledge from my SR system because I consider it has been imprinted into my memory.

I must say that the last step is necessary in my case, because otherwise I would have too many recalls to deal with each day and that would ruin all the fun.

If, after having removed the knowledge from my SR system, I still remember it, good! Otherwise, I consider that, if I wasn't able to retain it, it means it has no use in my immediate environment and/or in my daily/weekly tasks.

So, to summarize quickly: SR is awesome, but in my workflow, not everything needs to be memorized, hence my using SR + notes.
amazon choice and most popular tend to do a lot of the sifting you want.
That sneering misses the mark, IMO.

Other fields definitely have similar problems: Amgen found that they could only replicate about half of the cancer biology papers they tested.

The "replication crisis" showed up in psychology first for a few reasons. First, psychology probably runs the most replications of any field. The experiments themselves are easy to reproduce: all you need to redo a survey project is a Qualtrics account—--or a photocopier. They can often be done fairly quickly, making replications a good "warm-up" project for a new grad student. The field also seems to value replications, at least a little.

Second, psychology is actually quite hard! Some failed replications surely reflect sloppy or sketchy research practices, but many of them are probably due to reflect uncontrolled variables/variance. A physicist can produce an endless stream of photons, all of which are exact copies and totally independent of each other. Psychologists have nothing like that. People's reactions are shaped by their own idiosyncratic biases, their past history, and even what they think the experimenter wants to see. It's often not clear what variables actually matter, and in that sense, "failed" replications are sometimes more interesting than successes.
This idea is a good one for local, but can be crowded. Search Reddit for starting a maid service or lawn service for templates and experiences.

And google “maid/lawn service <city>” for your city and adjacent ones and you might find people using that playbook.
Best Buy uses Ontrac shipping in my area and they are awful.
For those who don't have an account: https://nitter.it/amasad/status/1595557790063304704
Nice, what’s the tech stack?
And yet people making a quarter of the compensation manage to survive.

The median household income in the US is $70K
Delivery has never been faster for me. Most things arrive in less than a day now.

But some things do take longer. I guess it depends on stock levels.
NJ has entered the chat!
As long as they aren't repackaging and redistributing them, why would looking at them be illegal?
There's also freetechbooks.com , which is a database of links to actually Freely available / Open Access books , which includes the license information.
I was just going to say the same thing. IIRC it's Japanese.
Now we just need a bunch of these reactors to power the desalination plants to support all the folks living in the desert.
A couple of years ago the European court of justice actually decided that streaming itself is already illegal. That is, if it's reasonable to assume that you knew it was an illegal stream. I haven't heard about a case of it ever being prosecuted though.
I don't think I should be allowed to buy all the used tires and burn them on my backyard in an open flame next to the local middle school, even if it is my money and my backyard. What do you think?
The web was a much better place 10 years ago.
Yes, every single time
Twitter had a bunch of people employed to sell Twitter to exactly these cohorts, including the journalists (or their publications)
These models will always work best with open datasets and open platforms for this reason.

Social media/"AI ethics" pressure groups will eventually come from these organizations (see Meta's recent debacle with Galactica). Being an unknown org without these pressures was a big reason Stable Diffusion got so popular in the first place.
I love this app and use it frequently. Great excuse to take little walks around town.
It only uses the CPU. Somehow the GPU detection fails.
I have found the official documentation to be excellent if you want to take it for a spin today: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html
AliExpress hasn't fully replaced Amazon for me yet. But I definitely shop at AliExpress more often now. I don't care if shipping takes longer. It's pennies compared to Amazon, which makes a difference when the quality of the items are a mystery. And for name brand items, I just use Costco, Target, and Best Buy unless Amazon has a better sale.
Amazon quotes delivery times up to two weeks for me for prime now.

And it doesn’t even ship (UPS) until a few days before the delivery date. And they still don’t do a good job combining orders.
Looks worth checking out, thanks
How does a similar Nix OS setup compare as far as number of packages? Is Nix just as minimal as Arch?
“Hard to corrupt” is not the choice of phrase I would use, given the last month of cryptocurrency news.
The difference is that while legalized gambling is bad, illegal gambling is much worse, it's more predatory where games can be outright rigged, and it's also funding organized crime and has a corrupting effect on society. A politician owing money to a bank is bad. The same owing money to a mob-affiliated loan shark is worse.

Banning this type of activity has historically proven difficult, it's basically the lesson we keep re-learning with the prohibition, the war on drugs and so forth.
Life isn't binary but full of shades of grey. There are no hard lines.
The Twitter board did not have a choice and were obligated to sell the company since it was in the best interest of the shareholders. If they hadn't sold the company because they didn't like Elon or whatever, they would likely have been sued by the shareholders.
So then explain why the first people to go were in content moderation, trust & safety? That _is_ Twitter’s product after all (brand safety for advertisers), and he gutted that faster than the engineering teams.
Great point, I read that with a personal bias. I also find people tend to think Musk has ASD, though I have no idea if he does.
+1. Blink does this great.
How can a society course-correct without confronting dissent? The sphere of "acceptable" discourse seems to shrink by the day.

Putting on my cynical hat, I could imagine powerful interests using this opportunity to consolidate their power and silence their opposition under the guide of "prevention mis/dis/malinformation" - it's a slippery slope which is easy to abuse if not careful in our approach. This is what I meant by "so much for democracy". I very much hope I'm wrong :)
Arguably, if our culture didn't offload essentially all responsibility for running society off to "democracy" (a magical term that no one really considers the precise, real world manifestation of...another cultural norm/shortcoming, that is strongly culturally enforced, often using conveniently existent memes/psychological-exploits) people may be more interested in problems and insist that they are addressed one way or another.

But alas, this seems to be the equilibrium we're satisfied with (or insist upon) for now.
Thanks for your premature concern, but we'll be fine. Despite how it may appear to a layperson such as yourself, the value of human creativity is in no way diminished by the release of this tool or others like it.
The irreversibility of payments in nearly all crypto systems does NOT prevent providing a refund to a customer. That can always be done by making a new payment to the customer.

One might argue that crypto makes customers unable to demand a refund, or that it is impossible to send a refund to a customer who is so anonymous that the merchant cannot even communicate with them, but these are less obviously a "no-no" for a business.
Crossplane: Unifying platform engineering based on Kubernetes API
> Who is the government to say otherwise?

It's the will of the people and it overrules the will of some cryptobros.
What's the use case? What is "your site" doing that it would need all this computing power?
>they can reskin

The client isn't a reskin of Mullvad's client.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client
vimdiff can be quite cool when combined with <() bash feature (which presents command output as file).

e.g. see color difference of installed packages on local and remote server

vimdiff <( dpkg -l | grep -w ii | awk '{print $2}' | sort -V ) <( ssh REMOTE_SERVER dpkg -l | grep -w ii | awk '{print $2}' | sort -V )
Can an AI-powered insect trap solve a $220B pest problem?
Betteridge’s law would say “no” to the title question.

Click-baity title aside, it’s cool to see a simple combination of hardware & novel software attacking problems that are so basic - perhaps even boring - and yet so globally important.
I’m not convinced that healthcare is a Machiavellian planned top-down threat.

The origin was in employers competing for labor during a time of wage controls.

The continuation is driven more by people who have good health coverage not wanting to lose that and the fear that their doctors visits will feel like DMV visits. That’s a powerful force.
Up until 2020 supposedly, unless they found another way around it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
In fact, stress may hardly vary between being CEO of a $100k and a $1B (annual revenue) company.

Above $1B, you can’t avoid having your name in the press, so that may increase stress on both you and your family.
These days? They won’t lose all their business users immediately, but the shitty $300 laptops with 15” 1366x768 displays are being chipped away at by iPads and Chromebooks, and the less shitty laptops could mostly be replaced by a MacBook Air which is a frighteningly capable computer. I do think making their OS worse is accelerating this.
The EU will just prevent their own citizens from purchasing subscriptions and ads. If anyone's going to block the site in the EU it would be Twitter themselves.
How much did porn actually contribute to innovation in any of those though?
I had the same issue with hungarian language.
Poverty is hard to come by in these United States. If you're starving, or homeless, or unemployed, you've worked yourself into a corner fairly diligently.

There are myriad social safety nets out there for people if they'd only take advantage of them. Yet there are people roaming the streets and picking out of trash cans. Why? Because they've lost their families, they've lost their minds, they struggle with addictions and mental health, so they don't really fit in anywhere.

So you really only manage to be poor by becoming an utter social outcast first. If you can hold down the fort and navigate a bureaucracy, you can get on SNAP, Section 8, Voc. Rehab. and all sorts of programs that will get you back on your feet, courtesy of Uncle Sam, and that's not even counting the faith-based charities you could avail yourself of.
for me the pip install on windows (anaconda) failed installing basicsr:
error: metadata-generation-failed
I think the difference is that gambling addictions are real and lotteries and other legal gambling is somewhat of a form of harm reduction by minimalizing externalities like organized crime. There is no recognized cryptocurrency addiction.
If there was a auditable publicly-viewable record of all lotteries, then it would be practical to simply ban them. As it is, banning them does more harm than good by funding organizations which also commit murder.
The gambling and environmental arguments are both variants of the same social externalities argument. It just happens to be the case that PoW schemes produce both negative externalities, rather than just one.
Got dad a gift certificate for them a few years back but he’s hesitant to send the stuff off for various reasons. I disagree with him but I have to think there are plenty of people who would want the service on-site.
> It is not a waste, but a sacrifice made to make the blockchain strongly immutable

That's a sacrifice for the whole world and not only for the people it benefits though.

And I wish nobody made that sacrifice. I don't quite care about the blockchain being strongly immutable. However, I strongly care about global warming.

> It is not a waste

Well, it is a waste for anybody who does not need this blockchain. And I'm not sure it's that useful even for its current users.

"Don't feed the blockchain!"
Caterpillar’s First Electric Mining Truck Works, but It’s Early Days Yet
Its less efficient than a heater because some energy is wasted computing hashes