skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this quote interesting in the 2022 context of explosive growth in OnlyFans as a side hustle:

However, at the low end of the economic spectrum, many women had to turn to prostitution at some point. Bullough and Bullough (1998) reviewed multiple historical studies that calculated that between 5% and 15% of women in late 19th or early 20th century urban centers engaged in prostitution at some point in their lives. This is a shockingly high figure by modern standards. Evidence suggests that most of these women were not full-time regular prostitutes. More typically, perhaps, they had low-paying office or factory jobs or worked as domestic servants, and they would occasionally supplement their meager incomes by having sex for money.
Anti-recommendation system has potential
I want to give them the benefit of doubt. A person that knows how the system works in practice can actually steer the company in a less dystopian direction. That said, I cannot say that I don't feel a level of discomfort, because it is not made clear what his actual function is going to be there.

edit: added dont
She's got a point: the game provides no clear purpose. Instead, you bring the purpose, and the game gives you a way to achieve it.

We engage in many other "pointless" pursuits: beauty, love, culture, civilization, and indeed, life itself. Everyone "plays" for a different reason, and that makes us human.
You can save a post to read later
Yes but when I tip at a restaurant nobody claims 100 percent of the tip goes to the employee. The restaurant doesn't make any claims at all.

The issue is whether Amazon was deceiving consumers, not whether this practice would otherwise be illegal.
I bet these guys have a lot of unusual legacy requirements, like wanting Motif and remote X11/Xdm to keep working, which takes Ubuntu out of the competition.
This is not new. It's always been more gratifying to eat what you kill
than what someone else did.
Transliteration rules exist, but they change. Me and my sibling have a different latin last name due to this.

As an interesting side effect, you can tell Ukrainians by the way their names are transliterated - it’s Iurii (not Yuri), Olha (not Olga), Hryhorii (not Grigori) etc.
I spent some time breaking down the elements needed for a clean print CSS style sheet on my blog a few years back, plenty of CSS snippets to copy paste:

http://www.undr.com/understatement/2020/the_one_where_we_beg...
In general yes, because of security support.

Moving from 7.4 -> 8.2 will be just as much refactoring as moving from 7.4->8.0->8.1->8.2. Security support is in general three years [0] so everything 7.X is now unsupported. Considering the security cadence you can skip one version, but if you skip two you'll probably be out of security support before you migrate to a new version. My philosophy is if you're going to need to do the work to upgrade anyway, you might as well do smaller chunks more frequently and be able to take advantage of the language goodies that come out earlier.

The amount of the language that gets deprecated every year is PHP's fundamental flaw, at least in the last five years.

[0] https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
I agree that these ads are showing unsafe use. That said, you can only (mostly) hurt yourself with a kayak. A car can hurt other people in many ways. It's the same story with a bike.
Only if I start writing managed code
If Minecraft were made today, Markus would probably have used GPT just like this to generate the end text, rather than trying to find a human writer. I think it's important for all of us to ask ourselves if we think this is a good thing or not. I'm not going to give my opinion because I don't feel like starting an argument this morning, but I think this is an objectively interesting ethical question especially given the context we've all just been given by this post.
Super interesting point, though it's important to note that this extends beyond text (which everyone is understandably focused on after ChatGPT's release).

AI "art" (image gen) is also becoming more popular and lots of interesting business applications around marketing images and product listing images. One thing to note is if you look at something like Amazon where many listings have terrible images, using AI could actually improve them straight away by using some kind of Stable Diffusion / DreamBooth-type model with an API like https://dreamharbor.ai

For more generic images (e.g. for blog posts) where you just want "a dog sat on a cloud" then places like https://lexica.art let you produce these images for free. The key with both of those is learning prompt engineering for which there are tonnes of resources - sites like https://prompthero.com/ are already getting involved in this space and on that dreamharbor site there's a pretty detailed blog post: https://blog.dreamharbor.ai/blog/how-to-write-prompt-stable-...

And then when it comes to video Synthensia is doing some very exciting work - but still some way to go. They could actually enhance international growth by providing better dubbing (potentially).

Exciting times!
I think you have misunderstood either what I said or what they said.

https://variety.com/feature/who-votes-on-oscars-academy-awar...

Each person belongs to one of 17 branches. Each branch nominates for its own category — e.g., editors nominate editors, actors nominate for the four acting categories. Everyone gets to nominate best picture. For the final voting of the winner, all branches vote for everything.
Wait until we find out that it was written by the person who did the copy-pasting :-)
Rss feed with blogs.
I missed one question.

I don't understand why you believe that forcing the process that is requesting the allocation to deal with it is the best thing generally. From a systems perspective, it is actually worse because there's a stronger chance you're killing a nice, stable process that might be critical simply because it lost the lottery.

The OOM killer strategy is to try to reap short lived processes that allocated a lot. From a systems perspective, this is clearly better... though as I said it might be better if you could more easily modify the OOM heuristic.
I find that if you just reply after their message, the chat status goes to "waiting on agent", so you don't get disconnected while they look.
This was when I was at a FFRDC doing work for the DoD, the rules might be different elsewhere but I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same either.
The Walls Are Closing in on Carvana
It's time for this to be a protocol, and built into the browser.
I'm interested. I just wish OP had posted more details.
ChatGPT already seems almost like an good general intelligence. Apparently the finish is just 1-2 steps away. After that, we only are to develop an efficient interface for it to use classic computing (i.e. calculate things, do classic analytical and logical operations on big arrays of data like no human nor human-like intellicece can but an ordinary computer can), speech/text recognition and databases access and we get an an ultimate genius mind like if a human could instantly access any piece of existing knowledge and do mental math/logic at quadrillions operations per second. Isn't it so?
It's so incredibly easy these days to go down some internet rabbit hole and end up with some extreme beliefs.

The popular thing on the news is of course grampa going right wing into facebook rabbit holes or whatever but that's just one example. Teens going left/right going down whatever rabbit holes, eating disorders, other political beliefs, body issues, need I go on. Your kid ends up in some discord group of strangers and sorry but you can pretty much forget about getting him or her back to reality. It's all the same mechanism.

Sure there are nice things too like hobbies but the internet is filled with the freaks and weirdos. They have nowhere else to go to. Why put your child in a pit with them?
I have had the same feeling – "this is okay, but could be way better"; I think a big part is in the lack of context.

Why on earth does the chat person need ask me my account number yet again? I am logged in to the website, they should be able to see that I am Account # 820914 and currently viewing Order # 788321.

Ensuring that this sort of context communication as the lowest bar for an in-app chat would go a long way towards making me prefer it to a conversation where I have to gather and route relevant information.
Hugging Face Safetensors – Safe model format for deep learning models
Hugging Face released its own safe model format for deep learning models called `safetensors`

This format doesn't run arbitrary code on your local, reading the file doesn't require more memory than file itself, you can inspect the file without loading it
Disabling a nuisance in Windows 10 sadly doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll stay disabled for longer than when the next update is installed.
I harbored a thought that this was the prime spreader of COVID back when shutdowns were working. Shared bathrooms.

Is also why I hypothesized that home spread was lower. Since many homes have naturally segregated bathrooms for kids over the parents.

Pretty sure this didn't pan out, mind.
I know some people aren't going to like reading this, but this is the reason I got an office job after working 2+ years remotely.

I am in my mid 20s, working as a software engineer. I have never worked in an office. I live alone in a city where I don't know anyone.

I haven't talked to another person in real life since Thanksgiving.

Will there be bad things about the office? I am 100% sure there will be. But for me the decision to not be remote wasn't even a want, but a need. I am slowly losing my mind, locked up in my apartment, 23 hours a day.

Before someone comments about "go to a rock climbing gym" or "go to a coffee shop" - I tried all of those things. It's not that simple. An office job is a very consistent way to talk to another human person in real life.
Disney wishes you all a very copyrights

https://www.flickr.com/photos/toothycat/480460676/
Those are some pretty serious coax lines. I had no idea anything like that existed. The parts and labor to run lines like that must be… substantial.

Imagine trying to screw one of those into your cable modem!
Would tor be better off if a major (millions of users) free software or browser vendor added always-on tor exit nodes to their releases?

The only solution to this problem that I can see is massive no opt-out adoption until a tipping point is reached.
This article[0] on Apple's new iCloud encryption system seems to be related to the CSAM project. I wonder if this is a sign that Apple are moving in the right direction.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-plans-new-encryption-syst...
> Did the author really expect that he would be getting royalties to all the Minecraft end text teatowels and fridge magnets as part of the deal?

No, and I feel like he made it extremely clear that this story is not really about money and his feelings are not driven by a lack of royalties.
PDF is intended to lock-in page layouts.

If it really mattered, my first step would probably be treating the PDF as an image and convert the image to text.
I've heard so many demoscene/8-bit covers of it at this point that I forgot the earlier versions had acoustic drums!

Some examples from scene.org:
https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2010/aaa10/music/13_pop...
https://files.scene.org/view/music/groups/fusion_music_crew/...
Any tool that can scan for X can easily be modified to scan for Y. The “for the kids” excuse has been used to systematically invade our privacy before.
Was anyone under the impression that this would never have been used for evil?

Today it’s CSAM, tomorrow it’s political memes used to identify dissenters. If you think you’re not living in the worst timeline, you’re wrong.
Interesting read on Lake Urmia!

One thing that terrain is not though is part of the Lake Urmia watershed, as it's high mountains that have obviously been inhabited for a long time.
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0 guy discovered that xerox workstations (like the ones to scan in government archives) corrupted numbers. Thus falsifying documents on a massive scale. Obamas "birth certificate" went through this document shredder.

So distributing, non digital copies. Thats were the lasting value is.

Man: Tons of racists up today. Yes the posted document was altered, no, it was a bug. In dubio pro error..
did you edit the post i replied to so that people can't read what you wrote but are still defending your ego replying to me?

for all the latecomers photogrant made a comment which was the first paragraph of my above comment except he played a bridge design simulator game and wondered why bridge design engineers werent using it to brainstorm solutions.
does anyone make Doomagachis?
8.2 is going to be a stopping point for a lot of projects that rely upon older code that has dynamic properties in classes. It's not a particularly hard fix but I imagine it people will quickly end up in fork/private repo hell as people throw explicit properties on old libraries and cross their fingers.
"Things" is broad.

For basic entertainment, I don't think it's entirely true. To me at least, a great home theater and gigantic back catalogs of damn near everything ever made available in my living room is a flat-out better experience than waiting and hoping for whatever is worth watching to be available in a nearby theater. Learning about the history of a musical genre I get into from AllMusic and Wikipedia, and being able to find the music more or less instantly on Spotify is far better than having to find old issues of New Musical Express and Rolling Stone somewhere in print and then scouring every record store in the city hoping what I wanted was there.

For human interaction, absolutely. You guys are great and all, but back in the high school/college days of hanging out late in a room talking the whole damn night about current events, philosophy, whatever topic we cared about, those resulted in far stronger bonds with people whose faces and names I actually knew. Sometimes friendships. Sometimes touch. Sometimes sex. Lots of basic human needs being met that are not all that well met by reading and typing text.

I don't know how far to take this, though. Remember you're romanticizing the experience of a guy who grew up in the Great Depression. Both my grandfathers are dead now, but they lived until I was at least in my late 20s, so I remember them fairly well, and have learned quite a bit more about them talking with my own parents now that I'm in my 40s and we can talk as adults. Their lives were not great. They suffered through incredible hardship that scarred them terribly. They were closed off, withdrawn, emotionally distant, and abusive to their own families. They killed people and witnessed enormous numbers of their own friends getting killed.

If you ask me was the pre-digital age better than now, you're asking me if my childhood was better than getting old. Of course it was. Everything was new and magical. I was healthy and got better at things and learned quickly. Life now is a boring grind. Is that because the world has gone digital or is it that I've gotten old?
> And eventually Carl threatened to dump me, and get someone else in to write the ending, if I didn’t wrap up the negotiations that day and take his first offer. I was stunned, I didn’t understand what was happening, and so I said, OK, I’ll take whatever the first thing you offered was. The friendship is more important than the money.
Excellent! You might also enjoy:

https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com/archive
I'm shocked they are responding like that in public, really feels like a jab at the community.
I'm sorry I saw this article!

Popcorn rattled around between my ears for about 6 months after it was released. Talk about an earworm. Since I saw the link, it's come back.

[Edit] It's come back with echoes of the Eightsome Reel. Does any other Scots Country Dancer hear a distinct similarity between the music of the Eightsome Reel and Popcorn?
Although I don't really like the ending text for Minecraft at all (and think the author is really too pretentious and self-centered), I like how this blog post reveals himself as an artist with human flaws.

He kinda (but not fully) admits that he had a parasocial relationship with Notch and really though he cared about him (although for Notch the author was probably just a random contactor who would fill the writing for the ending to justify an official release.) Seriously, who thought making the text unscrollable was more than just a light joke? It's probably a jab at the frustrated player who wants to desparately skip the poorly-written wall of text, not a well-thought appreciation of its artistic integrity! He really thought that Notch really liked him as a friend, even though the only time he met him in person was in a random game jam two years ago.

I think the lesson here is: even when the famous person you admire notices you and gives you positive attention, don't assume too far that they really genuinely like you, or even worse, that you two are already "friends". Maybe this is a bit cynical... but in an age where poor artists need to fight to the death on social media for any recognition to sell their work I kinda understand how people would fall for this.
> I don't play Minecraft but my kids do, and I don't think they know Minecraft has an ending? I certainly didn't.

I inherited a server hosting and came across the ending by accident. It was a moment of "What? I can win Minecraft?". Kids were "Yeah. Winning is boring."
We were currently evaluating using GitPod in conjunction with our on-premise GitLab instance. This move by GitPod rugpulled the idea from us since we are handling national (non US) classified data and aren't allowed to upload that data or anything related to it to Cloud companies.

Edit: Misunderstanding, we are only evaluating GitPod, we already have a on-premise Gitlab instance.
SRFI 226: Control Features
It’s almost like when you put more effort into something, it’s more rewarding when it works out…
Codon: A high-performance Python-like compiler using LLVM
Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail
Im not confusing anything.

iCloud CSAM scanning does not do what you described in your last paragraph, you're describing the proposed on device csam scanning. There are many "product features" with a finite set of technical building blocks. Lets break it down:

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Encryption , Storage and Transport:

-Presently, this is considered "strong" on-device where Apple claims they cannot access content on your device and it is encrypted.

-Data sent to their servers as part of the automatic (opt in) photo backup service (icloud photos) is considered fair game to scan and they do that routinely.

-This data is encrypted "End to end". What that means is up for debate since it's taken on a commercial brand shape and isn't a technical guarantee of anything.

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Explicit consent for access and storage:

-This is the point. Your device belongs to you. No one should be snooping around there.

-Apple is presently retiring the aforementioned icloud photo scanning and has simultaneously released a statement that's very obscure in what precisely they mean.

-They indicate that scanning on the server is waayyy too late in preventing CSAM and indicate that they think the best way to prevent CSAM is at the point of origin.

-Of course, what that means is : "Scan everything, when something matches, do an action"

-The "Opt-in" here is for the warnings on a child device, but it is an OS LEVEL FEATURE.

-If some media is being scanned, ALL media is potentially being scanned.

-Presently, for audio, one easy way to reduce your bandwidth costs of backing up, scanning on a server etc is to move everything onto the device itself.

-This has been demonstrated by the Accessibility menu feature i have already called out in my parent comment. You have an audio buffer on your iPhone TODAY that is ALWAYS ACTIVE. When the accessibility toggle is turned on, the contents of this buffer are regularly classified against a trained model.

-When a match occurs, the OS responds with the configured response.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS FRAMEWORK. Swap the media type to any generic type and swap what you're looking for from CSAM to a mention of a political phrase such as abortion. You're asking us to TRUST that the company will never be compelled to do that by authoritarian governments or any hostile entity for that matter? No fucking thank you.
> Why on earth does the chat person need ask me my account number yet again?

Because their integration isn't very good.

Ones I've used, as long as you've configured a way to resolve the user, it pops right up in the service side of the chat system.
I have a very serious problem with what some psychology researchers are doing lately, which is what you mention. They're just using Amazon Mechanical Turk as a way to get a sample population, but it isn't a representative population of anything besides people who work for AMT.

It's lazy and makes for shitty research
Those car vending machines made a compelling image, particularly when you saw them in the landscape in fashionable neighborhoods, but they were... just ridiculous.

Ultimately used cars are a highly competitive business and you can't afford to screw around.
I don’t imagine SAP certification would extend to a community-supported fork of RHEL even if it was a 1:1 clone.
I mean, just search for any $VPN_PROVIDER review. Almost all of them are boilerplate shit that ends with "Click on this affiliate link to get a $VPN_PROVIDER account for a discounted price!". How many "Oh yeah?"s up do you have to go?

Also, here's the pre-emptive "you can use blockchain for that trust network!" comment.
Definitely. Scientists can't function (literally aren't working at the professional level yet) unless they can read critically. The scientific literature is full of holes, mistakes, irrelevant junk, work that the authors don't even realize is 40 years out of date ... all kinds of nonsense. That's always been the case, and it works fine.

The people who insist that anything "peer reviewed" * must be / needs to be gospel are outside science, almost by definition. A few have credentials but are not functioning professionals; some see themselves as lay champions of science; others see themselves as wise lay critics of science. None of them have almost anything relevant to say about how science is doing, because they literally don't know what's under the hood.

*OMG
How is the job market for MFC/ATL? Mostly maintenance/legacy work?
My first "hello world" Windows app was built with MFC, and although I hate it, my heart has a soft spot for it because of that.
Yes, just as Facebook and Instagram are also chasing a piece of the TikTok pie.

But they are not the same, they just share some features that have been added as updates. They are used by the same demographic, which is why I provided the stats for both. I wrote them in response to the claim that 100%, not 50%, of the class uses them which is unlikely. The 50% figure refers to the claim that 50% of the class identifies as non-binary, which is even more unlikely.

Ultimately, we are debating anecdotal exaggerations. Your response to that? You add another anecdote from a third party. Again, this has little value before actual polls and censuses.

You're also confusing two parts of this conversation: one is about gender identities, the other is about app usage. The two topics were brought into the picture with bogus statistics, so I brought them both up. However, they have little to do with each other.