skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if I found out that a black person had a picture of a white person on his computer under the "C" drive, I wouldn't assume that he named the drive "C" for cracker, and wouldn't expect him to prove the "real reason" his drive was named "C"

Agreed!

If, however, all the other drives were named "Photos" and "Recipes" and other descriptive terms, leaving only the C drive as a letter, that'd be interesting. Even more interesting if it's a bunch of photos of white people, and nothing much else on said C drive. If that same person had previously criticized civil rights issues, and was cagey about why they have the one oddly-named drive (https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/xl8bj2/com...), and had a history of putting out racially-focused mods for a game, we might begin to get outright suspicious.

This is what circumstantial evidence is all about; more than one data point leading to a reasonable conclusion. You seem to want to redefine it to a single data point, which giving it's been explained several times now, I have to assume (circumstantial again!) is playing dumb intentionally.
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> At first blush, its too much a one off need, too cheap to have margin on marketing/sales, and there are free competitors.

You are not wrong on any of these points which is partly why it took so long.

If I could take a time machine back in time and give my younger self advice, I would tell myself not to try to start a timeline maker business :).
Why do you assume they over hired, vs using this as a cludgal to force the remaining employees to work longer hours to pick up the slack, and drive down salaries at the same time?
The baseline for comparison tends to be the cultural hegemony. e.g. Hollywood, Standard American Accent. “No accent” is a euphemism for the ubiquitous or most expected accent.
The level of hardship imposed is going to be minimal once the black market structures are in place. These kinds of sanctions may have had an effect in the first few months of the war but that effect has probably vanished to practically nothing by now.

At the same time sanctions and export restrictions impose costs on the US and its allies. Those costs aren't worth it if the restrictions aren't themselves effective, which they almost certainly won't be for common off the shelf components.
> selling tech to other companies

By that measure, Apple and Google aren’t tech companies. (Apple sells devices to consumers. Google sells ads to companies.) They are. They just aren’t software companies.
shhhh... you are on pg's forum. 'Member when he was shilling for this new billion dollar unicorn that was airbnb and how it would revolutionize the hotel industry? Pepperidge Farm remembers....
What is the measurable difference after controlling for what the OP listed?
> The idea that Autopilot has some magic sauce that nobody else can replicate is laughable.

Apparently GM's Supercruise is better, and cheaper.

I got enhanced autopilot in my first Tesla. Except for changing lanes, things like summon and autopark are just toys. The auto lane chance is so glitchy I decided I was better off saving seven grand on my second Tesla.

But if Enhanced Autopilot was 1-2 grand, I'd have bought it without regrets.
> We know that porn is harmful, especially to children

Dataset needed.
Is it like Steve Jobs and his workers took who the abuse because they were paid well? Or they had Stockholm syndrome?
Exactly. I could either take over a back breaking plumbing business and kiss my knees goodbye at 45 or take a cushy software job for a relatively small pay cut.
I pirate everything. Haven't subscribed to a service like Spotify, Netflix, etc. in many years. I can listen to my music in CD-quality and bring it anywhere. Same with any movie, TV show, etc. And I know that no one is selling what I find interesting as analytics data.

At the same time, I want to support creators, and I'll donate/use services like Bandcamp to directly support folks I appreciate. I have a $100/mo "donation" fund.

Has nothing to do with the price as I'm more than happy to support creators. Just not through centralized platform that doesn't respect my freedom.
Our cities are designed for cars. Hell, most of our society is designed around owning a car. It is horrendously impractical in a lot of places to go without a car.

Our public transit systems are largely garbage, if they exist at all. Bike lanes are extremely rare, and are really just used as free car parking.

Take my commute to work for instance. It's about 3 miles, but it would be impossible to bike, as there are huge and dangerous hills. Likewise, walking would be very difficult. It takes about 10 minutes to drive to work, and a bus would be over 40 minutes.

We have major infrastructural failures that make it very impractical to exist without a car in most cases.
Meta, one of the few companies where its worth it to enforce GDPR.
Amazon has AWS, Prime services and robots.

They’re not like the other companies listed.
Well that's not good, because the build quality of the car isn't that great... Seems other companies have caught up in the EV space.
Turns out the TOS violation had nothing whatsoever to do with racism, as so many commenters here were overly confident to proclaim, in typical HN style. It's because he'd linked to prohibited content in the wiki:

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki...

Here's the issue discussing it:

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu...
No. You're trying to shift the focus away from reality and on to an imaginary world where an industry that has consistently lied and done the worst thing they can get away with will do the right thing if we stop holding them to account. And where the very real externalities at mines and fabrication plants and enrichment plants and reprocessing plants that have been accumulating since the 50s are not allowed to be spoken about. And where there will never be an actually bad accident in spite of the yearly near misses and frequent events that 'can never happen'. And where the promises of reactors that exist on paper will come true despite that being the opposite of what happened every single other time.

And you're positioning dealing with this as necessary due to an imagined need that can't be better solved with alternatives.

And instead of acknowledging the industry's unbroken history of gaslighting and lies you are positioning anything other than credulous paying of the scammers to continue doing nothing other than grift as an unfounded panic.
Yeah, most of my GDPR complaints for some egregious behaviour just went to /dev/null (I guess because they were about local telecom and service companies, important for national interest).

GDPR seems to be more and more about getting handouts from US companies and lacks an effective enforcement path for smaller violators.
Fisker is trying it and should have a car to market next year. They've been hitting all their targets.

They outsource their manufacturing to Magna Steyr.
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For the amount of profit Meta makes this isn't such a big fine.
Purhase a trash can with a sturdy lid. Problem solved.

Get a bunch of nets for your fruit trees. Not pretty, but problem solved.
I never stopped pirating, I watch movies once a week at most.

All my friends rely on streaming services, every few weeks we have a movie night, 50% of the time we can't find the movie we plan on watching even though they have 4 or 5 services, and when we find the movie we have another 50% chance of it not being available in OV.

Even when it works flawlessly, and even if you pay for the "Uber+ 8k topmaxi over resolution" option you have the same bitrate as when you were buying a DVD for 3 euros in 2005

Also, 90% of the created content is absolute garbage, sometimes we boot netflix just to scroll for literally 20 minutes in quest for something to watch before giving up
> I'd like to see you explain how you can you observe a rule.

You need to read what I say more closely. I did not say that science observes rules. I said that science seeks good explanations for observations, and it just so happens that the best explanations for how nature behaves turn out to look like rules.
Excellent point!
It would be great if the author could clarify the distinction (or not) between hardware architecture and the emerging life thing going on.
I am sure its there somewhere but would be great to see it in the intro video without having to navigate over hours of footage to find out.
Amazon's AWS definitely should be treated as tech.
I wonder if they'd still be around if they weren't acquired?
And in those US parts there were Chinese parts...
There is a huge anti-globalization wave.

To me, this is just slow day at CNN.
For me it is not about monetization anymore, it is about convenience.
I would gladly pay netflix or any other provider to have access to movies I want to actually watch. Right now it is more about what netflix wants me to watch. So I usually pay netflix for month or two when I there is something I want to watch and cancel subscription shortly after.
I think rent/buy model is more sustainable here then pure streaming services.

For games I rarely pirate something, steam/gog/xbox are just too convenient for me. Unless it is something on the platform I don't have, but I still want to play it in an emulator.

Music is sort of middle ground. I am ok with content selection major stream providers have now. So basically the only thing I care about is to platform to not mess with me with some bullshit features. I switched from spotify, because I got tired of how their android and mac apps work.
Tesla owns so much data that it has collected(and will only continue to amass more in the future)from its customers that it is the very definition of a successful tech company. Economist is an embarrassment for journalism.
The reddit post isn't comparing to 8 year old sensors.

Also, sensors on consumer cameras haven't actually changed much in the past 8 years (marketing hype to the contrary). Low light performance is a bit better, but that's unlikely to have been a major factor in the OP's comparison given the use of an f1.8 lens.

This page is useful for comparing old and new: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/image-comparison You can see some improvements from newer cameras with the same resolution, but it's not a huge difference.
If there’s a way we can get Reddit to >33% I’d love to help. Let’s watch the policymakers struggle when they have to explain when you need to upload your drivers license to view /r/cats.

Nothing helps fight stupid laws more than when they get in the way of regular people doing completely unrelated things.
I use Halide on my iPhone, and it does exactly what you say.

It also reduces the perceived image quality from the phone drastically in anything but the best light, which (I think) supports my point.

Without computational photography they are acceptable at best; with it they strip a lot of artistic agency.

I use mine quite a lot for exactly that type of stuff but I don't even think about touching it for anything I want to edit.
And just like that, Nord VPN will see a huge spike in Louisiana users.
It is the nolan bushnel way of locking up things. He would buy up capacity at different foundries to lock out competitors from building their own game system. When WB bought atari out they stopped doing that and we had a few dozen competitors within 2 years.

Basically suck all the energy out of the room and lock out any possible competitors. MS employed a similar strategy in the late 90s. FAANG does the exact same thing now.
*Preceden’s (not PrecedenT’s) :D
Looking for better information on exactly what components were on the board I found these references:

contains many references to pictures and such.
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/iranian-drones-i...

Most remarkably
https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1577619774292606976

I think to understand the problem you need to see a list of components that are being used but also to understand that substitution is relatively easy in today's world of cross platform embedded systems. I have ordered many of these boards from places like DigiKey and Mouser. Here is on example:

https://os.mbed.com/platforms/

Many of these boards are capable of providing the flight control systems for these drones.
Libraries have to play in the rules the publishers give them or else they get cut off from the supply of ebooks. They already have to pay more for the ebooks that expire after a certain number of loans.
Some of the problems I think I’m seeing around streaming right now is that every media conglomerate is trying to extract the most they can from consumers. Media companies are debasing cable packages and streaming cable-like packages (Sling, etc.) where their channels and on-demand content is aging and lowering in quality and availability. They increasingly seem like platforms to advertise the Plus versions of services where valued content and new original content is moving rapidly to paid streaming, e.g. Discovery+, Paramount+, HBO+, Disney+, etc.

While this extraction reality sucks but I feel like there’s a game to play here that’s still better than piracy though.
Streetcars are "EV's". They've been gaining traction for a 100 years and more.
Sounds like meta would be better off blocking the whole continent. Their services are obviously not desired there.
Intellectual property is an artificial, legal notion with a specific stated Constitutional purpose. It's not God-given either. It is also supposed to be limited, but currently it's 100+ years which is effectively unlimited since it's beyond a normal human lifetime.

The current situation overly incentivizes creation of intellectual property, particularly entertainment. Did we really need 50+ cable channels with shows 24/7? Did we need endless talk shows in the 90's and reality shows in the 00's? Do we need remakes upon remakes upon remakes of franchises of stuff?

If copyright returned to sane durations instead of the corporate-legacy-creating ones in effect currently, or even didn't exist at all, much of the resources that go into entertainment might go into better, less wasteful uses, or might go into developing actual novel entertainment.

> This whole thing just reeks of entitlement.

DRM schemes also reveal that entitlement goes both ways. External companies don't have a god given right to tell me I cannot watch X on my screen or download X.

Subjecting my personal property to surveillance to enforce a parallel to this old world is too far.
Tesla is a battery manufacturer that happens to make cars. Remember, they also make the Powerwall and grid-scale storage.

I think the bigger question we should ask ourselves is, "What is a tech company?"
You can't use IaC to change third-party API keys. And woe unto any service that doesn't allow multiple keys because then you're looking at outages.
The massive state, federal, and local bureaucracies shaping the public & private realm to always guarantee easy parking for automobiles & a network of high-throughput roadways between them yet only occasionally & reluctantly doing the same for other modes of transportation. Note that guaranteeing easy parking for automobiles also results in destinations being so far apart that other modes of transport usually become impractical.
One thing that helped me was when I was full time at Automattic, I intentionally started using my engineering skills to help the marketing team, and eventually was able to switch completely over to the marketing team to help with landing pages, analytics, attribution, data, etc. I was able to learn a lot about marketing through that experience and it helped me get a lot more savvy about it for Preceden (though it still doesn't come naturally to me). You don't have to go that route though - the Microconf videos are excellent sources of marketing advice - but if you can immerse yourself in that world in your full time job, it will go a long way.
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I think parent is thinking about the Mozilla Suite.[1] The browser later became Firefox.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_early_version_history
Bars and other places that sell alcohol generally don't keep your ID on file though, that's the big privacy issue. If you go to an adult store and want to buy porn, they look at your picture to make sure it's you, and check the D.O.B. Then they pretty much forget you were there.

"Protect the children" is the perfect cover for so many terribly invasive laws. I personally won't sacrifice my privacy to "protect children", and neither should you, because these children will eventually grow up to be adults who would presumably enjoy a right to privacy.

> The fact of the matter is porn is accessible to children within seconds and for the last 30 years we have done virtually nothing to try to prevent it. We know that porn is harmful, especially to children, and we have done NOTHING to try to prevent it.

The government isn't a parent and shouldn't act like one. Parents and schools can take advantage of any one of the many services which provide content filtering for kids. Once they're old enough the get around those blockers and access things anyway, there isn't anything you or the government will be able to do to stop them from accessing content. See: torrenting movies and TV, sharing plans for 3d printed weapons, child porn still being a massive problem despite being very illegal pretty much globally.
What happened in 2020 that made investors think Tesla was a tech company instead of a car company? Based on the graph in TFA, it seems like investors maybe used to price the valuation right. (Caveat: I have no idea if they did, but the valuation used to be in line with other car companies, I guess?)
> We know that porn is harmful, especially to children, and we have done NOTHING to try to prevent it.

Citation needed. For every study claiming harm there are a multitude that refute the findings, nearly universally with better controls and a larger dataset.
Is this in the US store or elsewhere? I swear I can’t find that option. :(

Thanks.
The goal posts aren't moving, or not more than in any other technology.

The graphics of the N64 where super realistic at the time and people will complain that COD games from 3 years ago looks dated.

When will graphics be done? when they are higher fidelity than what we can perceive and we can no longer distinguish under no limitations of view time and input. When will AGI be done? when a human can no longer distinguish between a computer and human without limitations on time and input.

But I guess there is no article writing left to do than is there?
DRM problems are very different depending on the medium.

I do buy many games, mainstream and not, and actually play them. In the big picture, DRM is not as not as bad as depicted; the vast majority of games rely only on Steam DRM, which isn't problematic.

Vocal game DRM opponents actually refer to a small section of the games landscape (AAA with Denuvo, mostly), so it's really something players love to hate.

I definitely had DRM problems a couple of times I can remember of. Definitely gave me problems, but it was a small percentage of the games I've played. If there's a problem, I don't disagree with getting a refund and pirate it.

Books are another story. In that case, I think that DRM is evil without exception, because it's important for me to use my own tools on books, which DRM prevents. Differently from games though, there are multiple distribution channels for books, and one may find more expensive non-DRM'ed versions.

(movies a different matter as well, which has been discussed quite extensively)
Aside from the absolute absurdity of this.. especially from one of the states that value "freedom" more than anything else cough cough.

How does this even work legally? If pornhub is not physically located in Lousiana but only accessible from there.. why do they even have to comply with this law? What would be consequences of not doing so? Would the only result be that Lousiana ISPs be forced to block them?
No, the previous leadership of Iran (the Shah) was installed by the US, which was then removed in the 1979 islamic revolution.
If you're browsing in Louisiana, expect to see the ads for VPN providers get a bit racier...
I mean the idea that Elon Musk could extend Tesla into a robot company is laughable — and as laughable all the other things Elon Musk has actually accomplished.
Makes sense... We're also seeing energy efficiency and model size and latency becoming significant constraints these days, and the more unique constraints an application has, perhaps the more beneficial it is to have many different implementations with different tradeoffs.
I'd love a website I could enter my account info for these streaming sites and turn each one on, one month at a time, with a click of a button. This would attract the ire of streaming companies though.
That's what I read the title as, and was fairly confused to see two feathered friends in the opening image.
> if they were carded for buying a pornographic magazine and I'm certain everyone here would not suggest children should be allowed to purchase such magazines. Why should it be any different online?

In one case your age is verified and that's it.

In the other your information is entered into a database that _might_ contain compromising information that may be used to blackmail you (e.g. you might be gay and not wish to disclose that fact to the world).

The first worries me very litte - the second worries me a lot.
It's funny hearing people debate this topic on HN where the community skews heavily male. The vast majority of women have experienced both of these states of mind and in fact do so on a monthly basis. Three weeks out of the month I get hungry, I eat, I get full, and I don't feel hungry again or think about food at all for hours. You could put a cupcake in front of my face when I was full and I wouldn't even look at it. It requires zero effort to behave this way. Yet during that fourth week I get a constant gnawing feeling in my stomach that never goes away except in the first few minutes after eating something (usually simple carbs). I think about food nearly every minute of the day. Then one day it's like a switch flips and I'm back to having a perfectly normal appetite and satiety signals. It's an excellent lesson in how we're all at the mercy of our biology to some extent.
This is why we have docker
Because it’s an embarrassing product and Jassy doesn’t love it like Bezos.
This is a fairly ridiculous amount of performance, all things considered.

It always seemed to me like SIMD/AVX/etc would eventually come for the GPU's lunch money... How many more product generations of "SIMD on steroids" before this is practically true?

The latency factor is the biggest thing for me. The GPU is a turtle compared to CPU-bound techniques. I can see emerging applications for this in real-time/streaming where every millisecond counts.
The standard matters not at all. What matters is what students and parents end up seeing.
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It's probably dangerous economically to change from English as a primary language to Irish.

I'm sure there's an argument for culture but those are subjective and often backed with emotions