skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I hope there isn't a time in the future when people see the current wave of anti-racism, anti-slavery, and anti-misogyny as just a silly fad we had in the early 21st century.

Maybe not, but there'll definitely be a time in the future when the current puritanical wave will be seen as a fad, an embarrassment in human history.

"You mean people actually self-censored in case they were punished for thoughtcrime?"

"Yes, grandson."
This is why I don't invest in single stocks. It was clear back in 2015/16 that Intel was in quite a bit of trouble but their stock continued a really good run up. Even the board was clearly worried by 2018 and got rid of the CEO on a pretext. I've no real information of how they're doing internally now but they've clearly got some good people and put some better leadership in, but now their stock is languishing... I guess they've just got to white knuckle it through the next 5 years and hope they deliver.
All of this is motivated by the desire to resale old crap to modern audiences that don't like to put up with some parts of it.

In a world without copyright new generation would just create derived stories however they liked. In our world of copyright you have to alter the old stuff and pretend it's always been like that to keep selling it like it's fresh.
Agreed.

When I’ve set up a ‘quiz’ like this (actually a solar savings calculator) what I did is ask ‘shall we send you a pdf copy of your report by email, and follow up with more info?’

I don’t want any leads who feel forced into it anyway, that feels wrong, and will hurt my email deliverability.
> Bullshit argument. How would such a cleanup even work?

The lowest radiation exposure that is scientifically proven to cause increased cancer risk is ~100mSv, and even then the risk increase is, well, almost unmeasurable.

> You DO understand that exposure to radiation is cumulative

It's not, though, or at least nowhere linear. For continous exposure, <20mSv/year is considered safe enough (if you're a flight attendant, for example). If you compress 50 years of that exposure into a single flight, you get 1000mSv, and probably radiation sickness, possibly death soon after.

When cleaning up after the Fukushima incident, the original plan was to scrub down areas and remove topsoil in areas with >5mSv/year exposure. This was later reduced to anywhere with >1mSv/year. Not only is that 20x lower than what is considered safe, it's also less than the average exposure from "normal" sources in most other areas.

Furthermore, when applying the $1 trillion number, it usually includes compensation to the population, primarily for the evacuation. That part is higher than the actual cleanup.

Now apply this benchmark to lignite. What are the lowest measurable exposure to pollutants that can be shown to increase the risk of severe illness (respiratory, cancer,etc)?

Now find that number, divide by 20, and do the same kind of cleanup (scrub down, topsoil reduction, etc) in all those areas where people are exposed to such levels of pollution. (Hint: it will be most of Germany.)

Then evacuate all areas where people are subjected to health hazards comparable to 50mSv of radiation, from lignite polution. (Probably millions, if not 10s of millions).

On top of that, provide compensation to anyone that has been affected by such polution, at the same amount per unit health impact, as well as, obviously the evacuation above.

Obviously, this is impossible. Germany simply doesn't have the economic resources to do this.

If the Japanese had the same standards for handling the effects of the Fukushima incident as Germans have for dealing with the ongoing polution from lignite, the "cleanup" would be quite cheap.
MS is blackmailing a gov. UK in that case. Proofs MS is way too big - should be a lot smaller, 5-6 times ? Thank you UK !

Edit:

Wait, I wasn't thinking there. 5-6 times ?? Let's count: os, cloud, aps, games and games hardwere - that 4 - 5 without improving competition in any of that domains ! 8 - 15 is resonable number then ;) But, for sure, cloud, os and apps should be separated.
erm, french is a bit weird on this IIRC.
I just added details about the parts cost. The total for the project is $17.11 not including the vibration motor; I bought them several years ago and forgot how much I paid for them.
Oh great I’d love to hear how your progress goes! My email is in my profile if you’d like to follow up there, tho I will also check back here in the future.

No experience myself! I am an open source robotics engineer passionate about open systems, but am sufficiently busy with my robotics work I’ve not yet been able to dip in to mastodon dev. I hear that consuming the data is very easy tho! See the other reply to my top level comment here for someone else’s mastodon project in a similar vein. Good luck and godspeed!
If you don't follow a strictly sanctioned path, nobody will want to publish your book or produce your film.

Netflix has the custom to massively rewrite history in their productions. And some people think this is ok. Some do not.

See Egiptians suing Netflix over historical drama: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-sued-egyptian-la...
On an ancient temple near Bangalaru, I saw a small metal sign nailed on that warned of a 500 rupee fine for defacement.

I wondered if the worker who had affixed the rusty plaque had paid the fine.
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Although Telegram still claims

> To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.
https://telegram.org/faq

and the Telegram transparency bot states when queried from Germany

> No transparency report is available for your region. If any IP addresses or phone numbers are shared in accordance with 8.3 of the Privacy Policy, we will publish a transparency report within 6 months of it happening and will continue publishing semiannual reports.

German prosecutors seem to have received such information

> There were then some direct talks between representatives of the Ministry of Interior and the Telegram founder and boss, the Russian Pavel Durov. It was said that a willingness to cooperate was signaled. Telegram even named a direct contact person for the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). ... The BKA has requested such data as email or IP addresses in "230 exemplary cases" so far. Only in slightly more than 60 cases was there even a response, and only in 25 cases was data actually transmitted.
translated from https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/telegram-justiz-1...

So someone is lying and I doubt it's the German government which is trying to pressure them to give up even more data.
> The job market is not our god

Thank the FSM it isn't. But then again, a god is not what determines the price of any given type of work. That would be not a god but… salary negotiations (at the individual level) and more generally the job market (in the larger statistical view)

> Life is not some kind of economic art project.

Neither are salaries. Nothing artsy about them. Instead, they are simply determined by the level at which two sides find together in agreement to the exchange of work against money for a price they mutually agree upon. "Job Market" is just the word for the statistical view across all individual such transactions.
FWIW I usually use "spontan" like "ungeplant" (unplanned). Maybe there's even differences for native speakers in different parts of Germany (wouldn't surprise me, especially between East and West).
What to expect from 6G: Takeaways from early global research
Fucking love oven roasted fat potatoes with the skin on. I never make fries at home, exactly for the health reasons (also I don't have a fryer). But still, sometimes fries and a beer are a great combo, especially if you get excellent fries.
There are 360MM people who aren't German, but are EU citizens and have the right to work in Germany without a permanent residence permit.
And maybe someday we'll have a discussion about the forced superiority complex with which euros insert themselves into online conversations.
Plus prohibition was very much framed as a women’s rights issue.
There's reason to believe that specially when you realize VK is actively monitored by Russia and Pavel doesn't care about it at all.
Or if you're going to insist on a touchscreen, perhaps add some tactile feedback mechanism. Smartphones figured this out years ago.
Maybe I just have a different view of pricing, but I find €120 a year for 2TB with unlimited versions, ability to share files of any size, rock solid syncing on all my devices etc to be extremely cheap!
Also Hollywood's fight for China damaged its reputation at home as well - i.e. removing/censoring black people from posters in China. Nobody likes hypocrites.
Completely agree - I love the Economist as a magazine, but will never be a subscriber again after how much time it took to cancel.
> We live in a democracy or not?

Not really, no.

Setting aside pedantry about the US being a republic and not a pure democracy, the fact is that wealthy elites decide election outcomes now. You ended up with Trump because elites in Russia wanted him elected more than elites in the US wanted Clinton. You got rid of him because elites in the US had woken up to the fact that they weren't the only player in that game anymore.

Culture wars are a proxy battlefield in much the same way that Ukraine is.
> Are you associated with deepfloyd?

No, I’m not affiliated with StabilityAI

> It’s not a major leap not even a small one because it’s exactly like imagen.

I would agree, if imagen was a “consumer-available t2i model”. What’s available is a research paper with demo images from Google. The model itself is locked up inside Google, notionally because they haven’t solved filtering issues with it.

> Look at the afghan girl example again it. Close up portrait, same clothing, same comp, expressive eyes…

You look at it again, literally none of those things are the same: its not the same clothing (the material and color of the head scarf is different, the headscarf is the only visible clothing in the DF image, whereas that is not the case in the famous image), the condition of the head scarf is different, the hair color is different, the hair style is different, the hair texture is different, the face shape is different, the individual facial features are different, the eye color is much more brown in the DF image, the facial expression is different, the DF image has lipstick and eyeshadow, the famous image has a dirty face and no makeup, the headscarf is worn differently in the two images, the background is different, the lighting is different, and the faces are framed differently.

The similarities are (1) its a close up portrait, (2) a general ethnic similarity, and (3) they are both wearing a red (though very different red) head scarf, (4) and they are both looking straight into the camera. (2)-(4) are explicitly prompted, (1) is strongly implied in the prompt addressing nothing that isn’t related to the face/head. This isn’t “overfitting on a copyright image” its getting what you prompt, with no other similarity to the existing image.

> You guys all want it to be something special and I get it,

I’m actually kind of annoyed, because I’ve been collecting tooling, checkpoints, and other support for, and spending quite a bit of time getting proficient in dealing with the quirks of, Stable Diffusion. But, that’s life.

> it’s neither a good architecture nor a good implementation.

I’d be interested in hearing your specific criticism of the architecture and implementation, but hopefully its more grounded in fact than your criticism of the one image...
Could you add the commands you used to generate the migrations?
'publicly funded' would be more appropriate but then I'd also like to see 'commercially funded' for all the private media outlets. The majority of NPR funding is not from the government so 'public' is more correct in that sense.

Voice of America you could call 'government funded'.
Equation Group, who are operating alongside the creators of stuxnet and flame. If you got the time you should look into the leaks from the shadow brokers. There were many cool tools and the messages from TSB were fun to read.

Also yea, the NSA listened to Merkels phone.
Heh, ironic that a user named cyberpunk is defending the corporate default.

Advocating for change is not invalidated by hypocritical details. Don't be that guy.
They are. But car with touchscreen are more powerful which is always linked to higher fees. So hard to say which feature causes what.
wow, i am genuinely impressed! super snappy. I wonder whether it could be used to tackle a real pain point of mine. I work a lot with data, visualisations with jupiter notebooks. There are essentially two approaches: matplotlib, which outputs pngs/svgs. The notebooks stay fast but they are not interactive. The other is approaches like plotly, js-based, interactive, very useful but it gets slow really fast. I can not handle a lot of data. It can not handle a lot of plots. A simple, interactive plotting library with a focus on speed would be immensely useful! With python bindings. Could be a fun weekend project. I don't know any rust though, anybody up to collaborate? :P

I bet the canvas approach would not slow-down the notebook.
Even though most of these we can do locally?
Well, are they wrong? When we filter out all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Are they wrong?

> They found a couple of issues in the last year which had no impact on the election and wouldn't have.

"A couple of issues" ?

Does the voting machine software's build system NOT download unaudited proprietary manufacturer shared objects from the internet? Because that's the conclusion I came to after I read that document. That's a clear supply chain attack vector. The same type of attack vector that plagues Javascript and Python developers, many of whom post here on this very site. Yet this is supposed to be "conspiracy theory".

Am I wrong about this? So far I haven't seen anything to make me think I am. Do you have any critical information I'm missing?

When faced with this, the TSE judge just archived it with some "thanks for the code review" comment and that was the end of it. Then he says the system's "unquestionable". Then he fines Bolsonaro's party 22 million for the "bad faith" of questioning it. I don't trust it for a second.
I do this on Gentoo but nobody likes to run Gentoo in production.
What we teach children, should reflect the current "best" values (Very subjective in some areas ...) and at some age critical thinking and ability to question values. For that the books, movies, ... we grew up with probably aren't always the best.

When being old enough to put in context there are way less problems with older things, as one understands how some views on things changed and one can question old role models as well as the change.
When you ship javascript, the Browser already has a lot of the bigger libraries built in. When you ship rust/wasm, you need to ship all of the basic types like Strings, Vecs, + a lot of the std
> ...sensitivity readers...

I have no experience with sensitivity readers. I also have no problems with checking texts prior to publication to look for parts that are offensive to (minority/disadvantaged) groups. That doesn't mean the text shouldn't offend any individual - nor even that it shouldn't offend groups.

It does ensure that if you're being rude to some group in your text, you're doing that on purpose.
I agree. I'm still annoyed that they started censoring It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. For example, they (Hulu) removed one episode where one of the characters does a black face. But the whole point of the show is to surface these social and political issues in a comedic way. They're not endorsing black facing, they're saying it's wrong. That's why it's funny.

This also reminds of something the comedian Ricky Gervais often says (I'm paraphrasing): You can joke about everything. The problem is people mistaking the target of the joke with the subject.
Then they should commission King to create content for their platform, or make their platform competitive with IOS/Play/Samsung stores to attract publishers.

Platforms buying their content creators to make them exclusives is anti-competitive so I'm glad the CMA has done something, wish they would do it more often.
In my comment I didn't actually refer to the editing of documents, it was more a meta comment on the definition of history.

> They are altering existing works written by people who are long dead, without making it clear to the reader/viewer what has been changed.

Have you heard of this thing called "the bible"? It's been regularly altered for almost 2000 years without making it clear to the reader/viewer how and why. Yes, that's a hyperbolic point but it's to show that editing of past works is not new. Writings, paintings, stories, etc... have long been edited and referred to as the original.
If forging money or documents is bad, from society's point of view, why isn't forging works of art, bad, too?

The truth is only one, we can't have different true versions of the same fact. If there are multiple versions of something, one is true while the other are fakes.
On the parallel note, OneNote can do calculations i.e. write 123*456= and OneNote will automatically add result.
The haptics in the trackpads for the Steam Deck are pretty good. They manage to communicate textures and boundaries on the trackpad. They're not magical, but they are a bit step above anything I've used anywhere else.
If you asked me which part of the company decided to shove telemetry in the product, my last guess would be the software engineers.
POC only spaces, vs other Non-POC spaces. POC residence, vs Non-POC residence.

I can see how these would be considered a silly part of the current anti-racist movement.

Thank god they weren't in place when I went to school. My kids wouldn't be here.
They were talking about it being hard/easy to leave, which seemed like a single data point. I'm on T-Mobile, and I like them, and I'm not surprised to hear that they have good support for leaving. But I still have had at least one experience where I had to furiously remove myself from their store over some bs they pulled. Should I now boycott them? I'm not even talking about the principle of second chances, but just that I'd run out of providers real quick if I had to boycott them for every one or two offences, as much as maybe I'd like to.
This is probably not even the right debate to be having. It's just the debate or goal that historically oppressed and mistreated groups feel is maybe attainable.

In a world where Black Americans can't reasonably expect the authorities to not shoot them essentially for being Black in America, they can ask for racist, pro-slavery symbols or guns or similar to be edited out of popular fiction or removed from public spaces in the form of statues and maybe get it.

I recall reading that some Black artist was told his song about wanting to kill the cops was not okay. Cops can kill Blacks. Blacks can't sing about how that makes them feel.

So not all people are equally allowed to express their artistic vision or their feelings or their lived reality and it's too much to ask to be treated like human beings or even allowed a voice of their own, so the ask is for others to tone it down as a hoped for step in the right direction.

I don't know what the solution is. I wish we (in the US) fed people in prison better and had enough decent affordable housing for starters but even those modest goals seem completely out of reach.
That already exists. It's called torrent trackers.

There used to be one called what.cd [0] that, to me, was like the Library of Alexandria, but for music. It was burned down in the name of commercial interest.

It might not be legal, but that's because the industry's interest is diametrically opposed to ours.

If it's moral and worthy of support, I'll leave for you to decide.

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3de7vj/remembering-whatcd-th...
Why don't you host an instance of snac and read posts from there?

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
I do both of these on Ubuntu just in case one of them doesn't work, too many apt hooks constantly changing the kernel...
Any plans on trying functional programming aswell?
ISTM like you haven't fully grasped the fractal nature of, well, nature.

At one scale, it's chaos. 1 or 2 scales up or down (in time or in space) it's stable. It's like that all the way up and all the way down.

Oh, and not only are the scale levels not just spacial or temporal but both, but the number of levels is itself non integer.

But the point is that even chaotic systems often display order if you find the right place or perspective to stand and look.

You can't say "it's not stable". Not ever. Rocks aren't stable over aeons. Galaxies aren't. Protons aren't if you wait long enough.

But it is often possible to measure the rates of change and of complexity and say, look, given greater levels of complexity, then lower rates of change will probably hold...

Even given a famine or a plague that's currently devastating one region.
Any analysis on what is being sent to their telemetry service? Doesn't seem to be in that thread.

I don't see why people are getting so irked about this, without knowing any details of what data Dropbox is receiving.
> The left masked children for years, while the right killed off its old people by indulging and in some cases encouraging their skepticism over vaccines.

Some epic "both-sides-are-the-same" from someone who doesn't appear to know that "enlightened centrist" is an insult directed at him:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Enlightened%...
> I guess becausse someone made lots of money from it or it became popular or something.

No, it’s because it was useful and simple in a way that non-techies could and would set up and use. That’s why Dropbox got popular.
> though probably no one cares tbh

I hope so.
Do you need to look at your computer mouse to "click" the button(s)?

Assuming you possess this basic competence, I find myself wondering how you managed to purchase a vehicle with such absurd ergonomics.

You have a strange, poorly designed vehicle

This "big dashboard full of buttons." Please provide a picture. Is this a custom design?

"For me, when things get dangerous, its [sic] when pressing the button (physical or touch) doesn't do what its [sic] suppose [sic] to do."

What actions are you referring to? Changing the audio volume? The interior fan speed?

You may want to consider researching your vehicle purchases more rigorously.
So can't we just give those well metrics to get under. Or tell them that make it feel "snappy". And not accept the result until it feels good enough.

They are paid to do a job. Just have to specify what that job is in a correct way.
Pavel has no control over VK. He sold all his stake when he left Russia.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/31/5363990/how-putins-cronie...
Vulgar display of entitlement there, they clearly aren't used to hearing the word "no" from legislators or regulators.

They have quite some interesting virtue signaling material online too.

> "We have a collective opportunity and responsibility to create a more inclusive, equitable, sustainable, and trusted future. "

> "We are committed to support inclusive economic growth, protect fundamental rights, create a sustainable future, and earn trust."

> "We believe technology companies have a responsibility to help protect democratic processes and institutions."

It's all so predictable and tiresome.
Just tell me that we won't have to replace our phones.
https://www.gov.br/defesa/pt-br/centrais-de-conteudo/relator...

they said they couldn't point to any security risks that would invalidate the whole process.

I would like to read more about these findings, I can't find them anywhere and feel like I can only find them in alternative media sites.
Does it really tho? Can't come up with an example of the second meaning right now.
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