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Just popping in to say that no you can't use the word "tokenomics" to mean that. Argh.

Absolutely.

I dunno.. if we just assume everyone around us is gonna be an asshole then we can never have nice things. In order to be able to take the subway I'm willing to assume that not every person in the car is gonna blast their personal music preference at max volume. Yes it is possible for them to do that but that doesn't mean it's on me to invent super smart headphones to block that out. At some point, in some cases, "please don't" is in fact a valid security response.

This would've been a lot less confusing if they'd used

let radius = d * random(random(random()))

instead of

let radius = d * (1 - random(random(random())))

But, if so, probably so much less confusing that folks wouldn't be talking about it here, to be honest.

Or check this video where he does just that https://youtu.be/sdrkvTPnuTw

I am not so worried about smallish spikes in gamma radiation but I think we should all be concerned about longer term impacts of small particles of DU scattered across large area, making it's way into food supply etc. It's sort of inevitable once you have a lot of it in-theater.

This is how generative AI art should've been done the first time

* get rights to the training data * keep artists and illustrators in the loop

Could've saved a lot of pain.

Sounds very human, lol.

One of the most pernicious problems with submodules is way that anyone who finds them problematic thinks its their own fault, and people who have finally figured out how they work (sort of) are so dang pleased with themselves they are now fully indoctrinated into submodule cognitive dissonance. Meanwhile git submodules themselves are leaving massive footguns all over the place, are an absolute nightmare during complex merges and are absolutely terrible for code transparency.

"You have been a great employee... <x> .. had to let you go".

Textshop, in-paint the rest with something nice, will ya.. oh and add a friendly sign off.

I'm with you also. But it is getting harder and harder. I'm convinced that Facebook are actively downgrading their in-browser mobile experience for this reason. They want to force you to use their app. Reddit, at least, are more honest about it - but also very annoying.

Features that used to work just fine (tagging people, editing comments) are becoming worse.

I have no idea who you are but the fact you're interested in debt and in NZ makes me wonder if you'd be interested in a project we're working on https://cashless.social

Understandable given how dry - but you may want to tweak the settings on your sarcasm detector.

I get why you are saying an interpreted language is slow but given that people use python to orchestrate most compute intense (AI) and data-heavy (data science) work, it obviously does a pretty excellent job of being pretty 'fast' in practice - ie offloading the 'slow' bits to dedicated code.

A great example of

Grays law:

"Any online discussion that mentions the word 'octopi' - regardless how tangentially - will eventually turn into a discussion on linguistics"

I've been censored in the exact same way for linking a friend to relevant government legislation. I think it's a combination of the tone / wording coupled with something about my posting behavior (I took a break for a while then came back). I dunno but it was annoying as heck (though somewhat understandable) that there was no way to appeal.

You went to Cambridge how hard is it to understand that some people on the internet don't live in the US??

I clicked on "are you eligible?" in attempt to determine exactly this question - but instead endured literally fifteen screens of Jedi mind trick sales process bullshit before finally hitting the old "What state are you in?" drop down that doesn't even give an option outside the US.

Why?

I hope you do one day make this service available overseas.. But in the meantime you've managed to really piss me off

It's an important question that deserves a considered response.

IMHO its more than just lack of designers (though that's important) it's actually a balance of power thing.

Delivering really good UX requires taking a design-led approach to the whole project. Unfortunately this conflicts with one of the main reasons coders enjoy working on open source. No management, no customers and you get to work on what you want. Design it for yourself, not others.

But of course, the interface that the average coder wants is nothing like the interface that the average user needs - especially if the average coder is intimately familiar with all the features. Most coders appreciate this and try to design a 'friendly' interface but at the end of the day it's a power imbalance. In a conflict between clean design or adding more features, a team led by programmers is going to prioritize features.

I was lucky enough to get actual death threats due to stuff I posted online (it involved Saudi Sheiks and was almost 20 years ago you won't find it, it doesn't matter).

They (not the Sheik some other random people from the internet) had looked up my address in the Upper East side from DNS records and sent me an email along the lines of 'I know where you live and I'm going to come over and kill you'.. I dunno something like that. I had a small kid at the time. Freaked me the f out.

Anyway, I did nothing. Nothing happened. I also got threatened by the fancy lawyer of a rich Sheik. Did nothing to take the content down. Again nothing.

Lesson I take from this is to not let threats get to you too much, that the internet's bark can be worse than it's bite. Except, of course, for the poor souls for whom this is not true. YMMV I guess.

I work with Mozilla's DeepSpeech every day. Mozilla's STT is critical to the survival of important indigenous languages throughout the world.

I sincerely hope we can help make this project continue and that Mozilla can help us do that.

Ensuring indigenous languages have digital representation is essential to their survival. Speech recognition and synthesis are a vital part of that. Indigenous communities are often ignored by Big Tech because they bring little financial value to their bottom lines, but financial bottom lines are not everything. Culture is more important. Open source tools like DeepSpeech allow communities to build the tools they need for themselves.

Māori have been working to help build tools for te reo Māori, and our project is at the forefront of using open source tools like DeepSpeech to revitalize the Māori language. The core of a good speech recognition system helps us in many practical ways, such as improved transcription, support for pronunciation, correct announcements in public transport, correct information on maps and in many other ways. We may well continue to support and use DeepSpeech if the project can continue.

But there are also many other projects in other countries in the world who may follow on - such as the Kabyle people of Algeria who are using DeepSpeech, or the Mohawk nation in North America who have been looking into it.

By the way we are working on our web presence but for now this quick one pager gives some idea of the work we are doing - https://papareo.nz.

What they mean is that it's loading from local storage much of the time - not from the server.

They're not? What zeronet are you on?

Thanks to this post I went from clicking around the site to watching Tamas Kocsis' Ted Talk streaming within zeronet, within about 2 minutes.

What I find most impressive about this, is that the start up experience is so solid. It just works and its fast as hell. I honestly don't even know what you lot are complaining about, did you try it?

> While bitcoin might continue, most citizens will stop bothering at that point because buying or selling bitcoin shows up in tax audits.

But they'd only show up for a short period of time (in this scenario) because after a while bitcoin wouldn't really be worth anything. Lol.

I'm sorry that nobody else in this thread seems to understand the meaning of the words "largely ruled out".

I also would like to know why that is. Not saying it's aliens just saying I'd like to know the reasoning.

I love this idea, but it also needs to be discussed within the context of knowing that (since Snowden) the NSA already has all your social media data categorized and ready to go should it need.

So, in context, this is about stopping one branch of government - CBP - from being able to compile data that another branch of government already has.

I love the idea but worry it might be a form of security theater, given the three lettered elephant in the room.

If the "rostral dorsolateral pontine tegmentum" area of our brain is associated with consciousness my immediate question is - is this area equally developed in cats, mice, birds, reptiles, fish etc?

So true. I clicked the link. Tried to work out what it does. Decided the map had nothing on it at all. Wondered if maybe that's why hn was linking to it, so came back here to see. If I hadn't read your comment above I would never have seen the actual content of this thing.

The comment you were replying to didn't examine why people don't fly flags in front of their houses merely stated that they don't. I can't see how you could disagree with that - it's very self evidently true. He also stated that most New Zealander's don't really care about the flag. Poll data also strongly backs this up.

In terms of subjective opinions, however, OK yes you might feel that it would be nice if people in New Zealand flew their flag more and/or were more patriotic generally. You're definitely entitled to your opinion. Personally as a kiwi the common sense lack of patriotism and/or nationalism is one of the things I like best about the place. It relates to a general no-nonsense pragmatism that I find a breath of fresh air after years in the united states where simply pointing out that maybe the US could learn a thing or two from other countries (in certain areas, not including pizza, software or spaceflight of course) is met with emotion instead of rationality.

For those curious about this 'tilbert' character - if you switch on 'show dead' it turns out he (allegedly) wrote the software in question.

Think the hellban must just be a glitch - so.. Amongst other things, Tilbert wrote:

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... my hope with open-source is people will help add to it. if you want to help, I'd love that!

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I see the hell ban, I'm posting all my replies at the bottom in a comment I'm editing - could somebody note this above?

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I think you guys/gals have a point [about the referral link to DigitalOcean] the referral link is gone. ;-)

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@coleifer: there was a sqlite branch, but it doesn't scale well to many-million record sets which is what I have been doing. the design of the software allows drop-in db replacement, it just lacks the code. I can't decide to go back and sqlite or to just make a web front-end.

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@captn3m0 I have an academic paper in revision that is an analysis of the alexa 1M list, I also have other projects i development.

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@snorrah: this was my first python project, so I went with the newest version. it's made a lot of things very difficult, especially porting to a web version.

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@linuxlizard: proxy is problem when you want to do a lot of concurrent tests, I usually load about 64 pages in tandem to get good speeds on large sets.

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@radmuzon: webdxray runs large batch jobs, so you can get lunch, and come back with all of pages analyzed. I know it does work on windows, and I apologize for not being able to provide directions...see comments above

" * There's more. Enable 'ShowDead' in Profile to see rest of his comments.

By way of contrast I work for a financial company who provide research and recommendations to wall street and whose main 'unique point of difference' is that we don't take positions ourselves.

The downside of the idea "you can believe someone who back themselves enough to put their own money in" is that your recommendations are then, of course, not truly independent or unbiased.

Most big sell side broker dealers claim there is a chinese wall between their research analysts and their actual trading arm, but sometimes that chinese wall can be suprisingly thin. For example, when a merger is in the early offings, or other large deals about to happen, 'the street' can just go quiet on the subject. Only the (very few) truly independent research firms are still talking at that point.

Having previously been close to non-financial journalism it was a bit of a shock to me when I first realised how little truly independent (in the sense of not trading on their own opinion) news or research there was. But, I now understand why that is.

The optimum situation is probably to have a mix of approaches.