skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very interesting point. The internet brings its users ever closer together and it's not beyond reason to imagine this closeness reaching a point where it is similar to the closeness experienced by ancient tribes. Today we would find it hard to imagine, say, seeing our neighbors naked but it was once very normal. So we've come to expect a certain amount of privacy.

A reduction in this privacy might precipitate a change in how people react to learning the private affairs of others. If everybody's legal history was laid bare, for instance, one might discover that getting in trouble is something quite a lot of people do--and in this light one might temper his reaction to learning of another's checkered past.
> They immediately asked who was giving up this information and wanted to crack down on this perceived insubordination, rather than trying to address the issue. I was then dismissed for not specifying names, and my services were no longer required.

Wow! That sounds terrible.
HP packs 6 cores, 32GB ECC memory, 4TB SSD into a 5lb laptop
Maybe we should stop locking people up for crimes, fine them instead (to be paid as reparations to the victims) and let their public reputation instead be their punishment.
Sorry, I missed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16774271
I've developed a grudging respect for SBT. It's a petty remarkable project and I don't want to disrespect the people who work in it in any way.

That said, I've been writing Scala for years now and still struggle to modify my builds. And for my team, SBT is a major barrier to entry for people new to Scala.

Once I feel like I can port my build over, I'm going to give Mill a try.
SESTA has not been signed by Trump yet afaik. In this case, it actually shows that to take down Backpage SESTA was unneeded.
Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers
Take a look at ATP, specifically the AF4GUD3A and AF8GUD3A, for 4GB and 8GB respectively.

Digikey[1] and Arrow[2] generally sell the 4GB for $15 and the 8GB for $25. They make larger versions too, if you need them.

The 'A' stands for aMLC, they're using normal MLC flash (which most consumer SD cards no longer use, but is generally much more reliable than TLC) but they use it in 1-bit per cell mode like SLC. They make traditional SLC cards as well, but the price skyrockets.

The aMLC cards have very good endurance ratings, but they're still cheaper than SLC cards. The firmware and controller are designed to prevent sudden power loss issues, which is apparently the root cause of a lot of SD card corruption on the Pi.

They're also supposed to have lifetime (i.e. SMART) monitoring, but it's a vendor specific command set rather than something smartmontools can read. ATP has a tool for it that probably only runs on Windows.

I've been using those aMLC cards in a bunch of Pi3 and Pi Zero W devices for months, I've never seen them become corrupted or fail to boot even once, despite being pretty hard on them, compiling stuff, yanking the power, etc.

For comparison, a Samsung Ultra+ card became corrupted after a single power loss. The device was running Windows 10 IoT Core at the time, it never booted again and had to be re-flashed.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/atp-electronics-in...

[2] https://www.arrow.com/en/products/af4gud3a-waaxx/atp-electro...
You can often find the people more knowledgable on a particular subject in one of the other stack exchange sites. (For example, a problem with OpenGL or Unity might be better asked on gamedev.stackexchange.com, or computergraphics.stackexchange.com.)
The cynical would say that's why they get taken down by law enforcement.
Database constraints: The last line of defense
To be clear, people were pimping out children on backpage. We’re not taking about consenting adults in every case.
> people selling sex would see this as an obstacle to getting as many clients as possible

What is your basis for this assertion? I think having a tool that makes it easier to vet clients could just as easily be a boon to many sex workers that would allow them to safely see more clients?
Now think about how much better being old would be given the medical technology to repair the causes of frailty, functional decline, and age related disease.
What I'd love to see is the ads' targeting information.
Yeah 'sex trafficking' is really code name for porn for many of the orgs pushing these changes.

I wonder how long reddit NSFW subreddits last.

The argument that porn leads to more sex trafficking is a false equivalence, faulty comparison and false analogy. You could argue prostitution being illegal instead of legal contributes to more sex trafficking.

I think keeping legal porn and making prostitution legal help as it is something that is always in demand, fighting it makes it more unsafe in underground markets.

Things people will do no matter if it is illegal or legal that harm noone and is consenting adults or something you do to your own body, it is better to have it in a mainstream market so it can be more easily regulated and ultimately safer than black/underground markets.

People pushing these laws think if you have a law the activity stops, yet it only makes it worse and more dangerous. Same with abortion, same with drug wars, same with abstinence education over sex education, basically any moral laws beyond civil rights does not work to change behavior and can make it worse.

For proof of this see alcohol prohibition, the 18th amendment and then the 21st when they realize their mistake. You could also argue the drug wars falls under that. You could also argue that there would be LESS human trafficking if prostitution was legal.
When the iPhone was new, Apple wasn't fighting surveillance society. They were mainly fighting carriers forcing you to buy shitty locked-down phones preloaded with as many monetization tools as they can fit in them.

So a lot of the basic security of iPhone OS, as it was originally called, was supposed to stop your carrier from fucking it up.

That legacy continues today, even though Apple is pivoting to a "privacy is the product" model. I suspect a lot of these criticisms are a byproduct of that legacy, and not necessarily a sign of trouble in the future.

I still trust Apple - but Apple will have to continue to work hard to maintain that trust.
Hooray, conservative upswing on the moral sinus curve that is us-history. Remember its okay to cheer laws on, that feel right in your guts, as long as one does not think about the consequences and props up a non-sensical tear-filled story to build up some outrage shield.

Just look at this incoherent rambling - this copy pasted together nonsense, that stops making sense the moment your tears no longer flow:
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-need...

Okay, if every human beeing endavouring in prostitution had its own physical server, its own craigs-list equivalent of a web-page, marketing only its services- this would be not covered by the law?

Or is even programming such a p2p service - no matter for what it is used now a felony?
I didn't see it anywhere.

Oh man. That transcript was the single worst thing I ever read in my whole life.
They are also using Gmail to do that. Do you agree with the SESTA/FOSTA legislation?
Well go ahead and start it. I just don't want public funds paying for it. Good luck to you!
I don't know why you think pay comes into this. Anarchists generally don't believe in a market economy.

You do raise good points but anarchists are not all juvenile and naive as many think and, seeing as anarchism has been around for >100 years, people have thought of these issues before you. Decision-making definitely has to be delegated to people sometimes and the manner in which this is done is important. Usually anarchists emphasise frequent rotation and possibility for immediate recall in order that no one may abuse their power.

I think of it as being similar to how science is funded by national agencies. There is a big pool of resources and it gets dispersed among researchers according to some process. That process usually involves nominating a team of scientists in the relevant field to judge where the resources would be best spent. Everyone ultimately has the same goal of advancing research most effectively and so they usually make the best choices possible. The panel is different every year so there it's hard to have collusion going on. Academia definitely has its problems with entrenched hierarchies of course but those come about for different reasons.

It's impossible to make a perfect system but it's clear we could do better. Anarchists just want to dilute unjust power structures as much as possible. There are examples of organisations that are successfully run like this so it's not like these are utopian ideas.
Yup, people would like to spin this as the government cracking down on garden-variety prostitution, yet Backpage in particular has many dubious ties to child trafficking.
right click the picture at the top and inspect the element, then adjust the width to ~960px or whatever works for you
Thought the same thing... I would have enjoyed any of these resources when i was in middle school.

Ah but "nerds" can only be boys and boys can pull themselves by their boot straps.
Google tried it. Nobody used it.
A google search is not a background check.
The difference there is that you can usually find a way to buy the game itself to get access to the game media.

The source code here will be of limited use until it's heavily reworked to compile on modern systems. It's a lot of work, but not as much work as reverse-engineering the game and building an engine implementation from scratch, and this source seems like it has most of the Mac-specific stuff under a separate directory, which would make it easier than otherwise.
Australia's Facebook probe is a laughable response
> They know which IP addresses you connect to. Many of those host large numbers of websites.

And SNI reveals which one of the Web sites you are accessing.
Deregulation is the last thing that, eg, drug dealers want; they profit from the black market.
Oh the memories. And there were many more. Fujitsu. Hitachi. CDC. Quantum - the amazing scsi fireballs, the ridiculous (but cheap) bigfoots.
Try looking at any of the boards. The city listing of marketplaces is up but that is as far as it goes.
"Never" is always an option from my experience. I have never seen an app that doesn't allow to completely deny location access.
From the OP's comments on Reddit - he said that it happens about 90% of the time on that stretch and that he has more footage of the same exact incident.

He was likely prepared for it, which kinda makes it even scarier in a way. An inattentive driver would have totally botched this.
Any 16 year old can already "disrupt" the industry just by getting a license and driving. Humans are and will continue to be far more capable, rational, and economical drivers for the foreseeable future.

Sounds similar to tech bros who want to radically "disrupt" carbon sequestration. Here's an actually proven idea: plant a tree.
And as a bonus the Pi 3 B+ gets ~230 Mbps over LAN (whereas all the older models maxed out at ~93 Mbps), so netboot performance should be even better than in the past.
So there are ~1,459 artificial satellites orbiting the Earth right now. Am I the only one that thinks adding 4,425 is a bit much? Certainly there is a way to do this with less space junk?
This is typical Facebook manipulation of media to take the eye off them.
We already have GNU Social, Mastodon, or any of the half-dozen other federated, free/open-source offerings. One major problem is in resisting Facebook's existing network effect. It's a difficult proposition to simply replace a multi-billion user network.
Sure, that explains it. The VM has to allocate memory if it's interpreting a dynamic language. Sorry if the question was elementary.
Like thepiratebay? (yes it's down today, still is up most of the time)
Ah, cool, that's understandable. It goes both ways; C++ has a lot of complexity that Rust doesn't have too.

I wonder if there'd be a way to actually do a real comparison.
No. SO absolutely can be opinionated about what constitutes a good and a bad answer. SO's job is to get to the right and most helpful answer fast. You can't always rely on the community to root out bad actors.
Answering my own question - the original gist was posted in March 2017.
I think you and the one that I responded to are confusing the abstract nature of a system with its practicality.
As much as Google would like to, they can't simply close their email servers for outside addresses and still call it an email provider. It would be a whole different beast.

The fact that you don't get to talk with other people only because an big email provider would disappear does not change the fact that email messaging systems are designed to be inter-operable. That is the key point. To try to argue otherwise is insane.
She clearly says in the interview what my title says. But that's OK: HN/YC being a supporter of startups seems to be too much in love with FB and Google, the behemoths that keep the above mentioned startups from rising up and allowing YC to profit like it should. Paradox to me...
Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information
They have been loud, but it remains to be proven. The truth is that we don't really know what they do with our data.
Screenshot of the Twitter thread in question: https://i.imgur.com/6IM43Lr.jpg
I would argue that these incidents indicate a need for aerospace levels of quality assurance.

With the right tooling this does not need to be expensive.

I hope that incidents like this encourage people to develop open source tooling to support safer software and higher levels of quality.

We can see how lives might depend on it.
What kind of uses cases do people have for this? Since rust already pretty tightly controls mutability, my normal reasons for using immutable data structures don't apply there.
Poor Russia
Europe wrote the law in such a way that Google effectively has to act like a court, even though that's obviously problematic, and it has no interest in doing so.

Sure, this seems a bit dubious, but they weren't exactly given a lot of guidance for handle these requests. I suspect they'd actually appreciate court rulings clarifying things.
Datacenter routers hacked with signs of protest to USA's election meddling
Make a case that someone at Google knows what accounts are involved in this activity and is letting it happen so they can profit from it and then you'll have a fair comparison.
The great thing about the song is, it works well as a satire of a completely plausible, well-intentioned but absurd event whether or not you're aware of the historic National Brotherhood Week.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-02-21/whatever-became-natio...
Yes, it's called TweetDeck.
And honestly, that's fine with a lot of us. There is an undeniable connection between the porn industry and sex trafficking.

Haha I knew this would strike a nerve here. The truth is, your modern "no porn" movement isn't coming from the religious right anymore. So now that the typical scapegoats are out of the picture, you are left with actually having to sit and think for yourself. You think an evangelical started /r/nofap?
> Or is even programming such a p2p service - no matter for what it is used now a felony?

I've wondered this as well.

I am not big into anything illegal, but I think this increasing censorship is alarming.

Unfortunately, it has also chilled my desire to help build such services because they'll just slap me with money laundering or RICO or whatever they want.
Relay DevTools
As far as I can tell, SESTA/FOSTA hasn't been signed into law yet.
Theodora Kroeber wrote two excellent books on Ishi.

Ishi: Last of His Tribe is a fictionalized narrative of his life (told as a novel).

Ishi in Two Worlds is a non-fiction account of his life from the time he first came into contact with Alfred to his death. Covers a great deal about his people's culture as well.
Yes.
But people need to understand why trust matters to them, or they won’t care about it.
> macOS devices to date lack any form of verified boot process

Before iMac Pro, I’d guess.
What do you do? Windows world is worse. So is Android generally.

Use Linux? How do you trust that? QubesOS? Pen and paper?

If you walk outside, you’re on camera. Living off grid with no phone or computer seals the deal, but not very practical.

I’m all about security and privacy, but everything is on balance with practically. If a three digit govt agency wants to find you, they have so many other ways than Apple.
I've often seen sex workers object to that sort of thing online. They really don't want their clients to face any obstacle at all.

People often advocate for checking the sexual health of the sellers, but you never hear about the same checks for the buyers. Why is that?

It's pretty likely a sex worker will chime in on this thread. Then we'll hear their opinions first-hand.
Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes covers both virtual machines for implementing programming languages and virtual machines for emulating cpu architectures. One of my favorite optimization techniques explained in this book is pre-decoding:

After loading the program's instructions, every opcode is replaced by the address of the corresponding routine implementing the instruction. For example,

[OP_ADD][REG_A][2]
[OP_MUL][REG_A][REG_B]
[OP_RET]

become

[0x4bcf00][REG_A][2]
[0x4bcf10][REG_A][REG_B]
[0x4bca05]

Then, using goto from GNU C[1], decoding is now just

goto *ip;

I think this is still the state-of-art technique for interpreting instructions.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html
Backpage.com was a general purpose onlined classified system that included a handful of adult services sections among dozens of others. The use of “sex marketplace” here explains the basis of the seizure, but is misleading as a description of the site seized (Unlike, say, the myredbook.com seizure, which was a straight-up sex marketplace.)
Why not name the manufacturer so we can avoid them?
its a line from an old Steve Martin movie (Dead mean don't wear plaid) - thought it might be to obscure :-)
This is probably the clearest programming tutorial I've ever read...
Well in that same spirit of fairness, we should realize that we're not talking about people pimping out children in every case either.
Car software is huge.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*cjVl6u_s34Mqjcn68...
Either way the legislation that was recently passed that apparently is empowering this seizure is applicable whether or not they are consenting adults.
I would have guessed that cryptocurrency market was a bit too small for someone like Soros.
I'm a week late, but I don't mean the ticket price itself.

The previous commenter was talking about how nesting flights allow you to avoid various fees (i.e. FAA, 9/11 security fees) but afaik they're fixed.
Fuck you, Comcast.
Nice!

Yup. Thanks.

> known as the empirical distribution

Yup, and I wrote:

"out in a tail of the empirical distribution"

Yup, "rank" tests, "permutation" tests: With my TeX markup:

E.\ L.\ Lehmann,
{\it Nonparametrics:
Statistical Methods Based on Ranks,\/}

And, yup, again with my TeX markup,

Bradley Efron,
{\it The Jackknife, the Bootstrap,
and Other Resampling Plans,\/}

Last time I knew, Roger Wets was at UCSD. He read one of my papers and suggested JOTA where I did publish it!
Honestly, I don't know. That's not my field of expertise. I'm mostly just cynical about fines and penalties being paraded around as a curative measure, only to find out that the fines and penalties have such huge loopholes that entire corporations can fit through.
I think it's probably more accurate to say most people don't care. The average person isn't approaching policy discussions thinking about real-world effects; if one can't be bothered to spend ten seconds googling the effect of a policy before they talk about or vote on it, that pretty handily crosses the line from ignorance to agency (in the form of willful ignorance).

The sad fact is, the vast majority of people are far more interested in how policies look, what they signal, and how voicing support for them makes them look. The actual effects the policy may have is way, way down the list of motivating factors, if it even enters their mind at all.
Searched a bit, and it appears that eccie.net might be doing more volume than the one or two forums on backpage.

Curious why they are not targeted as well. Maybe better "provider" screening for underage girls?
No. Sex workers regularly screen clients.

Right from their phone. There are even Geocities-like web services that they can get a webpage at that have built-in screening workflows. And screening-agent-as-a-service's exist that will middleman for the sex worker.

Shutting down online marketplaces removes the safest options that sex workers have.
To help you decide, consider what you think of when you hear "prostitution." Do you think of women standing on a street corner smoking and getting in cars and getting beat up by pimps and unable to go to the police for help like in 80s movies?

Or do you think of something more like a doctor's office with security cameras, a receptionist, online reviews?

Because it seems modern, legal prostitution is a lot more like a medical service, similar to how veterinarians calm a cat in heat [1].

[1] https://everything2.com/title/How+to+calm+a+cat+in+heat
Righto!
Oh, the naivety. :)
Er, sorry, I meant to say "...the new features in Git v2.17".

I think that keeps it clear but without making it overtly look like a release announcement.
> I'm curious if this only made possible by the recent SESTA/FOSTA law that was passed. It's not like Backpage is anything new, so why take it down now?

It has not been signed into law yet, so it couldn't be. Now that the seizure has happened, the bill wouldn't apply to it even if signed, because A1S9 of the US Constitution states:

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Here's the legislation:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865
I think part of the thinking behind this is just scientific curiosity (“let’s see if we can do it”)

They collect the wastewater kilometers from the sporting events, so spatial and temporal resolution (where was this dumped into the sewer? When?) will be too low to target individual users.

Application I think will at best be for policy development (what sport should the doping agency focus on? What chemicals? Do people use that new thing that’s being talked about?), not for catching individual users, and probably not even for use at the event being monitored.
Apps on iOS don’t need to ask for network access.
Interesting. You have a reference for that? Keeping in mind searches that can't be monetized don't show ads...

Edit: See this for example: https://moz.com/blog/google-organic-clicks-shifting-to-paid

"For the ad-heavy non-local SERPs that we work in, paid ads are likely now earning nearly the same percentage of clicks as organic results — a staggering change"
At the end of the day, it's the same company.
This is wrong. SESTA-FOSTA has dramatically lowered the bar. Some quotes:

"The new bill holds website owners legally liable for criminal prosecution for any sex trafficking discussions that are viewable on their platform."

"The legislation says a website is responsible if it “assists, supports, or facilitates” sex trafficking. Some of the vague wording opens up the bill for interpretation and has critics fearing frivolous lawsuits against platforms that didn’t know trafficking was happening on their site."

The bar is not "knowingly aided". The bar is "built a platform that someone else used to sex-traffic".
"Easy"
It isn't a spin because it has resulted in a crack down in garden variety prostitution and a shutdown of multiple services (including ones that were purely defensive exercises of free speech, such as unsafe/bad date lists).
For those fans of Lehrer's political satire, may I mention someone I regard as his spiritual successor in some ways, Tim Minchin, and his Peace Anthem for Palestine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UO6YlkYNJQ