skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because that is a trivial task as the question "is there licensed music in the track" is binary and really easy to do given a large enough number of fingerprints.

Detecting if there is a child in the video is more difficult, but do-able with current ML models. Now, however, determining why there is a child in the video - if it is a family "fail" video or pedo material, for example - via AI is about as impossible as trying to distinguish between satire, hate speech or propaganda via AI. It's not possible at all, as AI will for the near future totally lack context.

This distinction will require humans, and this is something not viable at all for fb, youtube, twitter & co, as it is a huge cost... the saving of which is offloaded to society though in form of e.g. undermined democracies or psychological trauma in sexual violence survivors.
Or the other way to look at it, is that there's so much bacteria, algae, rotting plant and animal matter, bird shit, fish shit, etc. in lake and pond water that a little human urine won't appreciably add to the risk of swimming in it.
I think thats a toxic article
I've never peed in a pool, or a shower for that matter. I have a hand-washing based obsessive compulsive disorder, which I'm sure is part of it.
That's not fair. First of all, the OP didn't say it was only "lower level engineers", it could have been the entire engineering team, for all we know.

And second, Amazon did the right thing and listened to them, when they didn't have to. They could have given the project to a different team, reassigned people, or even fired them.

Instead, they had the sense to listen to their engineers, which was the right thing to do.
Speaking of pedos hiding in plain sight; around 16 years ago there was a Verizon bust in Canada of some pedo networks. One such network of sites fled to a new web host that had not heard of the preceding events.

They came to their new host as a BSD consultancy firm. It wasn't until the new host stumbled upon their HTTP traffic that they noticed some strange domain names. And later found a whole network of message boards setup for "people" talking about grooming children for sex.

On the surface it was a legitimate business, under the surface it was horrible. They were kicked out of their new hosting and looking at their domains a few weeks later they had found a new home with PRQ. :(

This youtube stuff is also sad because these kids are uploading their videos with no other intent than to have fun. And now someone has to explain to them that their videos will receive special treatment because of sickos online.

Maybe leave the videos alone and teach kids not to answer strangers online instead?
Is that different? "Eventually get all of your passwords" sounds just as bad to me, especially since only some passwords are worth anything and my email password can be used to reset all other passwords.
Git is not most properly described as a command line program either. Git is a version control protocol/system for handling files across multiple locations. Github is just one of those locations
Advice to a Junior Developer
> What you're missing though is that without heavy policing a large city with very high income inequality like NYC would quickly turn into a dystopian shithole.

Sounds like an argument for addressing income inequality.
I read the comment you're responding to a bit differently.

I think most people can enjoy a really bad movie. Some t-and-a, explosions, a bit of CG - it's all good fun even all you can think about after the movie is how awful it was. But when really bad movies are all there is, they quickly lose their charm. Instead of being one off guilty pleasures, they become the movie industry. And that's about the point you stop watching movies at the theater.

I think this describes many people's transition away from movies. The point of this is that pumping out crap may be optimal in the short run. But in the longrun you end up with suboptimal returns, even when profit is your one and only motivation. Incidentally the same story is true and also being played out in various other industries.

Optimizing for next year's quarterlies is often not the same path to optimizing for earning the most money in the next decade.
ahh, hate it when the company whose business model is to spy on me accidentally forgets to mention they put a microphone in my home security device!
Global warming and birtherism were a turning point. It was then than condpiracy theories were directly applicable to politics. Managing them then became a practical political weapon.
I found the guy.

If I try as hard as I possibly can and output 20% of an amazing individual. do I have no place in this world?

Listen, this is the basic level of human interaction. manners are oil for bodies at friction, and respect is a gateway to team participation.

If you cant see the value in that, then you are the problem. You can output a million times the output of your team, but if you dont have a team then you have nothing except yourself. and if you are the only reason for success.. why arent you Jeff Bezos?

"charismatic unproductive people who, despite all making each other feel good, don't actually bring any value to an organisation." -- This phrase stinks of devaluation. if you have a team that you view every member of as providing nothing of quality, then again.. you are the problem. Everyone has something to provide, on many different levels.you are failing to see that, and that is your problem.

but carry on my friend. if you are as amazing as you say, then ill read about you in the news soon.
It doesn't matter if you're right when you're dead.
Cancels out. To pull something apart, there would have to be a gravitational gradient, meaning the object would have to be pretty huge relative to the toroid.
Ask HN: What Bare-Metal Server Providers Are Available?
For reasons, it's important that there is no virtualization.

I know of Scaleway, which offers ARM Systems on a chip. Any others with the same kind of control / ease of use?
Maybe they needed to get a bigger marketing budget. Now, if only the majors could predict which movie need to be marketed how...
Keepass does have coutermeasures against clipboard sniffing (auto-type instead of copying to clipboard) and keyloggers (Two-Channel Auto-Type Obfuscation).

These are effective against non-specialized attack software.

https://keepass.info/help/v2/autotype_obfuscation.html
Certainly doesn't hurt that Tom Hanks attracts all kinds
They already have an AI to detect these videos: the recommendation engine mentioned in the article. These videos aren't difficult to find.
Prisoner's dilemma, tragedy of the commons, etc. Local maxima. The best approach for the well-being of everybody is not always the most competitive approach. Your hypothetical co-operative company agrees to not testify and gets screwed over by the company that testifies against it.

Capitalism selects for what works for certain individuals.

We don't know that the success of capitalism isn't just a pyramid scheme that has yet to destroy the biosphere. We only know that on the scale of a few lifetimes, modern capitalism has worked ok-ish for us in the first world. It's been pretty rough on the former colonies and the proxy states.

Capitalism is very new. Mercantilism is just in the rear-view mirror. Capitalism has been subsidized by the simultaneous rise of industrial technology.

There have been flourishings of sudden well-being in the past. The Romans, the Mayans, etc. They discovered new techniques of agriculture, shipping, weapons manufacture, bloomed and expanded and collapsed and died.

Capitalism has not yet matched the long-term success of the Roman republic or the subsequent empire, let alone the Egyptian and Chinese systems of successive dynasties supported by a civil service.

It's a huge mistake to assume that capitalism works better just because we've been doing ok with it for a while and because it's the system embraced by the country that won WWII by being across an ocean. That gave capitalism a big leg up but the headstart is running out.

Kleptocracy has a good chance of out-competing managed capitalism in the next fifty years by using regulatory capture.

If you want to avoid regulatory capture by deregulating, remember that an unfettered market has always degenerated into kratocracy (government by the powerful) and kratocracy tends to turn into aristocracy.

Capitalism: Doing OK for now!
The Pledge of Allegiance
Why wait for a movie to be produced before running ML on it to predict audience?

Why not just run it on SCRIPTS to see which to produce?

:-)
I went to check if he was caught... and found out that there was another serial pooper in Haapavesi this January. (Ilta-Sanomat January 11).

I'm convinced also very many of terrorism crimes are simply copycats who want to see headlines.
Good suggestion! I just did some experimenting and discovered you can save searches by applying labels through the filtering option in Settings. Now I have a label called "Primary" that mimics the primary tab. In the filter setup I put "category:primary" under the "Has the words" filter and it worked! Now there is a link at the side of my page in the labels list called Primary that lets me get there quickly.
To be fair, a little effort in aesthetics goes a long way.
> Even better, seek the creator of the universe and the source of love.

Is it the same non-contigent source of love that loves us so much that created hell and just in case we don’t love it back?

> testimony of the generations of good people who claim to know this cause.

The same good people who also claimed that we would burn for all eternity if we didn't nod along to their delusions of grandeur?
Putting Data Privacy in the Hands of Users
If you are used to monospace bitmap fonts GNU Unifont does indeed look horrible. The thing that bothers me most is that if you type "l2345" you would never notice that the first character is a lowercase "L" and not "1".

For me "Gohufont" (http://font.gohu.org) hits all the sweet spots considering monospace bitmap fonts. There is even a bold version which is rare for fonts with this small size.
Unity Software Licensing
There's a tonne of tourists driving in Hawaii, and yet, I've never had that bad an experience driving there.

Actually, that's not true. Highway 360 on Maui (The road to Hana) was the most terrifying driving I've ever seen, but that is due to the state of the road, and the familiarity (and lack of interest in spending more time then they have to on it) of the locals.
A swipe against excessive civil forfeitures succeeds. These aggressive actions require citizens to forfeit property far in excess of any harm committed. In the court case, a man had his car seized when caught selling a few hundred dollars of heroine.

We have laws to punish illegal behavior, but it’s not right that all your property get snatched up too. The most egregious of these cases often involve no due process at all. People who are stopped and found to have large amounts of cash simply have it seized, even if they are never charged with a crime.

Recourse is often slow and expensive. It’s unlikely that this ruling will immediately change the rampant unconstitutional practices many police departments and towns rely on. But it is a step in the right direction. Hopefully, they will be taken to task in time.
Why the need for actors? The ML could be trained on millions of hours of existing movies and produce fake, convincing personas.
Why the need for spectators? The ML could analyse the movies and produce fake, convincing reviews.
There is an element of URL ownership involved. It's not just a matter of finding and serving up video content; LBRY allows you to post that content at a specific URL. The ownership of that URL needs to be publicly verifiable.
> Could you explain this a little further - is the Pihole also running on the Synology?

Yes

> Or is secondary DNS the Synology?

To be precise,

In LAN, the Synology NAS is the primary DNS (running PiHole on Docker), and the router the secondary. This is to reduce the load on the router. They're both using Quad9's servers on port 853 and using DNSSEC.

In WAN, which is only possible via WireGuard, the router is also the primary and only DNS. This is because I don't think it makes sense to add redundancy and additional latency here. If I'd need additional redundancy here, I'd also need an additional endpoint.

All outgoing DNS traffic going to port 53 (such as Google's) gets not coming from the Synology NAS gets forwarded to the router. Which is very little in my use case.
Complete nightmare fuel.

https://imgur.com/a/D4sRn5F
> The engineering team refused to take the less expensive route, and insisted that the mute button physically disconnect the circuit, so that no future engineering team could decide to stealth "unmute" the microphone through software.

Who are these engineers? Have they ever spoken publicly about this stance?
.How David Lynch Brings His Imagination to Life
This is the reason 90% of their budget goes to comic book franchise movies. I guess it also helps that the simple-formulaic plots translate easy and rarely delve into any social issues that foreign (e.g., PRC) censors would find objectionable.
I'm guessing the driver faced almost no penalty for running you down. That's the main reason this problem persists, IMHO, no serious consequences for the cretins.

Go to jail or lose your license for a year plus impound your car -- only that kind of response will save pedestrian lives.
Tell that to Dredd.
The leading providers IMO are AWS, Packet.net, and SoftLayer. In the second tier you have OVH and Hetzner.
Chicago is a super bike friendly city:

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a23676188/best-bike-cities...

Source: I live in Chicago and ride a bicycle when it is nice out.
Tesla Expects to Produce 400k Cars in 2019
It doesn't look like the project was ever that collaborative, so I'm filing this under the classic "primary developer dislikes the overhead of accepting patches, occasionally loses interest": https://gitlab.com/sleepyhead/sleepyhead-code/graphs/master

I've fallen into that pattern myself, and seen my code forked and extended by those that were still interested. The thing that stung was them erasing all the commit history giving me attribution!
Highly recommend Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich. One alternative sequence is you can start at part II, read to the end, then read part I. Edit: My guess is part I is there to show the reader what his/her own reaction to death is, before he begins his lesson. http://www.lonestar.edu/departments/english/Tolstoy_Ivan.pdf
The "recommendation engine" is a stupid "people searching for x clicked on y" thing. Not intelligent at all.

And banning keywords won't help, that's just whack-a-mole'ing.
Well, I would argue that not having a centralised fiscality is the biggest EU problem at the moment.

Every country try to lower the tax for big companies to attract them, and now we have a situation where the GAFAM pay ridiculous taxes, and the citizen pay a bigger share of the pie.
How bad is urine really, in the quantities found in a typical pool? Remember that doctors used to taste urine, to test for e.g. diabetes.
yup. if the report is meant to be other than marketing, they would have done well to have an outside review before publishing. i don't see any acknowledgements section so i assume that didn't happen.

this is basically soft marketing of the skills they bring to the table. realistic/practical threat modeling not being one of them.
What is Google doing to Adblockers?
Sales people bending over to every single of their enterprise's customers demands to make a sale (and get their commission). And engineering wanting to kill themselves and just duct taping on all the nonsense sales forces on them.
The Coming Care Crisis as Kids with Autism Grow Up
Why?

Native is often riddled with bugs and the threat model of reading the data out of memory is basically irrelevant.
Where is the problem? If users install enterprise certificates despite the shown warnings, they want to take the risk.
Gitgeist: A Git-Based Social Network Proof of Concept
Also, as horrible as it is, the post right below this one is titled: On YouTube, a Network of Paedophiles Is Hiding in Plain Sight

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19209314

It's hard to prevent entirely, even if you fully control the network.
I distinctly remember hearing--and believing--that rumor when I was growing up. Now that I know it isn't true, I'm not afraid to pee in the pool ;)
When going around a blind corner you have to reduce speed enough to be able to stop quickly or avoid any obstacles. This is just basic defensive driving. It's not about bikes; deer, fallen tree branches, and stalled cars are common on those roads.
I'm well aware of the basics of ooo. What GP was proposing involves re-vectorizing a virtual ISA according to hardware width. I'm sure micro-op fusion and register renaming could theoretically be extended to do that. It's the complexity I was alluding to.
The article includes this tendency to equate ego with what is essentially a secular state of sin, instead of looking behind what ego might be. The view reinforces the just world fallacy that good things happen to good people, if only they could be without ego - and failure can be attributed to said ego's conceits.

It's too much to unwrap in a comment, but suffice it to say, while some of this can be helpful to someone in need of it, one would not be alone if they found it cynical and trite.
The linked statistic asked “pool or ocean”. Peeing in the ocean is fine. When they quoted the statistic they shortened it to just pool; a misleading quote at best.
Nope. Password strength barely matters and password managers with autofill help prevent phishing, which is an actual threat.
These evaluations all happened on Windows, which is notoriously bad at protecting memory from snooping by other processes.

Does anyone know how well MacOS versions of all the password managers would have fared? I suspect the JavaScript based password managers like LastPass would fare similarly, but it would be interesting to see if 1Password has better security on MacOS than Windows.
Why cant Blochchains use a single “Block”?
AKA Spaghettification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghettification
Giving Technical Talks (Dartmouth CS)
Thanks for the feedback, we're definitely working on UX improvements and scaling issues... when the catalyst hits, we'll be ready. If you use the app, it would be great to hear from you with more feedback!
I know it's early stuff, and I am not an expert on this by any means, but I wonder if any of this would be something applicable to a biological means for "backpropagation"?

Just to clarify: As far as I am aware, there hasn't been any biological equivalent for neural learning akin to what is called "backpropagation" as used by common implementations of artificial neural networks in order to learn and generalize a task or function.

That there has only been a "forward signal" from neuron to neuron observed, with no way for error signals to move "backwards" adjusting the "connection weights" of biological neurons (note: this is not how biological neurons work at all; that much I do know - I am just simplifying a bit here).

Could this new communication form potentially be used for such error propagation for learning? I know the article seemed to make the idea that it only happens in "slow waves" and during "sleep"; but I wonder if it isn't actually happening all the time...?

Well - now I am just speculating on a subject I have little to no knowledge in, so I will stop here.
What if they are all find slacking off together super fun and make each other feel great...but don't get any work done?
One of the major things that blockchain solves is URL ownership. LBRY is trying to build a censorship resistant video service. The blockchain backbone allows public proofs of URL ownership and that specific content came from a specific URL -- it's like SSL without the central server or the chain of trust.
I believe it does. Let's take it point by point.

Shared data store: yes. One of the biggest problems with Bittorrent is that you can only use it if you already know the infohash of the content you want. There's no index of the available content. There are lots of third-party search engines that try to monitor the network and help you find stuff. They are all incomplete and using them is a bad experience.

Does more than one entity need to contribute: yes. Anyone and everyone can publish to LBRY or pay for LBRY content. If only one entity had write access, that would be a point of censorship.

Data is never deleted: yes. Once you publish something to a decentralized network, its out there. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. We actually do have a mechanism to "update" the metadata (description of the content that's stored in the blockchain) by connecting a diff with updated data to the original blockchain transaction.

Sensitive information will not be written: yes.

No single trusted entity: yes. That's how we can make a strong promises about censorship resistance and you don't have to trust that we won't change our mind later.

Tamperproof log of all writes: I'm not sure why this one is strictly necessary, and why we should not use a blockchain if we don't care about a tamperproof log. Please help me understand.
Ouch. His CFO quit, and his lawyer just quit.

Tesla Inc.’s general counsel is leaving just two months after being hired in the wake of Elon Musk’s run-in with U.S. securities regulators. Shares of the electric-car maker declined on the news.

I don’t want to, but more and more I smell the hints of a dumpster fire around all of this. I hope that I’m wrong though.
> As for who HIS creator is - it's for HIM to care, not for us :)

Why should we only care about one level of indirection? Or, taking the lazier approach, why should we even care about our hypothetical creator?
we had a swim-up bar at our resort and plenty of alcoholic drinks were consumed over the course of a day, and not many bathroom breaks were taken
Light curve is hard to explain without tumbling, and my suggestion is it could be explained by the solar sail changing it's reflectiveness purposefully.
Agreed, every movie I've been to for the last 2-3 years have been boring not terrible, just utterly boring and a waste of time and money.

Compared to other mainstream art forms, movies have a higher barrier of entry and that translates in to smaller influx of new and interesting concepts.
almost all EU policy areas in the council are now done using Qualified Majority Voting

> 55% of member states vote in favour - in practice this means 16 out of 28

> the proposal is supported by member states representing at least 65% of the total EU population

more details: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/...

removing national vetos is the core idea behind the EU (replacing intergovernmentalism with supranationalism)
Maybe they shouldn't be in the pool then.
What single company do you suggest can be trusted to maintain a listing of digital content that anyone can contribute to without censoring or interfering with the listing in some way?

We already know we cannot trust Google, Facebook, Apple, or Amazon.

And even if there is a company that we could trust, what happens when a censorious government wants something removed?
A lot of small open source projects struggle with leadership and organizational issues as they become more popular with a wider userbase (and hence wider demands, such as in the case support for more CPAP machines).

It sucks but that's just how it works, and seems inevitable with the entire project focused around the primary maintainer.

Seems like Jedimark is doing the right thing by removing himself from the situation to focus on his life. It's open source so hopefully the community can fork it and maybe find an organizational model that's more sustainable for continued support.