skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy crap, straight out of Law and Order plots, a former HSI agent was caught in the investigation, if I read this correctly:

HSI computer forensic examiners found more than 1,000 images and 125 videos depicting the sexual victimization of children on Pannell’s home-built tower computer. The images and videos depicted pre-pubescent girls, including toddlers, engaged in sexual acts with adults.

Pannell faces five to 20 years in prison, up to a life term of supervised release, and a $250,000.00 fine, as well as registering as a sex offender. U.S. District Judge Greg G. Guidry will sentence him on Dec. 17.

Former HSI agent Richard Nikolai Gratkowski, 40 at the time, was sentenced in May to 70 months in federal prison on child pornography charges. The investigation showed that Gratkowski, in San Antonio, received hundreds of videos of pre-pubescent children engaged in a variety of sexual acts and had also bought access with cryptocurrency.
“Ads Inc.” used “rental” Facebook accounts to scam Boomers out of millions
Marc Benioff says it’s time to break up Facebook
We added a second clarification https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
This fetishization of these "professional careers" has got to stop. Particularly this fictional glamourization of the philosopher professional who is held responsible for all outcomes of his work. To this day, Dr. Jeffrey Glassberg roams free despite mistaken forensic DNA tests putting so many innocent people in jail. That is one, but I could produce hundreds. As a matter of fact, I challenge you to name a single inventor (who, for sake of this argument, we may choose to be also a 'professional') who is innocent by this metric.
I agree we will still need roads in the foreseeable future, probably the rest of our lifetimes, but it’s not out of the question for materials to dropped into a construction site using drones. Maybe even entire prefabbed buildings or segments of buildings

There are significant benefits to this approach other than not having to use roads, but of course the tech isn’t there yet
That doesn't sound so much like that's discussing politics at work' so much as it's 'indoctrinating' at work.
IMHO this one is better :)

http://emptormaven.com/img/NFA_Pistol_AOW_SBR.jpg
Having traveled/lived a lot in Europe I have noticed that totally car-less city is something that actually is not necessary good, but 'limiting car travel' is.

Car based transportation is still needed for:

1. Shipping of goods/deliveries, etc....

2. Shipping of people (think elderly, sick, disabled, ambulances, taxis, etc..)

Best way to do this with blocks/chunks of the cities being pedestrian only, and roads with loading/unloading areas that come close enough.... but no parking, or maybe parking centralized underground in one place, with one clear entry exit (so people don't circle around to find parking).

Best solution I have seen is in Barcelona, where you have blocks cordoned off, and pedestrian only use, and still have streets that get close enough to these blocks... so you can do your deliveries as well....

Karlsruhe and Ulm in Germany do achieve this as well . (major areas are pedestrian only, allow cars to come close for loading/unloading, limited on-street parking, and parking in the center only allowed in some major underground place).

Most people can reach the center, if they really have to, but it discourages daily use of the car as it would be too expensive to park.
I'm with you, but I think you're expecting too much once you add alcohol to the mix.
When people go and talk to women who started out in the tech pipeline but left, many say that the reasons they left are that they felt unwelcome in some way: they were harassed, under-valued, talked over, stalked, underpaid, etc.

Too many women choose to leave not because they didn't like the work, but because they didn't like all the bullshit they were implicitly asked to put up with, in order to do the work.

If very few women expressed these sentiments; if the tech workforce pipeline was a safe and fulfilling place for everyone, then at that point, I think it's fair to question whether 50/50 should be the goal. But we're not nearly at that point, and IMO it is counterproductive to talk like we are. For now, the numbers imbalance is a simple and obvious way to measure and talk about the cultural factors that exclude women (or certain ethnicities, or backgrounds) from equal participation in this industry.

One reason 50/50 makes a fine straw goal is that there is no obvious reason that men should be more successful than women in the tech industry. It's not like the NFL, where well-understood human sexual dimorphism is relevant. Women were heavily involved in the early days of computing and built some of the early foundations of the field, like the first compiler.
I don't think it's been convincingly argued that ranking or recommendation algorithms necessarily represent any sort of editorial bias. The purpose of these algorithms is to rank content based either on a prediction of what the individual user would want to see based on their existing history or on which content is more broadly engaging in general. In other words, if YouTube decides I really like to watch Ben Shapiro owning the libs with FACTS and LOGIC, that doesn't mean YouTube is making an editorial decision to promote that content, it just means YouTube has profiled me as some sort of conservative. If YouTube profiled me differently, they would be equally happy to recommend TYT videos or whatever.

There may be some editorial bias introduced if the userbase of a given social media site is themselves skewed in a particular direction. For instance, there seems to be some skew in the content that shows up on my Tumblr dashboard that seems fairly irrespective of anything I've subscribed to. But even that isn't necessarily damning for Tumblr, because they're not necessarily making an editorial decision to promote that content.
I dug into it, it appears to be true...
> I think these bakers suck, but I do agree with the Supreme Court. A private business should be allowed to refuse to serve customers for whatever reason they choose.

This was not the conclusion of the SCOTUS case.

It pushed the case back down to the State on procedural consideration.

We also have a bunch of reasons (protected classes) that a company cannot refuse to do business. Colorado specifically includes sexual orientation in their definition of protected classes.
> The Feds know that Dirty Money has gone to that wallet's address

They don’t. A wallet can have infinitely many addresses with nothing linking them together externally - only the holder of the wallet knows they’re related.

Think of a Bitcoin wallet as macOS’ Keychain or a LastPass account - and a Bitcoin address as the login credentials of each site you visit: provided you use a distinct login for each site, each site owner has no idea what other sites are in your LastPass/Keychain store.

Similarly: provided you use a new address for each bitcoin transaction then people you transact with have no knowledge of other transactions you’ve had.

People do often reuse addresses - however. Creating new addresses is free and instant - but consolidating your funds becomes a pain, especially if you have a lot of low-value transactions where the amount associated with each address would be eaten-up by the bitcoin network’s transaction fees.

And dumb criminals reuse addresses too - sometimes you see those “I have your password, send me bitcoin” emails using leaked passwords - and they all use the same (or a small number of addresses) - if this scam was run better they’d generate a new ransom address for each mail recipient. And I think that’s how they busted the operator and customers of the website in question: because they used a single address to receive funds at.
How they try and centralise everything, and make it too easy for people to brigade communities they don't like. Something that's federated would probably solve a lot of the issues Reddit has for example, as well as a lot of the controversy over Twitter's ban policy (by letting communities have their own guidelines that don't affect the entire service).
I'll openly admit that I don't have an answer for the deeper issue here (Gitlab selling software to evil customers), in terms of specifically politics:

I don't think politics should be discussed at workplaces that do not participate in political systems in an official capacity (lobbying, PACs etc.). If your employer engages in politics, then that should be an allowed topic and/or other accommodations should be made for employees who regard their employer as morally reprehensible.

> LGBTQ+, women in tech, underrepresented minorities in tech, education

I don't consider these political in any way. Employees should be able to talk about how the company can improve its own diversity policies, irrespective of what the government decides what to do. The line of thinking here is similar to "separating church and state," and also that it's easier to change company policy: changing company policy provides quick and "easy" improvements to social progress, while the longer and more difficult fights at the political level occur.
> Solaris was essentially the reference implementation.

That is simply not true. Most of Sun's competitors at the time used an AT&T base augmented with STREAMS-based TCP/IP from Lachman or similar. I worked on one such. My colleagues at Sequent, Pyramid, Masscomp, etc. were all in essentially the same boat. NFS was the only commonly-included piece from Sun.
Took me a bit to figure that out, he's referring to "Ideological Turing Tests" https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.htm... ... use of the term is kind of a dog whistly connection to a number of internet communities where that idea is considered very persuasive.

[The few times I've seen the term used have largely been cases where the speaker is really embarrassing themselves by claiming ignorance on the part of their opponents while demonstrating an absurd amount of their own...]
>good point, but from a tactical perspective, not moderating might have made sense, to force lawmakers' hands in passing stronger laws about spam, harrassment, propaganda, etc.

Why would companies find that preferable to moderating themselves? If the government makes laws prohibiting that stuff, then that means the companies could get in trouble if they let any of that through. If companies self-moderate, then there will be less pressure for laws like that to exist, and the companies won't get hit with penalties for missing a few things here and there.
Likely accurate.

People will have to resort to regular metalwork after that.

Or going to Home Depot.
> Driving people elsewhere is one major mechanism.

This is exactly how Boise has kept it's homeless population low for many years. First they ticket people, then jail them and finally offer to let them go if they get on a bus headed out of the state.
Mostly because space and time are most likely a result of the Big Bang. For all we can tell, "the beginning" was an infinitely dense singularity of space time - there is no "very far from the Big Bang", because, there's no space.

Yes, you can somewhat debate that - we're not entirely clear what happened in the first 10^-33 seconds - but we don't know anything about that.

So you might as well say "what evidence is there that the universe wasn't the spawn of two extremely short-lived green bunnies", and the answer is "none", too.
Yes, there is no stable state of the system in which ignorance and malice are assessed accurately. If you don't want the rate of malicious action to increase, you need to overdiagnose it.
So Twitter broke their platform, and they show ads. This is vastly different from a message board that shows all messages to all users.
It already exist and called freenet. If you read the arrest cases for freenet - they are almost non-existent.
On the other hand, it would be feasible to convert roads into normally-pedestrianised areas, which you need a permit or a one-day pass to drive through.

There are numerous city centres in the UK which use this method. The central portion of Canterbury, Kent, is a great example.
Because as "extremely sparse" as it may be, colliding gas clouds still light up. To try to express in English what properly ought to be math, space is really, really, really empty... but it isn't really, really, really, really empty. Everywhere there's a bit of at least hydrogen gas, and we'd probably see it if even two of the emptiest regions of space were colliding.

I'm presuming this is happening at some non-trivial relative velocity on the grounds that it's hardly a "big bang" if it's actually in the same velocity vector as the location in which it occurs, and doesn't have any new material coming out.

You're kind of overextrapolating the "we know nothing about pre-Big Bang conditions" based on the English phrasing of a more mathematical idea. We can eliminate some things, like as we are discussing, the possibility that the Big Bang occurred in an already-existing universe in some way that it could create a visibly older star showing up a mere 100-200 light years from us. I can't eliminate the possibility that there's some "collision" happening out of our past light cone, or that a Big Bang occurred and that taking into account metrics of space this time, that it simply "blew" all the old universe out of our past light cone as our universe inflated. But I can eliminate the idea of some older universe being something we could co-exist in local space with. It would produce visibly obvious results that we do not see, a fairly violent cataclysm that would have results that we could see. As we parse the Cosmic Microwave Background, we're parsing twitches and fluctuations far, far smaller than such an event would have created. This would be writ large on the sky, not something that could sneakily inject a star into our galaxy that we only notice after hundreds of years of astronomical observations.

We can't make very many positive assertions about pre-Big-Bang conditions, but we can make a few negative ones like this.

I'd also point out it's not an intrinsically crazy idea. Some variants of String Theory hypothesize situations in which it would be possible for a "Big Bang" to occur in an existing universe like ours, due to membrane collisions. It could well have happened elsewhere. It just doesn't seem to have happened in our past lightcone.
This does nothing to explain why 85% of women and 85% of men in Sweden work in gender segregated professions, with gender segregation getting worse for every year. It does nothing to explain why out of 5 professions with 99% or higher gender segregation, 3 is female dominated and 2 is male dominated. It also does not explain why the only university program that ended up single gender a few years ago was female dominated.

The gender paradox is also poorly explained through the narrative that historical gender roles is the cause of gender segregation today.
What is required for this to act as a power supply? I'm thinking about building a power bank.
its precisely because of all those glowing reports i distrust the hell out of them.

We have a long history and data on how drugs in general can treat problems, but often come with side effects and other issues when they work, often serious. And sometimes per person they just don't; finding the correct drug treatment for a person is a very hard.

When i hear all this about LSD as a perfect miracle drug, I get VERY suspicious.
You say that like the rest of the gov does not exist. The mere knowledge that a dangerous program exists can be reported to the FBI with all relevant information without Github having to run a gestapo firewall on all content it hosts.
why would I want to walk so much all day? I had my fill of that lifestyle in college just walking around campus.
All true. But additionally, it is not quite right to say that morality and legality have nothing to do with each other. Legality, generally speaking, is the subset of morality that a sustainable majority has codified into objective laws.

In other words, legality is basically the subset of morality that Republicans and Democrats can agree on. Which is why going beyond legality into subjective morality so often becomes polarizing.
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> Mozilla and Chromium casually destroyed some of the largest commercial CAs

While I agree with much of your comment, I think you are doing both Google and Mozilla a disservice to say they did this "casually". The decisions to distrust the CAs in question were not taken lightly; they came after repeat offences, and the grounds for doing so were abundantly clear.
Perhaps a big bang that's 'just' an explosion in spacetime, rather than of spacetime, would not work with known physics because that concentration of that much matter would be a black hole? Until now, I never thought to ask anyone.
People routinely "forget" the death toll of Communism/Statism because its very inconvenient.
they would have imported it. venice was the transshipping capital of the western world at the time and had unbelievable economic power.
>NYC has probably the best public transportation in the US

I think that title goes to Boston. NYC has always been unreliable and grimy to me.
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It's also possible for a state to suborn a registrar to publish a fraudulent record so that the state can get a DV cert issued by the CA of its choosing. This leaves the WebPKI in no better shape than DNSSEC + CT when it comes to state level attackers obtaining fraudulent certifications.
Trusted mainstream implementations come from use. You might get the same number of vulnerabilities from a green new DNSCurve library as from old battered OpenSSL because you're trading off the protocol complexity against the years of grinding away at all the bugs, but that only gets you to parity. Which itself only lasts until the DNSCurve library is trusted and mainstream and claims the advantage because the younger code matures but the protocol stays simpler.

In the meantime DoH still has worse latency because of the extra round trips. Especially in the authoritative case where you're typically making few queries each to many authoritative servers instead of making many queries to one recursive resolver and you can't reuse the one handshake for all your queries.
Bitcoin is traceable, but you don't need to use any kind of document to have an address / wallet. It was not created to be anonymous or for use in illegal transactions. It was created to be the most reliable way to conduct an online transaction.

Although it can be traced. No one has the power to block or return a transaction. Once sent, it was gone.

With any other traditional means of payment, money can be withdrawn or blocked with a court order. With Bitcoin, if there is no collaboration from the wallet owner, this is impossible.

Those who use Bitcoin for illegal activities are at various risk of being tracked, not just by ledger. A good investigator and the criminal system need much more evidence.

Now one risk he does not want to make is selling the goods and not receiving the money. It is this reliability that Bitcoin offers that compensates for the risk of being tracked eventually.
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> This sounds really good until someone refuses to bake a wedding cake for a couple because they're gay. The supreme court ruled in favor of the baker. You're advocating for a world where that's ok.

That's not what the Supreme Court ruled. They ruled that the CO commissioners who decided against the baker in the first place were being blatantly flippant about the baker's religious beliefs. They should have at least considered those beliefs. They explicitly did not rule that the baker's religious beliefs were enough on their own to prevent the sale.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/opinion-analysis-court-ru...
That's not at all necessary. Redesigning roadways into pedestrian areas does not have to exclude utility and construction equipment, just traffic.
Good 'ole San Francisco... A city that's such a pain in the arse to get in and out of by car that I basically avoid going there at all. I just wish that getting in and out of SF by public transit wasn't a 2+ hour adventure (1.5hr if you're lucky to match an express schedule), when its less than an hour of drive time.
On the Nomad project we've taken a distinct approach to networking: treat the IP layer as an implementation detail and attempt to abstract it away. This has led to a few design decisions:

1. Global node addressing - Given a region + node ID you can query any node from any other node.

2. Global allocation (pod) addressing - Given a region + allocation ID you can interact with individual allocations and tasks (metrics, files, logs, remote exec, etc).

3. Global name-based service addressing (via Consul) - whether via Consul's DNS interface, catalog API, or Connect service mesh, services discover one another by name instead of by IP or port. The service's address (ip+port) is hopefully an opaque implementation detail that never needs to be externally observed.

With all 3 of these taken together there's no need for overlays, distinct subnets, or unique IPs-per-allocation. Datacenters may even have overlapping subnets and Consul Connect will still allow services to communicate via global name based addressing. Even without Consul, almost all Nomad commands will route to a remote region and execute on the correct node regardless of subnet overlapping.

This does cause some friction at the edge: when translating from external IP based routing to internal services (aka ingress). However, there are lots of load balancers that integrate with Consul and therefore translate between IP and name based routing adequately.

Really any service unhappy with our "route by name, not by ip" design is going to be a bit awkward to use, but routable IPs and ports are selected and exposed by Nomad's scheduler - or advertised in Consul if the address is overridden at runtime.
If you're going from city to city, Megabus has been great for me.
Ok, fair enough. I understood that as people not using them at all. I'm not surprised though - taxis are great for situations where you can't easily use public transport /for reasons/. Using them all the time is indeed for tiny minority. (And that's... Fine with me)
Would you also say we have a very high tolerance for danger when it comes to poisons and heights? Because your statement appears pretty hyperbolic to me when comparing some of the ways people die in the US.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm
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Ask HN: Is there anything you'd refuse to work on?
No, uint8_t is guaranteed to be exactly 8 bits wide (unlike uint_fast8_t or uint_least8_t).
The psychology of revenge is bittersweet at best