skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case there is a lot of research on this specific point demonstrating that consumption of CP drives and even induces demand in pedophiles.

So it's nothing at all like playing GTA.
Have you checked out Nihongo?[0]

I'm not a Japanese learner, but my friend Chris Vaselli built that app, and he recently added a feature that sounds like what you're describing.[1]

[0] https://nihongo-app.com/

[1] https://twitter.com/Nihongo_App/status/1274760586115657728
Vengeance doesn’t bring back the dead.

The prisoner’s dilemma has the equilibrium of defect-defect.

If racists regularly shoot ethnic minorities, that means members of those minorities have good reason to shoot first in preemptive self-defence; there will inevitably be errors, and then the ethnic group the racists belong to will do the same, and suddenly you have a literal race war.

Likewise for any other distinction that people fight over besides race.
> The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory.

If you read the article it’s saying the court is asking Facebook to block delivery of certain content globally, not only within Brazil. And they are threatening a local Facebook employee with criminal liability, which is the reason Facebook says it has complied with the order while appealing it.
I don't think FB agree to comply the China's Internet data law.

There were negotiation and Zuck showed the flexibility of a seasoned political acting genius (I am sure he will regret this segment in his life eventually). But there were never fully public conformation that FB intends to bend over the law in China.

Please provide a link.

If GB indeed plan to comply the law, then I can assure anyone that Zuck intends to use it's business empire to advance his political ambition. That probably would be worse than Hitler's ascension...
Yes, it gives you an idea of the simple building blocks that make up the 8086. In a modern processor, the blocks on the die are a floating point unit or something. But on the 8086, the blocks are things like an adder or latch.
Most people would just use their github profile and readme. It tells a better story.
> AFAIK, postfix has no history. Only releases.

This is correct. It is also hosted on an original BSD (the b as in berkeley) 0.1 with the RCE affected ftpd 0.1 that had issues with too long usernames and passwords.

Oh, it's also hosted via http and ftp only, in case anyone is wondering about security aspects of it.

I'm talking about the porcupine server, as it is how the source gets distributed... I mean, gpg signing is fine and all, but if transport can be MITM'ed there's no way to verify the gpg signatures.

Contacted the author like hundreds of times, offered to help, but not a single eff was given apparently.
World's First Fully Programmable and Open-Source Massive-MIMO Platform
Some of the truly delusional have always had plenty of power and ability to spread their theories - religious people. Free information will hopefully reduce that rather than enhance it. Modern small-time delusions like anti-vax or white supremacy are nowhere near the scale and badness of, say Islam. But since Islam is well established, people turn a blind eye.
The text output was so interesting for this one, I didn't even care if it was GPT-3 or not at the time of reading (either way I deem it worth my time to read)
> Will BPG will replace GIFs?

Didn't, hasn't, won't.

HEVC is a patent licensing mess and, therefore, so too is BPG.

You're much better off using the AVC, VP9, or AV1 video formats or the WebP (https://developers.google.com/speed/webp), APNG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG), AVIF (https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/), or JPEG XL (https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/) image formats.
> If digital currency becomes really successful then it will eventually put Visa out of business.

Not really - there don't exist any digital currencies that A) have desirable economic/security properties B) can scale to billions of users and C) have a UX that's accessible to unsophisticated users.

Visa's role in a Bitcoin-based economy is probably providing custodial wallets, Lightning payment routing, etc.

> the ability to transfer ... should be a fundamental right and core function of government

The government has historically done a pretty bad job of this (which is why 99.9% of consumer payments go through private systems).

Why would I want the government to manage this when we know how to do this well without a government involved? What's the benefit of using FedCoin over using something decentralized with good monetary properties?

> I think for government to stay relevant then it needs to start to encompass more distributed protocols. To the degree that it fails to do so then I think it loses relevance.

This is an oxymoron - if a protocol is distributed, it inherently obviates the need for governmental management.
I have a different theory for why obscure books are advertised at absurd prices these days - few people want to buy them, but anyone who does, wants that specific book and there is no substitute, so booksellers have figured out that anything that has any value to anyone is optimally priced at hundreds of dollars.
I recently scored major points with the in-laws by convincing them to get a mini split for $800 instead of a window a/c-heater combo. Their place stays much cooler, and their electric bill went down by $125 last month.
I did something similar with my mom. After she got divorced, she ended up with a pile of money and no idea on what to do. I basically walked her through the a simple portfolio - equity/bond mix (30/70 as she was close to retirement), and a mix of domestic and international broad index funds.

She was able to go into her bank, setup a brokerage account, and basically tell them what she wanted. 20 years later, her money will outlast her. And it wasn't a ton of money to start with - if she had taken even a 20% loss, I would have worried if she'd have enough.
I don’t think so. I’ve heard rumors that whatever they’re doing does not work, but whether it’s because the bug is actually fixed or because they just didn’t bother adapting it is unclear. And there’s also some other thing going around that supposedly iOS 14 has some sort of additional stuff to make checkm8 less effective, which would involve a SEP exploit…
Intercontinental Spread of Covid-19 on Global WindSystems [pdf]
> First of all, we know that deplatforming racists/fascists does actually help to stop the spread of racist/fascist ideas.

People often claim this but there doesn't seem to be any real evidence of it. You get a short-term effect because the target has to regroup, but then they move to a platform with no moderating influences and become even more radicalized. See Voat.

> Secondly, and I think this is the more salient point, encountering racist/sexist/transphobic/whatever speech as a person who is the target of such rhetoric is immediately harmful and othering, especially when these views aren't actively challenged or disavowed by society. This doesn't even include the possibility that hearing hate speech might trigger some prior trauma experienced because of one's identity.

Your theory is directly contrary to various clinical treatments for anxiety (e.g. exposure therapy) which are altogether more healthy and sustainable -- learning to accept that other people disagree with you and have contrary opinions is a much more robust solution than embracing fragility and trying to nerf the world.

Inoculating the population to fascist rhetoric by publicly winning the debate against it with reasoned argument removes its power. Refusing to do so makes it stronger, because then when people are exposed to it, they are more vulnerable having never learned how to defend themselves against it.

> Example: You have a job interview downtown, but you're black and the Klan has a parade scheduled that day, and you're scared of the calls for violence.

You are trying to make a case against speech by making an argument against violence. If the Klan commits violence they should be arrested. If they are deterred from violence by the real threat of arrest then there is no reason to fear going to your job interview no matter what they say.
They quite literally mention the partnerships, programs, and products that Visa is involved with in this space.

What more do you want from a publication saying what Visa is doing in the crypto space?
In amazon.com.au, it is only available in paperback and cost "from $420"

Nah I will take the pirated copy thanks
I'm fairly open-minded, but sometimes a product comes along and blows me away with how preposterous its central pitch is.

And then I discover there is actually a market for it, and I am further dismayed... And amazed at the robustness of Say's Law.

Anyway, this bike and the whole associated product is preposterous.
The Nest can sort of trickle charge itself through its relay outputs, but for reliability you really want to provide 24VAC between R<->C.

To attach equipment, you can connect a 24VAC-friendly load between (e.g.) Y<->C or W<->C.
That sounds correct from a supply chain and like, physical reality perspective, but hopefully there would be ways to increase the bandwidth density to counteract the launch problem. If there's not, and there's like a year turnaround on launch, then your concern is founded.

Perhaps the reader would be better off making a donation or investment into SpaceX instead, such that they receive money to better compete with Comcast in exchange for no obligation of service :)
The city of Philadelphia has four cases listed, and three of those cases have criminal charges filed. Thank you District Attorney Larry Krasner for working to uphold the rule of law!
Maybe? https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/commits/master

I wouldn't call them releases, but they aren't normal commits...
It all depends on how outraged the populace is about the subject matter. criminal intent is secondary.
Show HN: I made $9000 posting on Hacker News about my microstartup
I spent last 6 months trying to build Simple Ops [1] to democratize website performance monitoring so anyone can use it.

A year back, while I was trying to measure performance for Visa List as it became a huge content website with more than 100K pages. Also as data is changing very frequently, it's very hard to keep doing this manually. I searched on google and found that all the solutions are just uptime monitoring and nothing and none of them truly measure performance. So I decided to build one for myself. But it turns out website performance monitoring is not so simple after all and with the pandemic, I had very little motivation let alone travel anywhere. It took me 3 months to do research and plan out the architecture to the last detail.

I looked at some of the B2C bootstrappers offering a lifetime deal and getting success. That's possible because they don't have a huge recurring cost with each customer, but in B2B SaaS, you have a recurring cost with each customer.

But I thought let me add and see how it goes. So added a lifetime deal with for $199. At that time I posted it on Hacker News [2] and it made it to the front page and all the lifetime deals were over in 12 hours. Then I added $299 which got over during the week. So far I made over $9000 and got more than 25 customers.

Even though it might not be profitable in the long run, I got the cashflow and customers in less time and it removed the pressure to chase customers. Now I can focus on the product.

One of the biggest challenges of a SaaS startup is to acquire the first 50 customers. I have seen many startups achieve this over 6 to 12 months, some even a few years. But with this initial business model, I have cashflow for a year which is the best thing that can happen to a B2B SaaS. Lifetime deals can be a powerful way to get initial customers especially when you are getting started.

[1] https://simpleops.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880071
About your analogy - quantum cloning may not be allowed by laws of nature. That would make any consciousness unique at any point in time.

Also I feel the experiment suggests split brains would most likely become 2 very different (new?) entities with different behavior after losing integrity.
The parent commenter seemed to be referring to the US, given that they referred to Delaware (a US State).
Assign the copyright to the victim. Then they can make a copyright claim.
Is https://github.com/vdukhovni/postfix/commits/master not official?
Whoa is this Paul Marks from Purdue? Haha, long time, I miss the Dtella days!
"I" isn't a memory or a here and now. It's the universe experiencing itself. It's an observer. What would happen to that experience if it was split? Would it make a new independant observer?
I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
Developer documentation was crucial to our success (1982?)
I agree with you, except that I like criticism when it challenges my thoughts and gets me to improve. On the internet you're at risk of losing your job over things you said 10 years ago, or getting death threats from random strangers. Criticism is great when it's well thought out and well intended. When it's an opinion someone formed seconds ago based on an image or a news headline or an image of a news headline, there's probably nuance that they're missing and their angry response just makes things worse
Definitely. Look how they spray paint, topple, and burn their own country.
Are there any planned government LEO internet access constellations that will be consumer-facing products? The only ones I’ve heard about are Starlink (first party by launching entity), OneWeb (which had to be bailed out), and Kepler (Amazon, so theoretically unlimited funding available).
Nope, ftp.porcupine.org is the only distribution source, from there it gets pushed to mirrors, from there people maintain the history manually.

Postfix is really a nightmare project from both the missing collaboration aspects and missing security aspects.
I mean at least the title is accurate? Several of his inaccurate predictions elicit deep wistfulness. He shoulda been right.
Do you think there is a sufficient market for businesses looking to transact in crypto?

I'm a big believer in the tech, but when I look today I still don't see how Visa really plays well with the current crypto market.

There are almost no cryptocurrencies that actually have desirable cash-like qualities that would result in their use in the retail space which basically eliminates all B2C like options. CBDC or other forms of tokenization could be a big deal, but CBDC certainly isn't there yet, and despite some interesting initiatives I haven't yet seen a value add tokenized solution in the retail sector. Including in developing countries, existing solutions using traditional payment networks are still more desirable.

There is the classic Innovators Dilemma where the new hot product will obviously underperform traditional products in the interim but eventually outperform them over the long term. I could see this happening in the developing world, but to my knowledge I have yet to see a product that seems to fit this mold.
Pour one out for Wilford. Plus we'll need a new Brimley Line. https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine
Seriously. I think I was making the “diabeters” joke twenty years ago, and to think he was 65 then, wow!
It's an iOS requirement. They would have to get Apple to build them a custom version of iOS, or root it themselves. Neither of which is very maintainable. Probably easier to just use the PIN.
The second paragraph doesn’t follow from the first. “Rule of law” and “stop taking the piss” aren’t left- or right-wing.

Also:

* China achieves the same goals with the Great Firewall

* Despite this, “Gap apologised to China for selling a shirt in its North American outlets featuring a map of the country without Taiwan and Arunachal Pradesh included” - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-maps-des...

* Even in liberal democracies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel_tourism
It's increasingly looking like there are deep biological reasons for expressions like "gut instinct". There are a lot of neurons in the digestive system. A recent paper[2] appeared to show that the fundamental purpose of sleep is to regulate reactive molecules in the digestive system. Another item I saw in quanta, [or somewhere else][0], described how gut bacteria have a direct link to the vertebrate brain and immune system.

So my modest proposal is that if we want AGI, we need to figure out how to implement a digestive system in silico.

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/your-gut-directly-co...

[1]https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-microbiomes-affect-fear-2...

[2]https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-sleep-deprivation-kills-2...
Cannot believe the president has the power without legal battle to ban business activity. If it's national security, let out the cat. Otherwise how could people believe if this won't happen to SAP, Volkswagon, Sony next time.
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I don't see 2020 in your graphs
That's what I thought too, 25% accuracy for public reports? That's crazy high! They just don't want to hire more people or improve their process.
Brilliant synopsis. Kudos!
> 0 and 1 looked normal—perhaps because those digits resemble letters

Or perhaps this is proof that we live in a simulation that is written in binary.
they're using follower growth on a few accounts to come to this conclusion, which suggests these people have no idea what they are talking about.

Follower count is a vanity metric, engagement rates, view through rates and similar metrics would be more meaningful to analyze, along with actual reach data.
> This shows how hard it is to be right about the future

Back in 1995 I remember I was very skeptical about what was then called radio modems. I thought that radio wasn't reliable and that Ethernet cables were there to stay forever. I didn't see laptops (let alone smartphones much later) becoming a thing. Though funny thing is, today in 2020, my laptop is connected via Ethernet at home. WiFi interference and congestion can at times become unbearable in a typical residential apartment block. You don't even know who or what creates interference so I was kind of right back then, but also terribly wrong in the long run.

I missed the practical aspect of radio communication within a short range, and I missed the trend that computing devices will get smaller and more portable over time. We thought at the time that computers will get more powerful but the size factor and the "desktopness" won't change.

The lesson for me is: don't try to predict the future of technologies. You can't just take a trend and extrapolate into the future: trends make unexpected turns and jumps all the time. This seems to be the only thing that's reliably predictable: that sudden turns and breakthroughs happen all the time and that each turn and breakthrough discovers some new practical aspect of a technology that was impossible to see in advance.
There are so few famous people online that have been so giving with their time, willing to reply to every email.

I think your (public) actions speak volumes about who you are.

Your writing (and also whenever you’re interviewed on a podcast) has had a huge positive impact on me. I appreciate it and you (or at least the public persona of you).
Or 19:48 for those of us in the UK.

NASA/SpaceX really should start using UTC for their timestamps.
There are inexpensive minisplits available, they're often a much better choice than two-hose portable ACs.
Why are we still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
Sure. If you have a serious amount of savings, the best approach to balance security and practicality is to protect your coins using multisignature, or multisig. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature
The privacy.com (private/disposable payment card numbers) app and website have tons of third party trackers and spyware embedded, too.

Privacy is just a marketing bullet point, these days. Apple pushes it hard as a differentiator, yet most of iCloud isn’t end to end encrypted and almost all of the apps in their App Store have spyware embedded in them.
OMG I love this. This is like the photobooth application but for google meet. This needs to have the weird lens effects like fish eye.
Isn't this already true wrt China? China requires companies with ops in China to abide by censorship rules, and companies without ops in China are at risk of being blocked.
Personal criminal liability of owners/shareholders and the credible threat of a fine that actually dents profits. Only the EU and US have any chance on enacting sufficiently scary penalties I suspect.
I don't have access to classified military secrets, but you don't think they would build a vehicle that could return 15 tons of payload to earth to retrieve US satellites? US could just build and launch a new satellite easier and cheaper than bring one down to fix only to launch it again.

Obviously there is the movie about Salyut 7 that depicts the shuttle trying to capture the station. Salyut 3 had a machine gun attached to it.
I think this ignores the fact that building something that gets spread through word of mouth is remarkably difficult and doesn't happen on the first iteration of the product.

All while those initial visitors have come and gone - how do you replicate traffic? I think OP needs to take a hand to hand combat route and just find those initial users himself while he searches for at least a semblance of interest.
Sounds exactly like how the US developed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater

Otherwise we would be trading beaver pelts and providing cheap labor.

Trump is banning TikTok because a bunch of teens pranked his rally using the platform.
He was 50 in Cocoon!
One thing I've realized with Rust is that its guarantees are a moving target. Today we can guarantee (barring compiler errors) memory safety in safe rust, but not unsafe rust.

But that story is improving. For one thing, we have people working to build safe abstractions for more unsafe use cases, at zero cost. We also have people improving fuzzing, and in theory safe rust code grows at a much faster rate than unsafe rust code, so fuzzing is far more tractable. We have people working on proving more about rust code, even when unsafe is around.

I'm quite excited to see how far Rust is able to go, I don't believe the state today is the end at all.
My condo building has these fancy new Technogym "MyRun" cardio machines which are basically regular workout machines with giant iPads on them. So now instead of turning them on and starting a workout I must wait 3 1/2 minutes for the touchscreen to boot every morning and every other week theres a failed software update causing the machine to shut down mid workout to restart the software in an endless loop. Or it just won't turn on due to the software on/off switch not working and we have to call the technician. It's unbelievably bad. Unless you actually care about connecting your workout to an app (i dont) a prehistoric cheap workout machine from 20 years ago has a better experience and is actually maintainable
Show HN: Automatically scold people without a face mask
His long format is very much the point. There’s countless quick format high quality channels out there for this stuff too!

Watching his videos reminds me of university and being in a really high quality lecture or lab session.
> Your theory is directly contrary to various clinical treatments for anxiety (e.g. exposure therapy) which are altogether more healthy and sustainable

Reading slurs online isn't exposure therapy. Exposure therapy consists of controlled situations and counseling led by licensed therapists. No therapist would suggest that their clients should expose themselves to abusive and toxic environments as "exposure therapy".

Please don't cherry pick techniques you don't understand from fields you aren't familiar with to support your opinions.
Hmm, so he was also the brutal fixer in 'The Firm'. Any other dark roles, rather than his well known grandfather image?