skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Manufacturing child porn IS repugnant, even if it is a deep whatever. Is that so controversial?

I think your parent is asking the question: why is it repugnant?

Is it repugnant because children were harmed in the manufacture of the images, or is it repugnant ipso facto?

And if it is repugnant ipso facto, is that worth having a strict liability crime on the books, when no people are actually being harmed (in the case of fake child porn)?

In other words, why should it be illegal to have fake porn of children, but not illegal to keep spiders as pets?
Lawns are really bad for the environment in many ways. A front yard that's all native plants both looks better and produces a healthier local ecosystem.
Twitter Bot which posts a frame from the Godfather every 3 hours
The idea is to highlight how well the film is shot. Also some of the dialogue is quite funny out of context heheh. Inspired by @kothscreens
> Though I still occasionally get "thank you" messages from people that accidentally find and use it.

Why not ask one of them to make a pull request using the proper formatting?

Edit: clarification
Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been banned from operating in China. If you look at the big picture, Western companies have much less access to the Chinese domestic market than vice versa
The vulnerability was explained in more detail in an article [0] submitted earlier this week [1]

> Team Pangu demonstrated that they could exploit a bug in the memory controller that manipulates the TZ0 register memory. TZ0 refers to a register that controls the range of SEP memory usage.

> @Windknown first introduces the architecture of Apple’s SEP hardware and system. The main processor and the co-processor are isolated and need to communicate through a shared memory mechanism. Subsequently, it explained in detail the process of SEPROM initialization, including the realization of the memory isolation mechanism. The memory isolation mechanism is implemented by the TZO mechanism.

> The TZ0 register describes the range of SEP memory usage, and AMCC is used to prohibit the main processor from accessing the memory space of TZO. The epic vulnerability announced this time is in SEPROM. By combining the BOOTROM exploit of checkm8, the IO mapping register can be modified to bypass the memory isolation protection. Then cooperate with the race of the main processor to achieve the purpose of modifying any SEPOS and SEP APP. For example, through the restriction of password input in patch sks, to try to lock the screen password without restriction.

> According to Axi0mX, the SEP chip bug can only be triggered if the hacker has physical access to the device and with a BOOTROM exploit like checkm8 or checkra1n.

> He also added that this vulnerability cannot be used to jailbreak via a web browser (JailbreakMe) or with an application (unc0ver) because the value in the TZ0 registry cannot be changed after boot. So, unless someone gets his/her hands on your iPhone and puts it in DFU mode, you are safe.

[0] https://androidrookies.com/team-pangu-demonstrates-unpatchab...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23976506
There are four parachutes.
It's designed to support at least a single-chute failure, I don't know about multiple chute outages.

As for propulsive landing - the latest I can see[1] is that while the craft is technically capable of propulsive landing, it's not approved by NASA, even for emergencies. So it's likely that these options are not even available for the crew, and they wouldn't have trained on how to use it/activate it.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-crew-dragon-emergency-landi...
fascism. Nationalism... Zionism is not an ideology. Zionism died with Hertzl and was already twisted in his life by the Russian faction of the Zionist Congress. Hertzl search was for a legitimate and internationally recognized place, and it didn’t have to be Israel/Palestine.

BTW, WHAT DO YOU call it when Arab leaders like AL-ASAD and AL-SISI, to name a few, kill and torture thousands of their own people, and people like you still find the energy to only reach their keyboard to criticize Israel? Is it fatigue (since you wasted so much time on Israel) or hypocrisy?
Every JS IDE warns you about that so I could see a developer correcting the warning.
Ha, this is nothing. We once fired a programmer and had her turn over her code after she failed to turn any work in after a few months. Her code was atrocious and also none of it worked...or even was runnable. The biggest sin was that she wrote all of her code in MS-Word, smart-quotes and all on all the literals. Never once ever tried to run or test any code, just thousands of lines of useless stuff that "looked" like code.

Oh yeah, she's also an adjunct CS professor at a local college.
The main concern of the Soviets was that the Shuttle could swoop down and drop bombs without warning.

(Both Reagan and the Soviet top leadership didn't care about MAD, they cared about practical methods to stop incoming missiles. To get the arms limitations agreements signed, Reagan allowed the Soviets an exception to the anti-ABM ban to allow a ring of anti-ABM sites around Moscow, which exists until today. The "Star Wars" kinetic interception methods are also likely still active, though the laser methods probably never worked well.)
More specifically to TikTok, all American social networks are locked out. (Facebook, twitter, YouTube, etc.)
Hopefully I don’t lose my license in the US for screwing up in the car wash, where setting a Model 3 into neutral takes the dexterity of a skilled surgeon. Hey Elon, when you detect I’m in a car wash (you already turn off the automatic wipers in there), can you put a big button for Neutral on the screen. My wife practices setting the car into neutral before entering the car wash, and even then, she’s only 75% successful.
Any FOSS or Commons Clause software fits the bill.

Or are you saying you would like to see Right to repair legislation for software? Me too, but it won't happen.
This is a really interesting argument, and I’d like to understand it more clearly. For the sake of honing in on this:

Many subreddits have different sets of rules & restrictions. If these options were significantly expanded, could that ever meet the requirements?

Another interesting niche example is stackexchange.com, which isn’t a social network in the traditional sense (yet), but it has many different communities with different rules where a single identity, but variable set of privileges, follow you around.

Could these evolve into what you consider federated social networks, or are there more strict separation requirements (such as different login / identity providers among sub-communities)?

[edit: typo]
Stories and lessons from working with Jeff Bezos on the original Kindle
From what I recall in my neuroscience class, this is likely to be caused by damage to the visual cortex, which is used to consciously process visual information, but not the superior colliculi, which is used to unconsciously process peripheral vision. This is caused by damage to one of the visual processing regions but not others.

From the article, it appears something similar has happened. Corticobasal syndrome potentially killed off some brain cells but not others, leading to damage at some areas but not others.
There are more recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVv2IB7f5k

Here is "Hero" made with Blender, for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKmSdY56VtY

Blender's pseudo-3D has more freedom with camera moves, but the capabilities look pretty similar otherwise.
Honestly? Apathy and Laziness.
Kevin Systrom, Matt Cohler Discuss Facebook Buying Instagram
> are running new electrical circuits

Why is this needed? Is it because the electricity in the US is at 120V? Over here (Europe) you can just plug the cable from the indoor unit into the electrical outlet.
Change the extension name. This is not an official Google product. The name is misleading.

e.g.: Mercator for Google Meet
HPV vaccination is now recommended for all adolescents.
The surprising part of this story for me was that Kodak is still trading. I thought they were dead and buried years ago, no nails left for that coffin.

I went to a Kodak Developers Conference in 2001. Even back then it was obvious they were struggling to find a way to remain relevant in a digital age. It struck me then that they were doomed, since their business was built on getting a cut from every picture taken. Nothing in digital was ever going to replicate that revenue stream.
I'm "suffer" from this condition, too. I haven't found much literature about it as I thought I would.
How long before Facebook is forced to be sold to a Brazilian company?
Surely the US style HOA insanity is not necessary for condos, as demonstrated by the rest of the world.
That would be selfish, sort of like buying the hot Christmas toy when you don't even have kids. The amount of available bandwidth at any given time is fixed. If everyone does that then SpaceX would either need to raise prices (so the people with no other option will have to pay more) or implement some other kind of throttling.

It's good if Starlink has enough demand to make the service a success, so SpaceX will want to expand it. Beyond that, you're just pricing other people out, until they grow to the point that they can actually serve everyone.
So you are giving uo on the whole concept of a justice system, evidence of wrongdoing and public hearing?

Might as well start putting random chinese people in jail just to hit back at CCP, "no apollogies neccesary"
How is the onion-skinning UX in Synfig? Like if I just wanted to do some frame-by-frame animation prototypes?
Good DevOps are people with lots of experience in software development, architecture, and infrastructure automation (and the lack of automation). This can not be learnt quickly.

IMHO you're looking for someone like me who would rather work for one week day and night on automating something than investing a couple of hours every once in a while to do or have someone else doing it with manual interventions.

Just so you understand what I mean by that. I have 20 years of professional software and data engineering experience, had to manage my own infrastructure when I was working for a small consulting company, or had to cut (or circumvent) lots of red tape at a big pharma company when dealing with infrastructure admins to automate my projects, built my onpremise software defined compute and storage cluster. And I learn programming languages as a hobby.

Nevertheless, here's some links that might be a good starting point:

https://about.gitlab.com/devops/

https://www.dummies.com/business/operations-management/devop...

https://landscape.cncf.io/

(I might add more as reply to this comment)
I really want Synfig to be great. I've used it several times over the past couple years, but it's extremely difficult to make anything. Unintuitive UI, sparse documentation, and crashes often. I would add it to the list of projects I support financially, but I haven't found a good use case for it.
I had a deja-vu, I thought I had read this exact comment before in HN. Have you used the same words before?
Cool! How do you confirm the chip isn't going to have any weird reaction under the skin later? And there's minimal risk implanting it in the first place will cause damage?
Oh man, I was not able to make it through that needle video... I love the body-mod community, but I don't think I'm fit to serve in their ranks.
My response is that everyone should carry. If the Klan goes nuts, the Klan gets shot. Eventually the system will react an equilibrium.

I agree with your freedom of association. My only note would be that removing people from the means of financial transactions is the same as limiting speech.
There's really nothing Nest-specific in the design. It just takes two components (AC input optocoupler and resistor) to sense the 24VAC output from any standard thermostat.

Connecting to the Nest was probably easier than turning an ESP32 into a proper thermostat.

The hardest part of the whole project was figuring out how to read a clean signal from a photodiode.
GitHub has a feature for this: https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-...

The implementation is, if you enable this option when making a pull request, people with write access to the target project also get write access to your branch, so they can grab it, make some fixes, git commit (perhaps with --amend), git push -f to your fork, and then merge it from your pull request, and you keep authorship and the pull request gets resolved like normal.

For what it's worth, the Linux kernel community has a process for this too - a subsystem maintainer can absolutely grab someone's patch and git commit --amend. Usually it's considered courteous to add a "[maintainer@example.com: fixed style]" line at the bottom of the commit message. I'm a little surprised the maintainer didn't do that in this case but I bet life got in their way too :)
I realize he had bigger, more mainstream roles that he'll be remembered for. But the most iconic for me was, Blair, in The Thing.
> Or those two numbers might be processed differently than other numbers in the brain, as "zero wasn't invented for quite a long time after the other digits were," he said.

Come on, that's just silly. What are they even suggesting here? Zero is encoded in a different area of RMS's brain because he learned it as an adult, after its invention under the Nixon administration?

Also from that page: "The group of researchers created new digits for RFS which they called "surrogate digits" so that he could use them in daily life."

That's just not some sort of new jargon, it's what the word surrogate means! How does someone end up writing for a living without learning how to use a dictionary?
Enter to win a free pair...
He was only 85? Wow. The dude looked 85 in the 90s.
That's not a insurmountable problem using a bit of insulation and careful design.
The quote was that the source code is the form of the program you would prefer to modify, not the information you would prefer to have available. These are different things.
The original drafters of copyright have not been relevant to copyright law for an incredibly long time: we've revised it so many times that unless you want to invoke the most recent judges and lawyers involved, this argument has nothing to do with actual reality.
That's a fair question!

So Gardasil is only approved for "girls and women 9 through 26 years of age". Plus there wasn't much expectation of use outside of Western countries initially since it's not cheap and there are likely higher priority vaccines in developing countries (i.e. do you spend dollars on this or meningitis vaccines?). Use is probably pretty broad now, ~10 years post-launch.

Eventually they expanded the label to include "boys and men 9 through 26 years of age".

So all in all, a relatively small slice of the population, where for the Covid vaccine, they're trying to get it approved for pretty much everybody.
You are better off using Krita or Pencil2D for that kind of work.
I welcome a title change. False is equally good at articulating the subject.

There is a specific case of deliberately fraudulent reports mentioned in the article. Or highly likely to be such. An individual who makes thousands of false reports despite being repeatedly reminded not to do so.
This reminds me of a post by Steve Klabnik: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/what-comes-after-open-sourc...

In that he argues that open source is less about publishing the code and more about a culture of developing in the open, with a public source repository and public issue tracker.
All vaccines in the USA have exempted by liability protections since 1986.

They are also exempt from all double blind placebo testing by the FDA because they have carved out a special exemption. Vaccines are classified as “biologics” which is a relic from the cold war era.

If someone gets vaccine damaged they have to go through a special vaccine court, which to this day has paid out $4.5 billion. Getting an award requires the awardee signing an NDA as a requirement.
Far more people are exposed to vaccines than chemotherapy drugs.
> Chinese policy seems to have not significantly changed in the last 5 years towards the US

Chinese policy "towards the US" may be too narrow a view.

Within the past 5 years, Xi Jinping has eliminated the scheduled 10-year leadership transition which served to alternate power between various elite factions in China. This has put him in a position to maintain leadership for life. After Xi achieved this, China has seen numerous significant domestic and foreign policy shifts.

As China has become more of a near-peer global power with the US, Chinese domestic politics have become more relevant to everyone.
> using a weak science (handwriting analysis) and then adding ridiculously high numbers to it (1/2.666E21) is a really bad way to decide on this.

Ah, but ridiculously high numbers get such a nice emotional reaction from a jury.

I once had a conversation with a guy who fiercely proclaimed that if you shuffle a deck of cards, the resulting ordering is likely to be utterly unique in the history of all shuffled decks ever, because there are <dramatic pause /> 8E67 possibilities!1! Same as the number of atoms in our galazxy!

I went on to explain that while in theory this is true, in practice there are a lot of caveats. Since brand new unopened deck of cards are usually all in the same order, and since a perfect cut and a perfect riffle shuffle (left/right/left/right/left etc) will always produce one of two orderings, depending on whether you start with the left or right decks, etc etc, it lowers the odds drastically. And it would be more proper to say that if you sloppily shuffle a deck about 7 times, then the original claim is probably true.

But I lost the crowd. They had already had an emotional reaction to the enormous number .
Yes! This is exactly the problem with centralization.

On a federated maps product, some communities can label Nagorno Karabakh one way, others another. Unlike Google.

https://qbix.com/blog/2019/03/08/how-qbix-platform-can-chang...
I know Wyoming law enforcement rely on apps that can function in a disconnected environment since I heard network coverage through out many parts of the state is really poor. This would also help a lot of park rangers.
Newer macOS prefers SMB3 over AFP, even for time machine backups. There’s no reason to use AFP anymore on a modern Mac.
Traveling over 20 countries while Running a 12k/month remote agency
In Jason Zweig's commentary accompanying Benjamin Graham's book "The Intelligent Investor", he points out something similar:

> There are two ways to be an intelligent investor:

-by continually researching, selecting, and monitoring a dynamic mix of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds;

-or by creating a permanent portfolio that runs on autopilot and requires no further effort (but generates very little excitement).

> Graham calls the first approach "active" or "enterprising"; it takes lots of time and loads of energy. The "passive" or "defensive" strategy takes little time or effort but requires an almost scientific detachment from the alluring hullabaloo of the market. As the investment thinker Charles Ellis has explained, the enterprising approach is physically and intellectually taxing, while the defensive approach is emotionally demanding.

Later, Zweig goes on to say that if you must, restrict yourself to speculation with at most 10% of your assets.

> For better or worse, the gambling instinct is part of human nature--so it's futile for most people even to try suppressing it. But you must confine and restrain it. That's the single best way to make sure you will never fool yourself into confusing speculation with investment.
I'd be careful. On August 27, they're getting stricter on spam https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/spam-faq so don't be surprised if they start cracking down on this as well.

"...for Google Meet" will probably be okay. They have specific examples like that here: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/branding
People share what they find remarkable and recommend what they find useful.

Instead of focusing on web traffic, consider making something that just 10 people find remarkable, get excited about, or can’t live without. Chances are if 10 people find it remarkable they will tell others. And then you can accelerate that process by sharing it with others like them.
> We once fired a programmer and had her turn over her code after she failed to turn any work in after a few months

How did that go un-noticed for months?
jlaporte said marketing spend. Elon tweeting from his personal account is free.
> The controller itself cost less than $100, so we were definitely not worth his time.

That's not really true from a design perspective. You really want to know what sort of problems your customers are having in the field. And you don't know really unless you talk to them.
You can always join such a network if you like.

The current networks herd you into echo chambers and show you more outrage so you’ll engage more as they chase advertising dollars in a race to the bottom.
With the advent of reproducible builds, it can also be useful to have a specification of the build environment needed to reproduce a binary from a given source code snapshot.
There's a better chance of changing economic incentives at home in a country that has 11x multiplier on CO2 emissions per capita compared to say, China.
Ha, that's incredible!
BMWs have long had a feature that takes these temperature concerns one step further–a knob that controls the vents blowing towards your face, which works independently of the main climate control. So you can set the overall temperature you want for the car, but fine tune the air that you feel most directly. It’s a small detail but something I really appreciate.
Note to people publishing with google doc: It's not possible to use text-to-speeach software when google does not allow access to the select and copy buffer.
While that sounds desirable in itself, I don’t think it would actually solve the issue the judge is concerned about.
A very good reason to pay an personal advisor is to structure your income, existing wealth, and businesses (et al) for optimal tax avoidance and tax-advantaged growth. These are fairly nuanced topics that are hard to do on your own, so it's possible that your friend is getting advice / action along those lines.

Obviously if it's 1.5% on AUM/year for stock picking advice, it's almost certainly not worth it. But you never know.
> What about spam?

Spam filtering isn't censorship because the recipient doesn't want to receive it. Censorship is removing access to material the recipient would otherwise choose to view.

> Scams? Child porn? Doxxing? People's very personal data? A bounty to hurt a specific person, with included address and identifying information?

All of these things have illegal non-speech components (fraud, child abuse), so you can go arrest the perpetrators directly and leave the platforms out of it.
There are a lot of these type of articles that conclude that "we", the developers, need to fix this problem. But if you read the original article by Prof. Wirth, it is not up to "us".

It is the reality of the software industry. Time-to-market is the only rule. and it dictates how we write software: Agile, Scrum, don't reinvent, deploy early, fix it later, technical debt.

There are many of us who care about quality of our work. But in performance reviews, the only thing that matters is how many features you shipped. You cannot demonstrate the quality of your work in your performance review. Or better yet, the fact that the software you wrote is going to be bug-free for next 10 years.
I agree. You may not agree with Zuckerberg's position of not censoring content (beyond the obscene), but it's probably the smartest position for the business.

As soon as you start saying "well, we'll censor stuff that isn't accurate", you've opened a Pandora's box of every single interest group hammering you on every single decision and in the end everyone thinks you're screwing them over.