skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the fictional child did not represent a child in their mind, there would be no need to seek out media featuring children.

This statement falls apart when you correct the last word to 'fictional children' rather than just 'children', which is what it should be, unless you have reason to believe they (the majority of viewers) also seek out 'real child' pornography too.

They seek it out because they have trained themselves to see these characters as part of the world inhabited by fictional adult characters. The 'child' characters are no different to them as the 'adult' characters. It's important to note, they're not seeking out media featuring 'children', they're specifically seeking out media featuring the 2D, deformed, and aesthetically pleasing trope-based 'children' they've seen elsewhere in the fictional world. They do not view the child in an anime as a child, but as a manifestation of some child-like qualities (or perhaps not even that) combined with tropes they have learned to recognize. It's also driven by taboo taking things to extremes - such as the fascination with youth, particularly in Japanese society - much in the same way rape fetishes are taken by BDSM partners to be the subordination of women taken to the extreme in the fiction-context, not necessarily a fascination with rape itself. This is seen in other BDSM behaviours too.

This is the main point of the 2D complex. It circumvents the 3D referents and developes itself separately. Lolicon is merely a subset of the 2D complex - and in the 2D complex, "anything goes". The equivalent for people with 3D attractions would be a risque fetish.

Trying to understand the 2D complex in terms of what is appealing about people with regular (3D) attractions is almost as non-sensical as a gay person trying to understand what's so appealing about heterosexuality from the perspective of homosexual attractions.

It is more plausible that the 2D children attraction exists beside (i) other 2D attractions (ii) a fascination for youth, a fetish for the concept and all things associated with it - but no sexual attraction to children.

I say the last part because there are studies on people with youth fetishes, but not pedophilia - the ageplay community in BDSM circles simulates child sex, but is not clinically considered a subset or relation of pedophilia.
I've thought for a while that the neglect of consumer, prosumer, and small business computing is a side effect of concentration of wealth. A small percentage of businesses have all the money.
The DoE is also a nuclear weapons agency. Don't let the friendly name fool you. It's the DoE that designs and builds the US' bombs.
Ah, I see; I am not an expert in this field so it isn't really clear to me why that information would be needed; the assembly is already being emitted? Is it because functions that will take ints(which will inevitably recieve them from some kind of stack pop or similar) have to have the typing verified before their execution begins?

I hope your situation has improved/is improving; good luck! I love your website.
The RA in RADAR stands for RAdio. It’s like saying “light pointer” instead of “laser pointer”. For most people the distinction is irrelevant.
If something like this happens to an instance, I don't trust the VM's state even after recovery and I'd retire & replace regardless. But I'd love to have serial access to do a root-cause analysis to prevent the issue from occurring in the future.
Ah, interesting -- as in fzf wants you to integrate it with your shell's tab completion by default?
> I think many just misunderstand what the food safety guidelines are. The USDA gives you instructions that if you attempt to follow, you will (almost certainly) be safe from any remotely common sources of problems.

I agree with this. But the reason that "many misunderstand what the food safety guidelines are" is because of how they're worded. They're worded as if, if you don't follow them then you will definitely get in trouble.
They registered the Voltswagen Twitter in 2019. Looks legit. And the Volts name is pretty brilliant.

https://twitter.com/Voltswagen
Well this is just how GPS works. Each satellite broadcasts what time it is and you calculate your position by knowing the orbit of each satellite and the varying delays in “now” timing received from a few satellites because of the speed of light and a few higher order effects.

That can get you xyzt position, if you want your three dof direction too, a second receiver/fe/antenna can do a second fix and the differential between the two can be used to find the orientation.

You can do this with a smaller antenna separation better by going down the stack into the guts of the receiver math but it’s difficult because these things are implemented in hardware and encumbered by arms control regulatory hurdles.
Yep, I also use their cameras as baby monitors. RTSP mode to VLC on an old chromebook as an always-on monitor.

The Protect app works pretty well now assuming you have a controller to connect to, but the time between the Video app shutting down and Protect actually working properly was very frustrating. I would never trust the Protect app to stay connected while I'm asleep, though. It's definitely not stable enough for that.
I think exposure at least offers you the opportunity of engagement with other perspectives. If your dad is racist but you go to school and make a black friend, that might change your perspective vs. if you lived in an area where mostly white people lived, and you had no practical experience to weigh against your dad's racist perspective. A lot of people stay siloed, especially after schooling ends. They work with the same people for decades, attend the same church, or otherwise cement their social circle for the most part, since there are fewer opportunities to meet people from different perspectives as an adult. This is in contrast to say undergrad, where half the kids in your dorm were from another country and everyone is looking to make friends as soon as possible, or public school where you make friends both rich and poor because you don't see class really when you are six years old, you just want to play tag.
It's good to know if you ever end up in a Mad TV Playstation 3 situation.
Was in a senior in high school French.
Teacher was explaining how to translate present participle.
Complete blank stares.
Only thing anyone knew was noun and verb.
Teacher had a complete meltdown.

So for next week em the entire school, every English class was School house Rock videos.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DCdt8-H1BFY&feature=youtu.be
NFT's are useless. They just link to a URL.

No property of anyone, but the person who hosts it... And can make it disappear ;)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdj79/peoples-expensive-nft...

Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639074

Edit: I'm expecting downvotes. At least explain to me why NFT's aren't worthless with another reason than: "it's worth what people pay for it"
I think raising a child is a lot more effort than giving a trained operative weaponized dentures.
If you really need a picture of a human, you could just...get that person's permission instead of whining about free not being "free."
Get Linux boards and USB-3 WiFi dongles with well-supported chipsets and roll your own?

The other alternative is to go way up-market and buy industrial gear. Consumer gear is shit due to a race to the bottom mentality. 90% of consumers buy the cheapest. This is also what turned every TV and appliance into a feature-encrusted shitbox full of spyware.
If it's part of the structure, what happens when you have a crash?
iOS setup encourages you to sign in or create an account if necessary. Skipping is also an option.
Does Spotlight search even index contents? I didn't think that happened, but maybe I'm wrong?
(off) Hey @true_religion, we are building a new p2p CDN and looking for a piece of advice from a domain expert. It would be nice to speak with a person, who is running "a media group with massive bandwidth requirements (1PB+ per site)". If you don't mind to do a user interview, please shoot me an email at anton+hn@farbacdn.com
You are hitting the nail on the head. Most times, people are looking for utopian solutions. In a large market where people have different incentives, non-dominating solutions do not exist. There are options and implications. We get to choose from what we have (with implications) not some ideal situation we have dreamt in our mind. Currently, everyone wants to have their cake, eat it and the cherry on the top. Later even complain about the cherry not being sweet.
Another socially anxious introvert here. I miss in person events so much, digital conventions don’t compare even remotely (please don’t talk to me though).
Still better than the sudo logo.
Likely they just had no need for it themselves. Might be that they didn't prioritize having a feature over the risk of someone taking over their hypervisors thanks to a buggy serial port emulator.

Pretty much all hypervisors support serial consoles, but usually those interfaces are limited to trusted admins. For something like AWS, they'll also have to connect it from the hypervisor hosts into their public UI, and they can't trust the users.
You are correct, Find My … only works if you’re signed in with an Apple ID to iCloud.
We can save a lot of lives if we monitor everyone/everything. I'm sure there was very little early death in the Matrix universe.
HN community is in an endless loop of switching vendors:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18200119

IMO using what we have intelligently is easier. Uniquiti hardware has the Edge line of routers and switches that are not cloud-controlled, not listen on any ports, and not establish any connections on your behalf.
The magnitudes are actually logged to the dev tools console. But be aware that the magnitudes calculated by all tools like this are little more than educated guesses, and the real brightness can easily be different by several magnitudes in either direction.
> targeted and incarcerated minorities

Which minorities are being targeted? Black people (12% of US population) commit 55% of all homicides [1], but make up only 33% of the prison population [2]. If they were being targeted, wouldn't you expect their share of the prison population to exceed their share of homicides?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S... - These ratios closely match those given by victim surveys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_S...), which are immune to bias due to over-policing.

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/05/06/share-of-bl...
It’s not really a crime to lie to your husband.
AÇÃO Absurda
A lot of medium sized companies moved to the cloud without understanding the tradeoffs. And they have big pockets when it matters.
He said node not miner. There is no way a Pi even with AES could possibly be worth running as a miner.
The echo chamber rejects the truth.
I agree - there's no competition. What's your solution to change in the law that will create competition?
Faster handoffs between APs.
>So why does $product need to send telemetry data via google?

Because Google is responsible for most of the software on said product. Who would be receiving that telemetry data if it wasn't Google?

>Why can highly complex software that runs most of the worlds internet infrastructure (linux) work without telemetry?

First, this is a false premise because it ignores the potential that telemetry could help improve this software but most Linux distros have decided against it for other reasons. Secondly, it ignores that some distros do in fact include telemetry.

>Why is telemetry not opt-in

It probably should be when it comes to something that has potential to invade privacy, but we have to be realistic that practically no one will actively turn on telemetry if it is initially set to off. That drastically decreases the value of the collected data and it basically turns into nothing more than something customer service can tell someone to turn on while trying to troubleshoot a specific issue.

>or relies on reports in situation where a bug causes an issue like firefox crash reports?

Telemetry isn't just about bugs. It is also about guiding future development, knowing what features are used, knowing the workflow for users, etc. It can provide value beyond crash reports.

>I'd rather have privacy and buggy software then bug free software in exchange for no privacy at all

This is completely fair. I would generally agree with you and bet that most HN readers would too. However this is not a binary choice. Not all telemetry is inherently bad. Not all loss of privacy is inherently damaging. This is a complicated issue that will involve compromises and anyone sticking to a complete extreme of it being all bad or all good isn't going to offer anything productive to this conversation.
At work we've been slowly pulling code out of our WebForms monolith. That's still on .NET Framework, and will be forever until we're done killing it, but we can use recent VS and MSBuild with it and we use C# 9 as well. Business code generally works copy and paste in .NET Core, so there's a really good path to migrate to newer stuff, especially with .Net Standard 2.0 being a thing.

gRPC is really fast and we have the WebForms monolith call into .NET Core services now so we can improve the back-end without dealing with so much ASPX crap.
Most of the time, that is what I'd suggest to do. However this is like the 4 wheel drive on my truck. I usually don't need it, but when I need it, I really in a bind and glad to have it.
Yup. You've put your finger on what I think is one of the big mistakes of the Agile movement. I wrote about it some a decade ago. [1] Early on it was a lot of well-meaning idealists. I'm not sure if people failed to imagine it becoming the dominant paradigm or if they weren't sufficiently cynical about what would happen once it did.

I'm honestly not sure if they could have avoided the current outcome. It was always a pretty loose coalition. But I think trademarking Agile and setting down some strong minimum standards could have helped. But even that might have been washed away by Scrum's "certifying" anybody who could fog a mirror and the attendant revenue for people whose personal interest was in watering things down.

[1] http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
>Where does that leave people like doctors who earnestly help their patients?

Making positive contributions to society doesn't change the fact that you're being exploited. It's become increasingly clear that Doctors (at least where I'm from) have low pay early in their careers, unsafe working conditions, and have almost no life outside of work. On top of that they have a stressful job involving interacting with members of the public.
German humour. But I bet it will be the name of a subsidiary.
To use something like this you’d still need an SSH root password setup in advance. So not much different than not losing your SSH keys or creating fallback ones.

One other option is to exploit a bug in managed software to escape to a shell. One man’s CVE or backdoor, is another support engineers magic sword to save the day.
That's a fair point. In order to use lightning, PayPal would either need to hold some BTC in reserves on layer 2, or work with an exchange that accepts lightning transactions.
I've seen that behavior all the time in my work experience and I've never been in a union job. There are shitty, frusterating, lazy workers in every job at every level, from entry level to the C level, and plenty of them find a way to not get fired and keep skirting by. I don't think saying workers can be lazy in a union is a very compelling argument, especially considering the collective negotiating ability the union gives you that will just be gone if everyone was left to negotiate with management themselves. I've set to see an argument against a union that couldn't simply be pointed to a non union workplace just as well.
I was also surprised by the emphasis on "20x more data" aspect. The table on kinds-of-data sent was showing Apple in a much more negative light.
Pressure mounts on financial regulators to address Archegos debacle
Do they make an Eero yet with more than two Ethernet ports? I love the product, I just want to plug 4-5 devices in as well as use the WiFi.
Well Lisp can reflect on its objects! You can have code like:

(int? foo)

that returns #t or #f depending on if foo is an int. So `int?` needs to have information from somewhere about what type of object it is.

I get more into this in Part 4 (unary primitives).

Thanks :)
Aircraft-Carriers Take to the Air
This is such a nonsense justification.

You want to sell software you wrote to run on an iphone. You have zero choice. Apple tax your revenue.

You want to sell software you wrote to run on a pc. Steam is not your only choice. I am not defending steam or valve here, I've never sold anything using their stuff, nor am I suggesting anything other than that their market power over pc compared to apple's store over the iphone is not remotely comparable.

It actually works against you to suggest apple's iphone software store and steam are comparable at all because it's so incredibly bogus.

You want to make the case that steam suck too but with loads less market power. Go right ahead. We're listening. You don't need absolute and total market power to be abusive of it. Apple will immediately attempt redefine the market to include android or people spending money on coca cola instead of apple product to suggest that customers have real choice so there is no market power abuse here.
It’s not just difficult to understand, the em height / character shape described by the article are total nonsense — they have zero relationship to the font itself, and no relationship between one font’s eg height and another.

Which ultimately means that font sizing is entirely nonsense: the only thing you can say is font size 1 is smaller than font size 2, but it’s impossible to say by how much, or guess the difference, except when talking about one, and only one font.

That is, a font with size 16 roughly corresponding to the same size in another font is entirely defined and enforced by nothing at all — it’s purely a “happens to be true”.

Thus, the only real way to handle font sizing predictably is to never switch them out, because you’re really dealing with undefined behavior
Apparently you haven't heard of Cobra Kai
Shared nations are racist.

We must bring back segregation to prove how anti-racist we are.
I can also easily load PDFs and other formats to a Kindle even if I didn’t go through the Amazon store.
WHO chief calls for further investigation into Covid-19 origins
> For some people, that's all they need.

History tells us that when you have a device that does a few things that only for a tiny minority of people – within already a tiny minority of nerds – are "all that they need", and the dev community is so small, there is no future to the device. For someone who was around in the OpenMoko and Nokia N900 days, it is hard not to see the PinePhone as a stillborn device, which will never progress beyond "pre-alpha" state. A year after I got my PinePhone, it remains just as disappointing an experience as in the beginning.

> You can also use Google Maps that way or whatever OSM provider.

Browsing Google Maps is a joke on the PinePhone's weak processor. And again, OSM on the PinePhone is vastly inferior to the OSM choices on Android. Merely showing OSM tiles does not a good map app make.

> It's the exact same Firefox that's in desktop Linux

And that is the problem. Desktop Firefox was never designed to work at those screen dimensions. Many features of the Firefox UI do not actually work on the PinePhone. (They might possibly work if you dock the PinePhone with a monitor and mouse – I haven’t checked – but they don’t work on the PinePhone as a phone.)
"In New York City, where anti-Asian hate crime soared nearly nine-fold in 2020 over the year before, only two of the 20 people arrested last year in connection with these attacks were white, according to New York Police Department data analyzed by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. Eleven were African Americans, six were white Hispanics and one was a Black Hispanic."

"Progressives oppose tougher police action over concern it could lead to a disproportionately high number of African American and Latino arrests without putting a stop to the hate"

Go figure. Progressives hate Asians in America because they disprove all the work garbage they push. Progressives have no problem eliminating the avenues asians have to advance themselves because they'd rather Asians kick rocks then admit maybe having 2 parents and valuing education is pretty useful. First they went for the SATs because black people scored like crap now they'd rather Asians get their faces kicked in than admit minorities are more racist and violent then boogey white cops.
I think the current plan with Starship is to not have an abort system, but maybe they'll change their minds between now and when they're ready to start thinking about putting humans on board.

https://everydayastronaut.com/starship-abort/
For example:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eyhchen from the NVIDIA side

"Gave a power consumption related demo to Nintendo team during sales process" (for his Jul 2013-Dec 2014 period of employment)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gyferic from the Nintendo side

"Benchmark parallel processing - OpenMP stress test on SoC Nvidia Tegra X1" (for a Sept 2014-Mar 2015 period of employment)
yes, I grew up in baltimore and have lived in/around the city most of my life. I'm very familiar with the neighborhoods we are discussing. the city is much less safe than it was ten years ago, and that is really saying something.

btw I'm not saying it can't be a great place to live or that you should be afraid every time you step outside. just don't believe no one will ever stick a gun in your face. it's a lot more likely than you seem to think.
Could you expand a little on that? How exactly does an REST API backed desktop/forms application look like in 2021, and how is the decoupling accomplished?
The main point of the article, as I see it, is that the "em" used in fonts isn't the intuitively correct em size.

It's just a control box used by the font developer, and the result is that designers can't get a consistent font size. They can know, more or less, what something is going to look like given the font they want to load, but the fallback font might have a different concept of em size and look more different than it would need to be.

So having a different metric, which is exactly capital height, makes fonts look more similarly-sized to each other at the same capital-height resolution, which he demonstrates in the article.

This seems valuable to me.
hmm. that's super weird. at the very least i would expect them to use the low level syscall wrappers in the libc. unless they're avoiding linking libc at all, it seems super weird to be making syscalls directly from application code.

i mean, what are they doing? implementing the syscall gate by hand. why would anybody do that?
I seriously don’t mean this in an offensive way. But isn’t bringing Apple now into this, “Whataboutism” in disguise?
Why bother with super soldiers when you can have robots and drones?
I think that Skoda CityGo and the VW 1UP second gen are probably the best town cars there are (in EU sense).
That's because the user of the service or device is not the customer.
Yes, but if you've broken one law already, breaking another one by sweeping it under the carpet may sound very attractive.
American culture hates diversity. They like to marginalize and punish whoever looks different, and they have shown it over and over through history.

Now, today is trendy to show interest on some specific types of diversity, but from the outside it looks fake, and forced. For instance they make a lot of fanfare about races, big campaigns about changing master to main in a repo, while at the same time they ignore the beggar next to them on the street.