skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of child abuse isn't filmed or transmitted. Therefore, if the goal is truly to reduce child abuse, the best law would be to remove front doors and make house walls out of glass. By allowing others to look into your home and listen to your conversations, they can verify that no abuse is occurring, and easily collect evidence when it does occur.

Don't like that idea? Why? It's not like you have anything to hide, right? You're a stand-up, law-abiding citizen. So what does it matter if people can look inside your home and listen to your private conversations?

^ This is the argument I use whenever someone says they think encryption should be ended. I think because digital data isn't physical, and therefore doesn't feel intimate, people's immediate reaction is, "Only criminals who have something to hide would want encryption!" When you add a tangible, physical element to the conversation--a conversation taking place within a house with doors and walls--suddenly people understand why even "harmless" conversations deserve privacy and respect, and why non-criminals would be pro-encryption.
Lessons from Clubhouse and Facebook's plan to dominate audio
The profession of optometry came from physics instead of medicine, many of the early ones with physicists specialized in optics that ALSO understood how the eye worked, optics-wise.

In places where they are legal they spend their time learning more and more about optics, physics, math and eye anatomy, they don't study diseases, infections and so on.

As result you can't rely on one to fix certain stuff where you do need a medic, but if you need fancy lenses, they will calculate them, not just use a number they get from their measurement machine like ophtalmologists do.

They also would be helpful to design proper 3D glasses and whatnot, holograms and so on.
> I cannot convince it to use more than one process for twitch tabs.

Do you actually want it to? Or are you just experimenting? FWIW There's a flag related to isolation in your chrome://flags that will do per-origin.
This article discusses correlational evidence. The basis for causation is speculative at best, and there is a long list of cofounding factors.

The side effects of attempting to bar social media usage by teens might further amplify the problem, driving them away from carefully moderated platforms.
You seem to be saying that Thea isn't a "real" woman. That's insulting, gross, and incredibly inappropriate. It's not "controversy"; it's insults and hate hidden under this plausibly-deniable veneer of "conversation". It's bigotry and bullshit. I'm glad those comments are dead, and hope yours follows.
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Well, I don’t know about you, but I personally try to give all my workplace memes creepy incel sexual overtones. I kind of have a thing for the head of HR . . .
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Another interesting area of need is pole dancing chalk
No offense, but you and the few dozens (exaggerating here for emphasis) of others around the world who use crypto as a currency regularly just don’t even matter in the context of the world’s financial systems.
Slightly tangential but how significant is O(sqrt(n)) speed up? Fast algorithms are slightly faster but intractable algorithms are still intractable?
> run compute intensive tasks, like browsing the web

lol, it's not only browsing though but web-infested Electron apps as well. Used draw.io (which is otherwise a fine diagramming app) the other day, with fans spinning up all the time. It's sad to see that draw.io was (and internally largely remains) originally a Java (Swing) app, seemingly only ported to a fscking browser frontend as a fashion statement when the exact same things it does I could do almost 20 years ago on a PowerBook using OmniGraffle.
You can see those things with just server logs.
Think bigger. There is cultural knowledge going back further than any particular political or economic system. China has seen those come and go within its own borders, too.
Has Dropbox ever experimented with SCTP or other protocols that don't enforce strict ordering of packets? I know some middleboxes struggle with SCTP (they expect TCP or UDP), but in that case you do SCTP over UDP or have a fall back.
Are you calling Facebook "carefully moderated"?
Software has a significant advantage over things that have to be made in the real world: it doesn't degrade over time. Digital encoding is fundamentally a way to avoid entropy's inexorable erosive effects. Hardware will eventually fail, but software is deterministic.

This means that software can reach a state where known bugs have been fixed and the desired features have been implemented. Such software is de facto "finished". It doesn't need regular development and maintenance; it will continue working indefinitely for the same reason 2 + 2 will still be 4 in the future. Bryan Cantrill once explained[1]

>> software does not wear out. That isn’t to say that software never breaks (or isn’t broken to begin with), but software that works can work in perpetuity. A favorite example of mine is troff. The source for troff is some of the nastiest stuff ever written — but it works. It hasn’t been touched in years, and probably will never be: it’s written in a portable language (C) and relies only on the most basic OS facilities. troff will work indefinitely — it will never wear out.

>> (The tragic footnote to troff is that its author, Joseph Ossanna, died tragically in 1977; the very fact that his software is humming along perfectly more than a quarter of a decade after his death is a testament to software’s unique imperviousness to wear.)

Software doesn't become a liability that should be removed simply by being old. Throwing away software that works is also throwing away decades of bugfixes and experience.

Adobe's library of code for handing Type 1 fonts should have reached this "finished" state a long time ago. The maintenance cost of the Type 1 font feature should have been very close to zero. Removing support would have been more expensive: it required paying devs/testers/etc to implement the change. This is simply an attempt to push people onto other formats. Why should Adobe care how much this breaks? They don't have to pay the cost of updating an old projects.

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft...
Feels like the future of this will be using AI approaches to simulate dead loved ones. I don't think that's a dystopian outcome, there are a lot of good aspects to it as well, even if we don't know the full ramifications.
Am I the only one horrified by this? The second photo of the person sitting in a booth looks like a set piece from some cautionary science fiction movie.
Energy is not being exchanged for "virtual value", but rather "shared belief".

Wars have been fought to force shared beliefs. It's fairly common in history for "real world resources" to be permanently burned in order to create a shared belief system in order to facilitate trade. For example, the Roman Empire or any other empire.

I'd rather use electrons to create shared belief than bullets and bombs.
The goal of the justice system is not to be efficient or fast, it is to be just. It is a last resort for complicated cases that can't be easily settled between the parties. You don't want to have every single dispute going through the justice system. That sounds like a dystopian authoritarian future. You want the people in society to self organize and settle their matter privately as much as possible.

It is very much a benefit that it's interpretative and slow. We want it to reflect the culture and people's common sense. We want it to be as fail proof as possible (even if it take ages to come up with all the evidence and arguments). And fail proof here is not to interpret the law in the most pedantic of ways, but in the way that is the most just. The reason for lawyers and courts are exactly the edge cases that are difficult to agree upon.
How so? Do you mean because it is implicit in it's information rather than explicit?

I've been using it a bit for tree structures where an element could be a tree or a leaf, so isintance(node, tuple) is just the ticket. Seems simpler than creating a Node class, and can easily be dumped to json where I need
I went through that as it was happening.

Vitalik Buterin & co. have no integrity.

Most people should be aware about how they defrauded everybody with the DAO and subsequent fork of Ethereum. But, of course, it has been conveniently sweeped under the rug.
Isn't it just the "Pepper's Ghost" technique?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost
Open source extension takes you from Amazon to YouTube reviews in one click
> Take Europe instead of just the US - protests in Europe against Israel with no equivalent against Iran or Russia, both of whom funded and sent troops to Syria where Assad has committed actual genocide leading to displacement of millions.

The reason for this is that most people around most of the world see the US as the greatest threat to world peace and the prosperity of nations, with China probably second and Iran and Russia very distant contenders. This is certainly true in the Arab world, but in Europe also.

Remember also that the US, under president Trump, went back on a peace deal with Iran, leaving the EU in a very difficult position, between the US rock and the hard place of even more strife in the Middle East. And for many of us, the Middle East is next door, not half a world away as it is for the US. I appreciate of course that Israel is in the Middle East but that's exactly the point. For Europeans, a large region right at our doorstep full of people armed to the teeth and chomping at the bit to kill each other, not to mention that at least one of them is a neuclear power, is a very pressing matter.

Or, if you want a different perspective, Europeans see Israel as closer to European culture (you're even in Eurovision!), a secular democracy with an educated and modern population that can be influenced by international politics and by the popular opinion in European countries. So it makes sense that they would try to influence you.
HDCP. An encrypted stream with a pre-shared key, designed to prevent the interception of video and audio streams over HDMI cables.

Even DVDs data streams are encrypted, which is why the release of that magic number (AKA a pre-shared key) is such a big thing.
Sometimes it can be covered by business owner's policy[1], but there are specifc policies covering cyber extortion, e.g. [2] [3]. As you suggested, they are generally paired with risk management.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/business-owners-policy.as...

[2]: https://www.thebalancesmb.com/insuring-against-ransomware-an...

[3]: https://www.robertsonryan.com/2021/05/18/ransomware-insuranc...
Took me a moment to realize that he has literally written a book of aphorisms, and that this wasn't a smarmy dismissal. Well worth the chuckle.
Haha fair enough, sorry I was kind of snarky about it. I thought you were intentionally misinterpreting to start an argument. Good lesson about giving people the benefit of the doubt for both of us I guess.
The web standards leave quite a bit up to the implementation. Support for scripting is completely optional, for example; a compliant browser is not obligated to load or run your JavaScript. Or to render images, for that matter—the standards do not exclude screen readers. If your site is unusable when scripts are disabled it's your site which is non-compliant, not the user agent. On general robustness grounds you would do well to ensure that your site continues to operate properly even when third-party resources are unavailable, including Google Analytics. After all, the script could fail to load because the server is down and not because it's being blocked by an extension.

Certainly it's not a bug (on your part) that the user agent rendered the page as the user directed, but that isn't the actual complaint. The issue is that the page is over-complicated and fragile, proving unfit for purpose when faced with the slightest deviation from the default behavior of the top two or three most popular web browsers.
Even non-PoW cryptocurrencies depend on cryptographic signatures to verify and authorize state transitions on the blockchain (including value transfer). You can't have a public distributed ledger without public-key cryptography.
I would love to try this - and use it for calls with family, etc.

I’m skeptical on its impact on the in-person vs. remote debate for work. What really distinguishes in-person for me is the potential for informality. Bump into somebody, have a chat, walk over to a colleague’s desk for 5 minutes, decide to go on a walk for a 1x1 instead of sit in a room. This doesn’t do anything for any of that. In fact, it arguably increases formality.

Understood that many folks are not interested in those in-person artifacts - sharing what I see as key distinctions which aren’t in the solution space of Starline.
Facebook is the new tobacco industry.
Ah yes, the people whose first thought is not how they can use this to commodify women’s bodies are “prudes”. Yes of course. Women: become literal prostitutes for the only fans corporation. You could be RICH! It’s so fun! They have t-shirts! Remember how I said you could be RICH?!
https://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/do-dogs-dream

This suggests that all mammals brain work simmiliar and are paralyzed durring rem.

I'm not sure why your bringing up sleepwalking and night terrors, those don't occur durring rem, so it had nothing to do with paralysis disfunctioning

And I'm not even sure what point your getting at with your comments? Just demanding sources. I feel like you can Google these things your self
I think it makes us unique among the popular editors of today, but we're very aware that the block model isn't original. Execution matters much more than innovation.
> Without mining, less electricity is used in mining, and less silicon is used in mining chips. Are these resources available for extra production? Yes. However, these “non-wasted” resources are offset by other resources which are “wasted”.

This would seem to be the main argument of that second article you posted summarizing the economics around PoS. The idea is that if you’re backing your crypto with itself (like in a PoS), the value that is locked in the staking system could be doing something else. (This is a very real point in that it doesn’t help decentralization—the same people that would stake their coin could spend that money mining Bitcoin.)

But it doesn’t seem to address any points in the conversation around the ethics of using electricity as a basis for proof of work.
Like... Why? Why pay $10-25 in transaction fees for a $100 purchase? Unless it's illegal, it's far easier and cheaper to do currency conversion with a credit card.
NASA’s Solar Orbiter tools caught its first video of a coronal mass ejection
None of this disproves GP's claims.
Great to hear! I'd love to be able to recommend Matrix/Element as a Discord alternative.

However, actually competing with Discord will require a tonne of hard work in Element. The little things like automatic voice activation, echo cancellation and volume normalization are the reasons Discord are as fantastic as it is, so Element will need to be excellent with those to compete.
Same. I thought this was a Halide integration on iOS. Interesting how products in intersecting spaces converge on names.

I am curious though if any tech on iOS leverages Halide and whether it's even feasible. It would be cool to get Halide generators to wrap some of Apple's special image processing and ML hardware.
> The real reason Nvidia is doing this is that when mining profitability inevitably drops, either because of a crypto price crash or Ethereum moving to Proof of Stake, the miners will flood the used market and ruin Nvidia's profits for a few quarters. Nvidia is trying to get miners to buy mining-only cards, because those can't be sold to gamers down the line. They'd rather mining cards become e-waste in a few years than get resold.

Great commentary on the unsustainability of it all. Nvidia has no incentive to make sure the GPU market operates in a sustainable way by supporting a secondary market. Thus, they have every incentive to cut the legs out from under resellers. It would also be anywhere from hard to nearly impossible to give them an incentive to allow the secondary market to operate in such a way as to increase the sustainability of their product.

Edit: Aren't we a bit touchy today? (Turn showdead on and look a little down thread.)
National security officials outline hopes for US data breach notification law
And most of them never get anywhere meaningful.
Neuroscientists Have Followed a Thought as It Moves Through the Human Brain
How is that different to investing in any other asset and then selling when you need to spend fiat currency, though?
The Milky Way is estimated to be ~100,000 light years across. We're not quite on the edge but we're closer to the edge than the center. So to colonize the galaxy you have to assume we'd need to travel almost 100,000 LY. If you assume moving at 1% of the speed of light, you come up with a lower bound of 10M years.
This has likely been in the works for years.
The bug might be fixed right now but yes I definitely wanted it, because opening a twitch tab was consistently causing the video in the old tab to hang for a couple seconds.

> There's a flag related to isolation in your chrome://flags that will do per-origin.

What flag is that?

I even tried setting --process-per-site-instance and it had no effect.
Crypto-anything, minus crypto, will break. I mean, even the wallets rely on encryption (public/private key encryption, if I understand it correctly).
huh ? how is it related to that in any way ?
A lot of residential areas in the US have gigabit options, in some cases symmetric. There are lots that have 1000mbps down/40mbps up cable.

Even 100mbps is sufficient for a 1-on-1 4k video call, as high-bitrate 4k is 30-40mbps. Most commercial office buildings in business districts have it available. Even Starlink (20mbps up) should be sufficient for 1-1 30fps 4k videoconferencing with a lower bitrate.
Even worse, consoles aren't having these availability problems. If you buy a console, and you start building a games library, making friends who you play with on a daily basis (and you usually cannot crossplay between consoles and PC due to skill differences between controller/m+kb, sometimes it works with a controller on PC but most of the time it doesn't) then you are now locked into that ecosystem. You aren't buying a NVIDIA 40 series card, you are buying a PS5 Pro. The longer this goes on, the more customers NVIDIA is losing in the long term.

Inventory levels for consoles aren't quite normalized and available but with a stock tracking discord you can have a decent shot at getting a notice, going to a website, and successfully checking out if you hurry. In contrast you have zero shot at GPUs as a human, there are "cook groups" (the same groups that buy up fancy sneakers and scalp them) using backdoor exploits and botnets or networks of proxies embedded in browser addons, and the hardware is literally are gone the second it's up, or even before.

Rather notoriously, one of the cook groups got ahold of the DigitalRiver item IDs for the 3080 before the launch, and they used API requests to poke orders into the backend. So the items sold out before the listing even went up on the website. That is emblematic of the problem, every mechanism is being probed and any backdoor is being used to punch in orders before humans can get them. There are exploits and botnets and proxies being used and everything, hugely organized and sophisticated operations.

Every major retailer and every AIB partner (Zotac, Asus, etc) is heavily botted to the point where you stand no chance unless you pay for a $600/mo sneakerbot.
I agree, I had to right click and unselect "Loop" just so I could read the nearby text.

Also, the "Why Flat Data" section feels like it was written by a someone trying to win a high school essay contest - it's full of unnecessary language. I would have an easier time understanding without the awkward metaphors, exclamation points, and over-casual language like "cool"
Just say the guy who wrote it is "Chad" and don't worry about it (even though it's all in light hearted fun)

Just because noxious gasses are released into the atmosphere doesn't mean you stop breathing on your own.

ignore "toxicity" (if you are around people who think that way i recommend finding better people) embrace clean libraries
You can negotiate your fees with anyone, even the IRS. Don’t be mad, be happy that you’re about to save a bunch of money for the rest of your life.
Cool, thanks for explaining this for me!
Reference Library of the AskEngineers Subreddit
I'm not using bitcoin. I mostly use bitcoin cash and doge, where fees are in the 50 cent - dollar or two range.
double negative headlines suck
Stripe doesn’t “need” to do anything - you get what you pay for - pick a cheaper gateway with an inferior product if you’re willing to pay less for a lower quality outcome
The new tobacco industry...of decades ago. A long time ago we banned advertising smoking to children (or at least, tried to) but the beforetimes of that decision were rough. Kids commercials for smoking, toy cigarettes, etc. Facebook is actively marketing to youth today just like tobacco did decades ago, indeed.

It's a great analogy because it also works well for adults: we're free to use the product/service, we have our freedom! Even if it slowly (or quickly) kills us.
Let me tell you about the mechanism.

There is this theoretical construct called the world interest rate and it refers to the average real interest rate. Any country whose real interest rate is above the world interest rate will receive capital inflows and any country whose real interest rate is below the world interest rate will have capital outflows.

So the goal is to get as close to the world interest rate as possible or even exceed it slightly.

Therefore if the world interest rate is 2% and you have 8000% inflation per year, the interest rate must be 8002% (oversimplified) so that the real interest rate becomes 2%.

Bitcoin is just another currency and since it is not generating any returns it should closely track the world interest rate like gold does because when you are buying gold or Bitcoin, you are betting that the world economy will continue to exist in the future.

The ability to exchange Venezuelan money is just a way to obtain access to the world interest rate without interference of the government and usually that is a good thing, not because governments shouldn't be trusted with your money, no it's because bad governments can't access it but ultimately you are hoping that your government becomes good again or you move to a different country where the government is less corrupt, because it is a non goal to organize an economy with Bitcoin.
The limitation of a human therapist is the 6 inch chimp brain and how much information it can store, understand, how quickly it can construct a healthy way of delivering that complex information etc.

These limits can and will be blown away by bots given the amount of data they can crunch. Only issue is unlike in games like Chess or Go where the end state is clearly defined, with therapy its open ended and unknown what type of end states are possible.

Just a matter of time before all paths get mapped out.
c.2) let's produce huge amount of e-waste once coins drop again
Another fun idea via someone on Twitter: make randomware legal but capped at a low amount, e.g., $5k. (And, perhaps, public reporting required after a 1 year delay.) Now white hats can enter the market safely, many holes are discovered for relatively low prices, and the country's tech infrastructure as a whole is less vulnerable to serious attack.

One issue is that if the costs of finding different vulnerabilities are distributed along a spectrum, this only lets you find the <$5k ones.
I'm realizing I should have said "Merkle tree" instead. But, opportunity lost.
Seems like people like to make a point of where they work