skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was researching robotics simulation I came across inertia tensors. Basically the way a rigid body rotates can be described by a simple mathematical 3x3 array that describes the mass distribution within the object.

These designs are interesting, but despite the weird bulbs or internal fins, the values of the inertia tensors could be compared objectively if they were available.

I wonder if there is an untapped market for both testing of existing balls and construction of new balls with precisely controlled inertia tensors. Eg. "Build me a ball just like this one, but with 3% more inertia around the z axis"
The feeling of "ownership" is likely the result of being the ones asked to "solve" it. Or possibly being the only group of people able to solve it in the ubiquitous software context.

Provide better requirements to result in the solution you actually want.
Software will check photos from iPhones for sex abuse
In Spanish conejo (rhymes with coney) is rabbit. Interesting how we’re still slowly loosing cognates from our shared latin roots.

Edit: I may be assuming an incorrect pronunciation of coney. Even as a native speaker English sucks.
It doesn't support that yet, but it will soon.

I will build an interface for it rather than a prompt syntax. My target audience is a bit less technical than the average Google Colab user.
Is there any conflict of interest declared anywhere in that paper? Could not find any paragraph about this.
The irony being that Snowden's post itself is conspiratorial.
>The fact that our forestry practices, by artificially arresting a natural part of forest life-cycles, create powderkegs of old, unhealthy, and highly flammable forests is not news.

Seriously, you should check out just how much of California used to burn in prehistory. I ran into a few papers on Sci-Hub about it. It's pretty crazy.

It looks like a large part of California would be uninhabitable given natural practices.
Libertarianism is a difficult philosophy for most people to accept, as it relies on order arising from chaos. (Even though all life on Earth is order arising from chaos.) Most people feel more comfortable with a law that forces their desired outcome.
> Servo was never meant to be a full engine replacement for mainline Firefox

I don't think that's a fair summary of the history. There were multiple points of view on this inside Mozilla, and some (including myself) definitely hoped it would be a full engine replacement.
You probably won't notice a difference unless you have allergies, or there's some other issue causing abnormally high amounts of VOCs to be in the air (such as mold or dust)
What are some options for phones that don't spy on me or my children?
To be fair, Insulin is out of patent, and yet prices have still gone up.
Carbon is the backbone of most complicated molecules. And of course all parasites and diseases run on the same basic chemistry as every other lifeform on earth.
Love both of these ideas / tips! Any suggestions on specific air filters?
Many (like me) believe Facebook is net good for the world.

I’m able to stay connected with friends (many of whom live very far), like know what’s going on in their lives and share my world.
Do not associate with employees of Facebook.

If you are at any of the FAANG companies actually, you're a fucking parasite!
To learn Korean, I made a Game
Could you elaborate for the non-physicists like myself?
Speaking of misread signs, there's a Chinese restaurant on San Vicente in Los Angeles named Hunan Taste. More than one person has mistaken that first n for an m.
Moreover, they're incentivized to do the opposite. Expats aren't a sympathetic group to any major voting demographic.
Unless I'm missing something, those are just theoretical examples of how one could potentially deliberately try to find hash collisions, using a different, simpler perceptual hash function: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14230842449522892...

So, it's theoretical, it's a different algorithm, and it's a case where someone is specifically trying to find collisions via machine learning. (Perhaps by "reversing" the hash back to something similar to the original content.)

The two above posters claim that they saw cases where there was a false positive match from the actual official CSAM hash algorithm on some benign files that happened to be on a hard drive; not something deliberately crafted to collide with any hashes.
> coney used to be pronounced more like cunny

That's still the only pronunciation I know. Rhymes with, and orthographically identical to, "money". (And "honey".)
It's not that I don't want to give you a sunny solution which makes the problem go away forever, but this is an extremely difficult problem to solve, especially as someone might be located in some foreign country with ineffective law enforcement.

Facebook has been making it harder for random strangers to contact people under a certain age, so that may well help, and we'll see if it does. And we could probably teach teenagers how to remain safe on the internet, and give the support needed to not be too emotionally reliant on the internet. That might get you part of the way.

You could run TV advertisements to raise awareness about how abuse is harmful to try to dissuade people from doing it, but that might make the general public more scared of it (the chances their family specifically will be affected has to be remote), and more inclined to "regulate" their way out of the problem.

You could try to take more children away from their families on the off-chance they may have been abused, but what if you make the wrong call? That could be traumatizing to them.

You could go down the road of artificial child porn to compete with child porn, and robots which look like children, but I don't think the predators specifically are interested in those, are they? And that comes with some serious ethical issues, and is politically impossible.

We can't just profile "whoever looks suspicious" on the street, because people who are mentally ill tend to behave erratically, only have a slightly high chance of being guilty, but have a dramatically high chance of being harassed by police.

If we can get out of the covid pandemic, this may help. Child abuse is said to have risen by a factor of 4 during the lockdowns, and all those other things which were put in place to contain the virus. It's possible that stress from the pandemic, and perhaps, opportunities to commit a crime may have contributed to this. But, this is an international problem, even if the pandemic were to vanish in the U.S., it may still exist overseas.
This is silly because of the strong evidence that has emerged about long COVID. We know there are often significant long-term complications to COVID. You can see things like reduced grey matter volume in people who have had COVID across multiple regions of their brain. Yet for mRNA vaccines there is simply no reason to expect anything remotely this bad. You're positing that there could be surprise side effects into the future that will, with non-trivial probability, outweigh the long-term side effects from COVID (e.g. literal brain damage) that we've already observed. If long COVID wasn't a well-established observation, then I'd grant that you have the ghost of a point.
The algorithm is actually public: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Apple_PSI_System_Secu... From an intellectual point of view it's interesting to learn about.

I agree with the rest of your points. The problem is that we don't know if Apple implemented this algorithm correctly, or even this algorithm at all, because the source code isn't subject to review and, even it were the binary cannot be proved to have been built from such source code. We also don't have proof that the only images being searched for are child abuse images as they claim.
I would fall back to usenet
It would be really nice to see all the awesome code written by the Lisp lover who downvoted this post. Because Lisp is apparently this magical language that enable you to write world class software so much faster than languages used by the rest of us. So where is it? All of this wonderful Lisp code that is so much better than the C/C++/Java/JavaScript code that actually run the world? I suspect I will have to wait a very long time for a good answer.
What if you live in another town and are paying for that fire department? Just kidding. But really if you live in a country which has a tax treaties with the US, you also can offset your taxes with taxes paid to a foreign country anyway, so even for high-earners nothing goes to the embassy. If you do use the embassy, you generally do pay them fees of course.

The embassy is for maintaining relations with foreign countries, not just passports and birth certificates (and pricey notary services). That seems like a sideshow. When it comes to services for the public, they appear to spend most of their time dealing with visa applicants, based on the crowds and lines I've seen. They also do offer assistance for missing persons abroad; if you have a relative that goes missing abroad the embassy will investigate. That seems nice of them. I assume other developed countries' embassies are basically the same though.
Interesting! But actually this is not the singly thing with an "interesting" name in Singapore - well at least as long as you speak Czech. ;-)

You see, the mass transit company in Singapore is handled by the Singapore Municipal Rapid Transit company, abbreviated SMRT. There is also a SMRT corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMRT_Corporation), SMRT buses, the SMRT abbreviation is heavily used on train, stations, basically everywhere.

Well, in Czech "smrt" means literarily death. So let's say for Czech speakers riding the public transport in Singapore can be a bit unnerving - you stand at a station platform and then a train with "DEATH" written on it in big letters pulls into the station. ;-)
yes, but what about the hygiene hypothesis of increasing allergy/autoimmune disease prevalence?
True, though being wrong has never stopped a legal threats and action in the past. They can just bully a small project out of existence.
13 isn't an arbitrary cut-off. It's established as law in the US under COPPA. Similar to how 18 is the cut off for the other features. Other countries may have different age ranges according to local laws.
Maybe you need to hear this:

Delete Facebook.
Elizabeth Holmes gives birth as Theranos fraud trial nears
Plate tectonics will cure all ills.
Android device (pixel for example) and graphene or lineage OS.
I should have said "near impossible," there's just enough there so that impossible isn't technically correct. Looks like they included some forms of indentured servitude in there. Ah the classics.

https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation
I like the data collection, but the design he uses for a box fan is VERY poor. You can get a large 20x20x1 filter that will cover the entire fan surface area of the box fan. Just from inspection, that should increase the total volume of air which is cleaned by a factor of 2.

Just buy a box fan and slap a filter on it.
Right, not at all similar - China is not only invading, it is claiming it for itself, purposefully erasing Tibetan culture and religion, and claiming the resources for itself, all against the will of the Tibetean people.

The fact that there was some prior recognition is quite irrelevant. Should the EU nations claim their pre 1911 boundaries against the will of the people living there, by force?

Should the Lenape Native Americans whose predecessors sold Manhattan to the Dutch be able to reclaim it by force? How about the Dutch?

Your argument is sophistry, and nothing but inane justification for an authoritarian and expansionist regime.

Moreover while that regime repeatedly proclaims that no one should interfere in the internal affairs of other nations, it feels completely free to interfere and claim other nations, including, Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (yes it was leased and returned, but they are already violating the terms of the return).

This is not a regime to defend.
You’ve focused in on some subset of what makes life interesting for humans, without understanding that as money dwindles a very new and quite real set of problems materialize for people.

Have you ever been poor? I have. I’ve also made fairly exorbitant amounts of money in a year later in my career. Money does not fix problems, but it absolutely removes a great deal of inconvenience, trouble, and stress from life.

The working poor who are otherwise trapped in a web of debt and crushing hours with low pay are much closer to the average worker - tech or otherwise - making several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, than that worker is to someone like Page.

But folks often don’t realize this. The fickle trappings of the “middle-class” create a false rug of comfort that can be readily yanked out from underneath someone given an injury or illness.

This is not a worry billionaires have. Nor most millionaires. But many Americans do have it.

Money doesn’t break you out of the human condition, but it absolutely changes life radically.

Which is fine, I’m happy to let the rich do what they will. As soon as we no longer have citizens bankrupted by medical or educational debt, or have their retirements wiped out by an injury or illness. Once citizens can rest easier, then they can have their absurd displays of wealth. Until then, they are begging awfully hard for violent revolution.
Up until June 14th of this year, the ruling was that scraping is legal from the HiQ vs LinkedIn lawsuit[0].

While finding that link for you, I learned that since that date, the Supreme Court vacated the decision back to the lower courts in light of a new decision of theirs.[1]

Now I don't think it's clear one way or the other just yet. Any lawyers here with an opinion on how this is going to go? I haven't found any analysis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-supreme-court-revives-...
It doesn't make sense to me - I'd think we all get enough oxygen even in stale air. Is there any hypothetical reason why they'd think it would make you healthier or smarter?
I have reviewed the forums on Scratch and I am not as concerned. Most kids of middle school age prefer to collaborate on projects.

I would be more concerned if the child was using something like Snapchat on Instagram.
They’re polyester. Urethane will hook much more easily but not as much as a reactive resin (polyurethane with plasticizers) ball.

Yeah you can hook it if you throw it like that but the context of the comment is rolling it reliably and accurately.

Polyester balls are made to go straight. Polyurethane is even difficult compared to modern resin.
Wide spread use of an effective prophylactic would help a lot in reducing case numbers and spread. This is about using a multifaceted approach to get covid under control. Wearing a mask or socially distancing today wont protect you in 6months either in a direct sense, but doing those things can assist in reducing the prevalence of the virus which does decrease your likelihood of contracting it.
I thought it was still pronounced that way, which may account for certain odd looks directed at me.
That's another thing I'd argue is "weird" in macOS, the only widely used modern desktop operating system that does things this way, rather than vice-versa. Most new converts from Windows or desktop Linux to macOS tend to accidentally leave apps open because of this, since the only indication they're open is a tiny dot in the dock, and most of the time, the only remaining UI once everything is gone is a menubar. For an otherwise document-oriented UI, the fact that an application can be open with no documents is a strange concept that requires some getting used to.
I've never seen anyone do 10% of their income, I think that comes from the medieval period, or just wishful thinking. People usually drop a $10 or $20 in the plate whenever I've been.
Of course; that's why I prefaced it as a dumb non sequitur that doesn't make sense. It's just poetically a little woeful, especially since there's a chance it could also lead to environmental catastrophe.
They are kind of ostracized. That's why they feel compelled to be open about their status before going into a relationship. It is a pretty shitty situation, but it is what it is. If HIV had no negative connotation, people would be much less careful and would put more people at risk.
Wow, you have a lot of faith in our legal system that is >90% plea deals.
Well it does - people have been pointing out downfalls of the walled garden, locked boot loaders and proprietary everything on "iDevices" for years, pointing to scenarios similar to the one unfolding right now.
I read that momentarily as "WWII" and then I thought that when the first microcomputers were coming out, it was about 30 years since the end of WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
This is big news! Congrats to all involved. I’m convinced that both arrow and GPU are major part of the analytics future (ML having already made the leap).

It’s now time to make GPU based workflow more accessible. While cuDf+arrow made the actual computation blazing fast, ironically, I’m wasting money while I write code, stare at stuff, consult notes, make plots since the GPU enabled node is up the whole time. And these babies are not cheap (experienced with aws).
I Thought Dodo was really good. Galland seems to ground Stephenson's tendency to spiral off into deep rabbit holes and leave the story behind.

Fall was good, but looooooong.

My trick for reading Stephenson? Audio book.
You can go a long way by just not polluting your own house with VOCs, as mentioned in other comments here.

Basically, you have to abstain from most "cleaning" products, new furniture, and ... something else, I think?
Throughout our evolutionary history, we were breathing in air with about 300 ppm of CO2. What makes you think everything will be perfect with our bodies and brains if we jack that up to 1000 ppm?
Is COPPA relevant to this feature, though?

18, to me, is different, because it's the point when your parents have no legal authority, so of course they shouldn't have any say over how you use your phone.
I worry that this thread dissuades people from doing SAML. For our business we do only do Identity Provider SAML and it works wonderfully.

SAML has been a game changer for us. We are a SAAS business and 80% of our help desk tickets were people who could not log in. SAML has largely fixed that for us.
Without ventilation, you are increasing CO2 to over 1000 ppm doing that, which as the study points out is bad in itself.
Alexa and iPhones with Siri enabled, and Android phones, are all continuously listening with their microphones for their wake word, unless you've specifically turned the feature off.

The difference is that the Alexa connects to your wifi, so if you wanted to, you could trivially tell if it's communicating when it shouldn't be. When I worked at Amazon, I was given the impression that the system that handles detecting the wake word was implemented in hardware, and the software system that does the real speech recognition doesn't "wake up" or gain access to the audio channel unless the wake word is detected by that hardware system -- and it's very obvious when you've woken it up (the colored ring lights up, it speaks, etc.)

Echo devices also sit in one room. If you're like most people you take your phone everywhere, which means that if it's spying on you, it could literally have a transcript of every word you spoke the entire day, as well as any people you've been around. To make matters worse, it would be difficult to tell if that was happening. Unless you're an uber-hacker who knows how to root an iPhone, or a radio geek who knows enough to monitor their device's cellular transmissions, good luck figuring out whether Siri is listening to and passing on audio that it shouldn't. The problem is that phones have so many apps and responsibilities -- given that they are essentially full computers -- these days that nonstop data transfer on a wifi network from my phone wouldn't be alarming: it might be backing up pictures to a cloud, or syncing the latest version of apps, etc.

I think the dedicated devices like Echo/Alexa are what you should buy if you're the most privacy-sensitive, since they have zero reason to be uploading to the Internet unless you're actively talking to them, and they have zero reason to be downloading unless they're receiving a software patch, which should be very rare. And because they're on your wifi (not cell) you can monitor their network traffic very easily.
The search for a minimal nix-shell
Which brand of detector?
What happened in Argentina 2007-2016 that would suggest censorship-resistance in a prices database is a feature that makes sense?
I recently had a friend stay with me after being abused by their partner. The partner had paid for their phone and account and was using that control to spy on them. I wish that cyber security was taught in a more practical way because it has real world consequences. And like two comments on here and it’s now clear as day how this change could be used to perpetuate abuse. I’m not sure what the right solution is, but I wish there was a tech non profit that secured victims of abuse in their communication in an accessible way to non tech people.
There's a lot wrong in such a small comment.

First of all, the entire point of the article is the "hypothetical reason why...". Even if you didn't read the article, the title is pretty suggestive.

Secondly, it ought to be intuitive that just because you get "enough oxygen" doesn't mean you aren't getting other things as well.
I'm all for cleaner air (especially reducing dangerous gases and pollutants), but at what point does the over-sterilization of our environment (specifically with regard to microbes) do more harm than good? People in my family suffer from various allergies, and many suspect there may be at least some link to not being exposed to enough allergens at an early age (father was a surgeon and our home was always clean – nearly to the level of an O.R.).
> Just from inspection, that should increase the total volume of air which is cleaned by a factor of 2.

Are you aware of any data that supports this? It could be true for all I know but (contrary to my expectations as well) the experiments I've done don't really seem to support this. See the "taping" experiment here: https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box...

You might be referring to non-HEPA furnace air filters which (by design) have much better airflow, but typically don't capture the smallest particles, which have the largest health impact.
You are right it is easy to over estimate. And I was giving numbers my dad gave me so I did doubt it for a moment and had to go check. The main trunk of the tree is actually 6 foot circumference and if you actually measured the very bottom it is bigger. The bottom 18 inches angles outwards at the end making it even bigger. This is a giant tree and it was planted after the house was build and I know the age of the house is only going on 24 years. Maybe I will get a video onto youtube if you guys really like.
yup. And in every scenario they have to show compassion and empathy even to screaming patients or people trying to argue with them. It's very draining.
The three main sources of ignition during a wildfire are embers, direct flame contact, and radiant heat. This is why the FPA and others have the three different zones, of particular distances, where they recommend doing particular things. House can survive large quantities of radiant heat:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq6wy_tffpg

Quite often what happens with radiant heat is that it breaks a window, which then allows embers to go into the house and set it alight. Embers are actually the things that cause the most damage:

* https://www.intermap.com/risks-of-hazard-blog/2015/03/does-y...

* https://ibhs.org/ibhs-news-releases/embers-cause-up-to-90-of...

On the other hand radiant heat often kills people the most (e.g., through heat stroke).