skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think there is a part where the principalities and powers that rule, actually want us to get so angry and divided.

Totally agree.

> There is no conspiracy of people plotting in a room coming up with how they can gain more power to take over the world (unless they’re two mice trying to do same thing night after night), but nonetheless there is a spirit of division and hatred that is very much present in our country that is tearing us apart.

Yup, there sure is and it's really disheartening to watch it unfold day after day. The country seems more divided than I've ever seen it in my 30ish years, and certainly more divided than rose colored glasses of past decades.

It's a shame but, maybe it's also a sign of healthy country? Maybe united countries are also the ones that go to war and invade others?
A reasonable person would call it a normal picture if they encountered it in isolation. Like I said, content which is not even borderline are included.

By both a legal and moralistic standard they're not CSAM. Not even nearly.

Of course, this is a minority of the content in the database. But even 1 such image is gross neglect of stated purpose in my book.
Please cite a recent source that natural immunity is better/longer lasting.
False positives are clearly astronomically unlikely. Not a real issue.

Engineered collisions seem unlikely too. Not impossible. Unless there is a straight up cryptographic defect in the hash algorithm, it seems hard to see how engineered collisions could be made to happen at any scale.
If you like this, I have some other innovations that you may be interested in:

* A car that automatically pulls over when a police cruiser attempts to intercept you

* A front door that unlocks when a cop knocks

* A camera that uses AI to detect and prevent the photography of minors, police, and critical infrastructure

* A Smart TV that counts the number of people in your living room to ensure you aren't performing an unauthorized public broadcast of copyrighted content

Surely, at least one of those sounds ridiculous to you. As well-intentioned as this scanning may be, it violates a core principle of privacy and human autonomy. Your own device should not betray you. As technologists, just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.
I may not understand something...In such case why is there a vote? If union is a voluntary organization, then why can't people who are for unionizing just open an organization and join it at will? Who prevents them, it's their own private club, there is no need to vote. People open unions when they choose without asking anybody for permission, why can't these folks?
Is it really an opportunity if you don't enjoy it? Bad jobs also lead to bad teams, no matter how well paid. In other fields, you might have to just slog through it. But there's abundant opportunities in tech.

You might not even need a career break. It sounds like a notable company that's a good resume item. Why not just move on to another company? There are plenty of well paid tech companies that value their staff. The good one will usually have very long interview processes though, as a lot of them will look for trust (i.e. you're not toxic) so it might be better to search while employed.
Apple cease and desist in 3... 2...
You have to show your ID to go to a bar. Similarly to go to a stadium, or to fly. The latter is security theatre specifically done for the protection of others. The security theatre is nearly completely useless, but it's commonplace.

I don't want to be around people who can make me sick. If I go to a restaurant and I'm vaccinated, and everyone else is as well, it's very unlikely I will make others sick or that they'll make me sick. If you go, you may make vaccinated or unvaccinated people sick, and they may make you sick.

You're the one that's intruding on other people's freedoms here.
$199/mo actually, unless you know of a deal.
sqlite does accept non-number values in a number column, and gives them back in those non-number types.
No it doesn’t. People already sell drugs outside of homeless encampments. Making it illegal to be homeless changes nothing.
Pretty interesting project.

However, who really wants a "global menu bar". It made sense for the original mac, when people just used one app at a time. And it's left in the current MacOS for legacy reasons. But now people usually have multiple 27" monitors. So, instead of having menus where the app is, you need to move the mouse all the way to the top and then back. Im not sure why anyone would want to replicate it.
how will this diverge from Hello?
I built www.emailnewslettertracker.com so I can route emails to my Remarkable2 tablet. It's based on inbound SES and lambda, with a reverse engineering of the Remarkable browser extension. Because of the reverse engineering, I don't really want to bring attention with thousands of users, but if a couple of people wanted access, please feel free to sign up.

I built it because email newsletters are increasingly valuable, and I wanted to read them on RM2.
>that is safe and effective is not an unreasonable ask

There are more post-vax deaths recorded in VAERS for the covid vaccines over the past 6 months than for all other vaccines over the past 20 years. It's definitely not 100% safe. Sure the risk is low, but the risk of dying of covid is also quite low for a significant subset of the population. There's also absolutely zero long-term safety data on the vaccines, because it's impossible to know what the effects 3-5 years down the line of a new treatment will be when that treatment's only existed for under a year.
Poked around a little bit on the livecd system, screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/OsxT3GI
Perceptual hashing would make bit more sense. Flip one bit from the image to avoid detection otherwise.
Couldn't you make a case that grades should reflect how people will actually be evaluated in their adult lives?

I.e. capriciously, arbitrarily, and often based on a random person's mood at some random time?
ADHD is often a dysfunction of dopamine and norepinephrine production in the brain. It's not trained, but modern society makes the symptoms. I've done weeks long away from electronics and get hooked right away when I come home.
> Before rendering judgment, please read SQLite's own page on the subject. I think you will see that the choice wasn't sloppy but thoughtfully designed, https://sqlite.org/datatype3.html

I've read the whole page. It's an excellent piece of documentation and reference, but it says nothing about the reasoning behind that design choice, nor show that it was a design choice at all (rather than being e.g. a TCL legacy as some other commenters have hypothesized).

The introduction says "However, the dynamic typing in SQLite allows it to do things which are not possible in traditional rigidly typed databases", but it doesn't say what those things are, or explain why they're considered a good trade-off against the well-known footguns of implicit type coercion. (Indeed, if SQLite had rigid static typing, all the detailed rules on that page wouldn't need to exist!)
Unity was originally designed for netbooks with limited screen real estate.
How do these firms make so much money to pay these eye popping amounts?!

Are these the firms that do lawsuits against companies on behalf of a wronged client, client gets peanuts and “lawyer” fees eat up the sizable chunk of amount awarded in $xx,000,000+ cases?
Battery seems eventually solvable with a swappable system.

The thing I don't see is "getting to the front door". As a machine problem, it seems so insanely ambiguous.
Coming Full Circle
This isn't CSAM or illegal, nor would it ever end up in a database. Speaking generally, content has to be sexualized or have a sexual purpose to be illegal. Simple nudity does not count inherently.
>I've still not heard a single good argument for not vaccinating despite reading most anti-vax comments on this post.

Because if I put something in my body only because my master tells me to, I am a slave. Through and through. Bodily autonomy is absolute. It's different than the Modern American definition of slavery, which is mostly based on the New World forms of slavery, which are related to but different than the Old World forms of slavery. But they are all slavery. Either you have control of your corpus or you do not.
Given the current attitudes towards vaccines and individual rights, it's doubtful we'll be able to have another achievement like the elimination of smallpox and polio.

What happened in the last few decades? Increased mistrust of government? Shift in the views of individualism? Or is my assessment wrong and if something like smallpox popped up today we'd be able to work together to eradicate it?
Since this is using a db of known images. I doubt that would be an issue. I believe the idea here is that once police raid an illegal site, they collect all of the images in a db and then want to know a list of every person who had these images saved.
IOC to investigate Mao pins worn by Chinese gold medalists
Interesting link! But FYI it does look like general awareness of the experiments is higher in the Black population.

> With approximately 75% of Blacks and 60% of Whites in this study self-reporting awareness of TSS (i.e., they self-reported having heard of the TSS)

What isn't higher is accurate information about what was actually done in the experiments. This is interesting to know. But mere awareness of the experiments may be driving attitudes regardless of whether the specifics that people believe to be true are actually false.
Yes, community libraries are a key part of the overall experience of using a framework and being productive.
FedJAX: Federated Learning Simulation with Jax
Doge Price Prediction
It's because some browsers close the currently open heading tag when they encounter a new one (since these tags can't be nested) and others do not. Since the text size is applied as an H3 style and is relative to the parent, the nesting of these tags (or not) determines whether the effect of the style is cumulative.
This has been debunked in a way. Viral load does not translate to how well they transmit it. Vaccinated people do not transmit covid as easily.
> First child killed by a delivery drone and it's over.

I am doubtful, given that there are 4000 kids killed annually in the US by cars and a further 3000 by firearms. These are relatively easy to legislate (compared to disease, drowning etc) yet are the two highest causes of death.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2018-12-19/...
Well, that and socialism sucks for the poor. But at least it also sucks for everyone else, too!
Agreed. Once you're used to template inheritance it's hard to go back.
Says the person that's also providing no source? Why is your statement somehow more trustworthy?
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The landing page is a scalable way to see if what you're saying resonates with your target market. You will need to generate traffic, either manually or via ads. With an LP, you can see if your message (and how you phrase it) is something that someone will proceed down the funnel for.

IME, it's very useful to force you to clearly state your value prop. Then you can test if that prop resonates and lands with a specific audience that you generate.

It's not going to get you anywhere on its own. It's one step of the puzzle, but an important one.
SpaceX is hiring a ‘Spaceport Mixologist’ to make cocktails
The MIT Supercloud Dataset
Nice guy? Weirdo? Yeah, that sounds like CMU alright. The friendliness of Pittsburgh will ensure the former; the school will exacerbate and exponentially develop the latter.
> How do you know the non-fast track process is safer?

We can’t be 100% sure it is.

> There are no studies comparing the safety of the methods. Only arguments to that effect.

Clever try. This is also true, but a fallacy nonetheless.

We have a long history of the safety of the non-fast track process and no history for the fast track process. We therefore have high confidence in then safety of the non-fast track process and low confidence in the fast track process.

> Considering both processes are established by the same public health organization, and that I'm not a health specialist myself to be able to prove otherwise, I see no reason to trust one but not the other.

Ok, so you have just declared that you don’t trust yourself to analyze this for yourself and are going to trust the authorities. That’s fine but it renders your analysis moot.

It also invalidates your argument so far since the authorities you trust have not given approval of the new vaccines only emergency use authorization. The authorities you trust agree with me that we can yet trust the vaccines the way we do those that have undergone full testing.
The slippery slope argument is that the use of this method on private files, i.e. not shared with others except for the service provider can legitimise the expansion of such scamming scopes.

While this argument can and have indeed happened in other instances, this is akin to saying that we should not give anyone any powers to do anything because it is a slippery slope that they can use it to do bad things.

What then sets out the difference between what a slippery slope and a non-slippery one is? Checks and balances and the history of USA have shown that this is indeed what can reign in the worst instincts of any single entity. History of course have also shown when these failed and these should serve not as a reason to reject the idea of checks and balances but as acknowledging it's imperfection and think of ways to mitigate it.
One advantage of a global menu bar is that items at the top of the screen are effectively an infinitely large target, so you can rapidly move the mouse to them without worrying about overshooting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
Some great comments here. Would highly second seeking out professional help.

Psychology Today lets you look at nearby professionals and you can filter by specialty and accepted insurance plans.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us

Talkspace is another good option is you're looking for a purely virtual experience but I personally like an independent therapist better.

Another thing you should keep in mind, when someone is suffering from chronic depression, situational changes may not be enough to help them get out of it. There are a variety of causes for depression like this but the root isn't normally something you can get at by making changes in day to day life.

While your partner likely recognizes you are trying to help, they might not want solutions and might appreciate validation of their struggles more. It sounds hard but just being there for someone in their dark moments is hugely impactful.

Make sure to take care of yourself during all of this too. Its a lot to take on but your partner will appreciate your efforts more than you know.
Misleading/debunked: https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/142224191618851636...
> compatible with macOS filesystems (HFS+ and APFS)

How far along is this? I think she's underestimating how hard it is to implement a modern filesystem that won't eat users' data. I've been working on a Linux APFS driver[0] for several years, and it's not fully functional yet. It's a pity that she is working with FreeBSD, or it could have been of use to her.

[0] https://github.com/eafer/linux-apfs-rw
Captain Drone Sparrow!
No one here has a problem with the worst criminals being taken out. The problem is the scope creep that always comes after.

In 2021 and 2020 we saw people being arrested for planning/promoting anti lockdown protests. Not for actually participating but for simply posting about it. The scope of what "harmful content" is is infinite. You might agree that police do need to take action against these people but surely you can see how the scope creeped from literal terrorists and pedophiles to edgy facebook mums and how that could move even further to simple criticisms of the government or religion.

It's difficult to say how we draw the line to make sure horrible crimes go punished while still protecting reasonable privacy and freedom. I'm guessing apples justification here is that they are not sending your photos to police but simply checking them against known bad hashes and if you are not a pedophile, there will be no matches and none of your data will have been exposed.
Useless paper. Measuring arbitrary antibody levels. The antibody levels produced by natural exposure could be sufficient to protect against hospitalization, and the additional vaccine dose could be unnecessary. Also, 21-day follow up (laughable).

Show me some real-world data of previously infected individuals getting severe reinfections at significantly higher rates than the fully vaccinated. That's the metric needed to make your claim and those data have not been produced. Also, the staying power of the vaccine is already in question BY ITS OWN MANUFACTURER just via the prospect of boosters. They admit implicitly that the immunity their drug produces does not last.
Agree, high performing teams are a mixture, not a solution.
Nope and nope. Waiting for phase three trials to complete.
I had to look it up so I thought I'd save future readers a moment or two:

<wikipedia>
The West African CFA franc (French: franc CFA; Portuguese: franco CFA or simply franc, ISO 4217 code: XOF) is the currency of eight independent states in West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo.
</wikipedia>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_CFA_franc
I don't care if this data exists or it doesn't. Even without this data, there's no good reason to think that the vaccine has a higher chance of long term complications than COVID itself, which makes the decision to get vaxxed an obvious one, even for young people.
my game https://nopaint.art takes a lot of inspiration from mario paint and kid pix
Introduction to statistical learning, 2nd edition
>I would add that people have generated legal images that match the hashes.

That seems like a realistic attack. Since the hash list is public (has to be for client side scanning), you could likely set your computer to grind out a matching image hash but of some meme which you then distribute.
No need for hypotheticals, 2020 was a huge win for the police state.

The UK and Israel allowed cops to monitor cell phone locations to crack down on unlawful gatherings in private homes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/israel-to-trac...

The problem with allowing this is that you’re paving the way for future tyrants to use it against us.
They don’t want you to repackage the book or sell parts of it. If you want to learn from it or write similar code, they aren’t going to sue you
Hands-On Guide to PaDELPy for ML Model Building
I'd like to see a treatment of Hamurabi - a very old text based game. not that it's a city building game or medieval times, but it's kind of a precursor in an ancient organism kind of way.
My favorite non-numeric version example in the article:

Sysv_ipc gives Python programs access to System V semaphores, shared memory and message queues. Most (all?) Unixes (including OS X) support System V IPC. Windows+Cygwin 1.7 might also work.

Sample code is included.

This extension is released under the GPL.

You might also be interested in the similar POSIX IPC module at: http://semanchuk.com/philip/posix_ipc/
Obvious now, thanks.
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I want to find the facebook pages where the pro-China propaganda bots are fighting the anti-China propaganda bots to know which is the one true propaganda I am meant to believe in.
You were vaccinated as a child and you're presumably perfectly fine. And it's not about you. It's about not being selfish to end a pandemic that affects other people a lot worse than it does you.
When the infrastructure isn't there, it takes 2 hours to do what are 30 minutes by car, when transport are available excluding the weekends and after 8pm, and one can buy a combustion vehicle for 5 000 euros on credit.
I agree. We are where we are because there is a trend of appointing federal judges that grant the federal government more power. A lot of rulings at the federal level are morally bankrupt, easiest to see in the ones regarding the interstate commerce clause.

An inability for states to rule themselves is, I think, the driving force behind identity politics today.
No true Scotsman here!

Ignore the data from Britain, Israel, Massachusetts, anecdotes here. Just keep on spewing the CDC/CNN talking points as gospel.
First two doses for me is completely pointless. I’ve already have covid and recovered, which should be enough, but the crazies have also insisted you should still get vaccine, but even the mighty spirit of our age “science” has said just getting one as a booster combined with natural immunity would probably make you less likely to get or spread it than even those with two doses.

So no I will not get two doses because it is pointless. I might get one, and I’ll be more “safe” than all the others, yet I will purposefully not get two so I don’t get tempted to thinking those who didn’t should be shunned and isolated.

Let me ask you this, if I was a coworker and you found out I wasn’t vaccinated, yet wasn’t following the mandates, would you just say whatever, or would you notify the hotline to report violators? Could you do that with a good conscience?
flyzipline is so cool! I saw an AMA they did on reddit a while ago and their tech for the thing landing where it hooks onto the the wire is really neat! https://youtu.be/jEbRVNxL44c?t=284
You're missing the key distinction which is that obesity is primarily self-destruction but the virus is largely a negative externality (passing it to others, giving evolution a chance to evolve another strain). If someone has the virus and coughs in my face, that's no better than punching me in the face, which is illegal for good reason. If they eat themselves to death instead, it's no skin off my back (aside from taxes)
It should suffice to require that the drug be given away until it has been proven to work. Then, administering it would amount to market-building; if it worked, demand would increase, and eventually they could start charging for it.
I'm okay with all of those things. Keep everyone protected and safe.
It’s the classic correct vs lazy to use things.

MySQL, mongo, JavaScript.

They all are incorrect in their behavior, but because of their defaults and ease of getting started, they got big.
I think the checks and balances are pretty fragile and very susceptible to public
opinion.

Two instances:
1) Post 9/11 Patriot Law
2) McCarthy era: https://www.e-ir.info/2011/11/03/the-extraordinary-injustice...
So you're just googling post hoc and haven't actually looked into it. How scientific.

This study [1] is what got me interested, they claim gray matter loss compares to control group even in asymptomatic cases but they excluded vaccinated people from what I can tell. I want to see this level of data for the groups I mention and then we have a really good insight. And this data should be possible to get.

Your links are articles referencing self-reports and doctors guesses...

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.11.21258690v...
I never had that problem, Java projects aren't a tiny Python script that only runs once.
and in fact, for rights to be meaningful at all, they must be qualified, since there are always cases where a right reaches a point of tension with another right

What? I have never heard anything like that at all. Rights are absolute.

That sounds like it is coming from the "Sure free speech is fine, so long as it doesn't offend me," crowd.

it's proposing vaccination as a condition of participating in things that people can opt out of.

People here are generally highly attuned to one of the big surveillance ad corps trying to massage people into accepting some invasion of their personal sovereignty, how is this different? You think if something like this is accepted there won't be pushes to go further?

If this infrastructure is put in place, it will be abused, and it will coopted for other things.