skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I come from the highlands, the lack of trees is down to the wind… I would plant a tree, it would grow up a bit and then bam, wind would snap it and kill it…

I’m not convinced the wind has changed so much ;)
I also looked for the original article but we claim to have found different original sources! The press release you linked is from 2018, so I don't think that is referring to the same research as the Guardian article is.
I was unwilling to renounce and stay abroad, for a variety of reasons, so I returned to the US and decided to stay. But for a good while I lived and traveled outside the US as a digital nomad and the tax implications are immense, especially if you are a member of any corporation or LLC, have any retirement accounts, or own any property. It's an absolute nightmare to correctly file taxes, has an astronomically high audit risk (you basically /will/ be audited), and is very expensive to hire accountants that have understanding of multiple national tax laws to cover things correctly.

FATCA made this even worse. Now many companies and financial institutions abroad will refuse to do business with you if you hold US citizenship /even/ if you are a dual citizen and primary resident of the country they are based in. It's absolutely absurd how the US government treats American expats, and is in stark contrast to how British, Australian, and German expats are treated (of which there are many all over the world).
This is exactly right. Especially the part about how this phenomenon is not new. I seem to remember an article for grade school kids in a scholastic magazine from the late 90s that mentioned this.

Documentaries about Yellowstone at the time mentioned the importance of fired in the germination of new trees.

Of course, policy has not effectively reacted to well known science. Sigh.
Which is not what happened, given that he died after he got home. Again, not seeing how this is different than blaming the ambulance because you died in the ER.
It's still bad. I used to scrape pictures from many legal pornography sites. I still have hundreds of thousands of pictures. Since many are user uploaded, I imagine a small number could be real CP.

Thank God, I don't use Apple.

(I should probably delete them, since I've basically never used them... although they could be useful for one of those end-of-world Raspberry Pi builds: https://back7.co/home/raspberry-pi-quick-kit-one Edit: the non-bad ones, in case this gets misconstrued)

Edit: I've deleted my archive.
Not by the IRS, by the USG.
Why would that be pointless?
We should expect to see this throughout the world, as the climate crisis intensifies. We should expect to see this especially in intelligent or social species. Game theory predicts that, from the point of view of parents, when the population is expanding it is better to have sons and when the population is shrinking it is better to have daughters. A son might have a lot of children when times are good and zero children when times are bad. A daughter is likely to always have some children, and therefore is a safer bet when things are bad. This shifts the incentives for parents. When population is falling, parents have an incentive to care less about their sons, and to invest more resources in their daughters.

That much is known.

We can also speculate that if daughters are now receiving more investment as children, they are better positioned to go higher in society as they become adults. A general shift in political power, throughout social species, should be expected, as the climate crisis threatens more and more species with extinction.

This might extent to even those species in zoos, as their population usually is not allowed to expand.
Take the plunge: https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/field-guide-enterprise/bu...
This isn't scanning for naked children, it's known CSAM photos that are already circulating online.
> you could expect higher vaccination rate countries as the source of variants

It does not matter where or how the variants originated - in fact it's very likely that variants arose under neutral genetic drift. What matters is the selective pressure induced by the current mRNA vaccines which illicit an immune response that is highly targeted toward the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.

Here are some excerpts from [1], I highly suggest reading it if you're interested in these ideas:

- "The spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the molecular target for many vaccines and antibody-based prophylactics aimed at bringing COVID-19 under control."

- "Such a narrow molecular focus raises the specter of viral immune evasion as a potential failure mode for these biomedical interventions. With the emergence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 with altered transmissibility and immune evasion potential, a critical question is this: how easily can the virus escape neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the spike RBD?"

- "Our modeling suggests that SARS-CoV-2 mutants with one or two mildly deleterious mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation, and consequently resistance to vaccines or other prophylactics that rely on one or two antibodies for protection can develop quickly -and repeatedly- under positive selection."

- "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

- "Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities"
Well that was kind of my point: you need to manually figure out what’s clean and what isn’t.
There are so many smart people in transportation research and development. They've developed solar energy harvesting concrete for heaven's sake. But when will we see such improvements? I think when our transportation problems get much worse than they are now. Now, it's just "ok". Sure we have slow trains and broken bridges, but on the whole, people can get around the USA. It needs to get much much worse.
I suspect that he has some alternate level of perception, sees the beauty of the underlying mathematical structures directly without seeing the ugliness of the notation that distracts dull-witted mortals like me.
> it seems the 2-way, 3-way speakers I grew up with kill stereo imaging.

Yeah there are ways to build crossover networks that can minimize these issues (phase shift) across the frequency range. The most ideal crossover would dissipate 100% of the undesired acoustic power as heat rather than storing it as reactive energy in inductors, but the frequency domain be a tricky beast to dance with.

The best overall approach is probably the 4th order Linkwitz-Riley filter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkwitz%E2%80%93Riley_filter#...
Have you considered using an x86 machine with dual 10G NICs as your router, and then all you’d need is a 10G switch which may be cheaper than a router. I’ve considered the approach but haven’t undertaken it yet.
I think this comment won't go down well with the HN crowd, although I think that from a simple factual perspective you are quite right.
I remember myself back in elementary school making games with this. I'd paint up a scene, stamp some art and then cover the stamp. I'd then have my friend guess as to where the stamp was in the scene and we'd undo or "oh no" the cover away... great memories!
The "provably not the Founders' intention" part is the one where you're wrong, and the court opinion specifically discusses this, which is why I recommend that people read it before jumping to conclusions.

By the way, one thing that's often forgotten is that 2A itself was merely an adaptation of similar clauses in state constitutions at the time (many of which explicitly spelled out self-defense as a motivation). At the same time, the original Bill of Rights was all about limiting what the federal government can do, and didn't originally limit the states at all; it was assumed that the respective state constitutions would take care of that, presumably, by expressing the will of their citizens through their own democratic mechanisms. So it's no surprise that the discussion focused mostly on militia - that was the primary concern of the states wrt potential federal government overreach.

When 14A was ratified, and then BoR amendments gradually incorporated against the states, the courts had to reinterpret them accordingly. For example, 1A says that "Congress shall make no law ...", for the same exact reason: the people who wrote it were originally concerned specifically about the power of the federal government. But today, we interpret it as applying to state governments as well, and rather more expansively - and I would hope you'll agree that it's a good thing!

BTW, you seem to be unaware that pro-gun sentiment is alive and well outside of the radical right today - it didn't end with Black Panthers. Some prominent examples include John Brown Gun Club and Huey P. Newton Gun Club.
* https://authzed.com/
> So why not just send the payment to a Russian bank?

I don't know, I'm not a Russian in the ransomware business.

But I speculate that doing it that way might be so blatant and inconvenient to the Russian government that it might get the policy that protects them changed. Also, I'd imagine any bank that accepts such payments would quickly get itself blacklisted. This stuff isn't actually binary, so it's not smart to take it to the limit.
> the majority of its prisoners did not do anything morally wrong

Are you suggesting that the prisoners who did nothing morally wrong are the ones convicted of drug-related offenses?

Honestly, while the fraction is large, it hardly looks like a majority (1 in 5 apparently):
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

And it is not broken down to users vs dealers. The former may have a claim to having done nothing morally wrong, but the latter certainly do not.

> Most of them didn't even go to trial

This is arguably a problem, but not unique to the US. Other places also do a majority of convictions via plea bargain:
https://www.economist.com/international/2017/11/09/the-troub...
Why it’s good for you if I protect my privacy
Furthermore, "highly unlikely" is an understatement. Using SHA256 there are 2^256 hashes.

That's 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936. Probability of collision (two different inputs generating the same hash) is infinitesimal.
Wow you're right. This is conflicting as many of the words are not pronounced properly at all. Maybe it doesn't matter to the accuracy of the speech-to-text system, but it feels like training it with bad data.
If you look around you’ll notice the trees are usually only growing on one side of a hill, the wind gets anything else before it’s strong enough to withstand it (at least on the west coast where I’m from)
> Also, if you are technical enough to frequent this web site and you think $108K is a lot of money, you are being underpaid.

Sorry, what? Exactly how much technical ability does it take to frequent a website? You have the strangest delusion I've seen on HN and that's saying something.
All blockchains are controlled by rough consensus. There's already like half a dozen Bitcoin forks in the wild (Bitcoin Cash, BSV, etc). When Bitcoin Cash forked off from the main chain in 2017, the community ultimately decided which chain was the "legitimate" one.

Of course Bitcoin could decide to increase the issuance. In doing so, however, it would inevitably lead to a fork (with the 21M holdouts in one camp and the inflationists in another) and the community would ultimately need to decide which one to support.
They work out very well. Any significant storage provider has been using them for years.
there could be perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children doing perfectly normal things

How would that match a hash list of known CP imagery though?
Microsoft has been using PhotoDNA [0] to scan OneDrive content for quite some time. The news is that a device manufacturer is doing it on your device with local data. There's some MS research to use machine learning on metadata to identify offending material [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.02387.pdf
Not a single joke was made about child abuse.

The specific subject of child abuse is irrelevant in my commentary. It was a commentary on the general category of AI, used all over, for many things, and more and more every day, but nice try.

Edit: You edited out what I was referring to as I was replying.
As a (former) bass player, you need to start a bit early, yeah. But that's not so much for distance but because it takes longer for the sound to start. Pipe organ is of course much worse. I would do one concert a year sitting next to an organist... The keyboard noises and motion from him playing way before me were pretty distracting. And when we stopped during rehersal, he'd stop on the keys right away, but the organ would keep going for a bit.
It'd be a much more organized and planned version of what firefighters do already, including dumping retardants from the air and preparing infrastructure ahead of the fire. Mostly they set up firebreaks [1] and distribute fire fighters around the perimeter to clean up any embers that cross them. The whole process is much easier when there isn't a fire bearing down on them. In California they'd also use the DOT goat squadron [2] which is very effective at stripping any vegetation in an area. If done on a regular basis, semi-permanent firebreaks will form (like a well trodden trail) making it a really efficient process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak

[2] https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-popular-li...
It is dying off in Toronto, Canada. Advertisers migrating to FM as well as digital and internet.
My friend had an acura in the 90s with physical EQ sliders. Can't remember if it was OEM or not but my guess is that it was.
Ah, I should have paid more attention to the article. I appreciate the clarification.
It's dystopian because a private company, who in the past has been committed to maintaining user privacy even when it inconveniences the government, is now regressing and going to scan the "private" contents of peoples' phones to see if they have any matches for images that have been added to a government-supplied blacklist. This blacklist is completely opaque to us as citizens; there is no way to audit or review the contents. Additionally because it's using photoDNA, if someone ever did get ahold of even a single entry in the database, they could craft malicious images that fool the perceptual hash algorithm into flagging an innocent image. (Yes, I get there will be manual review, etc).

Furthermore in principle there's no reason this has to be, or will be, just CP. First it'll expand to blatant terroristic images, say ISIS beheading type videos. Then it will progress to subversive material: COVID "misinformation", "domestic terrorism" (read: anyone the feds don't like), the list goes on. This tool and its successors will be used to completely abolish the concept of device privacy and will be used to ruin the lives of anyone who sufficiently pisses off the feds. And that's just in America, god knows what they're going to do with this system in China.
Google fired 80 employees for abusing user data and spying on people
Bill Gates calls divorce 'a sad milestone,'
Just like every other civilized country. The fact that it was even mentioned suggests that for Americans it might not always be the case in some situations, which is quite frightening.
Did you read the paper I linked to (at least the abstract)? It directly contradicts your claims.

Please cite primary sources to support your claim, otherwise it must be regarded as uninformed opinion.
I have heard/read enough people sing high praises of AmigaOS that I wonder how intimately it is tied to the hardware platform.

In other words, would it make sense to port it to the PC or maybe Raspberry Pi? It sounds like it would be fun to play with it, but I lack the hardware, and I am not sure I'm willing to sink money into it without having an idea of what I am getting into.
You make a lot of claims here but I don't see anything in your post to back up the numbers. I'm too lazy to go do this research myself so I'm left as a result with defaulting to disbelieving you.
The most shocking thing on the Suns back then compared to the SGIs was the mouse movement. While the SGIs had a smooth movement, Suns mouse ended up jumping dozens of pixels between refreshes.

Suns were not really designed for desktop use - they more or less aimed for the generic case. SGIs, however, were built to be experienced.
what is the legality of this website? I don't see anything indicating that it's an official port.
Yes, that's exactly it. It uses a database compiled by NGOs and specialized firms comprising of file hashes matching child porn. These lists are handled by humans.

Fuzzy means that it takes compression and the like into account, because even if just one pixel out of 20 thousand is different, the hash is different too. Fuzzy hash still recognizes it as the same image, so using an algorithm to alter the color etc. won't work.
That won't happen until the merge to proof of stake, which is supposed to happen early 2022.
What advice would you give Apple if they’re faced with a legitimate government asking it to comply with the laws they have instituted in the society Apple wants to do business?

I don’t appreciate you calling me naive. There isn’t clear intent to scanning all local photos. In fact, it seems like the system was deliberately designed to only work with photos that are being uploaded to iCloud.
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It’s not a shithole, but I employed a person who screwed up the plumbing, I had to have the bathroom completely redone, it’s perfect now. On paper though, it looks like shit cause we had to lawyer up to get money back from the guy who screwed up...
Not long ago I dismantled my first ever computer. An old Macintosh Classic with 4mb RAM and 40 MB harddisk. It was broken beyond repair and since then I am looking for a way to connect the old disk to anything modern. Sadly I can't find a connector that is halfway decently priced.

I will keep looking, but breaking up the thing that was in one way or the other part of my life for >25 years felt very strange. So many memories. So many firsts. And I believe that this is a big part of that feeling of specialness such things have.

A new laptop doesn't provide any firsts for me. Nothing new. Maybe faster. Maybe a better keyboard. But nothing new.
This is not what broker requirements are.

If you are under broker requirements, and you wish to mine a new block, you must have, for every transaction you include in the block, the legal name of the person whose transaction it is, their address, and whether they are a politically compromised individual (ex, a general or politician of a nation that is not the US).

For every transaction you're going to include in the block.

This information is reasonable to expect from brokerages and exchanges, but not from miners, who are merely transaction processors.
Ethereum is so enthusiastic about hard forks (or in ETH speak, upgrades) that they have the difficulty bomb which works like the debt ceiling. It's necessary to do a hard fork/upgrade every so often.

Meanwhile bitcoin is so against hard forks/upgrades that they can basically only do soft forks and currently do that by a 90% voting agreement by miners.

Bitcoin can not even increase the blocksize, the sure as hell aren't going to change the emission. Some day far down the line the block subsidy might be low enough that lots of miners go dark. At that point they'll need to choose between 21 million bitcoins and network security.
But "control policies" require by definiton the market to already be cornered by whoever is trying to control it. Without being cornered the market will be cornered?
It's important to recognize the difference between deductive and inductive logic. Much of academia, from lit reviews to citations to the way people are trained and educated, is inherently based upon appeal to authority. Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy only insofar as you're considering purely deductive logic, in the sense that a statement "X believes Y, therefore Y" is not formally valid. That doesn't mean the beliefs of authorities in a field are not valid informally as pieces of evidence.

Whether or not medical consensus has been more predictive than a coin flip historically is an empirical claim. I have no idea if it's true, but that seems doubtful. It's particularly interesting to cite penicillin as an example of medical authorities being wrong. Child mortality has dropped more than a hundredfold in the United States since the invention of penicillin. Not that penicillin is solely responsible for that, but I have to question whether possibly negative developmental effects you are trying to cite here really offsets the negative effects of children having potentially deadly infections. I had a severe case of pneumonia when I was 5 and would have died if not for antibiotics. Death is surely the worst possible negative developmental effect.
What better to incorporate a Deleware C-Corp. Clerky or Stripe Atlas and why?
Any idea which one is better to use? Will I need a lawyer at all? Does stripe atlas allow you to appoint directors and then buy stock from the directors?
Looking at the most recent stackoverflow developer survey[1], most of the developers expressing interest in Rust would be moving from high level languages like Javascript and Python. It doesn't surprise me that developers with that background wouldn't be aware of systems programming concepts like bitshifts. I've seen similar code in Java (convert to boolean array, move bits down, convert back to integer) that was written in earnest.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-worke...
You should try writing papers. Most papers take many months to write, hundreds of hours, go through many revisions and rewrites. People try really hard to write good papers. Everyone knows well written papers get cited more.

But synthesizing newly discovered knowledge that only a handful you know (and often don't even understand all aspects of), into something others can understand is far harder than you think it is.
Some examples would be:

1. Alice is the controller of a machine in a factory, Bob is a remote worker controlling the machine from home. (there could be thousands of Alice, one Bob)

2. Alice is an internal system in Enterprise Data Center 1, Bob is a Microsevice in the Cloud

3. Alice is health monitoring device, Bob is a remote doctor's tablet. (there could 100s of thousands of Alice. On of Bob)

4. Alice is a connected car, Bob is a service in the cloud, that uses a third party vendor's managed Kafka to communicate with Alice and wants to guarantee secure software updates / machine learning model updates to Alice (there is a fleet of Alice).

etc.

Any use case where you're using third party services/intermediaries and want to keep the vulnerability surface of your application as small as possible.
Yea, grew up on B/W Kidpix. In this JS clone, some of the effects are also less pixelated, especially the fractals / mandalas. "Broken Glass" and "Wrap Around" gives me errors as well. It's not 100% perfect clone but it's amazing and the code is beautiful, performant, concise vanilla JS.
can't wait till this problem has to be solved within 20 mins in a tech interview
This is more a question on fixing in-browser cloud storage services.

Mounting the cloud storage locally is probably the best solution to this. I don't access my files in Nextcloud through my instance's website, I do it through the app that lets me treat it as another directory on my computer. OneDrive and iCloud already do this by default on Windows and Mac, respectively.