skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's an interesting analogy to be drawn with Lego. You can build interesting and useful things out of Lego, more than you may even realize. It can be fast & effective, it's certainly easy, especially if you imagine we've abstracted away the question of what bricks you have so you have as many as you need of any kind & color.

However, you end up with two sorts of problems if you start letting people just build solutions to whatever they like with Lego:

1. The solutions may work, but they aren't really that good. You can only do what there's Lego bricks for. When it comes time to solve the problem at the next level, the Lego stuff can be less helpful than it looks even as a prototype, as even at small scales a lot of the engineering in the Lego was solving around the limitations of Lego in the first place, rather than solving the problem per se.

2. Eventually you get people trying to build sheds and houses out of legos, struggling to put up shelves, all kinds of silly things that the solution isn't really suitable for. And there's a variety of pathologies here, too, like how they don't understand why their Lego solution isn't good enough, and why you can't just buff up their shelf since it's just that the shelf is falling over, and explaining to them that they basically just built a shed that is made out of code violations may not be very easy, etc.

There are advantages, too, like letting them get their hands on some engineering and stuff, and there are a lot of problems in the world where a Lego solution is no big deal. I don't know if I've got anything right now, but I've done it before; I had a lego setup for holding tablets & phones for charging that was better than anything I've bought, because it actually had the correct sizes for things, for instance. But there's limits.
Luckily I managed to pop out of the other end of the machine with my limbs intact.
Thank you for the followup.

Just to clarify, you use your personal blog domain to stage websites for customers? That is an interesting use case. It does project your brand, since you are on your own infrastrucuture (at least visually, you still probably use a hosting provider) instead of github/heraku/etc
> If you find any niche that makes sense, go for it

Even if it meant objectifying people into a market segment just to make money, under the branding of empathy and identity?

Just because it is branded “black” doesn’t mean it won’t perpetuate harmful racial stereotypes, such as “being black is the most important thing about you as a person”. In fact, it would have every reason to amplify that message to keep and grow their “segment”, regardless of its psycho-social consequences.
If you care about bang for buck at all, Amazon is likely the worst place to do online shopping. Their search is one giant dark pattern. It's good for finding new products if you don't know a good search query (yet). Then you can get the same thing cheaper from China.
I've used these type of apps which bundle a common infrastructure component and a management GUI on Windows before when starting out, back in the XAMPP / Apache2Triad days.

I found they'd cause more problems than they solved ultimately, as they didn't provide clear upgrade paths, often had opinionated default configs which left newbies wondering why public documentation didn't work, and there was a lot of churn as to which one were currently in vogue and maintained.
Who is getting 14ms on their fixed broadband. Last 3 places I can remember, I had cable and fiber to the home. My two cable connections would get 25-35ms at best. The fiber to the home wasn't much different but did go sub 20ms on occasion.
Other than the additional pseudorandom bits (which also have drawbacks), what's the advantage of ksuid over UUIDv6 as defined in the draft?
A lot of that sounds like magic, most of us will take their word for it till it comes out and ppl like CitizenLabs takes a look
Really interesting and radical idea. Having content specifically for a black audience seems so controversial at first but could be a great way to include black people more in pop culture. I think there is definitely demand for this: both from producers and viewers. If such a service existed it may even help cross-cultural knowledge sharing.

I read a good comment here from a netflix employee about the technical challenges. DRM seems like its going to be a bitch. Would be a cool startup to work for though
This only finds known pictures of child abuse not new ones and especially it doesn't find the perpetrators or prevent the abuse.

But it creates a infrastructure for all other kind of "criminal" data. I bet sooner or later governments want to include other hashes to find the owners of specific files. Could be bomb creation manuals, could be flyers against a corrupt regime.
The sky is the limit and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
when does a headline imply a derogatory connotation?
would another racial url be as inflammatory?
http://beta.rican.tv

would a religious or political headline carry the same explosive implications?
http://beta.christiancrusader.tv
http://beta.jew.tv
at first I was going to ignore this comment and all the leading questions, but then I saw you were OP.

it wasn't a xenophobic or islamophobic comment nor was it condoning the reality or your experience with it, it was an observation from how you wrote your post and what I know about the world
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My mum kept trying to foist a wireless telephone on me, because then I could use the telephone in bed, or whatever. So this goes on for awhile, but the rechargeable batteries never seem to recharge properly, so the phone goes dead a short while into the conversation. I finally decided "screw all this", and got a cheap corded phone for a few quid. It Just Works (TM). We get the odd power cut, which means that my parents have to fish an old phone out of the drawer so that they can still use the telephone.

Our internet is intermittent, too.

People keep banging on about the environment, privacy concerns about big companies like Facebook are in the public eye, and there's plenty of stories of these smart devices stopping working. Yet people keep buying these overcomplicated, expensive devices with multiple failure points. I can't believe people can be that stupid not to see the obvious drawbacks.

L'il update: when I was a schoolboy doing my 'O' levels, one subject I studied was Technical Drawing. One day, the teacher showed us a pulley. It was used in industrial machinery. It was housed in a little cage which swivelled open. There was a "nipple" at the top to allow for lubrication. I marvelled about how much attention to detail someone had put into a humble pulley. Later on, I came to a strange realisation: there are actually two forms of engineering: industrial, and consumer. Industrial engineering is for stuff that actually has to work, and work properly. Consumer engineering: deliberately designed crap. It's the kind of thinking which leads one to welding batteries onto the phone itself. In some respects, I feel it's the opposite of engineering. Then I think back to how there was some guy, decades ago, that sat down and designed a pulley that was robust and could actually be maintained.
An x-ray is nothing like reading the contents of letters or randomly checking ahipped harddrives and USB sticks for content. I don't know how to clarify legally or conceptually, but I feel confident there is a very clear difference
I would love an “easy mode” that gave like 4 birds multiple choice. I think that would work better on a phone anyway.
> blockchain in the context of the society you describe is a fascists wet dream.

Please elaborate?

BTC would break the money printer and iff people self custody and use lightning then privacy can also be achieved.

Monero does all that by default.
But... reddit already exists??
You'd be surprised. I have relatives who live ten minutes from a McDonald's and still have no option for internet besides satellite with a bandwidth cap of a few gigabytes a month. They can't enjoy Netflix, YouTube, or Disney Plus. Their kids can't buy digital download video games. When Starlink drops their base station price a bit and I talk them into it it will be absolutely transformative for them.
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Ivermectin would have to go through similar approval to put treatment of Covid on the label, so no.
Yes, although I think the absence of those power hungry narcissists (who no doubt lurk back at Star Fleet HQ) would be more down to having a relatively isolated and small group of people living and working in close proximity. Dark triad individuals can be identified early and worked around or placed where they cannot harm. An explicit code of ethics would be an Achilles heel because any such a code can be hacked or subverted.
I'm a bit confused as to what the use case for UUIDs are compare to incrementing integer IDs. I assume there are some big upsides (aside from the primary key issue which seems to have quite a few solutions at this point), but I'm just not aware of them.
but it has brought food prices from 'Reasonable' to 'European.'
Pesticides are still widely used indoors. Pests will get introduced even with strong precautions (air showers at the entrances, etc.). At that point, if they're able to multiply then they will, potentially even faster than outdoors since there are no natural predators. There also tends to be less airflow, which encourages pests like spider mites.

Of course the greenhouse has advantages too--you can deliberately introduce beneficial (predatory) insects and they can't fly away, and if you do end up using pesticides then there's no risk to wild pollinators. For example, the EU banned certain neonics outdoors but still permits indoor use. It's more just different than strictly easier or harder.
However in US, units themselves are not normalized.

Some things are per $/oz, others per $/lb, or $/unit, sill others within a same category go by volume ($/floz, $/qt, $/gal...). It makes comparison a pain: I end up looking at the metric unit on the packaging and doing the mental calculation myself.
This right here. I completely agree, and I think there will need to be standards that can endure long before we see smarthomes take off in any real sense.

And I hate rolling devices. I bought a high-end smartphone, and a high-end laptop quite a while ago. I haven't really had to upgrade those, and that's really nice. Just a taste of what people want in their home appliances.
depends on the DB. And it depends on your framework. Last I checked Django from about 5 years ago? still shipped uuids as text fields to the database.
The name can probably be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_films_of_the_1...
Which countries have given up?
Oh certainly. In fact, caching issues (on multiple levels) is a constant pain in the ass in my line for work anyway. It can be so subtle sometimes that you spend hours looking at something that shouldn't be an issue. But it is, and i think we all know why.
I mean, I'm and audio engineer, a fire protection engineer by degree, and a software engineer. Your bridge building analogy doesnt hold up, there is always changes and refinements of guestimations.
I think you need to refresh your memory on the definition of slander. But let me help: slander is a false statement. I didn't make one of those.
Strategically, are you trying to be a brand, a studio, a platform, an marketplace, or maybe all the above? I think the question I have is what to try to build first.

As a brand, I see you trying to become a trusted provider of content for an underserved black-identifying audience with diverse tastes. To build brand first, I wonder if you don't want to put BlackOak-curated content out on existing media platforms. That could be #BlackOakRecommends on twitter.

As a studio, and one competing with other producers, how will you differentiate yourselves to content creators? I guess that starts with the ability to get one's content in front of subscribers, but is there something beyond audience (which you are building), and money (which you are growing), that you can offer creators? Maybe that is access to and information about audience.

As a platform, you are starting with UScreen.tv, and categorically the questions I have are how does your consumption experience road map and analytics & recommendations road map line up with theirs? How will you be able to deploy your own tech relative to theirs? Analytics might differentiate you. Netflix reportedly does not share much. How might you be able (through analytics) to inform creators about audience response through your platform? Can you use analytics uniquely to reinforce and maintain the trust of your audience - e.g., when the platform recommends a video or creator to a user, be able to answer the user's question "Why am I seeing this?"

As a market place, you are an intermediary between content consumers and content creators. How do they to find each other and be rewarded from that - how users browse and how you recommend would be central. Maybe you license curator channels on your site. Perhaps that is in part potentially how you are able to connect creators directly to audiences, i.e. like hosted artist's pages. Perhaps the "BlackOak artist's page" is the place that consolidates an artist's identity, catalog and channels - twitter, instagram, twitch, etc - vs the artist's own page, youtube channel, weebly, etc. So, that's MySpace, of yore, on BlackOak.

If there's a theme to all this, I would say it is how to make consumers, curators, and creators more visible in relation to a consumption experience. Ideas are cheap! good luck with everything.
> isn't a robot used for intimidation or as a police-presence replacement

Not _yet_
Well, the “potentially infected people” are humans, too, and probably prefer to interact with other humans, not robots.

Besides, homeless people aren’t some strange foreign species that is uniquely dangerous to talk to. When you single them 0ut for the robot treatment, while other, even high-risk, groups, such as those presenting at hospitals with symptoms, it raises some questions.
In my experience "target dates" have a funny way of transforming themselves into deadlines over time.
How are you going to argue that it’s bad for parents to be informed when strangers send sexual imagery to their children?
At my previous employer, we ended up handing over our versioning to the marketing/business teams and our development teams started using a semver-style internally recognized release number for tracking features and fixes. Too often our customers would demand a new feature/driver/interface in a .PATCH or .MINOR release in order to more quickly adopt the software without having to run through their internal qualifications and upgrade policies.
Is this still about BlackOakTV?

Regardless, who decides which category a site/app falls into? There are legal remedies that can fix literal "war between 2 camps", everything else is freedom of expression.
> Partly it falls under the supposition of "if they can, they will".

Hm. But there are many millions of things Apple could do, but haven’t, because it would hurt their business model. So how would what you are proposing they will do help their business model?

> Which means they need some kind of tech to detect "naked" pictures, locally, across encrypted channels, in order to block them.

I know you know this is the case, but to make it clear for anyone reading: Apple is not blocking nude pictures in the kids filter. It’s blurring and giving a message. Again I ask: why would using this technology on non-nude stuff benefit Apple?

Are we worried about Apple or are we worried about the government forcing Apple to do things that this technology enables?
"Why does everyone mention they already did it on cloud like that has any relevance whatsoever?"

Given that this only applies to photos that are stored to the cloud, it seems like it has total relevance given that for users literally nothing has changed. To argue that there is some fearsome new development requires one to extrapolate into "Well what if..." arguments.
I don't think anyone here is trying to detract from the horrors and the crimes.

My problem is that these lists have already been used for retaliation against valid criticism. Scope creep is real, and in case of this particular list, adding an item is an explicit, global accusation of the creator and/or distributor for being a child molester.

I also wrote some less commonly voiced thoughts yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071872
Thermal efficiency is an absolute - units of energy expended vs work achieved. There is an alternative: proof of stake. Or removing certain constraints on the problem space. A different approach to solving the problem is absolutely an alternative. Visa is an alternative. The extant banking system is an alternative.
That's the part where I stopped reading... That'd be fantastic, I hope it happens. But... Wine's been going for at least 20 years, and the last time I tried, it still had major problems. Unfortunately for Wine, Microsoft keeps adding APIs. Even more unfortunately, their architectural sense leans towards "shove all the internal complexity onto the developer". I assume it is harder to re-implement a lousy architecture than an elegant one. At least Cocoa is fairly well thought out and mature. But, it's still a lot of code to write.

Just wait until they get to CoreAudio, though, hahaha! Not at all clear how that's supposed to work, and good luck if you want a sample rate that's not the default. Oh, and don't ever change anything about your environment once you've got it work, like, say, the operating system version.
A gun?
This makes me wonder what the largest MAJOR in MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH exists in the wild.
Oh my, buddy, you had it even worse than the yanks did.
Have you ever had an apology from your state for the serfdom, any reparations?

The Atlantic empire enslaved people different by color, language, religion and used them as a tool for centuries. Now, they are attempting to fix it.

The Rus' enslaved people of it's own creed, skin color and religion. Made them property as well. But, when serfdom cracked, everyone was like `okay moving on to the next chapter of our glorious history`.

Why would you reckon you'd ever grasp foreign problems, when at your own house you were scammed like a sucker?
What's the consultancy firm ? indra ?
Why should bees have anything to do with wind pollinated plants? The plants are not optimized for attracting insects or depositing pollen on them. So, no, I don't think these plants require bees. Coffee has actual insect-attracting flowers and is clearly insect pollinated, unlike the major staple crops.

From your link: "Most staple food grains, like corn, wheat, rice, soybean and sorghum, need no insect help at all; they are wind or self-pollinated."
> I wonder, though. Most folks now have LED bulbs, so being diligent about turning off lights isn't as much of a savings as when I grew up and everything was incandescent.

It's very convenient to have the light come on automatically in stairwells and lavatories. But you are right about it taking much longer to pay back. My calculation is that compared to having the LED bulb on continuously it pays back in about two years.

I have several infra red motion detector bulbs in stair wells and in the pantry as well as 'radar' bulbs in several other places (these detect movement by the disturbance in a low level high frequency radio signal).
LEO constellations have way more aggregate bandwidth than GEO satellites
> But here’s the thing you’re missing - if your race is a dominant part of your identity, like it is for many black people in America, it’s certainly normal to look for stories that feature black people and black stories. Stories where the characters experience problems and issues similar to the ones they might face in their lives.

Yeah, maybe, I can perhaps agree with that, but I still fail to see the political proposition.

Maybe I should live in the US to understand it, but honestly when I read about black-americans It seems many of their pressing issues are material ones, and the ones that aren't are probably very related to material ones and I fail to see how a netflix for black people is going to change any of that, except reinforce an ingroup-outgroup dynamic.
This allows you to keep recent records in DB cache, for example. Contrary, random keys would constantly invalidate the cache unless all your data fits in memory.
This. Comments are for why.
As long as they aren't as douchey as /r/BlackPeopleTwitter (which is a racist subreddit that BANS anyone who is not black -- then more power to them. If they are promoting Black Content Creators and stories and shows, great! if they are looking to EXCLUDE non-black people from accessing their service/content, then fuck 'em.

/r/BlackPeopleTwitter mods are douchebags.
Because they are unique on generation, you dont need to talk to the database before generating one. This is huge for distributed systems, or systems that have offline components (think mobile apps that sync). The ids can be generated client side and passed up to be stored in the database without worry.
> Future US politicians could easily be blackmailed by the non-illegal content on their phones. This is a jeopardy to our democracy.

US politicians should not be using normie clouds full stop. This is a risk and always has been.
It's interesting to me that they're using Ookla (speedtest.net) data for this analysis. For two reasons:

First, I know my old Comcast cable internet used to vary widely - at 7am, I could get 80 Mbps, but at 7pm, I was lucky to be able to download the whole speedtest.net page at all. I rarely would want to run a test when it was fast, but as people started to sign on and it degraded I think the natural impulse is to do a speed test.

Second, other providers like Google, Netflix, and ISPs offer integrated speed tests, so there's likely some selection bias for people who will still go to speedtest.net.

Note - I rejected my Comcast cable in favor of T-Mobile home internet, it's cheaper and more reliable. Which really says something about Comcast mismanagement of their resource, they've got a coaxial connection to my house but T-Mobile can do better wirelessly...
Your position is to simply deny that child porn or predation is a serious problem.

I outlined that this was one of the sides in the debate - I.e. you take position 2, and have no empathy for position 1.

The problem is that this is a political trap. You can’t win position 2 by painting technologists as uncaring or dismissive.

‘Think of the children’ works for a reason.
> It's not necessarily a new thing, but the online photo aspect is somewhat novel because you don't get to see the product in context.
For example, a jar of Jalapenos

Nutella has been doing that for decades.
My https://divestos.org project, while not as secure as GrapheneOS, provides lots of security to many older devices.
I don't have a specific example handy, but some appliance manufacturers will adjust the model number per-store (a washing machine will be model XYZ at Home Depot, model ABC at Best Buy) to make it more difficult to compare.
Implementation issues aside, I'd say they'd get a lot further with a less creepy appearance.

'Robot police killer insect dog' is not a great look. Maybe it just needs a nice little crocheted jacket.
> Different random listing shows 2 photos with incredible luck—the flames are identical.

Ah yes, the old roaring fire directly below a window :)
The entire history of cultures becoming Americanized was not purely an anti-black project. The history of Jews in America is a good example and they were subject to Ivy League quotas well after WW2.
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