skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, I had a really similar thing happen the first time I went to the US, something like 10-15 years back in Houston!

The office was only a mile or 2 from the hotel, so I thought I'd walk. On my way out, the receptionist asked where I was going and if I'd like her to call a cab. I replied that I was going to walk to somewhere close by, and her eyes just about popped out of her head - "you can't do that, it's far too dangerous to walk!".

I walked anyway of course, looking out for anything even tenuously dangerous, and found nothing. It was most puzzling! I later conferred with local colleagues in the office, who reiterated what the receptionist had said - nobody walks anywhere!

Coincidently, one morning I too met an enormous freight train at a level crossing - it was actually pretty amazing waiting multiple minutes for such an incredibly long train to pass!
The text is "validating... through proof of work (mining)", which would seem to imply that it only protects miners. It does seem though like the author's of the text are missing a super important distinction, which is that proof of work mining is _not_ intended to be the main method through which blockchain transactions are validated. The participants in the network are all expected to validate the transactions themselves (independent of the miners).

A mistake like this really suggests that the proposed regulation is not well thought out, and that it should probably be revisited after further education and discussion.

Worth saying a million times: the massive uproar in the crypto industry this week is not because we don't want to be regulated. It's because these proposed regulations are:

+ massively over-reaching
+ proposed at the last minute
+ attached to a must-pass bill
+ given very little room for proper discourse
Moderna says 3rd Covid-19 vaccine shot may be needed to protect against variants
What does metal have to do with shields? Metal shields were never popular in medieval Europe. And I also really doubt your assertion that shields were rare.
I would say easily adjustable sitting/standing desks that are also on wheels is the future. I want to be able to rest my arms on the desk and pull it around with my within a few foot area so i don't need to stand statically all day because that's just as bad for you.
Slightly problematic when your phone loses service, but I get where you are coming from. It would be nice for that to be viable, we’re probably decades away from having good enough network connectivity.
Perhaps ask Jeff Bezos? :)
I registered my own name under one of the new gTLDs because it was $10 for a year and I thought, "why not?". I didn't do anything with it, partly because I remained sceptical of the new gTLDs so didn't want to switch anything critical over to it, like my email address.

That is probably just as well, because a year later, it had been reclassified as a "premium" name. The renewal fee was over $400,000.

The fact that the owners of gTLDs can set pricing arbitrarily is the biggest problem in all this. A given domain name usually has no intrinsic value. What gives it value is the effort someone puts into marketing it.

With the new gTLDs, the domain operators are free to offer useful names that aren't trademarks, but are unavailable as .com or similar. Then should anyone build a successful business on that name, they are free to seek arbitrarily high rents.

There is no sense in which you can buy a domain name outright. Nor do the new gTLDs have any form of rent control. That is a fundamental problem with the system as it stands.
> You only have to look at Moxie's terrible public behavior to see what the fallout from that approach looks like.

Cite Torvalds' absolutism on not breaking userspace, too, while you're at it..

These projects are all forwarding their missions; it's not because they listened to your criticism about being too absolutist on goals they are passionate about.

The "dick measuring" you're seeing is how any niche group quickly scrambles to sift out the "truth". Geopolitics research threads, when airplanes go down mysteriously, new longboard gets released, whatever — the smartest people go back and forth with (at?) each other¹ until some form of consensus is reached, and the "herd immunity" or general knowledge of the community is improved.

¹(sometimes with far less civility than in this case!)
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I think this is why young people think boomers are dumb when in reality boomers have just been burned over and over with doom predictions and by political lies obviously said to earn votes. These doom predictions are always conveniently 10 years away, long enough that it feels close and urgent but so it also feels that we still have time to fix. My high schooler came home one day just last year and said they learned that we are going to run out of fossil fuels in 10 years so we have to convert everything to renewable right away. I told him 25 years ago I ‘learned’ in high school that we would run out of fossil fuels in 10 years also. They even explained the models in my day not just showed the results to you. They had the total available stores, usage rate over time, predicted finding of new resources, and it was all neatly organized into charts perfectly that made it look impossible to be wrong to a high schooler whose only knowledge on the topic came from school.
High level bindings to cURL would be better imo. You don't reinvent this tricky wheel, and you get a lot of features (even async I think?) on top of a strong implementation. And a http server really doesn't belong in the stdlib of a system language.
This is probably due to their definition of chronic, as migraines and headaches are usually episodic.
Vigilante app Citizen is paying users to livestream crime scenes and emergencies
Saltunnel: A simple, secure TCP tunnel
What diverse team of leading scientists from the biggest institutes in the world?

Most of the people commenting on this are second grade "ethics researchers". The authors are not ML experts. They clearly had a strong prior belief about the outcomes and were surprised by the outcome, which is fairly obvious: nearly every bit of medical data you can collect on people is ultimately correlated to self-reported race, but in a way that is not immediately perceptible to expert humans! That in its own is the important observation here. Everything else is just authors and commenters making odd statements that are in conflict with reality.

(note: my background is in biology including genetics and image analysis, and I've worked with many of the experts in this field)
It's also hard to concentrate in what you're doing while squatting.

Seems like the most important thing to do is spend less time at the office.
Rats fleeing a sinking ship.
Hashes, no false matches, pick one.
It’s not easier though. They moved the scanning onto the device instead of doing it server side. That all.
> they're not being ordered to destroy crops in order to support the medical marijuana price.

I didn't say, or suggest, that anyone was ordered to destroy crops?

They created too much supply, yes. Follow the logic chain out a step. If they wanted to sell it, they could lower the price...

Instead they _choose_ to keep the price above the black market price. The black market price which is already inflated far above production cost, by virtue of it being illegal.
I think that a pattern that doesn't get nowhere near enough attention is the handle [0] (as opposed to objects/pointers) pattern.

What's a handle? Think of it as a file descriptor. Your code doesn't store the object itself but some sort of index into some array.

I'm partial to the generational arena indices which solve the ABA problem [0] by having a handle that's composed of index and generation (both are uints). Index is the offset into an array. When you remove an element at offset nn, you put offset n on a free list and next time you insert an object, you return an index where the generation counter is incremented. If someone had a stale index (with an old generation counter) to the previously removed object, when they try to access it next time, they will get a null.

This really shines for data models where you have complex relationship. By having all data in a single centralized store and interacting with data using your indices, you can update relationships as needed

This post summarizes well why that is https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handle_(computing)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_problem
What I find frustrating is discussing something relatively trivial when talking about a totalitarian state.

I am not from the West, and I do wonder if people bring up these just to be polite or to sound impartial.
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JUR just another rant, surprisingly made to the homepage
I don’t know my jurisprudence very well, but as I recall a government employee acting in an official capacity is a public figure by default.
Pixel cameras are great, regardless of what app used.
>You can grow it yourself

Yes, you can legally do this where it is allowed, but other than that, it is pretty much a copout. Not everyone can grow things well. Not everyone has a green thumb. Also, weed is not the easiest plants to grow and takes a lot of time and effort to get quality flower. It's also not like you can just walk over to plant(s) whenever you want to smoke up. The plant has cycles of when it is making flower and when it's not. Now, you can trick it out with grow tents, lights, hydroponics, etc, but now you're a freaking grow house and most people definitely don't want that.
iphone user != icloud user

When you use a cloud service, you must (should) be aware of the consequence of your files being stored on another computer on the internet.

Until now, your local files on your device were not scanned in an inscrutable manner.

This is a precedent.
but why?

seriously, all I want is to forget that kind of sound.
⏳ trackie is a private, daemon-less time tracker running in your CLI
This is totally normal where I'm from...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/middleeast/professo...
"study suggests height comes in 9 distinct types!"
> all a child pornographer has to do to avoid these controls is not use iCloud Photo Library

Yes, so as it is today, this system isn't even useful for its stated purpose. Apple are not so stupid that they don't know that. Either it will not always be as it is today, or the stated original purpose isn't the ultimate purpose.

After all, the problem you state has a simple and obvious solution: just scan everything on the device.

The only saving grace is that a full database of copyright material won't fit on a current device, so as long as you avoid offending people in power in your jurisdiction you're probably fine for a few years.
You realize if this is as problematic as we are talking about and peoples lives are ruined from false positives it will create a political movement that will make this illegal. Stop trying to lobby companies and lobby for politicians that will rein this shit in.
I would like to get better at kneeling in this position for prolonged periods of time for canoeing purposes, do you have any suggestions? Is there a range of movements that help or is really just a matter of practicing kneeling in that position.
NYC Mesh uses this approach.[0] They have "supernodes" shooting lasers across the city, which you can then receive with a dish on your roof, and these connect to an IXP. Payment is donation based, but their recommended donation is already more affordable than Spectrum (the dominant NYC ISP), and is billed per building, not per router, so becomes extremely cheap if you get your neighbors onboard. Installation is more complicated than plugging a router into a cable TV jack, but community volunteers are available to do installations. It's a remarkable example of the people taking power back into their own hands. On the subject of Spectrum I have nothing good to say.

But it stands to mention, this is in biggest metro in the United States, and an innovative tech hub at that. Rural Americans too often left in the dust in this regard. It is exasperating.

[0] https://www.nycmesh.net/
I don’t see how this system is particularly less trustworthy than the existing system of iOS updates.
I don't have any hard data but I assume most car trips only have one necessary passenger.

("Necessary" being aimed at people doing the school run, where the parents wouldn't need to be there if the children got collective transport instead).
Pickled turnips are delicious, you should try them if you like pickles. But I mostly associate them with kebab and falafel places.
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Toronto is one example of where neighbourhoods were built that are not Manhattan- and Hong Kong-level densities, but are still not entirely car dependent. They were built semi-recently, and not some long-ago time period that is unrealistic to try to recreate.

They also have recognizable architecture that is not from the Middle Ages or Napoleonic age. You can explore some of these neighbourhoods (in Toronto and elsewhere) and realistically visualize similar houses being built today.

Of course Toronto suffered from the same automobile malaise as many other North American cities, first in the 'inner suburbs' (North York, Scarborough), and later in the "905".
Unprofitable growers should maybe turn to growing food.
> Maybe the real reason is that these people aren't willing to work for reasonable wages.

If you want cheaper actors you can cast cheaper actors. But obviously you won’t get any actor to take minimum wage gig if they have a better offer somewhere else.

This has nothing to do with unwillingness to work for less money. And trying to put the blame for what movies get made on actors who have absolutely no control over that is just silly.
Indians typically squat with their knees in front of them while slavs squat with their knees off to the side
Americans aren’t homogenous: those who adore European cities aren’t the same ones demanding parking minimums at their local neighborhood groups. Those people don’t give a hoot about European cities: they just want everything within a 10 mile radius of where they live to be easy to drive to and don’t want to think through or be reminded of the externalities.
> Having said that, what I do find problematic is that both are too high when it comes to looking at things at the towards the top of the screen

Until recently I used a 30" (2560x1600) + 2x24" on the sides, and thought I'd never change to anything smaller. I loved the setup, but my trusted 3007WFP was 15+ years old and long due for a refresh, so I took the plunge and replaced everything by a single ultra-wide 40" (U4021QW). Despite having higher resolution and ppi (5120x2160, 140 ppi), it is actually shorter than my previous 30", and of course a lot less horizontal space.

In the end I couldn't be happier with it. I was surprised by the reduced neck strain of the up-down movement (I'm in the same boat of older eyes + progressive lens). I also got a decent monitor arm, which helps when I'm doing deep work reading/writing/coding, I can just bring the whole screen closer to my eyes, rather than increasing font size.

I do miss the extra horizontal space a bit, but some predefined zones and custom shortcuts solved most of it. And a nice bonus that I have a much cleaner desk, with no bezels and a lot less of those pesky DVI cables. Having multiple input ports + PIP was also useful during WFH, as I can easily switch between work laptop and personal computer without a KVM (although I still use a KVM for keyboard/mouse).

If you decide to get dedicated computer glasses, measure the exact focal distance between your eyes and the monitor. I think they use a certain default (probably for a newspaper/book/cell phone distance), which for me wasn't quite right. The monitor is a few inches too far from the focal point, so the progressive lens offer crisper/better image than my computer glasses.
> Ah yes, nobody will ever need to represent a date/time before 1970-01-01.

More like: the few people interested in doing this can use UUIDv8 (unspecified time format). There are many, many reasons to store times before 1970 in computer systems, but I'm not sure any apply to these UUID formats.

tl;dr of the "Background" section of the RFC: they're designing it so that two UUIDs with fresh timestamps will have values near each other in the database keyspace, which in many cases improves efficiency. If your timestamp isn't freshly generated, I don't know why you'd embed it in a UUID with these formats.

It's arguably not a good practice to extract the timestamp from the UUID at all. Instead, I might just treat them once generated as opaque approximately-sorted bytes. More clear to have a separate fields for timestamps with particular importance. Though I might not feel too religious about that if tight on storage space.
The nice tone of the professor’s emails (after the run-in) could be also proof of her goodwill. While student showed his lack of self control on twitter.

This is just a different aspect of the same facts.
I was assaulted once and said this can only happen in a fascist country. The assaulter filed a complained saying I called him Nazi and I was fined for doing so, despite the fact that I never used those words. The law literally talks about this as something "hurting your honour". This law is ridiculous in its own right. It's not really related to the word Nazi at all. Which is why I called it a fun fact. It doesn't matter that I didn't say it. What matters is that the judge thought that I could have said it.

Attached is a case where someone appealed a judgement at the constitutional court of Germany because he was fined for calling a social worker in a correctional facility a "Trulla"[0]. Think of it as getting fined by the court for contempt by calling a random person a "Karen" in the US. He did say it, but it hardly constitutes an insult to someones honour. The courtcase argued that the way this law is currently used directly contradicts the rights of freedom of speech. Obviously they lost because it would set a precedent rendering this whole charade meaningless.

The way this law works is that it's undefined enough that what constitutes an insult to your honour and can therefore be used whenever someone threatens authority or if authority doesn't like you, you can be fined.

[0] https://www.kostenlose-urteile.de/BVerfG_1-BvR-224919_Erfolg...
You seem to be right that the Jaguar is a poor car for road trips. A Hyundai Ioniq 5 will charge in half the time as a Jaguar I-Pace, and the car costs about a third less.

https://pod-point.com/guides/vehicles/hyundai/2021/ioniq-5

https://pod-point.com/guides/vehicles/jaguar/2018/i-pace
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Most families in the states have more than one car, so there’s less risk to teaching your kids how to drive. There are schools though, but I never had that (neither did my wife, apparently). My dad was an insane teacher though. He’d have me slam the brakes in the middle of an empty highway to learn how to stop at-speed. I’ve never been in an accident (knock on wood) but I’ve seen more than my fair share of deadly accidents happen right in front of me.
A thousand tonnes is ambiguous because you cannot know if it's metric tonnes or not.

A billion grams is unambiguous, because a billion prefix for the regular reader would mean pretty much the same as infinity. The 0.0000001 as the multiplier after billion prefix doesn't discount that, because you still have to read the billion out loud.
I had the same question, but given dgan's height, I think the squatting must be in place of a chair rather than actually on a chair.
Very first sentence is me saying legalization is great and overdue. Feels like it shouldn't be a huge ask that people read the first sentence.
I would, uh, answer your parenthetical question mark with a huge "no." reCAPTCHA v3 is basically "user tracking, but this time if we can't track them we assume they're a bot."
Covid-19 infections in vaccinated people: Simpson’s Paradox
It will flag pictures that match a perceptual hash of pictures of child abuse. Now what legal kinds of pictures are most similar in composition, color, etc. to those offending pictures? What kinds of pictures would be hardest to distinguish from offending pictures if you were given only 16x16 thumbnails?

I'm going to bet the algorithm will struggle the most with exactly the pictures you don't want reviewers or the public to see.
> The thing which always makes me hesitant about these projects is that they don't receive frequent security audits and not having an expensive brand behind them makes them more at risk to being willing to trash their name at the cost of my privacy and security. I consider these to be a fairly critical part of any project which claims superior privacy and security.

Lets keep using known flawed alternatives instead?
I struggle to find any half-assed techy person who uses an app that won't run on AOSP/Calyx/GrapheneOS.
I'm not sure on the 50%. I didn't even know there was a separate tax. It seems unlikely to me as weed is still 'illegal'. The police won't look your way if you use it or sell it in shops. But everything that happens before the shop (growing and transport) is still very much illegal and you will get a big fine if you get caught. You are only allowed to have 5 grams or a small amount of plants.

The government together with a few selected municipalities is starting an experiment to grow it in selected growing facilities. As far as I know no municipality has started selling those yet.
there are also ideas about patient empowerment (since last century). Medical community is not the most flexible, but we'll get there.
Apple already use the same algorithm on photos in email, because email is unencrypted. Last year Apple reported 265 cases according to the NYT. Facebook reported 20.3 million.

Devolving the job to the phone is a step to making things more private, not less. Apple don’t need to look at the photos on the server (and all cloud companies in the US are required to inspect photos for CSAM) if it can be done on the phone, removing one more roadblock for why end-to-end encryption hasn’t happened yet.
an additional "twist" is that you can use words in different language: good luck with a "dictionary" attack if a word is in spanish, one in french and the other one in italian (or what you prefer).
I'd be interested to see if someone who works regularly with Go can show a cleaner way to do this. Because what I'm seeing here is just reinforcing my biases against Go. I've tried Go a couple times before but only ever read about Zig and yet I still find the Zig far easier to follow. It's much less verbose without being less explicit.

(Also I'm not sure if the compiler would catch this, but there seems to be a bug in that Go code that's hard to see at a glance. You're never assigning a value to result)
One problem with processing it is that there are very low limits on dosages of edibles in Canada (currently 10mg THC per serving). I think lifting this absurd restriction would help enable those ideas.

See here https://www.change.org/p/remove-the-10mg-thc-limit-on-edible...
I hated the 'dealers system'. I didn't want to give some lowlife drug-dealer my address, nor my phone number. Neither was the idea of meeting such a person in a parking lot somewhere appealling to me at all. Consequently, I virtually never smoked weed at all until it became legally available in stores, except at parties where somebody else had it. Two or three times I bought from a dealer, and each time it confirmed all my biases about the experience.
Humanity for the longest time existed without any hint of universal inalienable rights. Calling them that is aspirational. They are not "natural" in any way except being the norm in very recent social reality of certain fortunate parts of the world.