skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a kid in the 80s and teenager in the 90s. My favorite thing during that time was pirating video games. A game would come out, and it was cracked, usually within hours and often before the game was even released to be sold. That's when "zero day" had a different meaning. All the "warez" ftp sites had a section for 0 day warez. The cryptologists and math brains would come up with new protection methods to protect their IP from being copied. Spend millions, probably billions for all of these projects. Yet, some kid in their basement with a commodore 64 was always able to crack them. Sometimes it would take longer. There were a few that took years, but once figured out, unlocked hundreds of titles previously secured.

This is, and always is, a game of cat and mouse. Law enforcement is always catching up. They are the cryptologists here. They are never ahead, always behind, because they don't know the new protections peddlers are using until they have been in use and later discovered.

No matter what vector you plug, they will use another, and the game continues (sick game). Maybe divide the image into 32 different quadrants and rearrange them, then put them back in the correct order when viewing through a specific image viewer. I'm sure that would bypass whatever detections they've come up in their fuzzy fingerprinting with as the entire image is now different. By the time they catch someone using this, they'll have already moved on to something different, as they always do.

I will never be ok with warrantless searches of my personal property, no matter the reason or justification or subject, and no matter who it is done by (government or private company). And I say that as a survivor of some pretty horrific shit as a kid to the point I fucking tremble with absolute rage when thinking about it 35+ years later. I would be banned from everything for life if I were to honestly state what I would do with these types of people. The movie "Saw" is tame in comparison. I have no compassion or sympathy for these sickos. But when reading world history, I can absolutely see the importance of "innocent until proven guilty" and Blackstone's Ratio "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Most of human history was the opposite, and it was brutal and full of literal witch hunts. Are we progressing as a species, or regressing in terms of human rights when it comes to technology?
The cost of electricity (coupled with the rewards and cost of hardware) changes how profitable mining is. The more profitable the more players. The more players the more transaction throughput. This is exactly why miners have bought powerplants and why they operate in locations with cheap electricity, because it makes it more profitable for them. Bitcoin mining is directly related to the cost of electricity.

That said, not every cryptocurrency is reliant upon brute forcing hashing algorithms to verify.
Yep, just realized and edited.
Herd immunity (through vaccines) was always the goal, but I guess that's not what you mean?
I love Bob's writing and his solid grasp of programming subjects that interest me like games and programming languages. For his next book, I suggest trying LyX and the book class with the Tufte layout for far less pain in the publishing process.
Herd immunity can also be achieved by the anti-vax people catching the virus. They can develop immunity by being sick instead of getting a shot.
> as it fails to protect you from anything other than most government institutions.

Depends on the state. The US isn't as simple as you're making it out to be.
>We need to have laws that large funders of so called grassroots efforts have to be disclosed.

Why?
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> *Very few devs are likely to release on console while on the free tier of unity pro but this has a daunting effect [..] this silly habit of thinking about the monetary opportunity of [..]

I fully agree, the idea that my small irrelevant hobby game might end up somewhat successful and I might be able to sell it on console and be maybe able to live from and for it for ~1 year or so are quite tempting.

On the other hand the idea that even if my hobby game gets successful I will most likely never be able to put it on console is quite off putting.
I Know a Place - Beauty and solace in the abandoned worlds of Roblox
Exactly. That's my point. It is unavoidable.
Lionel Messi to leave Barcelona due to ‘financial obstacles’
And the fact that most UK finace institutions wont deal with you makes opening ISA's etc v difficult
A recall of Philips respiratory devices has left users stranded
I think scotus rulings prevent this, short of a new amendment...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
What is the day to day of someone trying to solve potentially unsolveable problems? How much of it is just starting blankly at a chalkboard?
FYI website unreadable on ff on android
>1995 Pentium system

Then bitwise is right.
Apparently: The Truth Comes Out: Giraffes Are A Hoax

https://chivomengro.com/2017/10/23/the-truth-comes-out-giraf...

If the truth ever got out and it became common knowledge that one of the most iconic African animals wasn’t even real, and that Disney has been lying to us for decades, the company would be in major economic danger.
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Articles like this, and advice columns in general, make me very happy for the very modest social life I allow to intrude in my domestic life.
Simultaneously true:

* it is clear everyone will get it

* policy will be slow to adapt to that reality and continue strategy of containment
I would have agreed with that until you hit the "nearly everyone" bit. That's my "evidently not."
yes, that demo has very impressive shaders. it models the physics in a more simple way though (i.e. as waves), rather than as thousands of particles, so it can't generalize to more complex scenarios.
Tell me you work at Google without telling me you work at Google.meme?
Ok. Hashed-based image rec. Where are the hashes? Is the comparison done in my phone against a downloaded database, or is a hash of every image on my phone uploaded for comparison on a server? Could this program then be expanded to other classes of images? Animal abuse imagery? Terrorism? Hashes of known bomb-making instructions? How about people sharing illegal pdfs and text files? Will the
MPAA be allowed to submit hashes of their copyrighted material? In short: What other warrantless government inspections of my files will Apple allow?
Unity is completely irrelevant here, your first question should be "Will Sony give me the software and the hardware to make a PS3 game/software?" and answer in 2021 will most likely be hard no because PS3 is so old at this point (remember that retail console is not a devkit nor a testkit). Which only leaves homebrew toolchains to explore, and they are not supported by any of big engines today.
You can also implement a Sparcstation 5 on an FPGA (and not only in qemu) thanks to temlib: http://temlib.org/site/
Not at all sure that's sound reasoning. What have humans to do with feral cat populations? Sure a few domesticated cats escape every year, but that just temporarily perturbs the feral population which is self-adjusting.
Good source.

"Additionally, the provision clarifies that the definition of specified security includes a digital asset, which is defined as any digital representation of value that is recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any similar technology."

That means that WoW coins don't count (but NFTs do).
If you are not allowed to open financial accounts for investments in the country you are living in because they do not want to have information sent to the IRS, you'll think differently.

I know at least one country that will not let you even open a bank account if you have a green card or US citizenship. Actually, even if you're a foreigner living in the US (student, H-1, etc), that country will not let you open a bank account - even if you are a citizen of that country. The rule is simple: If you have ties to the US that could require you reporting your bank account to the IRS, then you cannot open a bank account.
In the US, it's probably slightly tilted towards conservative support.

But just because the traditional conservative party platform supports low business taxes and light regulation. Which are effectively the only things that truly matter to corporations (in an accounting sense).
Do they still charge for the dark theme?
The US is absolutely shooting for herd immunity now. Its just a question of how individual members of the herd want to achieve their immunity. They can take the easy way (vaccination) or the hard way (get Covid).
It doesn't matter if your house is made out of asbestos and concrete if the AQI is off the charts and ambient temperature is over 600 degrees due to fires surrounding it.
Move on to where?
Once someone develops the tool for that, it WILL become available in the wild. Then, any script kid will be able to "swat" you in a even more insidious way.
Presuming that is what they're doing, it won't stay that way for long.

It's absurdly easy to change the hash of a file. In the case of something like JPEG, you don't even have to change the file itself, you can just change the metadata. Apple could presumably only hash the image itself, but again, all you have to do is make tiny, imperceptible to humans changes to the image and the hash is totally different.

Long story short, this is either nearly pointless and privacy invasive, or it's about to get drastically more invasive to be effective.
The CDC publishes that data.[1][2] It runs 6 weeks behind, though.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/abou...

[2] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#national-lab
Shouldn't we take into account that someone dying earlier is worse than someone dying old? Not sure if that would flip the balance, it may for people around 20-25 maybe, or at least balance things.
It's unachievable in the US. Not enough people willing to get vaccinated. The bar for herd immunity is predicted at 80% or higher if covid keeps mutating to become more infectious. Measles had a 95% herd immunity threshold so who knows where covid could finally land.
Along with an accompanying crush of ICU hospitalizations and deaths.
Man, I wish languages gave us easy access to these sorts of instructions. So many times I've written a loop to count how many times divisible by 2 a number is, when there has to be an instruction for that... yes, notionally I could drop down into assembly, but that would require learning how to do so in the relevant language!

Out of curiosity, what is this weird way of computing popcount you mention? I haven't seen it before.
You're worried about the distraction and inconvenience of a trial court case, me and the person you replied to are confident in the appeals courts - where there is no jury to appeal to the emotion of but where the arguments are much more constitutional and procedural based.
> Since many are user uploaded, I imagine a small number must be real CP.

I mean, that is actually illegal. The problem here is the possession of child pornography.
* NPR: To Manage Wildfire, California Looks To What Tribes Have Known All Along https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/899422710/to-manage-wildfire-...

* Cap radio: The Racist Removal Of Native Americans In California Is Often Missing From Wildfire Discussions, Experts Say https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/09/16/the-racist-remo...

* Nature: Quiet Fire: Indigenous tribes in California and other parts of the U.S. have been rekindling the ancient art of controlled burning https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/indi...

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there's some enjoyable stability in emacs in a way, sadly it's changing a bit due to the growing number of packages and overlays. But it's still a little less tiring than trying idea then vscode then <new-ide>

In emacs I get my freedom, it's cool. And in 2020.. it's the 2nd or 3rd lightest choice.
Why should they feel guilt to begin with?
I've got terrible mathematical education, but Feynman diagrams are something even a clown like myself can easily wrap his head around. They're really an exceedingly clever device, end "clever" doesn't do it justice.
It’s done on Apple’s servers using your iCloud backups. For good or ill this lets people opt out by disabling iCloud.

I would hope most privacy conscious people disable iCloud, but that’s another story.
It's a safety mechanism, not an intended outcome. If your cat gets lost ideally you end up with a wandering collared cat. But of the other possibilities, a wandering uncollared cat is preferable to the snagged alternative.
Late to the party, but I wanted to mention that the way Prefect decoupled the DAG / scheduling / context is much better for my multi-tenant saas product. Airflow did not seem to be a good match for my use case, where I need to have a set of tasks per-tenant that can be scheduled by users with the proper permissions (per tenant), and then a set of different tasks at the user level that can also be scheduled (per user).

Airflow just did not fit that model at all. Prefect supports that just fine.
Umbrel’s new license (PolyForm noncommercial)
The app has a few nice features the website doesn't have, such as changing the speed during validation. It always surprises me as well, but many people hate to use web apps on mobile. I don't really know why, they simply ask for an app and refuse to use a browser.
It is collaborative.

Collaboration doesn't mean forcing others to work with you.

Instead, collaborative is about voluntary choice.

If you want to work somewhere else, under different rules, that would be your choice. Forcing others to do what you want isn't collaboration.

> why can't we vote for it

Co-ops exist. If that is what you prefer then go work for a co-op.
It's news worthy because it provides hard evidence that the Tea Party is not as "grassroots" as it markets itself as.
If you come across the data please share it, it would be worthwhile seeing what exactly they're talking about and if the data matches your memory of it. I didn't come across it in my (very limited) search, but I did find this analysis that suggests U.S. citizens fare worse than citizens of many other countries[1]:

> According to a database compiled by New America from public sources, since 2001, American hostages taken captive by terrorist, militant, and pirate groups have been more than twice as likely to remain in captivity, die in captivity, or be murdered by their captors as the average Western hostage. Forty-three percent of American hostages died, remain in captivity, or remain unaccounted for, compared to an average of 19 percent for all Westerners.

[1] https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/policy-pap...
It’s specifically newsworthy and somewhat surprising because that movement wouldn’t shut up about how it’s “real Americans” and “grassroots” and just ‘concerned citizens” in opposition to the “coastal elites”.
Depends on what you are doing. I personally have not had to do it in a few years. But typically for me it is if I am trying to move data between architectures (big vs little) and the native libs do not have the proper byte swaping things. Some of the older archs had some seriously odd ways of filling in bits to make a word. In some rare cases to save some bytes somewhere. Basically stuff them into some other field. For example I have 2 4 bit value range values and stuff them into 1 8 bit number. That takes up half the space. Also another use not seen much anymore was pixel bashing on a monitor. You had to know which bit a dataplane sat in so it would render correctly. These days it is usually 4 bytes, and even then only 3 are usually used.

These days you do not see bit packed fields as much but if you want to pop them out sometimes shifting and masking is more handy. Other times it gets in the way. Just depends on what you are doing. Also as storage and memory has increased the need for bitpacking things has decreased radically. But if you are doing something super critical it may be worth it just so your data fits into a cacheline and the extra instructions are worth not going out to the main store memory. The difference between 2MB total space to do something and 32GB is pretty immense so packing was borderline a necessity a few years ago. Now not so much.

Win32 OLE/COM error codes were a spot where masking and shifting was needed if you wanted to decode what was going wrong. If I remember correctly they did it that way so they could return the error code in 1 CPU register. But at a cost of code complexity.

If you do any automotive CAN bus work it is a veritable rabbit hole of playing with bits.
I had not chimed in on mixers, only money laundering charges. There are plenty of other ways to obfuscate the origin of crypto without using mixers.

Although I don't agree with how you extrapolate other legal scenarios to one about mixer users, I'm also not worried about juries, the judges especially on appeal are where your rights matter and would not be swayed by emotional arguments like a jury. You are pretty much paralyzed if you are always worried about what prosecutors can target you for and what juries can be swayed to do.
A charitable interpretation is that this law is aimed at Australian residents traveling to other countries for pleasure or non-essential business, contracting covid, flying back home to Australia, and spreading it to others. Over the past year, Australia's covid rates have been far lower than other countries, hence why international transmission is a far greater risk.

One alternative is preventing citizens who've traveled to other countries from returning home to Australia. Presumably this isn't legally/politically feasible because it violates a citizen's right to return home. Hence the government's decision to restrict people's ability to leave instead.

I would hope tat getting an exemption is as simple and easy as "here's my lease and paystub in {COUNTRY}", but it remains to be seen how smooth and painless the process is.
I think the demand for graphics will stay bit you will also be unable to buy hard drives
>As such, the implicit assumption in a reasonable person's mind is: this money you got is absolutely from someone else who was trying to hide their money. The law also states that aiding and abetting them is illegal in of itself.

Is hiding money inherently a crime, though? I think it only might be if you're trying to violate a specific law regarding transparency. Naturally, if you're using a mixer, you must be trying to hide your money or how you're using the money, so if that much is illegal then you can skip all the arguments about the source of the other funds in the mixer. But if it isn't illegal, then I think you might need to tie it to belief that a specific crime likely occurred.

I'm definitely not a lawyer and could be totally wrong. But that's the defense I'd give, at least. Unless mixers are explicitly declared illegal, or unless there are explicit reporting requirements which you're evading (e.g. they have reason to believe that you used the mixer to evade taxes), the accusation just seems too weak and vague.

>Well, the issue with "faster moving" mixers is that it more closely connects the dirty money with the source. "Slow moving" mixers with larger pools are more entangled, harder to know where the money came from.

That's true. The better the mixer, the harder it might be to prove you aren't guilty if you're not guilty. But, at the same time, the harder it might be to prove you are guilty if you actually are guilty. (Assuming the crime in question is what the mixing was allegedly abetting, like a cryptocurrency exchange heist or something.)

>I dunno. The RAII has been mildly successful in court over IP addresses used in Bittorrent peers, right? That seems to be roughly the same level of involvement as we're seeing here. I'm not necessarily saying you're going to get jailtime, but you probably will be roped into the court case if someone in your pool was doing something sketchy.

That seems very different to me. The inherent act of downloading or uploading the content is illegal. So if an IP registered to your name and home address is downloading the content, then it's just a matter of trying to prove that you likely initiated that activity. The IP's "guilt" is already a given.

I think it'd only be analogous if mere use of a mixer is also itself illegal; even assuming a scenario where no one is using it to help with any other crimes. But if it is, then it's just begging the question, since using it would be illegal because it's illegal to use. And then it'd just be a matter of proving you had access to and were using that cryptocurrency address at that time, since the address's "guilt" is already established.
I can't access the article, but is this a random sample or a convenience sample?
Assuming the vaccination was successful in triggering the production of antibodies. It is unclear to me in what percentage of cases that is the case.

Hong Kong requires 2 weeks quarantine even for vaccinated people entering, unless they have proof not only of vaccination, but of antibody count.
The seeds do much better in mineral soil, out of a closed-canopy climax forest. It's a matter of environment, not seed fertility.

It's very easy to take a drive anywhere in Northern CA and find plenty of places where the primary form of reproduction is sexual.
It doesn't really do any of those things, though. It's an arbitrary fee. Look at Google's Play Store fee by comparison.

While I agree it's not a fair comparison, the Unity fee at least provides substantially more value than Apple's, like covering the publishing process for multiple console platforms, which is almost always relatively expensive.
The fact that you need to hand over a Steam API key is really worrisome, and the FAQ entry for it isn't all that reassuring [1]. You're basically just saying "no it's cool trust us". Are you encrypting these API keys? Do you delete them after each transaction?

It's kind of a honeypot if you're holding onto the keys. You don't have the ability to revoke them so if they're ever compromised it's on your users to revoke them before misuse.

It's worth noting that there's a ton of undocumented (by Valve) Web API methods [2]. If you just look at the official documentation [3] it misleads you into thinking it's a read-only API for fairly basic data. I presume that GamerPay is relying upon some of these undocumented APIs as part of their implementation.

[1]: https://intercom.help/gamerpay/en/articles/5313751-is-it-saf...

[2]: https://steamapi.xpaw.me/

[3]: https://steamcommunity.com/dev
About their TTS system: "These models provide speech synthesis with ~0.12 real-time factor on a GPU and ~1.02 on a CPU." The quality of the samples is really impressive but, wow, but isn't this computationally too expensive for many applications?
I swear Sketch has gotten slower. (Or perhaps my documents have gotten more involved.)

Still, it churns and grinds to a shocking degree sometimes. In your experience, Figma is faster? That’s good to know, as we’re on Sketch at work, but consider other options.
> They might ask how to go back to Google Maps. This way there’s a balance.

In iOS when an app opens another app, there is a back button specifically to go back to the original app. It's right there at the top left where the standard back button for most app navigation normally is.

> it encourages users to stay within the app.

This is one of the main reasons why they do it in my opinion. Another reason is because they can track your activity in the embedded webview.
Dunno, RFC 791 states in its Appendix B: "Whenever an octet represents a numeric quantity the left most bit in the diagram is the high order or most significant bit. That is, the bit labeled 0 is the most significant bit." which I read as "left bits", numbered from 0 (i. e. the "first bits") are those most significant.