skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A virus, but it's just a bot that sends out CSAM-known-bad-images to get your device flagged as an offender...
> By reporting potential criminals to the authorities by scanning what is essentially private data (images, messages), I'd likely argue they're violating unlawful search and seizure and I doubt a conviction would stick[1].

Why? Police use informants to obtain probable cause regularly.
The .sucks TLD is one that comes to mind.
Yes. Ctrl + spacebar to expand/collapse.

There's slightly outdated documentation on github: https://github.com/calculist/calculist/wiki/Keyboard-Shortcu...

I'm working on getting things updated now. More documentation will be available over the next few weeks.
What's wrong with scraping?
On one hand, yes, I totally agree with Alex that the "The scale of abuse that happens to kids online and the impact on those families is unfathomable." Furthermore, sex trafficking is another horrible, enormous and related problem that seemingly getting little attention.

Per Alex tweet, I am not "verbally rolling my eyes at the invocation of child safety as a reason for these changes." Instead, I simply do not believe that this is the reason for which Apple is introducing these capabilities. There is something to be said about reputation of a business: it's hard to gain and easy to lose. Large, near-monopoly platforms, such as Apple, have lost their reputation in my eyes and now I am always questioning their motives.

I simply do not believe that the Apple will refuse, when under serious anti-trust pressures, to extend these capabilities to other areas, including political views as an example.

Paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
You are handing your image off to Apple’s servers, and they are accountable for child porn on those servers, by law.

Keep your photo on your device and the software doesn’t scan it.

So yes, there’s nuance here. It’s very unfortunate that Apple didn’t engage with the community first, but that seems to be an institutional blind spot.
What's wrong with robots?
if demand is inelastic, then there's actually no reason for dispensaries to lower the price. They might even be buying the weed for less and taking the profit for themselves.

It could be collusion, but maybe dispensaries have tried sales and found themselves making less.
there are a few really good proposals for lunar economy.

pulling glass for zblan fiber works better in micro g than here on earth. many theorize that low g on moon would also result in a higher quality product than we can make here in earth, and this quality of fiber is very expensive currently up to 1000+ epr meter, if it becomes trivial to make it on the moon, the moon very well could provide all of the manufacturing for the fiber optics here on earth.

there is the helium3 mining argument. although I'm not sure of demand.

it is cheaper to supply LEO from the moon than it is from earth. mining water, growing food, manufacturing rocket fuel, are all possible on the moon, and are a product for Leo space stations. nasa alone payss >6bil a year to resupply the ISS, that's not including Russia, esa, jaxa, etc. not all of these resupplies can be replaced by the moon, but a large portion of them do contain food, and basic products that theoretically could be manufactured on the moon.

mining various minerals on the moon like aluminum may be more expensive, especially at first. but how do you quantify the habitat destruction? regulations may force earth mining into oblivion and make moon a reasonable alternative. not likely to happen, but maybe it should.

as you stated tourism probably will be popular IF you can make it affordable to the middle class.

low g research as a service is also a good revenue model. many people pay good money to have their experiments performed in micro g, it's very reasonable to assume the same will be true for lunar g.

also, all moon/mars bases put a HEAAAAVY emphasis on Insitu resource utilization. early moon bases will be expensive and very likely a net loss. but almost every single plan I see around basically says "step 1. get there. step 2. achieve self sufficiency asap except for complex manufactured goods"

things like water, food, air, fuel, building materials, bio plastics, paper products, basic manufacturing/cnc/printing of tools and replacement parts. most thing short of chip production panel production and super complex manufactured goods are very achievable, and will theoretically mean that 10 years after moon base alpha, very few resupplies are needed
It's a simple concept, but it has nothing to do with the theoretical or practical costs of a nuclear reactor for boiling water to turn a mechanical steam turbine.
I’ll admit, the rapid turnaround from black market to corporate welfare within such a short timeframe is kind of shocking.
> Am I really in the minority if this kind of thing couldn't even cross my mind or feels like written by someone living in a parallel universe?

Nope. I know what Captcha photos are.

Photos from the Google Maps car driving around.

It explains the weird... "depressing" angles and largely brutalist/barren perspectives.

They're the view of a camera on top of the car going through urban centers. Of course streets are going to look like streets and a camera above a car is going to give you weird angles as it drives around town taking pictures of the middle of the road.

Much ado about nothing if you ask me.
Apparently you can still suffer long covid even if vaccinated. Ivermectin seems like a way better route for these ages.
>If its a hybrid, it has all the environmental impact of having two complete power systems, the negative effects of a battery etc

No, it doesn't. This is a popular thing to say, but I wish people would think about it for a minute.

My car has a ~1.2 kWh battery. A Bolt or a Leaf has 40-60 kWh.

I don't understand why people don't get this. With a gas engine, you have 98% less battery. So you are not just adding complexity for super long trips. That's not the equation at all.

If batteries get better, it doesn't change the proportion of 50:1.

And batteries also become harder and harder to get perfect the larger they get. So there's no question in my mind of more chance of a defective one on an EV.

https://insideevs.com/news/342671/my-chevy-bolt-is-on-third-...
> That [...] interpretation is incompatible with [infringments against free speech].

Yes. Yes it is. That's the point.
This is crazy this showed up on HN. Years ago I had a dream about Pitcairn island. When I woke up I was like, does that even exist? Not sure how my psyche channeled this one up. Then I started reading about it and things are pretty sad there. You can see on the Wikipedia site some really shocking info like there's only one older administrator of the electricity system there and not to mention all the awful abuse scandals. It was super surprising to me though to see that foreigners were welcomed here and that more people hadn't taken this offer up!

I would say if you're interested in moving to an autonomous region I'd for sure check out Svalbard first, although they're undergoing climate change and it's hard for foreigners to get land there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPzJjNQaYEA
From a linked research article on the main site, they had a compelling plan bounce energy around with mirrors so you don't have reconversion losses. Tracking mirrors and solar panels. The light from the sun is highly collimated.
Neat, apk cloning might solve a problem I'd been wondering about-- how to have two discord accounts logged in on one phone.
Yes I was delighted to learn in Switzerland that before my flight out I could take my suitcases to any train station in the country and they would route them to the airport for me and make sure they made it on the plane. It’s some truly incredible infrastructure!
Everything's up to Incube8, although I'll be advising. In general, my recommendation is to consider better tooling for managing assets and running builds but be very careful with the code (e.g. don't change compiler versions, don't refactor anything).
In practice you wouldn’t send a giant amount of fissile material in one shipment from the earth’s surface, you would put small amounts up at a time. Multiple trips to the moon would be needed anyway.
There are answers.

If it really has to be ready on December 3, you can reduce the scope. I reduced the scope dramatically for a product when I learned that deploying the product would immediately save us hugely in operational costs.

Some people in management were mad, but it turned out the new product was so good that we got called by the perfect customer the day we put up a demo!
I don’t believe they’ve effectively expanded the CSAM portion at all. Previously they were scanning photos after being shipped to iCloud; now they’re scanning them on the device as they’re prepared to be sent.

So your wish that more criminals would be caught this way is unlikely to be fulfilled.
Disclaimer: Don't start using opioids. You could become addicted and end up using street drugs and overdose and die.

But the physiological reality is most opioids are harmless if dosed correctly. They do tend to make people happier although often less productive or driven.

We should focus on harm reduction. If registered addicts can get a regular dose of a pure opioid in a safe setting they can often be productive members of society albeit maybe less so than if they had never became addicts.

People function for decades on methadone or buperenorphine therapies with few if any ill effects besides constipation.

I would like to see a society where people with refractory depression were given the option to try opioids. Often depressiom is caused by obsessive ruminations on topics of anxiety or social isolation. By supressing the subjective feeling of psychic pain opioids directly attack these problems at their root. SSRIs may be more indirect. I bet in many cases it would help.

Opioid tolerance is a real thing but we should be looking for ways to attenuate the tolerance formation process.

It is bizarre to me how current progressive circles push cannabis but demonise opioids.

In my opinion as a non-addict but somebody who has had limited experience with various opioids years ago I think they are the closest thing to a psychological wonder drug.

I wonder if they are so demonised because they actually work?

It is true overdose can be lethal but this is a dosing issue with unpure stree products not an inevitability.

Driving too fast can be lethal too.
Imagine that self-driving cars are a long way off from being reality because the AI isn't quite good enough to distinguish and classify objects in corner cases - of which there must be numerous. This would suggest these captcha tests are going to be with us for a long while too.
I'm re-reading my comment, and trying to see how could you construe I'm advocating for only stopping.

To make it clear, I'm simply stating that if you only work on something to "reverse" or "clean" you will not be successful UNTIL WE STOP EMITTING. (emphasis, not yelling).

So until we stop emitting, it's spinning wheels with no forward progress.
“Good” “PR”? You’re even more tone deaf than the memo.
there are experiments with moon simulant and mars simulant. both show that with proper prep, regolith is a sufficient grow medium. just as is, it sucks, but if you wash, and then fertilize, it will work. and then after the initial prep, you treat it like you would other soil.
I dispute your words that the island is a "rather sad place". It is a place full of people living in a remote island but the place is a warm and vibrant community full of history. Not just the history of the mutiny, but the history of the Tahitian ancestry pre-mutiny. They have a local government where local laws are enacted but as you say, they are British ruled due to a an encounter in the 1838 of a British ship where the Pitcairners asked for some laws to be drafted. Many administration aspects are managed from New Zealand for convenience but it is not administered by New Zealand. The High Commissioner in Auckland is a represents the UK.
Given that enforcement is only possible on photos uploaded to iCloud, the fact that classification happens on device seems like a distinction without a difference.
Can you answer more questions about the state of the infrastructure there like electricity and internet? On Wikipedia it says there's only one person in charge of the electricity and it goes off every night.
Funnily enough my partner (native German speaker - there's only one word for this in German) recently mentioned "the street" and I corrected her saying "no this is not a street it's a road". When trying to explain the difference my first instinct was "a street has buildings on the side, a road is just transportation".

In my European world I think there's pretty much always an unambiguous difference between a street and a road, but "stroad" definitely evokes the places I've seen in sparser urban environments like in USA, South Africa and Australia.

Edit: after more pondering I think you can call the part of a street "the road" to distinguish the part where vehicles drive from the part where humans walk. E.g. "he ran out into the road" might apply where "it's a busy road" would sound wrong.
Performance Deficits in Apache Cassandra
I mean, I'm not sure that I'd be afraid of them; it comes across as kind of comical. Obviously, though, I don't think they'd make an appropriate people manager.
Curious, why do you believe in ivermectin? It’s an anti-parasitic, not an anti-viral. It also seems there is significant controversy with every study that shows any positive effect, eg the study from Egypt that was recently withdrawn due to data manipulation by the authors. Is it really realistic that random people on the internet are better at finding a cure for a never before seen disease than the world’s best doctors and pharma companies? Just trying to understand the rationale.
You're right that journals have many important functions beyond peer review, but you're wrong that this has anything to do with their closed-access paid nature. Fields such as computational linguistics have a healthy ecosystem of journals and conference proceedings, all free and open access.
This is the correct approach, if done properly.

If it really ends up being a useful task and not pointless, your boss should be willing to expend additional resources in addition to your time. You take it seriously, which requires additional resources if it's outside the scope of your job or knowledge.

And they should be happy to provide those resources if the task needs to be done.
Good question. I wish I had a good answer. You updated your post while I was writing my reply haha

Indeed, I believe you nailed it on the update

A friend had a situation where he grew a few thousand pounds too much in Oregon before his dispensaries had opened. However, the regulators knew he had produced it all and forced him to sit on the inventory...

He decided to send excess trim (waste leaf trimming) from his operations in California up and bring the quality flower back to Cali to sell on the black market here.

This was illegal, obviously! Later, he happily destroyed the "excess" in Oregon!

Same guy, a year later had facilium wilt and powdery mildew infect his 1000 light operation in LA. He had to destroy thousands of pounds there.. but he really moved it to the black market. I feel sorry for the people that smoked those flowers.

It's a shady industry! There is bullshit and fraud everywhere.
Search for keto bars. A big explosion of selection in the last couple of years.
There are no specific accusations, and no evidence or sources provided.

This is one side of a story. ....hard to take it seriously without hearing the other aide of the coin.

Accusations are not evidence.
It's a real distinction, but would perhaps be described by a dictionary as antiquated for reasons that could reasonably be considered nefarious.

A relevant Strongtowns quip is a quote of the MUTCD entry for street: "see highway."
I second cushychicken. Tons of us had similar experiences.

Mine were sometimes rough, sometimes beautiful. More rough though.

It can help if you have any inclination for the performing arts. Music, dance, theater. Many more of those people are accepting of differences and or quirky. I was and value those people and times highly.

But yeah, hang in there. This all does improve.

Edit: I am getting older now. There is another phase! You will eventually find your place among peers and do what you all do and it will be amazing.

Family, work, friends, projects, all of it.

Then, at some point your own grow, and you get to help them, plant seeds. My granddaughter has this spark we are talking of here. And she is young, and I can share, and remember back to when I was young.

My own kids had no real interest, but did learn the basics. Fine. They can do if they need or want to. But this little one in my care now is so damn much fun!

Call it the circle of geek nerd life.

And this all reminds me... are there older mentors you could hang with at times? If so, you should do it. I learned so much and it really helped with the angst. Older people, who I looked up to, saw me as I am and it all being fine, their nudging and teasing more out of me were very good times.
This is mass surveillance, there's just no way around it. The good intentions of this program will not be remembered when this is inevitably abused. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1423469854347169798
> I highly encourage anything that prevents that from getting worse.

This is exactly the problem. There is no end to the effective new measures we can introduce. Until everyone is living in a prison cell, there will always be more we can do, that would be demonstrably effective at reducing child abuse. There has to be a line where we say the ends don't justify the means, and for a lot of people, this exceeds that line.
You had a wise grandpa.

This concept of "it can't happen here" is so infuriating. So much hubris in so few syllables. I think it angers me, not only because there's an underlying sentiment of being better than everyone everywhere else, but because the sentiment itself opens the floodgates.
I've thrown away so much stuff that has value. Pyrex erlenmyers this week, for example. I don't regret it and it's hard to do (for me), but I've learned every item you own has a cost associated with it, e.g maintenance or even just taking up space (which can compromise aesethetics/atmosphere if nothing else). And trying to sell old junk can be too time consuming and draining compared to just tossing it wholesale. I have a nice clean shop space now and it's worth cutting the losses imo.

Luckily, most of the stuff I have is used/cheap or was obtained for free, though. I try to just accumulate less now, even if free.
This is an unfounded and unhelpful generalisation. I’m nothing close to what people would consider “very out of shape”. Yet hamstring stretches are something I definitely do not enjoy doing but force myself to do through necessity. They’re the first thing I’ll skip if motivation is waning precisely because of the discomfort. I find almost all other stretches to be at least someone endorphin producing and worth the stretch. Hamstrings are pure discomfort.
> The conclusion is that freedom (that is: positive, not negative rights) is the main force of progress (societal, technological, scientific).

Did you confuse positive rights with negative rights?
I personally think there are pretty clear answers in terms of the technology. Apple is violating privacy. To what degree is debatable, but, I generally disagree with Alex here. He’s not making the stronger argument compared to privacy advocates here. Yes there is nuance. Yes we must operate with a high degree of empathy for victims of abuse. No one doubts or downplays that IMO. But comments right here in this thread hit the core of it. Would something like this ever be acceptable on a laptop? I get a choice because it’s my computer. I don’t want this. It’s violating my privacy and Apple has eliminated my ability to decide. They basically positioned this as the obvious and safe choice and anyone against them is a “screeching minority”, even though they knew this would be controversial. Alex is operating in good faith, but I think he’s in to deep on trying to bring nuance to an issue where his argument is simply the less principled one. It’s becoming a situation where if you care about privacy you simply can’t use a smart phone (I know there are options, but none of them are close to an iPhone).
>The vaccines are quite rough on the body.
Hundreds of millions have been vaccinated by now. The side effects are generally mild and don’t last over 24hrs. Where are you getting your information?
https://youtu.be/xXiVpFE3Zs0 <- watch from 1h05m40s until at least the "punchline" at 1h08m10-30s
Why is this a nuanced conversation with no easy answers?

There is literally no debate. Authoritarian elements want to look through your stuff because some people do bad things. I'm at a loss, to me nobody should even have to justify why the answer is no, it's a principle of natural justice.

Its pretty screwed up when the onus is on people to explain why this is a bad thing. The correct action is really just to walk away.
The thing that gets me is this: I don’t want to train AI for free.

If you’re going to train models using our input, then you need to distribute the results as public good and make no profit from it.
Agreed, it would be quite an operational hazard and probably an unethical experiment to leave astronauts on the moon for long periods. Factoring in appropriate safety margins for equipment, supplies, physiology and rescue flights, they could only stay there a few months at a time in any case.
I used an emulator called NinTaco, a 6502 assembler, and VS Code. My game was very simple and completed in about 3 months (I didn’t have any sound and a very limited game)

I think the crucial piece is the assembler and documentation about the start up and loop processes.
All academics do. You don't actually get directly paid for publishing journal articles. You get zero cut of the sales. Books are a different story, although most academic books don't actually make a profit.

As an academic, you get paid for teaching and to carry out research grants to support a particular project. The teaching and grants pay for your salary and expenses through the university. You do need to keep publishing at the end if you ever want to get a grant again. But when you publish in a traditional journal article, you have to hand over the copyright to the publisher that owns the brand and trademark to "Nature" or "Science" or "The New England Journal of Medicine" for free. You don't get a cut of the profits, you get the prestige of the privately-owned systems, which matters to your employer and grant funding agencies.

In fact, now you actually have to pay to publish if you want anyone on the internet to be able to read it for free. For Nature, the open access "article processing charge" is $11,390. It has become the norm to now budget in these fees in your research grants, which makes it more difficult for those who don't get big grants to publish.

Yes it is bullshit. That is why so many academics support sci-hub.
Well, since they seem to conclude that "vaccinations bad", and I'm pro-vax, I'm skeptical of this paper.

I wonder if the excess deaths are because people went out more after many months of lockdown, leading to more accidents on the road or e.g. because of alcohol. Seems lazy to just conclude "must be the vaccine", a proper researcher would try to analyse the causes of the excess deaths...
Here's an index of the studies on ivermectin as a COVID-19 prophylactic or treatment. Most of the studies are small or otherwise low quality, but overall there does seem to be at least a small benefit and the risk of harmful side effects is low. It certainly isn't as effective as the current vaccines, and I think most people would prefer to avoid taking ivermectin for the rest of their lives.

https://c19ivermectin.com/