skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As for the "luddites" part, you miss an important distinction. Technology itself, such as GPS, is ethically neutral. However, there are many greedy people who will abuse it for their own advantage not caring at all about the consequences. It is especially clear once you have built a large company with a large influence on people's lives, attitudes, economy, and mental health. When you listen to people like Zuckerberg, it is clear they want to push away the responsibility in order to have all the benefits without any costs. When you see Uber develop Greyball it's clear that what their motives are. Investors flock to another "disruption" startup but if it turns out successful after some time people realize the very regulations that were attacked did have their purpose. We are not luddites, we are just reasonable people - humans first, then techies.
> And unless you want to go out for groceries far too often

I know carless Londoners whose commute takes them past a grocery store on foot every day. So they will literally go into the store for a single item.

However, you're right that this isn't a good solution for everyone - for example, people who are starting a family. Even if you can fit a week's groceries for one person into a backpack, that's no help for four-person households. Grocery delivery services are widely used in London for this reason. As is moving out of the city in order to start a family.
That's interesting because better types systems would be a good way to do that too but most of these people usually push back against them. One theory could be that they want to work with existing code but if you take Robert C. Martin as an example, he often pushes Smalltalk and more recently Clojure (which is more pragmatic since it works with existing Java code). That's something I don't understand. Were the other languages unusable when these people became well known? Is this just their personal biases?
Check out the Schmidt camera to see what little glass can give you great optical performance if you can live with a curved image plane.
The Baker-Nunn camera puts this to the extreme: 500mm, f/1, 30 degree FOV.

Even a simple Schmidt–Väisälä in 400mm f/2 can cover a 4000px wide sensor with 5.5 micrometer pixel size perfectly (even 3.5 micrometer pixels would still be useful, especially if color).
> over the long distances, the railways would be torn apart by expansion

i'm not sure i get it. as i understood it, it was the fact that forces over a small scale dominate the effects of space expanding that prevents e.g. atoms getting bigger. so why would my space-railway tracks (made of continuous welded steel space-rails) not stay the same size (2m wide by thousands of light years long) as well?
> I have a robust constitution and am in an age group where the risk of death is, in my eyes, low.

Please keep in mind that you can spread Covid to others without being infected.

Your claim that the virus is "not particularly dangerous" is not supported by evidence. Four million have died, and that is the reported deaths only. Millions more have suffered debilitating side effects. As I write, hospitals continue to fill up with Covid patients.

Not as bad as e.g. the Spanish flu, but still plenty dangerous.
They don't get millions of good applicants that are willing to live in SV and work for less.
EU simply cannot absorb that many new migrants, that's the truth of it.
Since leaving Australia (and started living in Europe) I have come to the conclusion that Australia is not a "real" country - it is just a continent owned by corporate interests that happens to also have people living on it.

Corporate interests own the media, politicians, food production, education etc. and no one cares, because Life Is Good. Why expect anything to change, or people to care about strong democratic institutions, when there is no incentive for them to care about abstract concepts such as privacy or governmental oversight.

Decades of bull markets, house price increases, a decline in public education, torpedoed communication infrastructure and complicit "independent" media has resulted in a wealthy, ignorant and complacent society who allow their representatives full control over their lives. It is not that they don't care about these issues, they are not even aware they are issues at all.

But who cares, when you can go to the beach?
> the world needs a Geneva Convention that protects natural habitats in times of war

Don’t we have for example Protocol I of the Geneva Convention and also the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
The contrast between the comments in this thread and the ones about Apple and their image scanner is striking. Just an observation.
Thank you. That's actually a great idea testing out a few landing pages for different audiences. I will figure it out.
The MVP doesn't do virtual background but we plan to make it soon!
A bit of anecdata: I've joined Google 7 years ago to support an append-only very-large-scale database. About that time legal told us that an upcoming EU law will require selective deletion from the database. That was technically impossible and just against the design assumptions of the thing. Google spent millions of dollars to develop a solution to this conundrum over the next couple years. It was ready by the time GDPR came into force.
new UI is a decline compared to what we had previously, though I'll stick with FF
No, that’s not what I meant. I do in fact use the previewer I linked to, and would be worse off without it.

I just think that it the apps that make it necessary shouldn’t do so: if Photoshop (or GIMP, or LibreOffice, or whatever) takes 30 seconds to open a file, the solution shouldn’t be to layer on yet another option and make me think whether I want to suffer that delay or reduced functionality, it should be to eliminate the delay.

Yet (as I’ve also said) I don’t think anybody came up with a plausible way to do so (even a purely technical one, disregarding economic incentives for app developers).
>why would the core project care how many times it's forked?

Some changes (eg. to the block reward schedule) are only possible on a hard fork as it makes the main chain incompatible with the pre-fork chain.

That's the philosophical difference between the projects: ETH is not afraid of hard forks and to this date, they have been uncontested. BTC never considers a hard fork and has had at least two major contested ones.
> Gang violence increases in Europe

Did I miss something?
Back in the olden days, cheap cameras had no latency at all. Just press the button and it takes the picture instantly. I've often tried to find something like that but things keep getting worse. Iphone tries to help with a camera on the lock screen but there's still a lot of tapping and swiping and waiting.
To be fair, klarna was a tiny stockholm startup that is now beating SV giants PayPal and stripe in many EU counties.

There are also some big fintech startups around Klarna that seem to do very well.

So I don't see any problems with their involvement with the article.
The point is that you’d expect them to state UTF-8 in a header. They didn’t do that.
Does than mean if somebody dies in a car accident, 28 days after a positive test, is counted as a covid death ?
> Digital privacy is demonstrably being eroded on many fronts, all over the world

This is not the case though.

This case is EU against tech giants not wanting strict laws around data manipulation.

They have been subjected to the law in Europe, which is a fundamental right for us Europeans.

I know people here are against public intervention, but we generally trust the public in EU, more than Google or Apple for sure.

> if you say they're untrustworthy I'll take your word for it.

I'm not saying they are untrustworthy, on the contrary, they are to be trusted, but sometimes they shoot to the moon.

> I have no doubt that EU officials are lobbying for their agendas

I mean that if you read the personal website of an EU representative whose entire career revolves around data retention, you will only find his/her radical opinion on the matter, because it's their job to present it.

Even if you go out and have a drink with them, they won't stop talking about it (it happened to me personally many times).

They do it constantly.
If the ratio is 10:1, then even if you have increasing variance (which is bad), an increase in the mean may offset that badness. I can't comment beyond that, I'm just talking generally about distributions with two fixed cutoffs at both extremes (beyond which = death or high likelihood of death).
Boycotting Apple products will not make a difference.
Apple doesn't care, what Apple does care about is bad PR.

Generating and sharing bad PR is the only way to get Apple to change something.

Think about the Bad PR around Butterfly Keyboards, MacPro, App Store Policies etc and Apple reversing course on decisions.
Now can they have sex in public ? Cause I guess that s the rationale: an image on a phone, or a discussion is more shareable than two teens fondling under a quilt. Also, the abuse potential.

Find enough innocent to change the jurisprudence, but I d bet that you can find so many more quilty parties that the law had to go one way.

Now I have a daughter and I was 16 before mobile phone existed. I m thinking what I would do if I see her sexting: probably nothing after 16 and a soft warning between 14 and 16 and a very strict one before, just because consent can only exist with maturity. Now if the guy is 30 and she s 16, I d tell her she s being an idiot sending him anything: it's not like he cares about her as a person, most likely and she s going to suffer under my responsibility or at best put him in danger. But, 16, starts to be her choice to listen or not and difficult for me to enforce anything.

Glad she s still 3 :D
Apparently it can. Likely many more. And many more will come. Climate change and all that. If you're looking for static times then you should probably go and invent a time machine, you are headed straight for a period of upheaval, whether you like it or not.
So they'll win when Hollywood makes a movie that portrays them as noble savages? I'd say they certainly did a great deal of damage to our basic freedoms, not to mention sense of self. We were right to go into Afghanistan. And right to kill Bin Laden. We weren't right to use it as a pretext to degrade our own democracy.
If you can access Swedish national television (SVT) you can also see the 2021 documentary IT-bubblan som aldrig sprack (en: The IT-bubble that never burst).

[SVTPlay]: https://www.svtplay.se/video/30165160/it-bubblan-som-aldrig-...
Stockholm is also very close to copenhagen and partnerships have formed across countries for many successes, some that comes to mind are skype and unity, but we danes for sure was very jealous of their great internet back in the day when this was reformed :)
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> When I was 15, I had nudes of a 17 year old

Did you have those nudes with the consent & permission of the 17 year old in question?

Is there more to this story than you are letting on?
Ah ok, I was browsing on mobile, so didn't see the entire url.

But it doesn't seem to work, unfortunately.
It was also used during the pandemic.
Or drinking age and gambling age vs serving in military…
The other side does not need to present their case to the populace, they will push and decide against their will anyway.
Man. Hypothetically this is freaking awesome! Interesting with an mp4 search too.
Yes, this is completely correct.

I would add the wet bulb thermometer needs large evaporation area (so the sock cannot be too wet and definitely you can't put it in the bucket) and/or some airflow around it. Otherwise it will show some temperature between actual dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures.

In practice, nobody seriously uses wet bulb thermometers outside of school experiments because they are such a PITA. It is easier to just measure dry bulb temperature and humidity separately and then look up wbt in a table.

In general measuring temperatures correctly is a tricky business, what with temperature gradients in the objects you try to measure and the thermometer itself. I just recently needed to explain to a bunch of people why there is no such thing as "temperature in the sun" and that you can pick any temperature between WBT and around 5800K and it is going to be a correct temperature "in the sun" depending on properties and shape of the object you are trying to measure..
Norton and Avast are merging into an $8B antivirus empire
> What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

No, but he would be. She would merely be in possession of it.

For the record, Denmark has, indeed, punished a large number of underage offenders for spreading child pornography through social media. It's mostly been regarding clips spread without the participants' consent though.

Not sure whether other countries go by the age of sexual consent, but I've personally never heard any other definition of child porn than "sexually explicit/suggestive content involving people under the age of 18". Assuming that's valid everywhere, then it would indeed be child pornography since the Dane was under 18.

EU-wide harmonization of such laws would be a welcome step to take before privacy-invading measures were to be taken, and such legislation definitely should address underage sexting.
Generates images from text prompts with CLIP guided diffusion [colab]
Yes they will
Unicorn is just a threshold.

Of those in both regions that crossed it, how many went through the next, then the next order of magnitude?
The Compute Module 4 has an Ethernet chip on-board and is quite a bit smaller than a normal Pi4. It would be perfect to build exactly that.
The only specific false claim is that "EU removed digital privacy".

It is not true, digital privacy is in fact still intact and it is, anyway, no less effective than it was yesterday.

On the contrary, the Google/Apple of the World could spy on you with he excuse of "searching for CP", now they cannot unless authorized by the law.
Do you have some technical definition for "contested" or are you using it as a generic term to describe how the forks were perceived by the rest of the community?
Genuinely curious, how would you network from the 40 pin connector in theory? Is it still ethernet?
I wonder if it is possible to remove the poisoned top soil, heat it up and melt the metal, and use fractional destillation to remove it. What's leftover is probably heavily damaged by the heath, but maybe nature can re use it as a basis for new and healthy top soil.
Cuckoo hashes are great if you really understand why you're using them, but 99% of people would be fine with chaining for most applications or a simpler set-associative scheme if open addressing is not negotiable.

Their locality is problematic, they are fantastically hard to get right in a multi-reader/multi-writer case (if you don't want to just lock the whole damn table) and they're just all-round complex with surprising sharp edges. The fact that you have to go wandering off with a bunch of unpredictable data-dependent reads if you don't find what you're looking for is ... wild. Alternately you can pay the costs of multiple parallel accesses preemptively, but now you've smashed throughput in case the table is big enough to be bandwidth limited (L3, memory).

They look pretty great when the load factor is low, but everything looks great with a light load factor.

As far as open-addressing schemes go, they're OK, but I see people reaching for them for reasons that don't seem to make any sense.
Snowden reported that the CIA use it to anonomynise their research activity. Previously they used proxy servers but spooks would sign into social media or personal email, thus compromising the location as being CIA. Thus, The Onion Router was born. They prefer that their online activity is lost amidst the noise.
Age of consent threshold is different from child pornography threshold.
Maybe we have different views on what "Silicon Valley" means, but I think of it more in terms of startups than big corp. From what I've seen there is mainly grunt work at large companies for developers in Dublin. Like big corp ships over their latest printing software to be localized for 18 different markets and similar.

I could be wrong, but a quick search for unicorns in Dublin turned up rather empty...
Yeah it's a trade off that can be worth it, as a lot of time and energy is being saved, so mental space can be channeled elsewhere than into frustration about bureaucracy and excessive administrative requirements.
> American soil that every average American will have to look up Al Queda, find out why they attacked America, and in the process discover all the attrocities comitted by American military

The way you put it, It looks like Al Queda had a noble goal. It's a shame that they did not win then.

But I am more cynical than that, I don't believe in the idealistic goals of these organisations. In my opinion, all local warlords fight for power, glory and spreading their influence.

Looking at the final situation, I would say that they achieved exactly that. Globalism is dead, the liberal culture of the west is significantly degraded thus cementing their influence in the region. Their power is now much less contested and they can rule happily thereafter.
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'nothing'?

Also, the global pandemic would have done lots of business and social destruction regardless of what path government responses took.
In some US states you can't buy porn until you're 21 years old, but you can ACT in porn as of 18.

Laws are far from being logical or always making sense.
>> Are they trying to make me think that leaving Afghanistan is bad for America?

No man, this is what's wrong with Americans who believe in Trump. "They" are not "trying to make" you "think" something. It's just the fucking news. Turn on France24 or Al Jazeera or BBC - you're not their audience. They're covering the fall of a new city in Afghanistan every day.

There is some psychosis among Americans who spend too much time online where you think every piece of news must be slanted bullshit trying to win an infowar on your brain. It's not. This is pure fucking cause and effect. America pulled out, which we wanted, and now the Taliban is going to massacre a lot of women and children, which America doesn't give a rat's ass about. That's the situation.

No one cares if they convince you or Joe Biden or America. This is just what's happening. For my 2 cents, I don't think we should have left before we eliminated the Taliban.
The problem with lots of people in water is that leads to drownings.

"There is a clear connection between heat and drowning. That's when people want to go in or near the water, and the risks of drowning increase," FSL's Executive Director Kristiina Heinonen told Yle in July:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/drowning_deaths_reach_10-...
> this needs to reach a religious level of fervor, so that it would be unthinkable to put men and machinery into pristine natural environments as part of a strategy of human conflict.

It should be unthinkable to target civilians, destroy houses and people, rape and torture. And here we are, in modern wars.

It would be nice to make it unthinkable to have large organizations of soldiers all about killing, but here we are.
> use savings to become a asshole landlord

Being an asshole is not a requirement for landlords, nor is it exclusive to them. Oppressed workers can be assholes too!
I think what's more fucked up is that in Germany for example it's legal to have sex with a 14 year old if you're 30 as long as the parents consent. It gives a whole different perspective to when people talk about other "less developed" countries.

I actually think that there were other EU countries that had even lower age limits than Germany.
That’s how it is in the US, the federal government criminalize electronic sexual communication with a minor, but in person seduction in many/most states A-OK. A hurdle, but imagining the malicious compliant person that understands the boundaries more than the minor gives me the shivers. “Hm they’re so distant over text but they’re always keen to meet up yay”
In hindsight, it seems that China was ahead of the trend and everyone else is just catching up.
Something I'd like to know, if you're moving off AWS and using your own raspberry pi cluster, what would you do to provide a performant MySQL DB for example? I can't imagine that trying to run a high performance mysql instance on a PI makes sense. So would you still want an old-school rack server with RAID and all the rest to be your DB server?
I was thinking of BankID the other day, and that I don't know how the authentication / authorization problem is solved in other countries. Fellow hackers, how do you log in to your internet bank and to your government services such as the tax office?
There are many exceptions to the laws.

For example in many countries age of consent threshold is not enforceable if both are minors and the age difference is at most 4 years.

A 15 years old sending nudes to a 17 years old girl would not be punished as CP.
That was said during the pandemic.

I feel you are pushing a narrative here.
> Saying that "oh, arab countries should take them" is beyond brutal, it's barbaric.

It's really not, so it's quite irrational to include that level of hyperbole to make your point emotionally loaded rather than factual.

Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan and Iran - both countries which are a helluva lot more culturally and religiously aligned with the majority of Afghans.

> every country, including my own, that has participated in military excurisions in the middle east in the last 30 years has created this crisis for themselves

This is nonsense. Religious fundamentalism & oppression of the populace has created this situation - both of which were aided & abetted by (you guessed it) Iran & Pakistan. Both countries are the biggest funders of the religious fundamentalists as well as offering state level support and safety for those leaders.
I don't think that Klarna's direct competitor of Paypal or Stripe. Maybe AfterPay and Shopify are more direct competitors.
I also don't think Klarna is doing better than Stripe.
The “If I can do it, so can you” bullshit
Funny the article didn't mention the recent Tink acquisition by Visa[1] when talking about Fintech. A 1.8 billion Euros acquisition is a pretty big thing.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/visa-to-acquire-open-banki...

Full disclosure: My employer is Tink.
(imho worth posting and putting in on the FP again..)
Well... people are resourceful. I mean, we may have gotten soft living in civilisation... but we still have some survival instinct. Shade, bathing, burrowing etc.

Still, that factoid is troubling. These are conditions that exceed humans' operating conditions. We're used to that on the cold side. Plenty of people thrive (miserably) in places that get cold.

But, there are actually far fewer good cooling options. Air conditioning is more complicated than heating. You can heat with fire, warm clothes. Even exercise, though this is not sustainable. A sauna is nice, but people don't live in their saunas until temperatures get tolerable.

Also, the heat cutoff is more of a universal. A lot of organisms seem to start failing at temperatures like this.
Funny i have the same feeling when using macOS, i just want to replace it.
Yeah it's an odd claim since the Snowden revalations came out in IIRC 2011 and the government viciously attacked him in the press as they built a massive data center for surveillance on a scale never seen in history. The programs that Snowden exposed never got ended, no laws were ever passed preventing them from happening. All we got was some encrypted chat apps and I think it would be naive to believe the government can't read and search any facebook chat it wants, for example.

Others are pointing out the 2021 "Gang violence in Europe" claim doesn't make sense either soo...