skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human

Indignity, that's it! I was never able to explain to myself the visceral hate I feel when I encounter captcha. I knew it could not be explained by the little work it requires, I knew there had to be more, I just couldn't put my finger on it. Indignity, and maybe the feeling of being used.

I have to admit, When I encounter captcha, I leave that page and never come back. I stopped using Pocket where I had hundreds of articles because of that. And when I encounter captcha on an especially bad day, I spend a few minutes clicking on incorrect images in an attempt to mess up their data.
I think there's a vast difference between the British narrative of inherited social hierarchy and the American narrative of upward mobility. It's not really accurate to lump them together. To the extent that they serve as social guidelines and even instruments of control, the former operates as a stick and the latter a carrot. They approach the individual in completely opposite ways, but they both make room for the individual, whereas China simply pretends the individual does not exist except as a threat to the state. China's approach seems remarkably stable ATM, but I suspect it's more brittle than it appears because it cannot accommodate any complaint. Anyone can say anything about the Queen or about American capitalism. National pride in a relatively healthy open society is largely premised on the right to complain. England was the first country to enshrine the rights of commoners, and do away with absolute monarchy. The decentralization of power is what allows for the psychological comfort - or stops a boiling pot from exploding.
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I’m not disputing that though. That doesn’t mean the average person would consider it reasonable
I have a theory they're buying it more for the engineering talent and personnel, than any intention to run a narrow-bandwidth cubesat M2M communications network as a separate thing to starlink.
Yeah but that seems like it’d be time to look for work elsewhere
Apple said they will be doing this on macOS Big Sur as well alongside iOS 15.
Because it solves crimes.

I was on a jury where the police were able to track down a hit and run driver who killed a teenager within about 45 minutes due to red light cameras.
I’m a little confused. The vouchers you are trying to decrypt have already been generated. How does it matter if the attacker can decrypt vouchers from a database they created but was not used by the vouchers in the breached data?
> Are you really comparing a "dog walker" to somebody who creates IP

Yes. Why wouldn’t I? These are examples of people who were hired from completely different fields than what is requested of them in the scenario. Why would an AI researcher be a better Russian political history analyst than a dog walker? Neither is a polsci major.
Shouldn't take a stanford prof to propose this

It should have just been done by biotechnology

They get billions in taxpayer gifts -- they should be held responsible for doing something useful with it

...so yes, they failed us disastrously on covid.
I’m sure you can use your imagination to foresee a variety of concerning scenarios that result from a mob killing many of our federal politicians.
This and also botanists at universities can easily explain budget expenditures on DNA testing but not on hiring PIs.
They made no money on it? Then raise the price to $105 or $129 or whatever is needed to make it profitable.

But what I want to know is: what kind of bleeding idiot is going to spend $72 or $105, or $129 on f-cking dinner?

Like lottery people who win $25 million and are flat broke 4 years later.

Financial diots. They're everywhere.
Luckily, I have a print-related disability. So...

* I get access to 1,038,733 DRM-free books in several formats (including Word, EPUB, computer-narrated audio) via Bookshare.org

* I get access to 40,000+ professionally narrated books via the National Library Service through the Library of Congress in the US

* I get access to 80,000+ volunteer narrated books via LearningAlly.org (formerly Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic)

* I get access to hundreds of magazines and newspapers, including breaking news services, via the National Federation for the Blind NewsLine

* I get reciprocity with other countries' libraries for the print-disabled around the world, which is useful as I am in progress with learning new languages.

It's nice because I never have a need to go to websites that serve ads to me. Of course it's called uBlock Origin and using ProtonVPN with Anti-tracking + Ad-blocking features...but still...I have it good.
Wikipedia: "The Pitcairn government's attempts to attract migrants have been unsuccessful. Since 2013, some 700 make inquiries each year, but so far, not a single formal settlement application has been received."

It's never been important enough militarily for anybody to build an airport. It's mountainous, with no big flat areas, so that's a big earthmoving job. It's at least 1500 miles to anywhere, so a small bush STOL plane can't make the hop.

So who wants to spend $100 million on their post-apocalypse hideout?
Every internet plumbing company wants to be a content provider. And if they can't do that, they want to at least be in a position where they can fiddle with your bits.
Well, it is from an organization named "NCMEC". Not exactly pros at inventing marketable acronyms.
Science fiction isn't about the future, it's commentary about the present.

My interpretation of Believers is that it's meant to be commentary about Jehovah’s Witness and blood transfusion for children.

As such, leaving that connection as a bare footnote, with no additional commentary about that human connection, and existing legal structures, leaves the piece using the sorts of simplistic portrayals that must be made in a 1 hour TV show.

It also feels cherry picked for leaving out discussion of "Confessions and Lamentations", where the Markab on Babylon 5 die because they didn't socially distance while they wait for a treatment to be developed.

I've forgotten why they insisted in being in the same room. But suppose Bab5 security staff forced them to separate - how many might have survived? Given perfect hindsight, should they have been forced to separate?
Android's work profile feature lets you have two copies of an app running at the same time. To activate this feature, you'll need a work profile manager app such as Insular or Shelter.

Insular (FOSS fork of Island without proprietary blobs): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid/

Shelter: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
Trump declaring martial law and increased powers under the pretense that our legislature would be incapacitated and the resulting shit storm of animosity between Democrats and Republicans. Many of his supporters and closest personal allies were waiting to seize an opportunity for this end.
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You mean you're bummed because you helped train your AI replacement for a few bytes of content that you forgot about in a couple of hours?
It almost sounds similar to thennai kuruthu.. heart of coconut palm..
This will depend a lot on how much more expensive the rockets will have to be, and on how many trips each rocket will be able to undertake.
I could not reasonably answer that question but I came close to saying "dear Kristine, throw this tablet in the garbage, none of this is going to make you happier"

This is a great and wise insight !
I also tried to read mathematics of program construction (similar spirit I assume) with Gibbons et al.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mathematics+program+construction&t...
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For now… I think it’s easy to imagine what v5 of this tech can do, what additional databases come into scope
over time. The potential of abuse by governments, and the principle of on device scanning. Cloud scanning doesn’t bother me as much… but this feels like a step
too far. Some things are reasonable, this doesn’t seem so.
> You're condemning people who argue against you here, not because of anything they said, but because of your assumptions about what position they might have taken in a different controversy about different people.

Can you prove this beyond a reasonable doubt? Should you have to?
How do you feel about the topic, is it lively ? dormant but potentially great ?

Any other source to read about ?

thanks :)
Pareto, context and objectives are importort factors in that decision.

Coding a 5 lines bash script in rust brings safety but it's not a win.
We've already called out the Russians and pressured them for sending up anti-satellite weaponry in 2017 and 2020. Why trust them here.
Its ok, because they're comparing against "a database of known CSAM image hashes provided by NCMEC"

You can trust them. You have to trust them.

Oh, "provided by NCMEC and other child-safety organizations." [1]

Other unnamed organizations. Don't worry about who they are, its not relevant. Stop thinking so hard. Stop Screeching. Trust Apple.

[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...
There's no point for this tech then. There's no way that they will no try to expand to detect the presence of porn and children being both present at the same time.
this is a repulsively small minded, narrow & belittling take, which refuses to consider the possibility of there being some truths here, and there not being some litany of horrible reasons against this person. most people do have majora faults & limitations but still find love & connection; to begin by ruling it out for this person is so unkind. it wraps with a blanket value judgement about what high status men want that feels like a hideous projection. please I hope people don't think like this or take such nasty words as guidance or explanation.
I wonder if they digitally x-ray a lot of them like they can with paintings these days.

Spycatcher, Peter Wright, 1987-

"Around twenty Post Office technicians worked at these tables opening pieces of mail. They wore rubber gloves so as not to leave fingerprints, and each man had a strong lamp and a steaming kettle beside him. The traditional split-bamboo technique was sometimes used. It was ancient, but still one of the most effective. The split bamboo is inserted into the corner of the envelope, which is held up against a strong light. By turning the bamboo inside the envelope, the letter can be rolled up around the slit and gently pulled out Where a letter had an ordinary typed address it was sometimes torn open and a new envelope typed in its place. But to the end of my career we were never able to covertly open a letter which had been sealed at each edge with Sellotape. In those cases, MI5 took a decision as to whether to open the letter and destroy it, or send it on in an obviously opened state."

"Denman's proudest memento was a framed letter which hung on the far wall. It was addressed to a prominent Communist Party member whose mail was regularly intercepted. When the letter was opened the Post Office technicians were amused to discover that it was addressed to MI5 and contained a typewritten message, which read: "To MI5, if you steam this open you are dirty buggers." Denman classified it as "obscene post," which meant that legally he had no duty to send it on to the cover address. "
SpaceX money is also made the same way. It's US gov money that funded much of the research anyway, US launch facilities that handle the launches, and SpaceX is charging the US government many times more per launch than it charges for commercial launches (they claim the government has extra requirements) .
Ancient native American stone eel traps still in place, the Susquehanna River near Danville, PA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbbKJ17_No
The US government already has a program for vaccine liability.

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
I can think of few behaviours more human-like than using a content blocker. :)
I don't. You can get the flavour w/o that cooker, but the juicy-ness requires it.

Those things are like boats tho. Better to have a friend with one ;)
The drivers license, “but who will pave the roads?!” criticism of libertarians is the laziest, no-thought method and shows you have no interest in rational discussion. It’s like if someone is a Democrat and I immediately accuse them of wanting to seize the means of production. Not every libertarian believes in the most extreme viewpoints of the ideology. Some very basic shrinking of the ever-expanding state would be a fine start. The privatization of the roads could come after we stop increasing our debt by tens of trillions of dollars.
A drug for what? I don't see how running an AI on your genome to find drugs for a non-existent genetic disease you don't have because the AI just hallucinated it.
I don't understand how this incident, involving a Russian spacecraft, necessarily indicates that NASA now has a poor safety culture again. The argument seems to be missing a step.
Feedly limits how many accounts you can follow & it's less than 1/4 what I was subscribing too in Google Reader. I recommend not using Feedly.
> I'm not sure what your point is; the title is an entirely accurate summary of the content of the article.

You may not have seen this before, but that doesn't mean it is "mysterious".

Do you find Coke or KFC "mysterious"? Those are snack foods with trade secret recipes. Your story is about something similar.

A simple google search will take you to this youtube video, posted in 2015. Read the comments to dispel the "mystery".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dck923eejQA
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If it's a guaranteed malicious release, any student of history will tell you China is one of the least likely to carry out an attack like this.

The US (Fort Detrick), Japan, UK, and Germany all rank higher on the list of potential suspects than China.
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It has nothing to do with resources. Per person, Argentina had more land and more natural wealth than the US. The reason our presidential system is less prone to upheaval is the Constitution, its separation of powers and its checks and balances which have, historically, provided for a relatively restrained power of the presidency in the US compared to other presidential systems. Also, the US has what are recently referred to as "norms", precedents set early in the Republic and reinforced through hundreds of years of peaceful transitions of power. These hold a great deal of weight, even now.

The political independence of the military, its culture of unwillingness to step into politics, and the taboo on the use of the military for policing on American soil, is another key component in American stability vs the rest of the Americas.

Whether this holds up for another 5 years is anyone's guess. My family is from Argentina, and having lived there myself I see the US sliding in that direction. One very telling thing is the increasing justification of political violence that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. However, America has been through periods of political violence before and has not degenerated into a dictatorship, although it's come close.
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Define better. Eink, lightweight, and perfectly sized for books. What is missing?
This document is a deflection from the main concern -- while it's commendable that they took the effort to prove the cryptographic properties of their system, what good is that when your hash database is a government-controlled black box? Can't exactly publish a white paper on that, huh?
Actually, an editor once told me that a lot of papers (50%) are rejected without consulting reviewers. So the garbage is already filtered by the journals. Reviewers can often disagree with each other as well, so a judgement call is needed in those cases.

I agree with your point that payment does not necessarily mean conflict of interest.
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> I would otherwise be spending nearly 100% of my time in my apartment, not getting even the smallest amount of exercise, fresh air, or social interaction, and dealing with noise and interruptions from my wife and dog. Also, I live a 5-minute drive or a 25-minute walk (!) away from work. It gives me a reason to get up in the morning, shower, put on something other than sweat pants, and go outside. My workplace is somewhat more quiet and comfortable, it provides drinks and sometimes food, and I find meetings a bit more engaging in person.

I suspect this is how everybody who likes the office feels like - they don't want to stay at home because their life would be miserable if they do.

But I want people to be aware that there are people who feel equally strong about how going to the office makes them feel equally miserable. Some reasons: constant interruptions by noise, movements, smells, constant feeling of not making progress in learning something or accomplishing something, constant awareness of watching people suck up to the boss and other "important" people in a way that is fake and just career building, etc.

There is an awesome YouTuber named Joshua Fluke that has been very open for years about how the office is extreamly cringe once you get some distance to it:
https://youtube.com/c/JoshuaFluke1
> Except, as mentioned in the article, they _did_ look into it, to the extent of DNA testing it!

What do your experts make of this wikipedia article?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maerua_oblongifolia
We can blame Facebook for everything but they are not the source of the problem. People were doing stupid things an believing to crazy theories long before Facebook existed. I remember when I was a kid we used to get these chain letters in the mail saying if you don't forward this message to 5 of your friends or relatives you will die in a month... Guess what? Friend sent them to us meaning people believed it. The difference is that now Facebook made it easier to pass these ideas but also the opposite is true for example I follow Facebook groups whose purpose is to debunk fake research.
This is incredibly annoying. They're providing all of this information which says that this program that runs on our devices is incredibly safe if we're not bad people. That the people at Apple and then law enforcement don't see anything about our photos until there is a human set threshold hit by a human programmed algorithm. Technically, this should be sound since the proof has checked out with multiple cryptography experts. But none of that matters.

The Apple PSI System is spyware.

They are providing all of this info to justify putting spyware on our devices. They are attempting to put spyware on our devices to see if we can be sent to jail. That's all that matters. That is the end effect.

Apple is justifying putting SPYWARE ON ALL OF THEIR PHONES. Any discussion of the technical merits of a SPYWARE system implemented against you is missing the point. It should not exist.
Correlates with the number of Scottish people involved in establishing the country?
I didn't say anything about "who will pave the roads", you did. But I mean, there's a reason that keeps coming up! Regarding seizing the means of production: see my previous comment, where I said that is indeed an ideology you'd want to be aware of.
Author here. Thanks for reading! As well as these DBs, we also evaluated Kafka and a document database (CouchDB, it seemed awful).

For messaging, the Commit Log and Log-Structured Merge Tree storage in Cassandra should have been near ideal. Commit Log gives durability, LSMT gives automatic compaction -- important for the pending work store, where you delete entries once work is completed.

The domain here is healthcare; due to legal requirements & existing product architecture, deployments and databases are usually per-customer rather than trying to scale the world on a single cluster. For these scenarios Postgres and Cassandra should both be (have been) highly suitable.

The Postgres ecosystem is very active these days, and offer options for further scaling. Aligning with Postgres already looks like a 5x scalability improvement over the prior datastore, and AWS Aurora and Citus Data both offer avenues for further performance if we ever needed.
Probably quite risky. You have little reaction time, every maneuver is 10× more expensive because your effective mass has gone up so much, and even collisions with small objects will release fantastic amounts of energy.
well his job was to mount the damn sensors
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FWIW I've had multiple data loss issues with Safe Notes. Sometimes one notepad would spontaneously get overwritten by another. I've switched to Simple Notepad since then.
> My ideal is a language that tells you that expression is bad and to actually clarify what you mean.

And there are existing language that do that.
Yep yep that insurance rate is nasty! I just think it’s interesting that oil changes are slowly disappearing!
Trump would have been happy to do that. He might have even thought it was possible on that day. In the end, he couldn't do it because he didn't have the key support necessary from the military or his own DOJ. Because that would be a step too far. The bureaucracy, even stacked with his own appointees, had no interest in seeing armed conflict. To be cynical, whatever he was offering just wasn't enough to take that bet.
https://duckduckgo.com/q=texas+tesla+tower :-)
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Are you sure the photos themselves aren’t encrypted when uploading? I think only the iCloud backup has the decryption keys.

Regardless, it’s way different building a system that has online access to decryption keys with the requirement to scan every photo uploaded versus reserving that access to more locked down servers that have the decryption keys and are only accessed during law enforcement actions.
Thanks for the notes, they made interesting reading on their own. Was there any discussion of military tradition? Something interesting I note in the major Anglosphere democracies is that the military just don't get overtly involved in politics.
Why would it be reasonable? Police and intelligence agencies already have tremendous powers and resources to figure these things out with targeted surveillance. Untargetted surveillance is many steps too far.

Not to mention, a trove of communication like this is a major risk to every citizen: it can leak, it can stolen, it can be used by corrupt agents to blackmail or otherwise coerce most people, especially in the age of sexting, dick pics, etc.
Other than the sat-to-sat communications (which starlink is also planning) is there any real difference between the product offerings? Seems like a reasonable theory.
I think the real reason managers want people back in the office is because they know most workers are not self motivated. They know the work is really boring, and they know that employees feel that way too.

Not many people have their life mission as sitting in meetings talking about company goals not being met and trying to care about the owners not getting more successful and rich.
And my bank has arbitrary daily and monthly $ limits for online wire transfers too, even on business accounts, even with their 2-factor key fob. Circumventable by walking into a branch, which is then unlimited.

And all banks have a random interface for sending wires. Some don’t even have a way for you to initiate a wire online.

Crypto is unlimited unlimited! Love it!
Eek.. I've been using it for a couple years and haven't run into that, but good to know!
In BYOND (Dream Maker/.dm):

8035491119104

(single floats on all numbers, unsure of negmod behavior)
Those are signal/traffic/light poles: https://www.nycstreetdesign.info/lighting/signal-poles

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