skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This assault on privacy is premised on a very flimsy concern over CP, which is a problem but is absolutely no reason (just as terrorism isn't) to deprive citizens of their rights. I'm just curious - first of all, what happened to the large amount of child pornography and the industry around it that existed in Denmark throughout the 1970s? The pendulum certainly swings both ways, but it's strange and interesting that the fact that it was legal to produce CP in swathes of Europe has simply been swept under the rug. I'd assume those images and films are now hashed and searched for, but I'd also assume there are hard copies of them laying around in a plurality of Danish households. How do you prosecute possession of something that was legal at the time?
Secondly, just to keep using liberal ol' Denmark as an example, since the legal age of consent there is still 15 years old, how do you "harmonize" spying on adults there with spying on minors in the rest of Europe? It's okay to read every 15 year old's text messages and look at their photos because it might be illegal in some other country? What if a 15 year old Dane sends a dick pick to a 17 year old girl in France? Is she a child pornographer?

Sexual assault is one thing, but it's worth taking a minute to realize how arbitrary and ridiculous some of these laws are before you start throwing children into jail for texting... let alone stripping away basic civil liberties on the basis of "some people are bad so we can't have nice things."
The lost tablet and secret documents – Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army
Any competitors that would be interested in buying you out?

Are you able to say what you offer. Is it historic data? Live feeds? Arbs? Value bets? Advice/tactics? News?

Depending on that you could go look for the right kind of buyers who might want the business revenue or the data or the expertise of your staff.

Let’s say for argument sake you have predictive models for football. There are companies that might buy you out for that even if they don’t want your customers, because of the money that can be made betting on it or taking bets.
Maybe take a look at Proof of Humanity? proofofhumanity.id. Real world problem (poverty) being tackled by crypto via a DAO. Very early days yet, but fascinating to watch as it evolves.
Tiny tools and the ephemeral nature of digital art
> Surprise surprise, cryptocurrencies have nothing to do with privacy nor anonymity

It's not about privacy but governmental control and freedom.
Can you post a reply with substance instead of vaguely tone-policing?
I think we just have a lot of faith in our institutions. We just can't believe the state would ever be used as a weapon against us because we've never experienced large scale civil upheaval or suffered under periods of dictatorship.
People rattling on about slippery slopes and abstract notions of liberty just seem a bit batty to most Australians.

We have a free media, our elections are free and fair, we have routine transfers of power, minor parties are well represented in our parliaments, and we're generally free express our minds and go about our lives.
Nuclear fusion seems much further off than either of the other two. I'd be surprised if it becomes mainstream before 2100 if ever, whereas sometime before or around 2030 seems reasonable for the solid state batteries and curved camera sensors.
I am not aware that gang violence should be a particular big problem here. Especially not such that it should require mass surveillance....
Yes, just another burden that falls on the back of the (usually) poor prisoners, under the guise of saving $$ on the prison systems. It would be easier to review the bloated wages of politicians and prison employees.
This is already standard practice to a point: many universities use AI to detect plagiarism for example.
Australia’s largest aluminium smelter vows to switch to renewable energy by 2029
>>EU should not allow migrants, it should be the Arab countries that should take them.

Even though it's the EU countries that have contributed to the plight of people in places like Afganistan and Syria? That's super convenient point of view - very nice way to wash your hands of any responsibility.

And I'm saying this as an EU citizen - 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. Saying that "oh, arab countries should take them" is beyond brutal, it's barbaric.
Just to add another perspecitve here - you might find out that middleman that you can easily access might find 5% of the deal not worth their effort.

The logic here is that prospective providers you will find are already busy with larger deals, as they are easy to find by all other market players.

(This is under the assumption that you don't have relationships with such middleman and would need to look for them)
Lots of pre-industrial science and mathematics have been done in Persia. E.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

(the dude called "Algorithm" was Persian)
That's a small subset of people that's been very vocal and against everything that is related to power.

In reality many people are against this,though less and less care to the point of doing anything. Anything that's pretensed upon "protect the children" is a massive red flag.Why? Because obviously nobody wants to harm the f8cking children.
Same goes for 9/11, the patriot act, GDPR(which ironically or not, depends on who you're asking, actually facilitates tracking instead of protecting people's privacy), contact-tracing, green passports, crypto regulations, etc.

Ultimately people will always find a way because the aspiration for freedom is greatest, but many seem to not care about what happens on the sideways during this journey, which is kind of terrifying.
Wonder if it is worth the punt and register sequels of Space Jam? ie Spacejam3, Spacejam4 etc.
Dupe from yesterday (600 points, 300 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343
The photons from the stars behind you travel at c in your reference frame…
I just checked on one of the common journals in my field, which is reasonable impact, but generally has a reasonable reputation. I could not find any matches for the phrases that makes sense (SNR, MSE).

I think this is really because no review happened. The problem is really that Elsevier forces libraries to also subscribe to all this crap they generate when you want to subscribe to their high-impact journals. They seem to be a highly unethical organisation.
In case anyone wants to move to Sweden to start a business: https://www.verksamt.se/en/web/international
So now sweden is spying on me?
Spilling the tea on Dashbird and serverless observability
Thank the Babylonians, not Pythagoras, for trigonometry
"But it's yours."

It is not. You do not own or controll the data on it. You do not know, own or control the algorithm that makes TikTok such an amazing experience for you - at the moment.

An proprietary algorithm that can change any minute, out of whatever reasons - may them be just "profit" motives, or political reasons (China is a bit famous for that).

"Nobody said anything about "basing happiness and wellbeing" on TikTok, btw. It's a strawman claim."

And sure nobody say he is doing it consciously. But this is what I observe is happening to quite some, especially young people. They get very angry, if the do not get their mobiles to get their dose of TikTok.

So yeah, drugs can be beneficial, too. Dosis facit venenum. This is my point: to me from the outside - TikTok seems to be just the same. A new addictive drug. That can be beneficial if used moderately, but mostly is not.
> cryptocurrencies have nothing to do with privacy nor anonymity

Even Monero?

> and Tor is a technology actually developed by "the man" with military purposes, and still funded by the US government

How does it matter if it's open-source?
The actual pre-print is here https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...

Note Panel B on page 27 which shows the vax hesitancy growing only among people with PhDs and professional degree holders.
But it is also close to the ocean which is usually much more livable than anywhere inland in Malaysia or Indonesia.
I should try to reboot mine. Too bad the R5000 inside failed, and I had to use a spare R4600 I had around: it's been dog slow since then.
The damage caused by war (and industrial exploitation) is horrific. Yet there is precious little literature about the after-effects.

For instance, here are articles about two major WW1 battles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Delville_Wood

The battles are described in detail, but the devastation caused to woodland itself - a complex system of soil, vegetation, fauna - is not even an afterthought.

While it's charming that the color of flowers is affected by soil contaminants, the vegetation layer is just the base of the trophic levels that constitute an ecosystem.

All the other life in the woodland depends on the soil and vegetation. Contamination works its way through the entire ecosystem - definitely not charming.

I've been downvoted many times for my opinions, but the world needs a Geneva Convention that protects natural habitats in times of war. I would go further: 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.
The vaccines limit the mortality rate a lot though so it's much less of an issue. Eventually we will all have to build up natural immunity anyway because the virus will not go away. And natural immunity is adaptive. And a low mortality risk makes it much less of an issue to let it spread IMO. The biggest issue with Covid is that it's a 'novel' virus that nobody had any immunity to. Once we do it'll take the edge off it and it'll just be another of those minor illnesses we shouldn't worry too much about.
Turkey is not an Arab country and has more than an order of magnitude more refugees per capita(and 5x-8X in absolute terms) than EU. Why would Turkey bear the burden?

Unless you find a way to make UAE etc. take the refugees to achieve the "Arabs take the migrants" goal, prepare for a dramatic increase in immigrants. If it happens that EU decides to fight it back, they will need all the surveillance power and get the rights removed to be able to enforce the restrictions on the movement of millions.
There is some enforcement, but the GDPR is widely flouted, most conspicuously with the cookie "consent" banners - they're supposed to give equal choices (to meet the standard of informed consent and not "consent bundling") but they're riddled with dark patterns.

Then there's the Irish who "oversee" Facebook and Google and do SFA.

So the GDPR is not enforced [to a level anywhere near what the legislation is supposed to do].
France, Italy Require Proof of Covid-19 Status for Restaurants, Bars
That sounds like overplanning. I guess in the US for some reason people are not looking for a middle ground?
Agreed on some digging Culdesac is very clearly just a “rebranded apartment complex” their units are only for rent nothing like a stand alone house is available and as far as the retailers/restaurants the ones listed will occupy the only spaces built for that purpose… its an apartment complex
increased. A lot! (not thanks to US tech companies of course, but the laws in EU are trying to fix their excessive power and overreach)

My (ex) girlfriend worked as a technical consultant on this law.

I also usually agree with the Pirate Party and many critiques to some EU proposals are my critiques.

I also voted for them in my country, I personally knew some of the candidates, we've been friends for a long time

In my country we specifically focused on the right to distribute copyrighted material (via torrent or other technologies) that was of importance for the public.

Like for example old movies or documentaries or film screenings in public open spaces, especially in smaller towns where there are no theatres.

Or material in possession of public broadcast networks that was paid by the taxpayers.

The national Television of my country produced something like hundreds of live recordings of bands that came here, but most of them never saw the light of day.

In their archives there is, for example, a two hours Sonic Youth live, from 1989, recorded at the TV studios that actually was a full fledged concert hall for classical music. How cool is that? It never aired.

But if you distribute it or show it to someone, technically you're breaking the law, even though citizen paid for it with their taxes.

Unfortunately we elected zero representatives.

Nevertheless how this vote is being presented is hyperbolic, to say the least, and doesn't reflect the work being done.

The law presented has as a primary objectives making the tech giants responsible while protecting the EU people from their abuses.

They are prohibited to spy on you, unless they have been authorized by the law.

That's the spirit.

Without legislation, in Europe what's not prohibited is permitted and people would be at the mercy of what corporations want to do with their data.
fundamentally? yes, of course. there's no physical laws or reason why you couldn't - just observe the usual caveats, such as being unable to achieve 100% efficiency, that sort of thing.

now, the question of how to design an actual working solution? i don't know; and basically, it depends. you would then also have the problem of whether it was possible to implememnt that solution, using real matter and physical objects...

unfortunately, that was probably the question you really wanted answered, right?
"Bad" is a very vague term.

The claim I specifically disagree with is that TikTok currently actively deplatforms LGBTQ+ and disabled people.

It simply was the opposite of my experience, as my suggested videos are at least 90% LGBTQ or disabled people.

I can't even compare it to other social networks, as it gives these "vulnerable" demographics an incredibly large reach today — even with the alleged censorship — and nothing else comes even close!

—Your car is bad, it has no seatbelts and airbags

—But the other cars I can get don't even run!
—Why don't you agree that it's a bad car?
–Because it can get me places the other cars don't
—So you think that no airbags is good?
—No, I thinking that a driveable car without airbags is better for me than the stationary car that has them. It's good for me to have this car, my life improved after I got it. I use it to get to my friends that live far away.
—But what about those kids that took a car for a joy ride and crashed it?
—Perhaps they should not have been driving
—But it's a Chinese car, it spies on you!
—I have to use it to reach my friends because there's no other way
—So you're denying that your car will be junk in a few years? It's not healthy!
—Neither is worrying about potentially grim future
—But it'll be worth nothing soon!
—And by that time, I'll get its worth by other means
I live in Sweden. There are clear problems with gang violence. But non-immigrant Swedish people don’t encounter that at all in their live; crime mostly stays in the migrant communities. For a long time, crime in migrant communities wasn’t even reported of, because of a wrong idea of political correctness. Now you can see it in the news regularly, but I have yet to know a single Swedish person who is actually affected by any of this.

Sweden surely has a very difficult immigration problem to tackle. But it’s worth noting that it’s the migrants who suffer from this, not the existing Swedish residents.
There are actually more qs on the website, and the website references the paper for solutions.
I agree with (2) more than (1) because if you have (2) then you're free to replace a soulless building you don't like, so the architecture of the region will mature and diversify over time.
The important thing to take from this article is the mention of the EU's CBAM (Carbon border adjustment mechanism - essentially tariffs on imports to the EU from high CO2 emission countries):

"He said it was increasingly likely steel and aluminium manufacturers would transition to green energy contracts as the European Union and other export markets look to introduce carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAM) from as early as 2026."
“will have”
But hasn't dPOS shown that people don't care that much about governance and will just hand their coins to someone, anyone who promises to reward them? The current crop of dPOS coins leaves a very stale taste in my mouth as they all seem to be run by an oligarchy of validators who conspire to let no one else in.

Staking services like RocketPool just bring the idea to ETH but if you were early, you can stake on your own.
I wouldn't use the word ethical, or give agency to a legal entity.

It's people who own and run businesses, and it's not unethical for people to want to put themselves in a better financial situation rather than a worse one.

Many who would call a business unethical for moving somewhere with a more favorable regulatory environment are entirely in favor of economic migrants moving to welfare states to be better off. They might argue the business should pay back the benefits it got from the welfare state, but would probably bristle at the suggestion that the migrants were unethical for wanting to benefit without paying into it.

In the end it's the same thing really, human nature. Nothing about a business generates any kind of ethics or generosity beyond what people have.
I don' understand why duckduckgo ignores quotes.
Rarely. Marathon training in summer, and being lazy about starting long runs early in the morning.

I'm pretty confident that I can say the incidence is not zero, but I'd agree it's less than 4.

this is over years. starting a multi hour run at 10 instead of 7 has some side effects. I'm not fast. I cover the distance. I've gotten into really weird headspace. I'm pretty good about tracking calories, so I'm pretty sure it was the heat from running when it's hot.
GitOps vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference?
eth feels like wild west of script kiddies writing javascript to manage billions of USD. far from being middle ground, it's quite the opposite of btc's "let's not ruin the foundation even if we'll be called unnecessarily conservative" stance.

in fact, i would even argue that btc's stance is closer to middle ground as they are clearly working towards making it easier to run all sorts of wild experiments in the upper layers while protecting and minimizing what's going on in the base layer.
I’m well acquainted with the shady dealings of Tether and Bitfinex, but that is still not a concrete, causal explanation for an observed phenomenon.
The Far-Right View on Climate Politics
Are these really good ideas if they can't survive the collision with the real world? While I don't doubt that there are lots of smart people behind them, knowing what you should ideally do and knowing what would be the best compromise, in reality, are two very different sets of skills.

For example, agile was never going to work according to the rules, because "individuals and interactions over processes and tools" are not how most companies work.

There's probably a parallel to draw with programming languages. A few people will use Haskell or Lisp or Idris and be at the bleeding edge, but most people are satisfied with Java that sometimes cherrypicks good features.

Both of those seem to be rooted in aversion to risk, or (inclusive) managers making most of the decisions. I'd say that's because developers tend to have different values from other people, often valuing stability a bit less and "the right solution" a bit more.
Just wow.
Actually I always have a good impression about the companies care about user voices. Such a good thing when these companies appreciate their user/customer.
Turns out they don't even have to do that as demonstrated by the paper.

The review process itself is broken and the world of academia is drowning in bogus publications and journals taking advantage of the "publish or perish"-mentality of contemporary academic activities.

Stats have become meaningless - whenever publications try to "rate" countries by their output (be that scientific publications or patent filings), I die a little inside, knowing that most patents are trivial BS and most papers are plagiarism or generated word salat published in pay-per-submission online "journals".
> Metadata logging is a theoretical issue

There are over 350,000 requests a year for metadata, about ~1000 a day. Any level of government can make a request, right down to local councils of towns with 2000 people. The oversight committee is comprised of three bureaucrats who have never found a single instance of the system being abused in years. In fact all the instances of misuse have been self-reported by agencies.

Metadata itself seems like an innocuous term but includes the location of every single mobile phone in the country. The enormous cost of all this is passed onto the consumer and the government doesn't subsidise reporting entities at all.

What exactly is "theoretical" about all that?
So, since 2018 in the entire EU there have been _only_ 800, let's say 1k such violations?

Yeah.. GDPR works >assuming< everyone reports every violation of privacy, which is absurd to believe it would be the case.
I think the issue was using company resources for union activities. So using company paper would be a misuse of funds or whatever. This was about existing unions so was calling out that union funds should pay for union expenses.
https://bleep.com/

https://www.hdtracks.com/
So "Do no harm" no longer applies? Maybe the answer is a class action suit a la opioids?
how about trying to be more charitable with your interpretations? the statement you're quoting isn't necessarily factual but aspirational.
Absolutely agreed - their game about spacial repetition is my go-to conversion tool for friends and family: https://ncase.me/remember/
>Tor is a technology actually developed by "the man" with military purposes, and still funded by the US government.

That is not a problem for open source that has been audited.

We also know why the US government supports Tor: It goes against geopolitical adversaries like Iran and Cuba by helping dissidents in their countries.
I hope the AI watches us and then takes us over
The default state (and almost universal state) of human societies throughout history has been authoritarianism.

Authoritarian's universally believe individuals left to themselves make bad decisions either because they're too stupid or too cruel so we need benevolent leaders like themselves to order society.

Only in the last few hundred years countries in Western Europe began to reject this and accept while some individuals may make bad decisions the cost of "benevolent" leaders is too great.

Today in the West we seem to be forgetting that freedom comes with costs and this can only lead in one direction. We should understand China isn't the exception, they are the norm. It was in fact the West who was always more likely to revert to the mean than for China to embrace freedom. People like Orwell understood this very well.

The more freedom individuals have the more likely individuals will say and do things leaders don't like and if our leaders no longer celebrate this disagreement as progress they will seek to restrict freedom. Of course, some actions are almost universally seen as bad and in these cases it's worth carefully restricting freedoms, but this clearly isn't one of those cases. And most attempts to limit freedom of speech also aren't.
Only Berliners think that so as to have a reason to consider themselves better than the obviously all-in-all superior Munich ;)

It is definitely London as far as new startups go and Eindhoven as far as literal silicon is in question.

But none are even close to the original as far as the culture goes.
A number of European countries have near 100% English literacy and allow for document workflow and accounting in English. I suspect it's mostly the taxes.