skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I'm replying to is asking where, if at all, society should be structured to prevent people from spreading bad thoughts, and it's clearly leaning towards the angle that nothing should prevent people from spreading bad thoughts, and listeners should be free to make up their own minds.

If certain types of bad thoughts are illegal to spread, the argument, I would think, is they should stop being illegal.

(On a more practical note, Mailchimp's legal department is not a court of law. If freedom of speech / of thought-spreading is important enough to your society that you want to place legal obligations on private companies' platforms not to interfere with it, as TFA advocates, I think a natural consequence is that private companies should not decide what crosses the line and what doesn't, and probably that private companies should not be liable for what's said on their platform. In fact, that's more or less what Section 230 gives us! In a world with strong free-speech protections, it seems to me that Mailchimp should say that you can send whatever you want through their service, and should be encouraged by the government to take that approach, and that if you send something illegal, that liability is on you alone, after due process of law.)
Dead people don't need money, and an inheritance is infinity% return on 0 investment.
> So my day is divided in 3. 8 hours I sleep, 8 hours I work. The last 8 hours I do all the stuff that enables me to sleep/work on the other 16 hours(eg: run errands, do groceries, meal plan, cook, clean house, take care of dog, etc). This means I essentially work to live and live to work. Is this how things are supposed to be?

When you figure out let me know. Though I’m not sure any amount of money makes up for the time sink.
Unfortunately I think you’ve nailed it. But speculation on risky assets is a symptom of desperation amidst a growing wealth gap, I just don’t see this disappearing soon. It’s a very clever scam
The Fandom site layouts recently got a lot worse and harder to use.

For example, search used to be an easily accessible text field - simple and quick to use.

Now they all have that ugly Fandom bar on the left, with a search icon that opens a search modal overlay, which injects advertisements into your search results. Not good.

I've been using the Escape from Tarkov wiki a lot (can't really play without it), and the Fandom wiki UI changes are not in the right direction.
Maybe the areas affected don't actually benefit anyone in power? Probably not enough graft coming out of the timber industry.
The Nikkei's bad performance over 30 years is mainly due to how incredibly huge the bubble was before it burst. The real estate underlying the Imperial Palace was valued as much as the entire state of California.

The subsequent 30 years look bad, but the alternative was Great-Depression-style deflation, 25%+ unemployment, and potentially societal collapse.
Have you looked at SICM? (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, the far less popular half-sibling of the SICP) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-... -it has you derive classical mechanics, which is to say most() of Newtonian physics up to around 1900, by writing a giant pile of scheme that drives graphical simulations.

() For a curious value of "most" that elides thermodynamics, electromagnetism, etc..
Anywhere you see "C/C++", treated as if a single language, you know that you will be not getting good information. It is common to claim "almost as fast as C", when it is known that C is now a low bar. For speed, nowadays, you use C++. (Or Rust, for identical reasons.)

The most characteristic quality of any publication about the performance of Lisp, as for anything like it, is exaggeration. In particular, indirect costs of garbage collection are invariably concealed.
They don’t send unencrypted full-res files, they send low res “visual representation” and can only decode if they get > x “hits”. Assuming it works as described I do think it’s better than just having full keys as they do now. And why else would they go to all this trouble? They can scan images now on their servers if that’s what they want.
Maybe I'm a prude, but my initial reaction reading this was to think "I'd refuse to buy any product advertised this way."

I think quite typically, people going out to enjoy Northern Lights will not appreciate it being "sponsored" by some random cola beverage.
That’s a strange legal argument - articles are
often discussed on monetized
Websites, why would the discussion being in a sidebar versus separate tab master?
>About this time, someone usually mocks "it's always about the kids, think about the kids." To those critics: They have not seen the scope of this problem or the long term impact. There is nearly a 1-to-1 relationship between people who deal in CP and people who abuse children. And they rarely victimize just one child. Nearly 1 in 10 children in the US will be sexually abused before the age of 18.

I think we have seen "think of the kids" used as an excuse for so many things over the years that the pendulum has now swung so far that some of the tech community has begun to think we should do absolutely nothing about this problem. I have even seen people on HN in the last week that are so upset by the privacy implications of this that they start arguing that these images of abuse should be legal since trying to crack down is used as a motive to invade people's privacy.

I don't know what the way forward is here, but we really shouldn't lose sight that there are real kids being hurt in all this. That is incredibly motivating for a lot of people. Too often the tech community's response is that the intangible concept of privacy is more important than the tangible issue of child abuse. That isn't going to be a winning argument among mainstream audiences. We need something better or it is only a matter of time until these type of systems are implemented everywhere.
$5 in parts, untold amounts of resources and paychecks. Not $100,000,000, but magnitudes more than $5.

Misattributions like this is how we end up with people that value all things by their component cost.
Well why else would they bother? This is WAY more complicated than just scanning on their servers.
I'm in your situation too. I'm not making a big fuss though, I just go to the office every day and always take the same desk. I leave the desk clean at the end of the day, but I just put the things in the drawer under the desk, where people are kind enough to leave my stuff alone. If one day I find someone at my desk, I'll just go to a different desk (it happened only once).
MacBook M1 screens are reportedly cracking without warning
Some things I miss:

Liking/saving all the songs of an album. You used to be able to do that with one click and they would be added to your liked songs play list. Now you either have to like all the songs individually, or like the album and not have it appear in liked songs.

Being able to search through all the artists for songs you’ve liked/saved. You can now only follow an artist. You can’t just browse through all the artists you’ve liked before, which makes it hard to go back to song you liked years ago before they made the “follow” change.
The private set intersection is part of the protocol to shield Apple (and their database providers) from accountability, not to protect the users privacy.

They could instead send the list of hashes to the device (which they already must trust is faithfully computing the local hash) and just let the device report when there are hits. It would be much more CPU and bandwidth efficient, too.

The PSI serves the purpose that if Apple starts sending out hashes for popular lawful images connected to particular religions, ethnicity, or political ideologies that it is information theoretically impossible for anyone to detect the abuse. It also makes it impossible to tell if different users are being tested against different lists, e.g. if Thai users were being tested against political cartoons that insult the king.
Eh. Maybe not. As of late, in the past year or so, I forget the actual timeline, I've noticed a certain direction the overall tone of the comments and voting have taken.

It's been a little frustrating (I guess that's the word closest to what I'm feeling) as I've typically viewed HN as a place that went more for technology and science rather than... other things.
Uhh, no. "Trillion dollar company BAD, think of the billion dollar company!!!". Elastic made it's business off being open source, period. If they weren't open source to begin with they wouldn't be as successful as they have been. Their whole business model initially built off the popularity of a useful open source project.

Of course, once you add-on that they've basically done to Lucene what AWS did to Elasticsearch, then the whole thing is a joke. I also just checked and Elastic are NOT sponsers of the ASF: https://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.

Absolute garbage company in terms of open source and community. I will never willingly install their software ever again.
Since I was aware of the Olympics, no later than 1968, newspapers have always carried tallies of gold medals, and commonly the US has come out ahead in the Summer Olympics. The minor jingoistic thrill I felt then has faded to indifference. But let's face it: American university sports programs fed the US Olympic track and field, swimming, and basketball efforts. Was there really that great a difference between what the US did then and what Russia et al. did then and the ROC is doing now?
My neighbor went to juvie for trying to nail an Xbox mod-chip into his old dog. He’s CIA now, while I cannot get a Perl job. How is life fair.
For those who care curious. The videos that were removed from the video are not listed here.[0]

The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Pat Benatar - You Better Run

Rod Stewart - She Won’t Dance With Me

The Who - You Better You Bet

PH.D - Little Susie’s On The Up

Pretenders - Brass in Pocket

Todd Rundgren - Time Heals

REO Speedwagon - Take it on the Run (partial - promo for upcoming MTV-aired concert)

Styx - Rockin Paradise

Robin Lane and the Chartbusters - When Things Go Wrong

Split Enz - History Never Repeats

38 Special - Hold on Loosely

Rod Stewart - Sailing

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You (partial - promo for upcoming MTV-aired concert)

Michael Johnson - Bluer than Blue (not labeled)

Pretenders - Message of Love

Lee Ritenour - Mr Briefcase

The Cars - Double Life

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight

Robert Palmer - Looking for Clues

Shoes - Too Late

Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around

Rupert Hine - Surface Tension

Split Enz - One Step Ahead

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

Pat Benatar - I’m Gonna Follow You

Tom Johnston - Savannah Nights

Rockestra - Lucille (from “Concerts for the people of Kampuchea” charity concerts)

Styx - The Best of Times

Carly Simon - Vengeance

Juice Newton - Angel of the Morning

Rock Pile - Little Sister (from “Concerts for the people of Kampuchea” charity concerts)

[0] See video description on YouTube for details or an earlier comment.

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> Would you mind pointing me at a canonical source on that please. Chess is way older than a few centuries, so why do the extra rules sidle in and when?

It's literally on the wikipedia entries, respectively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling
"Castling was added to European chess in the 14th or 15th century and did not develop into its present form until the 17th century. The Asian versions of chess do not have such a move. "

"Castling was added to allow the king to get to a safer location and to allow rooks to get into the game earlier (Davidson 1981:16). "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
"The motivation for en passant was to prevent the newly added two-square first move for pawns from allowing a pawn to evade capture by an enemy pawn.[14]:16 "

The two-square pawn move is commonly regarded as being introduced in order to make the game faster/more dynamic.
You could or not, it's a tradeoff. Not sure what your criteria for "objective" is. In iOS-land you gotta keep up with the changes every year or your app will show its age. You could continue to do this in ObjC year after year but it's increasingly tough to hire ObjC devs, and Swift offers the possibility of a gradual transition rather than a full on rewrite. Not to mention the quality of life improvements.
Golden history of Kazakhstan’s Saka warrior people revealed
I cringe at how many code reviews are essentially, take this 40 line function that does things we don't need anywhere else, and split it into 5 other abstractions.

I mean... the review isn't wrong. You can totally split the functionality in ways that are very logical. But... did it really make THIS program easier?
I don't disagree with that notion actually. I personally do not believe in objective truth, philosophically speaking. I do believe in creating ever more useful incarnations of a relative truth, and that so far the methods which you mentioned have been the most useful.

There is no golden hammer however. To give a concrete example, I believe our understanding of mental issues using a scientific framework is woefully inadequate. In the future, we may posses enough information to be able to apply scientific principles. In the present, we have managed to control some mental illnesses to a degree using pharmaceutics.

Talking with various people who have had the misfortune of being born with troublesome minds and experiencing my own mind has led me to believe that a large amount of mental illnesses, especially depression and anxiety, are misidentified due to our infatuation to treat the mental plane as analog to the physical body, so as to be able to apply our scientific knowledge to it. The body is hardware, hard and physical, the mind is software, it is changeable. Many are born into this world however without the necessary tools or aptitude to actually go through this process of change and heal their mind when it gets into a broken state. Their frustrations pile up, making them ever more ineffective, all while they are blind to the fact that they could wake up the next day and.. feel completely fine.

It is none of their own fault in a way, as these skills are barely ever taught, and not too many people seem even aware that it's something just as possible as moving your arm. They treat it as if the only way they can "get fixed" is external, as if their car broke down.

Humanity did and still has ways of undergoing these processes. Rituals of progression from one stage of life to another, as well as yearly/monthly etc. rituals affirming one's position in life were more important than they are nowadays. As much as "they do nothing", the mental effect was most definitely not nothing. The human brain always seeks meaning, and lack of stimulus is its greatest enemy.

That is not to suggest that the world was an idyllic paradise full of meaning before. Unlikely. But it's hard to deny God did die somehow.
I have been around addicts my whole life (drugs and alcohol), I've known many people who died from their addiction, and I've struggled with addiction myself at times (drugs and alcohol). I have a few issues with this article.

1. Behavioral addictions are not comparable to a serious chemical addiction. The person who can't stop watching Netflix or can't get off Facebook is not the same as someone who can't stop sticking needles in their arm (heroin) and is flirting with death everyday. I've had behavioral addictions and chemical addictions, and I can tell you first hand that a chemical addiction is a different monster. You start to feel physically and mentally ill when you can't get your fix for a chemical addiction. Flu like symptoms, you can even die from withdrawal from some things. Comparing that to something like video game addiction is a huge stretch and somewhat offensive.

2. Saying that an addictive personality is really just deep seated emotional issues is not really changing much. Deep seated emotional issues are very hard to change. We try and some do, but a lot of us only make minor progress or don't change at all. Especially the people whose emotional issues have led them to a serious drug or alcohol addiction. Sometimes the best they can do is just abstain and use something healthier to cope.

The whole article feels like the author is engaging with the issue on an intellectual level. Sure, there are addicts who can recover and then even use their substance without relapsing. But there are many addicts who relapse and die, or ruin their lives. It makes sense then to err on the side of caution. For most addicts, there's more to lose than to gain, and it's hard enough fighting addiction that I don't think we should encourage addicts to push their boundaries.

I've just known many people first hand that truly embody the phrase "Once an addict, always an addict." Sure, maybe it's not true for some people, but it's true for a lot of people, especially the addicts that have it really bad.
> It’s all an invasion of privacy until you’re sitting on the other side of the table where you have a vested interest in getting access to the information.

That’s the thing about privacy that so many don’t want to admit. “Everyone deserves it, until they don’t”. All of society’s privacy is more important than your single child, sorry.

Meanwhile I created this great new technology. It runs in the background super efficiently on your phone. It immediately detects housefires and alerts you. It uses a combination of sensors to literally detect the spark of flame and there’s only one in 1 trillion false positives.

Simply download the app and give it permission to sample your microphones, cameras,
accelerometers and historical gps data to build a profile, then flick a lighter anywhere in your house and sure enough your phone alarm goes off.

How it works is incredible, an algorithm listens for supersonic soundwaves created by the chemical reaction during combustion. Video and sound samples are then reviewed by one of our technical representatives.

Housefires and house fire deaths will be a thing of the past. The only compromise is that our algorithms listen to all of your video and audio and occasionally monitored by a human technician, which might include audio of you making love to your wife.
Right, this looks a lot like a quadrupole.
But... don't the lisp submissions include the lisp startup? Isn't like Java invented the VM concept.
FAQ about Apple's Expanded Protections for Children – TidBITS
As I understand it, the Northwest Ordinance provided for the funding of schools, resulting in the "land grant" college system that still exists today. The most well known land grant colleges are of course the "flagship" universities of the Midwest states. But the states also chartered many smaller, regional, and specialized schools.

I live in Wisconsin, and the state university system is chartered to serve the needs of the state. There are too many students to send them all to UW in Madison, so there are a number of smaller regional universities, many of which now offer graduate degrees, plus an even larger number of "commuter" and "satellite" schools, and an elaborate technical college and trade school system. Not everybody can get a degree at a residential college. Life gets in the way.

We can debate the relative prestige of these colleges, but I've worked with people who attended the regional schools, including many engineers and computer programmers. All I can say is, send me more.

The colleges that catered to pastors were largely private, and in my home state, there was one in every town. Some of them emerged as full service 4-year colleges with additional programs. My undergraduate college was nominally "Christian" but I got a secular science education there, and it was well ranked in science. It also adjoined a seminary where I never set foot.
This. Everything that is happening now is downstream of some terrible laws.
What I mean by reciprocity is, if distant far-field antenna B can transfer energy to our contained-field antenna A, then shouldn't our contained-field antenna A also be able to transfer energy to the far-field antenna B? Wouldn't that be inconsistent with A not having a far-field emission?

If A doesn't produce any field at B, then it doesn't seem possible that the field B produces at A could be absorbed by A. Thermodynamics should guarantee this, otherwise you could use it (in a roundabout way) to violate the second law.
I don't think so, elastic's https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... is quite ahead of that.

Example here https://www.judyrecords.com/info
I don't know how I feel about all of this yet (still trying to understand better), but your post implies that you've made a lot of incorrect assumptions about how this system works.

For example, the main system in discussion never sends the image to Apple, only a "visual proxy", and furthermore, it only aims to identify known (previously cataloged) CSAM.

There's a [good primer of this on Daring Fireball](https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...)
If Twitter's moderation team made that decision because they genuinely thought it was Russia disinfo, then I have no problem with it. But the waters are so muddied when we have a chorus of policymakers applying pressure and encouraging that decision, both through the rhetoric in that moment and leading up to it. It's that kind of behavior/rhetoric (similar to Trump's anti-trust threats) which is the threat to democracy, not the decision itself in the abstract which may have been perfectly defensible.

I can only conclude that Schiff et al were being intentionally dishonest about the Russian disinfo line in an attempt to apply the maximum amount of influence at the most critical time before the election. It was a cynical attempt by elected officials to sway an election through censorship. They knew it wasn't Russian disinfo at the time. Joe Biden's own comments revealed that knowledge about a day into the saga.
They removed back / forwards navigation with the keyboard when they redid artist pages yet again. It's only super annoying!
Problem is two fold, one is that part in power can use variety of methods to coerce platforms to do their bidding. This is not a supposition this has been going on all over the world for a while. For all practical purposes FB and twitter act as an arm of US government when it comes to COVID, remember when you would get insta banned for suggesting that maybe maybe virus that arose 10 mins away from a lab where they used to work on viruses like that might, could maybe somehow be related to the said lab?

Second is that platforms themselves now have massive political power. Twitter or FB can easily suppress any fact or opinion it does not like(see Twitter and Biden's crackhead of a son), it can also easily trade ability to suppress for political favours.

In a society as divided as US is right now it is inevitable that they take the 51% side to suppress the 49% side. Result will be a bloody a mess.

There is no solution to it either, shit is in full flight towards the proverbial fan.
The list of hashes is confidential. Good luck getting NCMEC to sign off on an implementation which lets clients infer which photos are matching their database.

The database is embedded into iOS. There are at least three primary sources which say that users will not receive different databases, and it should be easily confirmed.
Well, take a look at fashion design. Objectively, there are a lot of really crazy designs that no one would wear in the real world. But designs for clothing always keeps changing, even if they are small, subtle changes.

I think you can apply the same towards design of anything. Tastes change. While a certain design philosophy might be a godsend in 2010, it might be considered trash in 2015.

To be fair, I also think a lot of design decisions are poorly made, and a lot of businesses make poor user experiences.

Just like female jeans that have tiny pockets.
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