skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As long as you grow these trees specifically for burning.

I don't think anyone's chopping down ancient forests in the West anymore.
Hopefully this fire doesn’t spread.
Don't you mean the human component of the natural world? I fail to see a single thing humans do as being outside of nature, seeing as how we come from the same system along with the ingredients of all our creations.. That aside, many natural destructive events easily cause vast destruction very quickly. Large asteroid impacts are an obvious example. So too are large volcanic eruptions. Humans have not yet come close to causing the kind of extinctions both of these events have rapidly caused extremely quickly whenever they occur.
Do we know that people affected by the opioid epidemic are not otherwise affected too? For example, given the past experiences that I mentioned previously, I could see how if I had been on opioids at the time, that I could have perhaps become addicted. In general, we're living in a more technologically connected but physically and mentally disconnected lonelier world, I remember reading something here on HN not that long ago about this, it doesn't at all surprise me that many otherwise normal seeming people would be prone to addiction. Most of us don't show our struggles publicly, but we still fight with them. More of us are damaged in some way than we like to admit, we see it often where some person who seemed like they had it together suddenly does something seemingly out of character (like suicide).

Having said that, I don't think its completely contradictory to the video that some level of purely physical addiction can exist too, (I know he doesn't say it, though), just that in the majority of cases there's perhaps a deeper reason. More people on opioids obviously makes a smaller percentage more visible.

But at the end of the day, I'm only speculating either way, I don't know, I'm not a doctor, pharmacist, chemist, psychologist or anyone else who might know, so... grain of salt and all that.
This paper is available without a paywall at https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/158/ and https://digital.sandiego.edu/sdlr/vol44/iss4/5/
I liked AOE III, as well, it's just that when it came out I was hoping for AOE II but in 3D, but instead got a game that was a bit different but still good in its own way. 0AD feels like AOE II but in 3D to me.

I just play with friends and sometimes against the AI, so I haven't checked out the multiplayer scene. It looks like there are several build order YouTube videos and threads on Wildfire's forums, though.
I wonder if this overly sensitive response is because the target of the (level headed, reasonable) criticism is a woman. I have a feeling if the blog’s owner wasn’t named Jessica, a random person wouldn’t be so quick to defend it.
As far as I see it; Google, Amazon, and Facebook all offer "moral hazard" pay.

A friend of mine is paid quite handsomely to work at Google and considers their compliance with company practices bought and paid for.

Interestingly, they're quitting due to the WFH policies.
Drug dogs have a 50~80% false positive rate, because after they've been certified as capable of detecting drugs, they get that trained out of them the field to instead indicate whatever the handler wants indicated.
Didn't the CO2 that went into the tree come from the atmosphere in the first place?
I've heard lots of people give lots of reasons over the years why Lisp loses. Very few of those reasons were ever based in fact. Even today I hear people complain that Lisp is an interpreted language. Back in the day they used to complain that it used too much memory, with a RAM footprint of about 8 megabytes (that was including the application code).
I am indeed desiring one, but I'm too picky. And it's not for the money, but rather mostly for socialization (I'm lonely af). Maybe I'd work at a startup, but there aren't many of those that would want an open-source app, and there are even fewer that do something legitimately useful instead of inventing a problem and then heroically solving it.

I worked at VKontakte (Russian social network) and was the only Android developer for several years. It was amazing when Pavel Durov was still the CEO. I was living the dream. It all went downhill form there when it was acquired by mail.ru group and I had to quit because it started feeling like an abusive relationship. My app being closed-source didn't help either.

Then was Telegram. Same Pavel, mostly same team, but the tasks were much more ambitious, and the product itself much more complex and internally intertwined (every single update touches the chat screen, which in the Android app is more than a megabyte of pure Java). I did the VoIP library from scratch. In hindsight, this certainly isn't a one-person endeavor, but I didn't know any better. So, yeah, eventually, but very unexpectedly, I was fired by that same person who I was a huge fan of for so many years. The reasoning was that "our calls are shit". Apparently I was supposed to write code that didn't contain bugs and just "test it myself". Oh all those foolish other companies having QAs, right?

I have no idea where to go now. I want my 2011 back. I want to be passionate about something again.
Beijing prosecutors initiate lawsuit against Tencent over WeChat's 'youth mode'
I was pointing out an inaccuracy in the article, not commenting about whether or not this tech is a good idea. I think if we're opposed to it, we should avoid misrepresenting it in arguments.

On which note... it really does seem to be voluntary, as there's an easy opt-out of the process in the form of "not using iCloud Photos". Or Google Photos, or assorted other services, which apparently all do similar scanning.

Yes, there's a slippery-slope argument here, but the actual service-as-it-exists-today really does seem scoped to a cautious examination of possible child porn that's being uploaded to Apple's servers.
At least we saw it coming and made some preparations. I think climate change is a massive problem but we can't put it all on climate change because droughts are part of California history and we can put some of the blame on forest management practices.

100 million dead trees in the Sierra are a massive risk for unpredictable wildfires

https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/01/18/sierra-wildfire-risk/

Fire Suppression — And Climate Change — Is To Blame For California’s Megafires

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/09/12/fire-suppressio...
Apple won their Hackintosh copyright lawsuit against Psystar over their copyright haiku that the machine will refuse to boot if absent.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-warns-off-os-pirates-wit...
> So where else could they get 1 trillion pictures?

That's a real kicker in my opinion. Unless they get training data from NCMEC I struggle to understand how they're training their model? Unless it's entirely algorithmic and not based on ML?
In more general terms, the eBPF VM goes out of it's way to not be Turing complete in order to solve it's version of the halting problem. Instruction stream graphs must be able to be translated to a acyclic graph by the verifier.
> I think the downsides associated with having a common codebase are grossly underestimated.

I don't.

Event loops, for example, work completely differently on macOS, iOS, Android, Windows and the Web. You will abstract across them eventually and you will get that abstraction wrong unless you are a programming god--at which point you might as well just use a cross-platform system to start.

The cross-platform guys have big companies with lots of money and programmers solving problems that you haven't even dreamed of. If you're releasing on multiple platforms, you will not win.
Indeed. The UX is so awful that I avoid AWS for more reasons than simply because it's Amazon's. The next sentence also has me scratching my head:

> I’m not going to claim that our UX was generally excellent because it wasn’t; the fact that most users were geeks let us somewhat off the hook.

Has this person used the Amazon website? The UI looks much older than AWS. Which I don't mind, don't get me wrong, but it just surprises me for such a popular website, it really looks like the owners stopped updating it in the late 90s (and the search function works like something from the pre-google era as well). Amazon's shopping site is the last one I visit when I'm desperate and can't find it on normal sites, it's always a fun ride of page after page of "this is not what I looked for" and "even if your price field is a string this sort function should work better". No, it's not the geeks that let you not update the UX I think.
Except that isn't true. You can fire up a BBS from your home machine. Anyone who wants to hear your opinion on things can read it. Freedom of speech is NOT the same as freedom to force people to listen to you.
They did censor the original New York Post story. The media chose to ignore it, but the social media companies were censoring any links to the story, actively encouraged by Democratic Party operatives such as Schiff who were falsely labelling it as Russian disinformation and encouraging a blackout. This has potentially election moving consequences, so coercive Democratic influence over social media is absolutely a real threat to democracy.

Regarding your comment about a 1A-friendly platform, I don't advocate for a censorship-less social media platform. It's stupid on its face. But moderation should either be voluntary with no coercive influence of government (whether that influence is achieved by carrot or stick), or it should be defined by the legislative body (hate speech laws) instead of implied threat of regulation or via the executive branch.

Regarding the flagging of COVID misinformation, that's fairly lower on my list of worries, and it's not that I don't favor removing that toxic information, it's that the executive branch is the one coordinating it. The encouragement of political censorship (the Hunter Biden case above) is much higher on my list of concerns and much more directly anti-democratic.
Not the real reason in some cases. Some malware actually uses NirSoft tools (and even SysInternal tools) for, uhm, malware stuff :(

I mean, I can't fault some of the antivirus for these, especially since "regular"* users they don't really know about these powerful tools, but I agree that clicking a standalone executable that is otherwise safe shouldn't automatically trigger an antivirus.

* "Regular" at least as viewed by antivirus companies, like picture a grandma, but I think that's not representative of the real world today.
I wonder how the future generation(s) will identify themselves in an internet era? I appreciate the fact that people are documenting this stuff, but it's { cool | scary | interesting } to think about the effects it will have on the way we dress, behave or even socialize.
Yes I read the link I myself posted, and yes I see the above since that's why I specifically said "regular blood donor." Obviously casual donors should just get vaccinated.
Yet another record-setting fire started by PG&E.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/pge-may-be...
Every finite width beam will have some divergence.
Divorce Lawyer: Facebook Is a Cheating Machine
It's not just one or the other?
Who knew things were complex and sometimes didn't align with one political ideology?
ST Sees AR Glasses Replacing Smartphones
What is wrong with having a lot of settings? I absolutely hate that Twitter does not let me turn off their "features", but rather only lets me say "see less often" (which of course does nothing because I told Twitter not to track my preferences etc, but probably doesn't do anything for anyone anyway, except maybe provide a datapoint for some poorly thought out ML algorithm they put in place).
I don't know if you remember this but MTV had very little variety with music videos, at least in those early years. I cannot tell you the number of times I saw "Little Red Corvette"[1] and "Jeopardy"[2] at a friend's house while he insisted on having MTV on for hours. Those songs are etched in my brain for life now.

IMO MTV did a really good job of expanding beyond music videos, though I didn't personally watch it past Liquid Television.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KpfrJE4zw
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAJNwPWVmNc
Sort of how Elastic using the license that’s biting them; can’t really expect much else so long as “it’s a private company they can hire as they see fit” is the default political posture.

Your problem transcends one whiner on Twitter; private entities can monopolize public agency across contexts and not be held accountable at all.

Here you are in a VC echo chamber; good luck
On the effectiveness of various MERVs on various PM sizes:

* https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/understanding-f...

* http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120708448

* https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-PM-25-removal-effic...

Just make sure your system can handle whatever MERV you go with (higher = more back pressure that needs to be designed for).
Fair point. Guess I've been an outlier since the first time I sat down at a keyboard, never been happy with defaults.
California has by far the most number of wildfires and most acres burned each year compared to other states, no matter your measure. States can sue one another over water rights if one state is polluting water upstream to another state. Is a similar right available for air rights? It seems unfair that Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Montana have to suffer from California’s mismanagement and lack of prevention, and perhaps a lawsuit would finally provide the right incentives.
Corn is a plant that is commercially farmed. Corn is planted in linear rows. These rows of corn are called corn rows.
screaming in a corporate setting is common for lebanon.

Im willing to bet the same is true for israel, croatia, and serbia
I remember how it was a huge deal for weeks when our former president said something along these lines but to a large extent the administration was correct.

I hate the fact that these changes to forestry management are going to be delayed or shot down just because of partisan bullshit. I’d say we’re better than this but I’m not quite sure nowadays.
I was pondering the same thing until I realized the person you are replying to is somewhat stretching the meaning of definition to mean a multiple paragraphs long explanation of a complex concept which was as I understand it lifted verbatim.
The roles played by education are ... an interesting topic. It's not a complete waste, but motives must be understood. True education belongs when you become self-motivated to learn (and hopefully don't fall prey to the numerous other pitfalls which exist).

First, the universities were given the task of providing an unceasing supply of ideologically correct candidates for vital positions in government, church, and business. The state was able to make the faculties of the "venerable institutions" of higher education, or rather indoctrination, assume this duty because it controlled appointments and held the purse from which "emoluments" flowed into the coffers of academics. Hence the members of the university "hierarchy" made it their "business, the business for which they ... [were] paid," to "uphold certain political as well as religious opinions," namely those of the "ruling powers of the state" (J.S. Mill, Autobiography and Literary Essays, p. 429 (1981), J.S. Mill, Journals and Debating Speeches, p. 350. (1988) ). Thus the universities pursued with vigor their assignment to inculcate in their students those political and ideological views that were cherished by the power elite. The graduates of the ancient universities were, therefore, well prepared for employment in, and by, those institutions that were instrumental in perpetuating the existing maldistribution of income. All of this might come to naught, however, if the masses of the underclass should achieve anything approaching success in potential attempts at throwing off their fetters.

The state devised a second educational strategy in order to prevent such a calamity from occurring. According to Mill, the "elementary schools for children of the working classes" were given the task of ensuring that the poor would continue to accept docilely their dismal station in life. It was very easy for the state to force the public schools to assume this role. It did so simply by failing malignantly to allocate sufficient funds for the operations of what Mill identified contemptuously as "places called schools" (J.S. Mill, Essays on England, Ireland, and the Empire, p.200; emphasis in original).

See: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599

I've discussed this earlier and in more depth here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_...
Right, and as another commenter pointed out, the UK artists shown at the start of MTV were also doing more artistic videos, whereas US acts tended to do more straight filmed performances.
"A bank doesn't need a full-time development team for example."

How else will all those SVP's at your bank justify their fat salaries? They NEED more minions. Same goes for VC ecosystem. Funny how everyone has a scapegoat or a solution to this supposed software quality problem, not quite understanding the underlying financial incentives. Easy money -> rotten management -> crappy design.
Yeah, there is no limit to new social sites, there is a limit to ones which work.
Don’t Teach Math, Coach It (2014)
Many of the larger ones were "complexes", near by started at the same time, bit distinct fires added together I think. (Not a fire expert)

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf
You could do that, but the end results will be the same as the social media sites which don't do moderation.
They turn to shit, extremely fast.

It isn't there wasn't a lack of social platforms which didn't try to remove moderation "because of free speech" but they don't last long before they collapse under their own crazyness, and the crazyness of their users.
So insurrections were only possible after the invention of firearms? That's weird.

And I'm assuming you mean one gunshot "from the aggressors" as one of the Capitol Police officers did fire their weapon in defense of the Capitol.

What would you call a group of armed people who forcibly enter a building in order to disrupt the work of a government and install an unelected leader to a position of power?
I love “counterfeit consciousness.” I’ll have to try and skip that into conversation sometime :)
Yeah it sounds like something the Nazis would do...
That includes most of the world
A bit OT, but I think it's safe to say that Winston Churchill was worse than Adolf Hitler [1][2]. But because victors write history, we see one as the embodiment of good and the other as the embodiment of evil.

Downvote away!

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/11/churchill-white-...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/winst...
This is what IBM did with IBM i / AS/400 / System/38 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i#TIMI.

IBM i is on a POWER CPU today, but can still run System/38 binaries from the 70s, thanks to install-time compilation to whatever CPU the system is running this decade.
Agreed, but that means you verified that the use site was correct and are now examining whether the abstractions it depends on were implemented correctly.

My point is just that you shouldn’t normally have to keep both sides of a call site in mind at once.
> we live in societies and can vote

A vote is simply not the same thing as a choice.

How would you feel if 51% of the people voted to force you to become a Druid?
> The governing bodies should obey the people not the other way around.

Then they wouldn't be the governing body. By definition the governing body does not obey the people; they govern the people.
That's the beauty of being human.

We can both look at the same image and have two different opinions about it. An AI simply boils it down to a confidence rating and if they're confident enough that an overpass IS a bridge, then your opinion does not matter to them.

My interpretation of overpass is that it can be a bridge but is not always a bridge.

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

However, I would totally accept your point of view if you said an overpass is also a bridge.
> "Hackers Disable Apple's CSAM Reporting Tools; Legitimate CSAM Reports Get Lost"

What website are we on?
> I'm surprised, and honestly disappointed, that the author seems to still play nice, instead of releasing the whitepaper.

I'm the author.

I've worked with different parts of NCMEC for years. (I built the initial FotoForensics service in a few days. Before I wrote the first line of code, I was in phone calls with NCMEC about my reporting requirements.) Over time, this relationship grew. Some years, I was in face-to-face development discussions, other times it have been remote communications. To me, there are different independent parts working inside NCMEC.

The CyberTipline and their internal case staff are absolutely incredible. They see the worst of people in the media and reports that they process. They deal with victims and families. And they remain the kindest and most sincere people I've ever encountered. When possible, I will do anything needed to make their job easier.

The IT group has gone through different iterations, but they are always friendly and responsive. When I can help them, I help them.

When I interact with their legal staff, they are very polite. But I rarely interact with them directly. On occasion, they have also given me some very bad advice. (It might be good for them. But, as my own attorney pointed out, it is generally over-reaching in the requested scope.)

The upper management that I have interacted with are a pain in the ass. If it wasn't for the CyberTipline, related investigators, and the IT staff, I would have walked away (or minimized my interactions) long ago.

Why haven't I made my whitepaper about PhotoDNA public? In my view, who would it help? It would help bad guys avoid detection and it will help malcontents manufacture false-positives. The paper won't help NCMEC, ICACs, or related law enforcement. It won't help victims.

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 used Kawa for a prototype Android game app and I have a good impression for the quality of the implementation.

Compared to Clojure, Kawa has low startup time, low memory footprint, and has near Java performance that is suitable for mobile apps.
A combination of increasing electricity consumption per capita combined with a lack of investment is a perfect storm for wildfires.
All evidence shows it to be the other way around, the vaccinated are far more dangerous to the unvaccinated than vice versa, it isn't even close. Leaky vaccines create more virulent and deadlier viruses in the unvaccinated.
I've come to conclude that the right to free speech is the most important right in the Constitution.

The reason is straightforward - without free speech, nobody would know if/when the government is abusing any of your other rights.
> The issue with Algolia is that they have insane technology but it is mostly used only to search documentation.

This is a really interesting side-effect of what Algolia was probably trying to do: use documentation search to spread brand awareness, but then ironically, because of their (successful IMO) strategy, the product is being perceived as mostly being used primarily for documentation search.