skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well hot damn.

THIS is so FN important. Its disgusting that there are many like yourself, and myself who have been aware of and been talking about it for DECADES and we were ridiculed and called "conspiracy theorists"

CSAM blackmail is the bread-and-butter of Dark Intelligence Agencies.

As a victim of abuse myself, where I lived on a Commune in Lafayette California in the 1970s, which was riddled with child sexual abuse - i was told by my father on his death-bed that the Commune (More University (The 'Purple People') was a "destination" and people, including rich and celebrities came there for "Experiences".

There was a write up about it in Penthouse Magazine in the 80s - and it was known that the CIA played a role in putting Vic Baranco in the position he was in as head of that cult.

My parents also knew Jim Jones when he was still in SF before the mass suicide..

In talking with other kids from the commune, we found out just how bad the abuse was, and the fact that the CIA was closely monitoring it.

I was involved in a study to follow a bunch of the kids from there , held by University of San Diego where they followed us as we grew up and interviewed us every few years to see what our life-path would turn out as based on our childhood situations... (it was a lot of different kids from all sorts of socio-eco backgrounds...)

This was also at the same time the Michael Aquino abuse was happening to kids in the Presidio and other parts of San Francisco...

Personally, I feel pedophilia should be a capital crime. and I would have no issues exacting it on people who abuse small children.

One girl from the commune, Maria, was turned into a prostitute at the age of 4 years old by her father.

We got out in 1978....
A dirty-little-not-secret about people who complain about “then end of human interaction” is that many of them only have interactions with people who are forced to be nice to them. I would miss that too, but it’s not worth torturing an entire class of people over.
I got the vaccine, and I would hate to think that the people protecting us are less willing or able to face minor or imagined danger than I am.
Good point. I remember a science demonstration where lighting a balloon filled with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen caused a much more violent eruption compared to a balloon of pure hydrogen.
Their point was CSAM means especially bad CP. Your points were different.

It's a perceptual hash. Matches don't have to be exact. And people have engineered collisions for other perceptual hash algorithms. What a computer sees and what a person sees can be very different.

People have said the human verification just involves the visual derivative of the suspect image. Apple didn't explain what that is really. And human verification doesn't reassure people who object to anyone viewing their private photos without their consent for any reason.

People have said any images collected during an investigation go in the database. Do you think people who collect explicit photos of 17 year olds don't collect explicit photos of 18 year olds?
Fun fact: Nixon actually wanted 1000 new nuclear reactors by 2000.
He never talks about running open source CPU microcode. That's the ultimate attack vector.
Come on... He's not complaining about lack of voting. Obviously everyone is abiding by formal procedures. The problem is when congress passes bills under one name while it contains a myriad of unrelated legislation. This is bad for public transparency.
Can't you effectively buy varying levels of deposit insurance by purchasing puts on the underlying portfolio?

Pay X% to limit your maximum losses in a year to Y.

For example, right now you can buy yearlong puts on SPY at a strike price of $260 (58% of the current value) for 1% of the current price.
Every layer you add between who's making laws and who's voting diminishes the power of the voter.
What ends up happening is that laws are not what votes want but what people who are skilled at the politic game want - or more likely, what the people who sponsor them want.

I don't think a central government for a single country is a good solution and I think an entity who can force countries to legiferate is even worse.
Countries got pulled in into Europe because of the trading opportunities, not because they wanted a quasi-Federal Government.

We're witnessing a slow decline into dystopia and making the 0.1% richer and richer every day.
VATMOSS and European regulations killed small business favouring Amazon.
Covid lockdowns killed small business favouring Amazon.

I'm not sure whether the representatives are complete idiots who believe to the propaganda or who assume their voters are complete idiots (eg: I can't vote against protecting children, no matter what or people will think I'm a monster; I can't vote against massively complicating VAT laws or people will think I'm favouring Amazon) or malicious entities who just want more power in the hands of the government, but the net results has been always negative (not only in Europe).

I don't care how representation works in Europe or anywhere else, the facts speak for themselves: most governments end up behaving in ways that benefit big businesses.
Pipewire itself has had some issues as it’s still relatively new. But I’ve found the last few releases have ironed them out. bleeding edge is more the issue than Arch
The Busard collectors in Star Trek are based on a real theoretical design; The Busard ramjet. I can't comment on its feasiblilty, but it would've actually captured elements free floating in space.
-It would help; the question is more whether it would be worth it in the grand scheme of things; seeing as the weight differential between air and hydrogen is approximately 1.15kg/cubic meter at sea level, ignoring any weight in the airship itself, you're going to have to displace on the order of 25,000 cubic meters of air to lift one 20/40ft container (the max gross weight is only a couple of tons larger in a 40ft than in a 20ft unit).

This volume of hydrogen is a cube with 30m sides. For one container. Neglecting the weight of the ship itself.

The big container ships can carry upwards of 20,000 20ft units - so you're going to need a lot of airships (which will require a lot of airspace) to make an appreciable dent in the cargo unloading time.

(The main issue really being that container ships are absurdly large!)
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the 'pencil towers' of New York
Atlas Obscura is one of my favorite places on the Internet.

They have a podcast, too! And some very interesting food specialties as well.
White Europeans are not Caucasian, because they are not from the Caucasus. There are actual Caucasians so stop abusing that term which was incorrectly applied to Europeans and others based on some outdated pseudoscience. And even if you do use it in the absurd old "Caucasoid" sense, it includes many people like Middle Easterners, Indians etc.
Kill this idea with fire.

Better yet Nuke it From Orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
That's what the article actually said. I think the parent post switched from summarizing to contributing their own thought instead.
Vaccines don't cause diabetes [0].

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11731639/
Expect cargo flight are responsible for a fraction of CO2 emissions from commercial aviation[1].

If you really want to push there are solutions:
Packages just take longer over sea (10-15 days) until we switch to an air ship (2-3) based transport system which doesn't have to pay so much energy of lifting.

[1] https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/CO2-com...
> nowadays a lot of the institutions like a16z just appear to turn into straight up media outlets

Just noting that they're only media outlets insofar as it helps support their primary business model.

The media play is to push brand recognition, influence the startup scene in a way beneficial to VCs, influence politics, etc.
For the same reason I keep a Swiss+Tech ST53100 Multitool on my keys. It's as long as a key, and like your tool it doesn't have a blade so is airport- and government building-safe.
Yeah I hear this every time, but very few small modular reactors (SMRs) have actually been built on account of economic and safety barriers to building them [1].

Now, I'm sure these are soluble problems. I'm by no means anti-SMR. But most of the actual serious proposals I've heard discussed for decarbonization lean much more heavily on already-existing technologies such as solar panels, which are getting cheaper and more efficient every year and which we are putting in the grid right now.

Most of the time, when I hear people talking about SMRs, it's as an excuse to do nothing. "This research tech will solve the climate problem, so all we need to do now is wait for it to pay off." Like the original poster in this thread, who claimed that a lack of investment in nuclear somehow proves that things aren't really that bad.

Apparently, the IPCC does expect and hope for substantial increases in nuclear power as a portion of our energy supply [2][3], but "[a]chieving a rapid decarbonization of the electricity sector will require, at first, deploying proven technology," presumably because nuclear on its own is not enough, and because SMRs are too experimental to lean on in any substantial way.

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422...

[2]: https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1048732

[3]: https://www.world-nuclear.org/press/press-statements/the-ipc...
There are trade offs that can be made that are inherent to the space.

There are a handful of hashing methods in papers, and each can have its parameters tuned, again making trade offs for things like efficiency or accuracy.

Then when it comes to efficient searching through hashes for matches and fuzzy matches, there are common algorithms and data structures used across perceptual hashing systems, each with with their own trade offs, implementation details and parameters that can be tuned.

If there's an issue with PhotoDNA that doesn't come down to a poor implementation, then there's a good chance that other systems might have met the same pitfalls they did. And if it comes down to a poor implementation, it would be prudent for operators of other systems to make sure their own systems don't make the same mistakes.
Disappointing. The first 2/3 of the thread was pretty good, nice narrative with pictures. The twitter format sucks though.
I really don't think being called a Youtuber is meant as negative. I take issue with how the writer chose to present this story. If this was about the intricacies of ad revenue on YouTube for example, great, no need to specify he also has a physics degree. But I'm disappointed to see them paint him as just a guy who "likes to break down funky science" (and made 10k off a physicist) when he is more than that, with relevance to the actual story. For someone who doesn't know his work, he might as well be one of the guys burning snow with lighters a few months ago to prove its fake snow...
They seem to take inspiration from ER teams or the military

It’s probably nothing but overestimation but I feel like I’m seeing more of this later in my career than I did early on, or maybe I’m paying more attention?

Whatever it is: past experience (which includes coming from a military family in the states) has taught me to avoid companies that crib unnecessary amounts of jargon, lingo and colloquialisms from the military.

Curious if others have noticed or even feel the same and what your experiences have been for feeling similarly?
You can uninstall Dropbox. You cannot uninstall Photos.
> The secret sauce ingredient is the idle battery life. The Android devices I used -- all 13 of them, without exception -- routinely lost anywhere from 15% to 40% battery when I was out and about without me picking them up even once.

I think Android and newer chips have mostly fixed this. The Pixel 5 on my desk right now has gone from 100% to 81% in the last 7.5 hours with 1.25 hours of screen on time during that period. Last week, I had a session of 18 hours with screen on of 4.5 hours that went from 100% to 34%. IMO, idle draw is likely still a little higher, but then again I run a lot of little background apps (eg, tasker, the pebble app, wear os connectivity and others).

Most of my previous Android devices wouldn't have fared nearly so well, even back when I cared enough to spend time trying to find wakelock culprits. Thankfully, I haven't needed to do that in years either. :)
The necessary bulk of the airship for human transportation is a serious crimp in the practicality of such a solution. Technology can't make the bag small enough because it is limited by physics.

Even if we could build ultra-rigid and outrageously light bags that could have all of the air pumped out for a vacuum you still need a fairly large balloon to carry people. One person would displace 70 meter^3 of air, not counting anything else. That's not going to fit in your driveway.
I really don't see Amish as hypocritical when they hire a car or take the train. They are using the absolute minimum of tech that lets them get on with their life, I suppose Stallman is doing the same when he borrows a phone, otherwise avoiding them to the best of his ability.
>tons of transport fuel for lots of driving, and high heating/cooling costs due to detached, poorly insulated buildings.

We have fixes for these don't we? Electric cars + solar panels could go a long way towards reducing this emissions source. I wonder if the government just aggressively subsidies solar + electric so much so that alternatives go out of business that we might just accelerate the solution to this problem.

The core issue is that people want the suburban lifestyle and they will not downgrade unless the government incentivizes them to or they are forced to due to climate disaster at their doorstep.
As the article points out, an entire function doesn't need to be CTFE compatible, only the particular path taken through the function by the interpreter.

This makes constexpr more of an impediment than an enabler.

Besides, people soon discover the utility of using functions at both compile and run time, and nobody has ever asked for D to require an annotation for it in 15 years.
So do we need some "privateers" or would that be too dangerous?
Coffee is for closers^W quoters. ABQ.

Always. Be. Quoting.

Also, you should be checking your Bash scripts with shellcheck, which will tell you when to do this with ~99% accuracy.

(For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrhSLf0I-HM)
somewhat unrelated but wouldn't this also defeat the purpose of a space elevator? It seems that also would only save on the vertical part. I realize I'm almost certainly wrong but I'm curious why.
You're describing rockoons [1], which were used for launching (non-orbital) sounding rockets back in the 1950s.

I think they fell out of use as high altitude jet aircraft became more common and economical as a launch platform.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockoon
I actually completely agree with what you wrote, so it's weird that we disagree about the carbon taxes. Sure, carbon taxes are going to reduce the demand for certain types of goods due to basic economics. But taxes also bless certain things as acceptable, as long as you pay your indulgences. It puts the onus on the rubes, the masses, to stop doing that.

People talk about eco-fascism and really heavy-handed things like outright bans on certain activities. Frankly, I think what is coming will be worse. It will be eco-anarchy. Mad max style where billionaires and ex-oil executives will be hunted.

It really isn't the rubes' fault. If you give a monkey a banana, he will eat the banana and throw the peel over his shoulder. If you give a monkey a bag of chips, he will eat the chips and throw the bag over his shoulder. Who's responsible? The monkey or the craven bastard who cooked up plastic chip bags to expand their market to every monkey in the world? Same principle. The bastards who are responsible are those producers who set the menu of choices and slip crack into their products on the sly so the monkeys get addicted. And then they blame monkeys and think monkeys should pay a chip-bag tax while they fuck off to New Zealand. Yeah, they will he hunted.
Fantastic paper all around, and truly amazing results. The supercomputers they used at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have a mind-blowing amount of computational power, enough to make anyone training machine learning models a bit envious.

Here are quotes from the abstract:

> we trained two auto-regressive models (Transformer-XL, XLNet) and four auto-encoder models (BERT, Albert, Electra, T5) on data from UniRef and BFD containing up to 393 billion amino acids.

> The protein LMs (pLMs) were trained on the Summit supercomputer using 5616 GPUs and TPU Pod up-to 1024 cores.

> Dimensionality reduction revealed that the raw pLM-embeddings from unlabeled data captured some biophysical features of protein sequences.

> We validated the advantage of using the embeddings as exclusive input for several subsequent tasks: (1) a per-residue (per-token) prediction of protein secondary structure (3-state accuracy Q3=81%-87%); (2) per-protein (pooling) predictions of protein sub-cellular location (ten-state accuracy: Q10=81%) and membrane vs. water-soluble (2-state accuracy Q2=91%).

> For secondary structure, the most informative embeddings (ProtT5) for the first time outperformed the state-of-the-art without multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) or evolutionary information thereby bypassing expensive database searches.

> Taken together, the results implied that pLMs learned some of the grammar of the language of life.
SpaceX stacks Starship atop booster for first time to make tallest rocket
This is the correct answer!
I don't disagree, but "clearly communicated and well structured" seem to be a very difficult standard for design teams.

I work with designers both internally at my company and designers from listed companies who provide us designers and so often they fall into the trap of designing something that looks great when everything is perfect (i.e. headlines are reasonable, photos are beautiful, content neatly wraps the container) and then fall short when reality hits, i.e. the photos the client wants to use is very visually unimpressive, headlines are much more lengthy than the design accounted for and can't be cut because of legal/marketing reasons, some entries don't have all fields...

Invariably it's often me who fixes their shortcomings. They are fortunate that I have a lot of design experience so I know how to improvise on the fly. But really, it shouldn't have gotten to this point, it's trivial to study the true type of content a site or app is going to use, and make the design resilient to the type of variations that are likely to occur given the type of content.

How does this relate to grid breaking? Well a lot of these same designers don't care for systems and this is just a symptom of that. Might as well throw out that style guide they gave me because they aren't even following their own rules, be it the grid they provided, the specific font sizes they use, spacing, etc.
why would someone decide for others what they want or don't want?

you can get a paying gig with apps even if you don't have a stable job record, prior convictions, bad credit, history of addiction or mental health issues or whatnot, you don't need to pass excruciating rounds of "background checks" and interviews which would filter you out because you're poor or look different

People can raise themselves from poverty and support their family, even with these temp gigs you can pay your bills and avoid eviction, how arrogant and patronizing someone can be to deny people a honest way to make a living
It seems like you could make it popular with a carbon dividend to every citizen. If you use less carbon than average, by god you make money!

But most times the tax is proposed, special interests on the left insist the revenue must be spent on <pet cause> & sink the whole effort.
Not only control where the fire is, but do so with materials light enough for an airship. It's a hard problem.
It'll play out like the recycling/renewables industry. Some people will do things that are easy and catchy, there will be some net gains, but much of it will eventually turn to barely break-even or worse, like the unsustainable single-stream recycling or trendy-but-usually-fails-before-breaking-even things like reusable straws.

The world is just going to change and we'll either figure out how to live with it (probably) or we won't (if there's a mass biome collapse that leaves us foodless, unless we can generate 9B people's worth of food from bacteria or something).
All good questions.

Yes, cash debits and checks lead to an automatic sales of securities.

You can configure the liquidation, e.g. to the Tax Efficient strategy, which minimizes capital gains taxes by selling shares with the lowest returns first.

We sometimes can't sell quickly enough, e.g. when you withdraw money at the ATM on the weekend, and then you would be paying for a margin loan until we sell your securities (usually the next trading day). It's just Fidelity's normal margin rate, we don't add any spread on top of that.

Manually moving money around is possible but it has some drawbacks. 1) Even with the best manual management, you do need to keep some buffer of money for unexpected withdrawals, and that money earns you essentially zero returns. 2) Fine grained manual management is pretty tedious.
The $7 lightening to headphone converter. Restores your good headphones to iPhone compatibility.
> It's all putting good for yourself over good for your customer and good for your employer.

Wouldn't this not happen if the employers just paid more? From what I understand, people do resume-driven development because they want to work at a place that will pay more at some point.
> the title is a bit misleading

Was it the original title? Neither Reuter's article nor the study is titled as such.

> but admits that

This is a study by a university in China. Not sure what you mean by "admit"? It's the fact that a large amount of greenhouse emission is driven by a handful of cities predominantly in China. It's also the fact that, per capita, Western countries still emit more.

> instead, our collective complacency and greed drives us to subtly blame developing countries striving for parity with the west, rather than tackling the problem with economic might and wild abandon

Perhaps you have a bigger point to make, because this article is very far from blaming. Also, the same point is essentially regurgitated in every article mentioned China's or India's responsibility in fighting pollution. Make no mistake, they do bear large responsibility, if only because they control over what can happen within their borders.
I recall a court case where a police officer was convicted of possessing CSAM on his computer. The files were encrypted so the prosecution was not able to view them, but they were able to demonstrate that the encrypted files contained known images, I believe by encrypting a known image with the same public key and demonstrating that the result was binary identical. Obviously this wouldn't work except for unmodified files including cropping, scaling and editing metadata.
It's the second one. This kerfluffle was started by Blackrock moving into real estate. Blackrock is a retail investment-management company that everyone from the middle class up invests with.

So, it's not really "you will own nothing and be happy about it", but rather "you will own 0.1% of 1000 houses rather than 100% of 1 house, and be happy about it."
"capitalism should sort it out"

Oh, you sweet summer child!