skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know why this has to be continually explained to supposedly intelligent people - wilful ignorance?

Not everyone is from the United States; reasonably sure the person I was replying to isn't (I'm not either).
Short lease in a slick machine: a personal essay about apartments
Examples might benefit your comment.
Last year Sam Harris interviewed Gabriel J.X. Dance, the deputy investigations editor at The New York Times [0]. They speak to this. It's a tough episode to listen to - they cover many uncomfortable topics along this theme.

From what I recall of the episode, porn (rightly or wrongly) is seen as opt-in for the participants. But if children are involved it cannot be opt-in and is more appropriately described as rape or sexual abuse. Thus CSAM is the preferred term.

[0]: https://samharris.org/podcasts/213-worst-epidemic/
The voucher has a low resolution version of the image included with it encrypted within two layers, so Apple, once the threshold has been breached, can view that version of the photo for false positives.
This is quite neat, if not semi-obvious. I'm not sure how it would even be possible to hide the fact that you are visiting a certain website, while still having two-way comms with that IP. How could the ISP route the traffic if they didn't know the source/destination IP?

Clearly the IP address maps to a website, though not always one-to-one. In which case Reverse DNS gets you most of the way there. Presumably, this is better in the case of multiple sites served on the same IP through shared hosting or a CDN. Disambiguating with subqueries makes sense to get that last-mile accuracy.

While TFA claims 95% of sites are identifiable with their method, it also states 68% already would have been from IP alone in the first place. Presumably unique IP + unique resource boosts that higher. So the fingerprinting is perhaps not so dramatic, while requiring a lot more work.

What would be interesting to measure is how many sites _require_ fingerprinting to be uniquely identified. As well, the average number of sites per shared IP - to see how precise IP is even in the shared case.
Bitcoin was born in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the occupy wall street movement.[1] Events where, giant banks and institutions received trillions of dollars in unprecedented bail outs while 'main street' suffered with record unemployment, foreclosures, and destruction of small businesses.

People rightfully realised that perhaps government should not have absolute and total control of the monetary supply and financial system. That a 'Plan B' may be in order.

Unfortunately, today it's 90% people trying to get rich quick.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block
Solving crimes is a minor bonus for society. If they had prevented the driver from killing the teen, then that would have been a much more compelling argument. But people running after a fatal crash doesn't make situation much worse, and the incentive to avoid fatal crashes doesn't change massively if you know for sure that you will be caught rather than being almost entirely sure.
> never bot from mobile devices

;]

> IP reputation

my ISP has, it seems, all of their addresses in a blacklist. The ips are also dynamic.
We need to draw the line somewhere. Maybe this is ok. But where does it end? What if we have a Neuralink-like device? Is there ever a line too far?
> ...awful internet community called KiwiFarms.

The free speech Alamo. It often leads to funny results, like lesbians finding it to be the only place they could complain about some psycho in Canada targeting women operating small businesses - Youtube and Twitter banned several people over it before the Canadian media started covering it. Sometimes it leads to not so funny results, because that is the cost of agency - its kinda crazy that even has to be pointed out... but we seem to be at that point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend
There are lots of things that we could do to solve crimes but we don't because of the negative effects of doing them.

Torture is a good example.
I think for us computer guys, the noise in the office is not something we miss... People interrupting eachother with loud conversations and loud laughing is what I remember. I don't miss it.
I really hate the page turning function on the Kindle.

It seems that the sales people have added a multitude of unwanted functions: Dictionary, highlights, notes, and so many others.

When I attempt to turn the page it will frequently jump into some unwanted function.

And often it will leap to a random page, leaving no way to get back to where I was. And the functions are entirely different between books and magazines.

Just yesterday I lost my place in a book and spent half an hour trying to get back. Eventually I deleted the book entirely and abandoned the Kindle.

From now on I'll be using a tablet to read on. Additionally the tablet can display PDF's which are my main interest.
What daily sources do you read, except HN?
The low resolution version of the images are available (decryptable once the threshold has been met), so there’s evidence whether it is or not illegal material.
Very complementary.

They are going to have synergies obviously around launch (swarm sats are relatively tiny so cost now with spaceX for launch is going to be very low).

Product is also differentiated. You want global low bandwidth (primarily M2M but can also be search and rescue etc) along with the higher bandwidth / power / footprint starlink stuff. Businesses often strugle with being competed against from the bottom - I hope SpaceX keeps the swarm idea going.

Obviously a way to pick up capable engineering talent. If they can do sat to sat comms (I think still an area of some development to really dial in). that's going to be big for everyone - and if swarm can interoperate / get backhaul in space from starlink - amazing.
Could you make a portable version for Windows?
Maybe even work with PortableApps (It will increase exposure).
That's not a captcha. Computations are cheap. This is not really solving anything...
That explanation wouldn't work for the era at the end of the 1800s when Venezuela adopted a USA type constitution that was meant to imitate the USA as closely as possible.
About a week ago a Patrick Mahomes card sold for a record $4.3 million. Not sure it's a money laundering scheme, but perhaps a way of promoting or pumping the price of similar collectibles.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/nfl/chiefs/.amp/news...
> until there is a human set threshold hit by a human programmed algorithm.

Humans at Apple thought nobody would have percent signs in their wifi names.

Programming is hard, not because knowing how to tell the computer what you want is hard, but because thinking about all the ways people will use your software forever is hard.
Too late, the Linux fanboys have already struck!
how does doing computation without human interaction prove you're not a bot? It only proves you're running a browser with javascript enabled on average hardware.
ft.com and economist.com
I use amethyst, it's not as good as i3 but it's the best you can get on a mac imho
The essential page-turn keys.
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According to at least one study cited by Dr. Greger, passively listening to advertising can be even more persuasive than when we actively watch and listen.

Because it doesn't reach our consciousness.

But organizations who have pushed back on relentless advertising in every sector of society have had the right idea for decades.
Whoa - a month ago!
I would want to require:

1) That the source IP address be from a range 'controlled' by the operator of a given AS. This might be proven, semi Out of Band, for a duration by a PKI challenge with a key representing that authority. (Allows distributed services on the same IP anywhere. Fulfillment can be asynchronous if UDP.) Edit: This would also be how to securely claim an AS route; you might still need a link authorized for this level of service.

2) The mentioned feedback mechanism should be coupled with 'do not forward me anything from IP || net/mask for X time' via a similar mechanism. A reason might be provided, reasons of clear abuse MAY be aggregated and used to isolate misbehaving hosts / networks.
I feel like your comment was expressed in sort of a dick way, but I also think it strikes at a truth that’s so deep and needed in our society. So thanks for the comment.
People used to say that by bringing China into the global market, free people's would influence China to be more free. The opposite has actually happened.
...not to speak of "fire hydrants" which I cannot fathom what is the purpose of these damn things. Do people hydrate themselves using fire on the US?
It's always been blatantly obvious that captchas and its variants were primarily to get free work out of people to train their A.Is, not for anything else really.
> or just causing some electrons to be moved around to prove your not a bot?

The problem is spam networks have more computers and more power than your phone does so any proof that you can do, spammers can do 1000x faster. PoW can sort of work when your attack to defend against is a ddos situation where an attacker has to make far more requests than the average user, but most captchas try to defend against bots being able to use the site at all which PoW can not do.
They’re not going after the same customers. AWS is targeting people who are already using AWS and who want to use an ES type service, but without managing their own servers running the ES software. They want something they can plug into their CloudFormation templates and let AWS do all the low-level admin work.

ES the company is going after people who want all the latest bells and whistles and geegaws, and are willing to build and maintain their own ES clusters to make that happen.

Yes, there’s some overlap in the middle, but not much.

And no matter how bad the ES service is on AWS, it will always have a large customer base who will choose it, simply because it’s good enough, as well as easier and lower administrative overhead.

The OpenSearch thing is new. So far as I know, they didn’t create their own forks of MySQL or Postgres and then try to build communities around that. But that is what they’re doing with OpenSearch. IMO, that’s a mistake. They’re better off working with the ES community and contributing changes back to an existing community, as opposed to trying to build and maintain their own separate but equal community.

Sometimes forks are a good idea. Sometimes not. Sometimes those forks live on, and sometimes not. This is a case where I think the fork is a bad idea, I believe it is likely to not live on, and I think a lot of harm will be done on both sides of that war, above and beyond whatever else might have happened if they had just chosen to support the existing ES community.

But that’s just my personal opinion.
A fun story from James Adomian about how Moore wanted to test the Warren Commission's "lone gunman" story of the JFK assassination by carrying out a live fire recreation at Dealey Plaza with himself in the role of Kennedy: https://twitter.com/JAdomian/status/1424233063504965636
Web of Trust is a perfectly fine system but UI-wise a total disaster. There's also the reality that what most people need most of the time is a web of trust that includes government agencies, banks and other major institutions.

For the vast majority of useful communications for users, your web of trust ideally goes You -> Government ID Agency <- Recipient. And that's fine - that's what people actually need. People get scammed or deceived by faking those credentials.
Basically ‘N-word-________’ was used to describe anything that was a shade of black well into the mid 90s. ‘N-word paper’ was used to refer to the tar paper that goes on roofs; ‘n-word toes’ was used to describe a darker toned edible nut. People were (and many still are) pretty ignorant and hateful.
I used to think the two party system was a major driver in polarization and resulting instability in the USA and UK, but I guess people can refuse to listen to each other in any system (Israel, Italy, Sweden).
It’s not a two dimensional plot. This provides some background (though not sure if this is their scheme): https://towardsdatascience.com/importance-of-distance-metric...
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I never understood the no-epub stance of Amazon. Some carefully edited epubs gets botched when transformed by Calibre.

That said, at hardware level the Kindle is hard to beat.
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Reddit, and crypto panic
Appeasing the authoritarians never works. On the contrary, it sets a precedent that is used to make more demands.

The ability to scan for transformation-resistant image fingerprints will be used to identify whistleblowers who disclosed documents that embarrass the powers-that be (think Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner or the Panama Papers). It’s a matter of when, not if.
To give an alternative viewpoint, imagine an open-source project like React being built in GitHub. The code is built, reviewed and maintained by developers for free. When the project is out of beta, if suddenly GitHub says it needs to be paid for anyone to access it and says the new license also prohibits anyone from sharing it. That's the kind of behaviour that we are tolerating with academic publishers.
mathematics is vectorized and declarative
Again, this has nearly nothing to do with the actual costs involved with turning energy into electricity. We are how many comments deep and you've failed to explain anything about your original comment?

This sort of bullshitting attitude is why nuclear gets a really bad name. It's supporters do not understand it well enough. And if recent history is any guide, neither do nuclear's practitioners.
> but providing safer transportation.

Which will be available any day now, probably as early as 2018 if experts on the field can be believed. Some would even go so far as state that by 2025 private car ownership will be a thing of the past.

> that is not a social good?

Hype, empty promises and constantly moving deadlines. If this goes on we will have commercial fusion reactors before self driving has any positive impact outside of heavily supervised trials.
I really hope that school officials budgeted $X for student activities, and then let the students vote in some way how they wanted their activity funds to be spent, and this is what the student body chose.
Jumping to a random page is really, the biggest issue with my Kindle. I could never figure out what causes it, so I could avoid triggering it.

Does anyone know?
Nuclear, problem solved
> there is no virtue in negativity or pessimism

if we're oblivous to even the smallest things (boring pictures) that negatively impact us, we hinder ourselves to making the world better. And that's not something we want, everything is shit already.

Oh and this whole "Just don't" dissmissal... Check your privilege, man, and develop some damn empathy.
These are large-diameter / high pressure connections to the local water main. Firetrucks carry water, of course, but it's limited. The hydrant allows them to attach a hose and pull in additional water.

It seems that they have them in many countries, but they are often underground rather than the pillar type used in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hydrant
Yes but they have since flipped to such a degree that many people overestimate their risk of hospitalization or death from infection by 10 times or more. The consistent messaging since March 2020 has been that you should be deathly afraid of Covid, no matter your age or comorbidities.
Ok I think we are still talking a pretty healthy buffer here
> Unfortunately, today it's 90% people trying to get rich quick.

And that is, unsurprisingly (and quite banally), used by many detractors to dismiss it all while handwaving away:

> Bitcoin was born in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the occupy wall street movement.[1] Events where, giant banks and institutions received trillions of dollars in unprecedented bail outs while 'main street' suffered with record unemployment, foreclosures, and destruction of small businesses.

> People rightfully realised that perhaps government should not have absolute and total control of the monetary supply and financial system.

Like people still hand wave away all the metadata and other work-arounds to compromising popular crypto systems that are highly touted because they are popular/convenient/etc or all the "get rich quick" mentality/motivations that exist outside of cryptocurrencies and have always existed…
Hmmm. Would that be the same Alex Stamos who was Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo when they had one of the worst hacks ever, then at Facebook when they were used to subvert American democracy? He’s good at failing upwards, I’ll give you that. I don’t know why I waited so long to officially flip the bozo bit on him by adding him to my feed reader’s filter list.
This kind of stuff still applies today, to commercial software and open source as well.

https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
Depends on age and context doesn't it? Is a 17 year old snapchatting their private parts to her 17 year old boyfriend CSAM?

Should both parties be imprisoned and go on sex offenders registries for life?
The flag includes an uploaded copy of the image, so that too will be verified before your life is destroyed.
Maybe they discovered this "the teachings" of this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryke_Geerd_Hamer
Good point on the DDOS. Didn't think of it that way.
While a language with GC, can still allow for RAII and value allocations while handling lot more.
While that's in theory, reality is much more harsh. Treble implementations vary greatly between OEMs. For example, Samsung phones don't have mobile data working because of proprietary RIL used by Samsung. Also, Treble compatibility often breaks on newer versions of Android, especially for Pixels (which is quite ironic). Treble is really meant to make the job easier for OEMs and ROM devs to continue supporting a device. The GSI is really meant as a way to certify Treble.
Not sure what's dickish about it to be honest.
Ftfa

> They can perform more operations in one second than a human could in one hundred years.

Please identify the traffic lights.

We suck at abstractions, but I think we’re still winning there.
> Is this just speculation or do you know more examples where he did this?

I'm going by the article at the top of this thread, which is the source for the "Russia" passage we're discussing.
More like useless against counties that have nuclear weapons. There are probably only nine[1] of those.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...]
I fundamentally disagree with you that web of trust is hard.

There are much harder problems solved in easy to use ways, there’s just very little financial gain for this problem.
If it happens by itself (no interaction from you) it's likely a fault. I've had that happen on a Kindle before and had to send it back.

But the most common cause for me is when trying to tap the right part of the screen to move to the next page, I end up tapping a small link instead that jumps deeper into the book. Very annoying when it happens.
Excellent idea! I purchased the lifetime tier :)
you can't go faster. I know a lot of people find this video helpful in conceptualizing things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au0QJYISe4c&list=FLZv-uS789B...
Thanks! I was being facetious because I actually looked what they were after a few captchas. Indeed, there are many of those in my country but they don't look at all like that, typically being attached to the walls of the buildings, or covered underground.
Easy, return of shareware and public domain.

That is what dual licensing is, only with rejuvenated names for a newer generation born after FOSS became mainstream and found out money needs to be earned somehow.
The only thing I know about Skynews Australia is that they were recently blocked from YouTube for spreading made up nonsense about Covid and vacation.

I take they write and say with extreme caution.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/06/sky-n...
If only Zig had Multi Dispatch and built in support for arrays (Vector, Matrix, Tensor).
Love for 7-Eleven steals the show at Tokyo Olympics
Great work! How much the default settings cost monthly?
This is the line and it's not ok. I am astounded that anyone here is entertaining the idea that it is somehow ok. Take out the "CSAM" noun from the equation - it really poisons the argument with emotion. "Apple devices check your files against government blacklist" is the headline, and not enough of us are saying "no."
Thank you! Enjoy
This really brings home how different the western democracies are in terms of their attitudes to personal freedom - I can't even imagine a system where an american would have to apply to a government bureaucrat for permission to travel to support a sick relative and their family.

I initially thought the denial was based on the risk to the immunosuppressed daughter, but the article says the patient was vaccinated and willing to undergo a 14 day quarantine (plus covid test I assume?), so the risk to the patient seems negligible. And, you know, maybe the adult daughter and her mom could decide for themselves?
It was an interesting question for me as well, because I never stopped to think of why I didn't see these in certain cities abroad and how they fight fires in those cities.
With at least a billion baseband exploits. Smartphones are bad, but switching back to feature phones is arguably worse in these regards.
“It’s too complicated to fix it” is a near cousin of “it’s too complicated for you to understand”, sometimes this assertions are true, but some other times are just driven by the person fear of change. In a chess move, when it has not a very obvious outcome, the ramifications are so numerous that only the keen eye of an expert with thousands of games on their back can predict how it is going to affect the game and ending. In fixing the academia publishing industry there currently exists 0 experts that can predict that so any random guy’s guess is as good as anyones
https://lobste.rs

And a few Substacks I pay for like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tracey, Bari Weiss, Abigail Shrier, Karen Hunt, Aaron Mate etc. Also I am a paid subscriber of Viva Frei/Robert Barnes Locals page as well as Steven Crowder's Mug Club.
One difference (in this article at least) is that there are no jokes or unnecessary cultural references.

Another might be called moral clarity. Unfortunately, it's usually an illusion. We have much more experience with technologies invented under optimistic assumptions turning out to be a moral gray area at best, when you look at how they're used.

I found this paper interesting:

The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
'The only way to hold the line on privacy in the information age is strong cryptography.'
> the owner mightn't even know what that is.

That's a problem of literacy, but it is still their fault and their responsibility as owners of the site.
This is where Tor shines: you never connect to the destination IP directly, so this kind of tracing is made much harder.
With multiple layers of middlemen, it's possible the vendors don't even know what the source is.