skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd look at The Economist, though that's still very much old school Washington Consensus (but not as US centric as most US news). I consider it quite reliable.

For alternate view points, and to see how other societies frame things, you could look at Spiegel (Germany), Al Jazeera (Qatar), RT (Russia), Global Times (China). With the last two, you definitely enter the territory of propaganda.

- Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/international/ (Note: English articles only published every few days)

> one of continental Europe's most influential magazines. […] The magazine plays the role of opinion leader in the German press. […] The Atlantic claimed that "Der Spiegel has long peddled crude and sensational anti-Americanism."

Sample: "It’s Time to Cut Funding for Orbán. Hungarian President Viktor Orbán and other like-minded populists are trampling on the EU’s values with growing disregard. Europe has an effective option for taking action and it is time to use it: We need to cut Hungary’s EU funds."

- Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com

> The network is sometimes perceived to have mainly Islamist perspectives, promoting the Muslim Brotherhood, and having a pro-Sunni and an anti-Shia bias in its reporting of regional issues. […] According to The Atlantic magazine, Al Jazeera presents a far more moderate, Westernized face than Islamic jihadism or rigid Sunni orthodoxy. […] The channel is considered by some to be a propaganda channel of the Qatari government.

Sample: "The US is leaving Afghanistan, but what is it leaving behind? After 20 years of direct intervention, Washington decides that the future of Afghanistan is for its people to decide."

- RT: https://www.rt.com

> RT has been described as a major propaganda outlet for the Russian government and its foreign policy. Academics, fact-checkers, and news reporters […] have identified RT as a purveyor of disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Sample: "Stop obsessing about Moscow & fix human rights violations in your own backyard, Russian embassy in Washington tells US State Dept" or "Critical race theory is bringing back segregation to America, and turning the clock back to the 1960s"

- Global Times: https://www.globaltimes.cn/index.html

> has been labelled as "China's Fox News" by some scholars and writers for its propagandistic slant and the monetization of nationalism. It is part of a broader set of Chinese state media outlets that constitute the Chinese government's propaganda apparatus

Sample: "US, Taiwan crossing the red line will create historic opportunity for PLA fighter jets to fly over island. If US and Taiwan's tricks continue, a major crisis in the Taiwan Straits will doomed to take place." or "Largest HK opposition group likely to disband; city no longer secessionism hotbed"
And they'll charge you the full seat price for it :/
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Growing up in the 80s/90s. In my kid social groups. This is how I categorized the brands;

* Nikes were fashion mixed with athletics and performance and also high quality manufacturing. Add to it what they did with the branding and it's no wonder they are king of the hill. It was my preference then and now.

* Reebok was a Nike knock off with gimmicks like pumps. Pumps were awesome and super hyped at the time. It's the only Reebok I've ever owned and it popped while playing basketball at school :(

* Adidas were pure fashion. I have had a lot of Adidas in my life. But I've had way more Adidas clothing than shoes. Even within the shoe category, it's like the same pair I've had 20 times in different colors (you know the ones). I've had about 2 pairs of shoes that were not those.
They're good tips. I went on a productivity binge late last year, and all the books I read boil down to a few things.

1) Get as much information out of your head as possible. Store it somewhere you can find it later, but the specifics don't matter.

2) Segment your tasks into something you can reasonably accomplish in a given time. If you don't get it done you either misunderstood the task or the timeslots, review and try againt later.

3) Start. Just start. It doesn't even have to be something you had on your list. Just decide to do a thing, then do it.

Add analogies and anecdotes, bribe the NYT Best Seller list, and book yourself on the Today Show. Being a productivity writer is easy!
Yes, this. Google and Facebook make it super easy to advertise. Whenever I've tried to advertise on Reddit, nothing shows up, I have no idea why, and the advertising UI gives me no clues.
The SPAC has >500mln in Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) commitments.
Nah, he was talking to me. We had that kind of a relationship where this stuff was always going to be considered funny, not offensive. We did tone it down a lot when other people were around because this kind of banter can be misinterpreted by third parties ("oh my god, what terrible things is he going to say to me if they speak like that to each other").
Mount Etna is 100 feet taller than it was 6 months ago
Along the same lines, I'd be interested in seeing what is the difference in incorrect arrests in communities with facial recognition and without. Its terrible that anyone is falsely accused, but if the use of the technology decreases incorrect arrests thats a valuable trade-off.
But doesn't this 7 day limit only apply if you load a third party script that uses IndexedDB into your site?

Webkit says in your source:

> It is not the intention of Intelligent Tracking Prevention to delete website data for first parties in web applications.
Just keep the lie going.

I keep writing shit code - i am just lucky it doesn‘t look or run like shit, so nobody realizes. And i charge way too much for things that make my clients rich and work pretty good but are actually not good enough. And these idiots are falling for it happily and come back. I always thought of myself as an honest guy, though it seems that I am not. But then: who is.

Honestly: I just hope some day this feeling parts.
I don't see any evidence that any actual otherwise-qualified people are saying they would like these jobs but are unable to get them due to any hurdles at all - I do see advocacy groups insisting that percentages themselves are evidence that there must be such people, but aren't able to produce any examples.
Alternatively thermochecmical production [1] with thermal energy provided by nuclear. But yes, presently over 95% of hydrogen is produced through steam reformation which consists of knocking the hydrogen out of methane and producing C02 and hydrogen (CH4 + O2 -> C02 + 2H2).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermochemical_cycle
Eh, I completely agree that this is a step too far, but the solution is so simple. Stop using Apple devices - luckily I switched from iOS to CalyxOS when my iPhone 7 broke earlier this year. Honestly, it wasn't so bad.
>someone who has played Bach for 20 years has a deeper understanding of (his) music than someone who listened for ten minutes

See, there it is again. The snobbery. We are discussing art, not music theory. No, one that has played Bach for 20 years cannot by default appreciate art better than someone who just heard Bach for the first time. It is exactly the same as saying only a mechanic who have worked on cars for 20 years can appreciate a good sports car or only a doctor can appreciate the human body. It is pure elitist nonsense! Just because you know the theory behind how something is made doesn't mean you are better at appreciating it. Far from it. Using all kinds of theory on, say, a book will often ruin it.

It is those who have used a lot of time on theory that want to believe they are better, not those without the theory that understand art less.
The only information I could find claims that about 22% of reddit is NSFW. They calculated the percentage of NSFW subreddits with >100k subscribers. [1]

That's far from a perfect way to measure this, but it's around the statistic that 30% of the internet is porn. My intuition tells me Reddit probably reflects the internet as a whole pretty well.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/f94j0y/oc_...
> we all have different blind spots.

I'm not going to dabble in your cultural representations because I think they're a bit dangerous. I will say that maintaining the idea that we have blind spots is good, overaddressing this is usually called "hand wringing" and is equally prohibitive. To me, it's about having a mix of the two. Think about things critically, but accept that you are not in total control of the world and that any good solution takes iteration and learning.
Actually webbloatscore.com says 2,062 kB and 88 requests.
So... this is the way I understand it, which the general public will never have the attention span to understand, so it doesn't fucking matter one bit.

LEO's/FBI/every other institution/group that deals with child pornography and abuse have teams that go through a near infinite amount of pictures and videos of CP/etc.

These are then marked by said people as either - yes, CP/Abuse/etc - or marked false positive.

Once marked as what they're after, they're uploaded to a shared database between all groups involved.

Only what is in these worldwide national databases is what's going to be checked against. Your new pictures of your children will have obviously never made their way to any of these groups as they've never been shared/distributed in any areas of the internet/etc these people work in to track down trafficking rings (well, I'd hope you're not selling pictures of your children to them).

This is the way I understand it. I admit I haven't looked into it that much. If it's anything different than what I've said, then yeah, it's probably fucked. I don't get what people don't understand about checking against a database though. No, your new pictures of whatever are not in this pre-existing database
Think of the children. What is it kids want? Especially kids that are being hurt? Someone to talk to. Someone they can trust.

Can we make a chatbot that is provably local or erased, anonymous, open, and yet able to offer meaningful support or assistance?

Can we offer communication channels with similar reassurances to kids who need them?

As for using technology to fight crime, see how the quality of your local police IT infrastructure looks. There's alot of room for improvement there and its all stuff that "tech" is really good at, paperwork replacement and information access.
But some of those technical points are important. Parent comment was concerned that photos of their own kids will get them in trouble - it appears the system was designed to explicitly to prevent that.
Is it just me, or is Reddit broken in some way about 10% of the time now?

Overall, the site just seems janky. It used to be reliable and fast, say 3 years ago, but now it seems to choke on the higher load. I frequently encounter issues with comments not loading, karma not displaying, etc.
Nike is the innovation leader. They have actual scientists and engineers on staff. The other companies mainly wait to see what Nike comes up with and then copy it. Or they just forego performance all together and just make lifestyle products.
If you’re not crazy about this advice, is there an alternative resource you would recommend for securing an app stack with a nodejs backend?
If they were making money, they wouldn't have to keep taking VC money, and further diluting their ownership.
Are you teaching a junior at work? What's the context?
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Yeah, pretty much agree. The problem of being lazy about constness is that when you finally get your act together and think about it, you'll wind up having these huge "viral" chains of const-fixes to do. The code will be better for it, but you'll wind up changing long chains of things to be const.
Yeah. The developers hardcode (eg) 100 validators into the client. Transactions need to be signed by 67 of them. Why not require only 51?

Maybe there could be a permissionless way to get all clients to deterministically agree on who the validators are...maybe using something called proof of work...

I've considered a completely different system called proof-of-fee that has no miners or stakers:

- Each transaction pays a fee (that is either redistributed or burned)

- The best blockchain is the one with the most fees paid

- Each transaction signs the previous block

- The blockchain length is limited to 1 block per 15 seconds

- Nodes put their own transactions into the current block or make a new block with it (depending on if the blockchain length is maxed out) and broadcast it. No miners or stakers, everyone's equal.

Therefore, in order to replace a buried transaction (to double-spend), you'd need to pay more fees than all the transactions in blocks that were burying your old one. This would be unprofitable for deeply buried transactions.

There would be a lot of reorganization going on around the blockchange time at the 15 second mark, but that's an engineering problem.
Sure, I'm not denying any problems with the GCC codebase and/or how RMS handles GNU software.

Just pointing that reinventing the wheel is not necessarily a bad thing or a waste of time.
I think Scott Alexander’s piece on slippery slopes and Schelling fences [1] does a nice job delineating between good- and bad-faith slippery slope arguments.

“Slippery slopes legitimately exist wherever a policy not only affects the world directly, but affects people's willingness or ability to oppose future policies.”

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Kbm6QnJv9dgWsPHQP/schelling-...
Shoes that have lead to software being developed to purchase all available inventory as fast as possible.

See exhibits
A: https://www.nikeshoebot.com/
B: https://ganeshbot.com/
C:https://cybersole.io/

And there's a lot more out there
>How long until media players and display devices are hashing all of our media to check for copyright violations.

It has been rumored back in the day that WMP 10-12 would be like that.
No, they did not. That was erroneous reporting by the Telegraph that a lot of outlets copied [0].

The correction:

> This story originally said Apple screens photos when they are uploaded to iCloud, Apple’s cloud storage service. Ms Horvath and Apple’s disclaimer did not mention iCloud, and the company has not specified how it screens material, saying this information could help criminals.

And from the interview with TechCrunch:

> This is an area we’ve been looking at for some time, including current state of the art techniques which mostly involves scanning through entire contents of users’ libraries on cloud services that — as you point out — isn’t something that we’ve ever done; to look through users’ iCloud Photos.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/01/08/apple-scan...
https://archive.is/SDjAq
Decarbonization can largely be achieved by replacing electricity production and fuels with carbon neutral processes. Nuclear power for power plants can do the former effectively anywhere where there is demand for power. The latter is trickier. Batteries work for things like cars, but don't have the energy density required for applications like transoceanic transportation. But that's where the prospect of hydrogen fuel comes into play. Industrial applications, like smelting, is another big application of fossil fuels that hydrogen can supplant.
Well, one issue I have with this new version is that it has somehow reverted the behavior for opening URLs to using a Thunderbird tab. Figured it out pretty quickly when I tried to use a link and then login, and the form didn't work. Cannot find a setting for this anywhere, and some places suggest installing an Add-On just to change this setting!

Tried to follow this:
https://www.lifewire.com/change-the-default-browser-in-thund...

But http/https are not in my list of content providers. Only PDF!
I routinely override web fonts in Firefox by deselecting "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above". This would solve the desktop web interface. I use Verdana a lot for this purpose. Chromium browsers don't seem to have this override font option. Now you have found a new reason to love Firefox, you're welcome!

For mobile devices, you will have to use a third party app.

Sometimes, the corporately-chosen font is just empirically bad.
I too had the original Shaq Rebook pumps. Did you pick up one of these?

https://i.imgur.com/MLtw137.jpg

Another gimmick to mess around with. The instant inflation tool (has a CO2 cartridge in it). Circa 1992 it seemed cool as a young kid, fun to mess with for a couple of weeks during school - up to the point where you had to buy the replacement cartridges for something entirely unnecessary.
Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds
According to https://www.bts.dot.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/docs/FFF_201..., the US is the same (see page 15)

50% of freight (by volume) is under 100 miles. 84% under 500 miles.

It'll take years to transition new truck sales to 84% electric. By that time the batteries will improve: cheaper, lighter / more energy dense and therefore we will make trucks that go even more than 500 miles.
Don't you think that Apple has their own attorneys and lawyers?
to me, this seems like an opportunity for new advertisers that don't care about "their brand showing up next to porn"

is there a market rational reason why this hasn't occurred, or are the primary places that happen to also have adult content just assuming advertisers won't use their platform

sure, big fortune 500 ad spends are lucrative, but so is the aggregate of every single half baked idea that has to test the waters with targeted ads
1) I think that Nike is a brand that got endorsements right. Adidas was slow to jump on the big shoe deal and they have way fewer deals than Nike.

2) Adidas is a brand that I look to for more classic styles while Nike seems to always be pushing boundaries. Adidas did have a pretty good run with some modern takes(NMDs I liked a lot) but in general I dont like the new styles. Sometimes I like the new styles, but most of the time its just too much for me.

3) Nike was the first that Im aware of to do the user customized versions of their shoes. I think Adidas is doing it now, but IIRC it was less dynamic than Nike allowed.

4) Limited supplies- while this seems counterintuitive limiting the supply of the premium shoes encouraged the collectors to step in. Now instead of hoping the public accepts a $300 dollar sneaker, they jump out and buy as many as they can so they can list them on StockX.
Try using old.reddit.com?
EFF today is really not the organisation it was just a few years ago. I dont know who they hired badly, but the reasoned takedowns have been replaced with hysterical screaming.
Hydrogen is a stupid fuel. There, I said it.

It's hard to store. It leaks away. It has poor energy density by volume (and much of the energy simply goes to compress the damn stuff) - only 3x li-ion, for your trouble. It has a crappy round-trip efficiency - only 50% for water -> electrolysis -> fuel cell. It's just a shitty battery.

The only thing it's got going for it is that it's a way of greenwashing fossil fuels.
Am I correct in assuming that energy use, period, is the problem?

I would love to see how many KWH per person on the entire planet are generated every year by legit clean sources.

Solving global warming = destroying life as we know it.
Why would TDA report a deposit to the IRS? If it’s cash over 10k sure, but otherwise…
whats lemmy? Googling around all I found was articles about the motorhead singer and some weird dead forum from the 2000s about lemmy koopa
> [Edit] OK, I'll list one: permanent war.

Depending on who you ask, conflict deaths per capita have stayed the same or declined since 1990.[1] 1991 had the first Gulf War, The Troubles, the Yugoslav campaign in Croatia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and many more.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/conflict-deaths-per-10000...
How is Madrid unsafe? Have you even been there?

As if London didn't have its own and huge pack of chavs...
And you think this will be the ultimate implementation?

Let the devil in, and he'll treat himself to tea and biscuits.
in "Photos" app, in the bottom right corner there is a "search" icon. When I click it, and entering "beach", I can see photos I've made on the beach (or in the sea, near the beach).

What does it mean? My (and your) photos are scanned and analyzed. I've heard literally zero noise about this feature - nobody was complaining (at least not loud enough to let me notice it).

So, why the hell all of that fuzz is being raised now? You're (and mine) photos will be scanned and analyzed AGAIN. Not by humans, by algorithms. In some really rare cases they might be checked by humans, but you 100% will not have troubles with the law if photos don't contain CSAM.

I have 2 kids and I’m not buying that argument “oh my library of naked photos of my child - I’m in danger”. If you are uploading naked photos of your child to iCloud - it's similar to publishing them. Everything that is uploaded to the Internet, will belong to the Internet, and you don't have so much control of it. If, for some awkward reason, you have sets of naked photos of your child and you want to save them - never ever send them to the Internet.

If you think that not-so-experienced users should not know about this rule - I’m pretty sure they don't even know (or care) about this “scandal”. All of that FUD wave is raised by the journalists and echoes on forums like this one.
In this case it is a younger college student who's interested in web development but hasn't done any CS learning and isn't generally familiar with tech.
No, gruez was talking about how to take the new cash infusion and turn it into market cap. Literally just price of new share times share outstanding. You wanted to know how they decided on the market cap to accept money for. It's a totally different, complex, and non-public process.
Yep, that's deceptive advertising on privacy and everyone bought into it and walked straight into the reality distortion field.

Another innovative 'gotcha' by Apple. A reminder that they are not your friends.
“The biggest reason that Blue is 'behind' SpaceX is the size of the workforce.”
Top soccer cleats cost $250+. At that price point user expect some innovation (material wise), and not just simple sneakers.

Nike has been outcompeting Adidas/Reebok/Puma and others.

Ps. You can buy cheap soccer cleats at $40-50 price point. They are good just for casual users, but for semi-serious players, they just don't cut it as they tend to have inferior materials, and tend to be heavy and not good for people that want some edge.

Especially if you are an older player (35+ yo), the lighter shoes make a huge difference.
I personally think it's fair enough, the company probably claimed it was secure, therefore he must have hacked them. The police reacted, but when he could show it clearly wasn't secure and exposed to the public, they dropped it. And hopefully gave the company a private ticking off about wasting police time.

In the UK, an arrest under reasonable suspicion gives them the right to search your property for evidence, and to be honest they had reasonable suspicion, he had private company documents.

It's not like that company can cry wolf again, the police will be far more skeptical next time of their claims, having dealt with them before.
>have been empowered by those US gifts to society Facebook and Twitter.

Hope you are kidding to us...

FB and Twtr are huge turds full of anti-science mobs composed anti-vaxxers sharing fake news everywhere.

There is more science in all the IRC and Usenet subnets today than in the whole FB network...
The main statement on that site does once more not explain why real criminals just wouldn't use not backdoored software.

Indeed, it just looks like another move in the current crypto-wars.
Can you clarify something that I never understood about this process, are they literally using the loan money to pay themselves?
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Was the front page of anything ever not curated?
And now they're taking huge amounts of money, which means they need to succeed as an advertising company, which means they'll start doing many of those things.