skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And why would anybody be more interested in framing somebody with an image that looks so similar to child porn that it convinces dozens of professional child-porn investigators and yet technically isn't, instead of just sending the actual child porn?

They neeed to already have the original image to make the hash collision. In your scenario, what does the attacker gain from sending a visually-indistinguishable collider instead of the original?
Wouldn’t there be any number of visiting students, academics, speakers, researchers, research partners, study participants, etc?

My university was crawling with non-university people who were legitimately there.
> "don't have state on the machine that isn't tracked in a repo somewhere"

https://docs.chef.io/chef_solo/
> Don’t call yourself a programmer: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.”

That's a perfect description of what I do. I'm proudly a Programmer.
"Sorry, I must've misplaced it somewhere - thanks though I'll make sure to find it now."
Such a purge, given that the representation of east and south asian students in incoming class remains considerably above local data.

The new system does not consider race explicitly. The largest change in demographics is on students on free-and-reduced lunch, so the usual concerns of "but you should consider class rather than race" don't make much sense here. We've also seen huge increases in the number of neuro-atypical admits. Concerns that the system would just replace asian students with white students were also unfounded.

Further, the system proposed by activists (the merit lottery, which was rejected in large part due to opposition by folks like Asra) does not even include the "holistic" elements that critics claim hide anti-asian bias, yet this system was called racist all the same. I've personally had people call me a racist as well as somebody who "hates excellence" for my support of the merit lottery. Asra (the author of this piece) has specifically called several of my friends a lot of very nasty names.

I am also a TJ grad. I also personally think the fact that there is limited access to the education offered there is fundamentally stupid and that people should step back and consider why 13 year olds (and younger, my parents were provided a path to TJ for me when I was four) need to compete over this access.
That's not related to iMessage - that's an iCloud photo library thing. iCloud photo library has never been E2EE.
If somebody is seeking a position of power and/or trust from the public, then the public should get the same information about that person that we'd allow an employer to ask for about a prospective employee. So their qualifications for the job, how they intend to do the job, how they've done in similar jobs before, and how they've handled similar types of trust in the past.

Otherwise, frankly, fuck the public.
It still exists in the form of different “street gangs” and “the mob” families. They just don’t happen to run regions outlined by political boundaries. These are people who otherwise are very much alike but will inflict violence upon the other as necessary.
He was probably one of the biggest users that day, so that makes sense.

The 2,400 pages, assuming a 50 KB average gzipped size, equate to 120 MB of transfer. I'm assuming CPU usage is negligible due to CDN caching, and so bandwidth is the main cost. 120 MB is orders of magnitude less transfer than the 18.5 GB dump.

Instead of the dumps, he could have used the API -- but would that have significantly changed the costs to the Wikimedia foundation? I think probably not. In my experience, the happy path (serving anonymous HTML) is going to be aggressively optimized for costs, eg caching, CDNs, negotiated bandwidth discounts.

If we accept that these kinds of projects are permissible (which no one seems to be debating, just the manner in which he did the project!), I think the way this guy went about doing it was not actually as bad as people are making it out to be.
A straightforward way to extend CSV with metadata
Looking good! I'm too invested in my own config, but will definitely look for some ideas to steal :)

Random remark: lots of Dutch words contain "jk", so insert-remapping that to <ESC> can be quite confusing to some people.
> Meanwhile this machine consists of one big aluminum extrusion and a thin extrusion.

With long cantilevers (i.e., supported at only one end) on both, to boot. Long cantilever, thin material = slop.

Even a small bench top lathe has hundreds of pounds of cast iron in the bed and ways, as you said.

That aside, a lot of the jobs they show in the video (pen-plotting, wood-burning, 3d printing, etc.) don't really demand a huge amount of rigidity. I wouldn't want to try any serious milling or turning with this machine, for sure, but for those jobs it looks like a totally reasonable design.

And I do like the fact that it's designed to be 3D printed itself (other than the extrusions and stepper motors, etc.), so well done on that.
It's not stabilizing if the economy is in a death spiral of failing interdependent companies who can't produce machines for each other.
Oh that one - yeah I've always steered clear of DataContractJsonSerializer. Never understood why they did it so weird.

To be fair, RFC 3339 wasn't even published back when this class was implemented (in .NET 3.5) so I guess they just went with whatever worked for their needs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Indeed, that's a very difficult line to draw. In the US we have the concept of a public figure, and I'll admit I have no idea how that's actually defined. That being said I've also wondered if it's too blunt a concept. Are public figures entitled to any privacy, and if so, where is that line? I see celebrities being hounded by paparazzi while trying to go about their daily lives, for example, and while I understand the principles behind why that's legal, I have to imagine it's a real drag.
This is how America was conceived as well. Democracy was not meant to be universal and there were checks placed even on the limited portion of society who could vote.

The electoral college, for example, is set up this way. The idea is that electors—who were not democratically elected—could block a populist candidate.

As we saw in 2016, this check failed.
Yeah I agree that some people genuinely need these drugs and didn't intend to imply otherwise - I reworded my statement to be more clear.
One thing I know some schools offer is, IIRC, auditing classes. I did this at UT a few years ago. You basically pay a filing fee and then can attend classes without enrolling. No credits or degree possibility AFAIK, but you get to learn.
I think something's amiss here.

>I participated in the Prosopagnosia study at Imperial a few years ago. I also don't hear any internal monologue; When I think, I think in words, and it is very similar to reading.

Isn't this exactly what an internal monologue is? Lack of internal monologue would be someone who thinks only abstractly or visually, without any words.

>I think I can imagine sounds in my head, but it is a little like singing, or humming a tune without making noise. I believe I have the cadence and rhythm of sounds, but it's not really easy to get words that way.

Yes, isn't this what pretty much everyone experiences, unless they have one of these listed disorders? If you can think in words, watch a TV show and later picture what the characters look like, and listen to a song and have it get "stuck in your head", then I think you have an internal monologue and don't have aphantasia.
How do they manage the previews? Skype, for one, uses their servers to get the preview. Vastly different from a client-side preview (which some people wouldn't want either).
Ethereum and Existential Risk: using the blockchain to fight climate change
> [Disrupt] the services by placing an undue burden on a Project website or the networks or servers connected with a Project website;

Two things:

1) The English wikipedia *alone* gets 250 million page views per day ! So you would have to be doing an awful lot to cause "undue burden".

2) The Wikipedia robots.txt page openly implies that crawling (and therefore scraping) is acceptable *as long as* you do it in a rate-limited fashion, e.g.:

>Friendly, low-speed bots are welcome viewing article pages, but not dynamically-generated pages please.

> There are a lot of pages on this site, and there are some misbehaved spiders out there that go _way_ too fast.

>Sorry, wget in its recursive mode is a frequent problem. Please read the man page and use it properly; there is a --wait option you can use to set the delay between hits, for instance.
*confident
Has anyone "here" ever used Ritalin as "study aid" (as suggested in the article)? If so, why and how did it work for you?
It's not a synonymous event, but trust relies on honesty, and they were being lied to. So the trust isn't there. Also it's a result of the slavery mindset that's endemic to this country since before it's founding.
Most universities these days also have their buildings locked with an RFID lock that responds to a valid university ID. To get into the buildings you will have to "tailgate" on someone else, which looks really sus.
Can Codex write itself?
The Best Emails from the Apple vs. Epic Trial
When I wanted to work from the University of Toronto I got an "Outside Researcher" card that let me use their libraries and get access to all their papers too! It was the cheapest desk you could rent in Toronto. Something like $100 a year and it came with access to all of their journals. In person, only, but still. Top notch ROI.
This is a right move by Google.

- Even for adults, ad targeting based on gender or age (or race) seems… wrong?

- Would like them to come out and assume all personalization and recommendation systems they have also waive this for children. E.g.: YouTube recommendations are based solely on similar videos versus profile, location, viewing habits, whatever other magic they probably do.
I'm intrigued because at first it appears to be a paradoxical statement, but with a potentially logical answer.

In addition to that though, I think I (and others?) make sense of the world through narrative and there is value to other people's narratives, though that may be in conflict with the context of your comment.
Half the US didn't vote for Republicans its more like 47% overwhelmingly tilted towards white men especially those with no educational achievement.

Looking back over the last 41 years at least of my life as a white man I would have been substantially better off if white men couldn't vote. It's embarrassing and yes these people including neighbors, some family even are bad people willing to bed down with nazis.
Do we have a method of mass producing solor cells that doesn't require coal and is in widespread use?
FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
> You mean except for all the taxes other than income tax such that people making french fries often pay a bigger percentage of their incomes to taxes than billionaires?

That's a false claim. The recent propaganda being pushed - eg by ProPublica - about billionaires supposedly paying low income taxes, of course, didn't center on income taxes at all. It intentionally reframed the premise to be that billionaires weren't paying enough taxes on their wealth (assets).

For example this article con line from ProPublica:

Headline: "You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire"

Summary: "A new ProPublica analysis of a trove of IRS documents revealed that the richest 25 Americans pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes."

So I might be paying higher taxes on my unsold stock holdings than Bezos is on his unsold stock holdings? Of course not. ProPublic is being intentionally deceptive.

The billionaires are paying a small share of their wealth in taxes every year. They pay high income taxes, when they generate high incomes. Wealth isn't income. ProPublica knows that separation, they know how the tax system works, they spun the con regardless for propaganda points. ProPublica is trying to argue in favor of wealth confiscation policies, while lying and pretending they're arguing in favor of the billionaires paying higher taxes akin to paying higher income taxes. The spin is remarkable for just how disingenuous it is.

Bezos isn't paying enough income tax on his unsold Amazon stock holdings? Golly gee.
In this case you have two buffers. Seagate/you have a buffer for the outflow based on expected consumption rate. Hitachi almost certainly has some buffer of their own. This is not unusual with physical goods where you have the transportation time and cost to consider (which you/your employer took advantage of).

If Hitachi couldn't consume your delivered HDDs as fast as they were delivered and anticipated any kind of delay/disruption could ever happen, they'd have some buffer of their own.
This reminds me a little bit of a lengthy blog article by some FAANG engineer about picking optimal chunk sizes for I/O where he did a lot of benchmarking with /dev/null and /dev/zero.
Zymergen's Implosion
yes it's great. get work done and lose some weight.
This is just completely wrong. Western society also had periods of clans and tribes in its history. It's more that it moved on from it. The British Empire used inter-tribal rivalries as a tool to further its influence and spread. Scots still wear kilts whose colours are clan-specific.

Maybe, by 'Western' society you mean 'America'?
> It dawned on me that my attempt at completely controlling my life had, in fact, caused me to lose control over it.

I genuinely think this is the key to happiness and success in general. Roll with the waves rather than trying to fight them. You can guide your life while still smelling the roses along the way.
That's the most inflammatory headline I have ever seen.
> good technical conversations [...] critiquing things like the font that someone's using on their site

Critiquing the font is a technical conversation to a front-end designer :)
We could attempt to foster a culture where people feel free to share their experiences, difficulties, and tools that help them meet their challenges. Forced to wear colorful patches for medications? I have a couple of points of disagreement..
"It's a backdoor. We know we said backdoors are bad and that a backdoor can be used by both good guys and bad guys, but this backdoor is made with Apple-certified lumber."
Well it happened to me - I struggled with motivation, went for a diagnosis, got on the meds, got hooked, and have been dealing with the consequences ever since. There are many possibilities to explore and steps to take when one suffers from a lack of motivation, focus, or anhedonia. Diagnosis and treatment is not a silver bullet - there is no such thing as a magic pill. It can do wonders - for my one of my friends it is incredibly helpful, but she had already taken steps to deal with other issues. I don't think it's wrong to add disclaimers in discussions like this - ADHD medication can change personality and cognition long-term.
I literally worked at a startup where this happened.
I don't think this is really true? most schools I'm familiar with are "open campuses". the public is free to walk around campus, visit the library, etc. during normal hours. restricted areas like dorms and labs with expensive equipment will be locked. as an outsider, I wouldn't try to sit in on a six person seminar without talking to the professor, but I'm sure no one would notice or care if you sat in on a few large lectures.
This one I’ve always been extremely skeptical of. I suspect it’s more likely they’re lacking introspection to such an extent that they’re not even aware of it.

It just seems highly unlikely that a non brain damaged human sharing the same evolutionary history and ability to use language would not have one, yet be able to speak and converse normally. Their arguments in support of it always seemed weak to me.

It’s in those class of things where people like to be the person that has it (and it’s hard to test or verify)
"What you can't say" by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Adderall is just amphetamene, not methamphetamene. And the study doesn't draw any conclusions about amphetamine.
Are you suggesting that Asians should be kept at the equivalent ratio of their population, ie. 20%?
I think you and some others probably are misunderstanding. It's the idea that sometimes when you think, you "think with words". It's the presence or employment of words or language anywhere in your thinking.

Not "hearing" the words or necessarily "talking to yourself" or hearing someone talk to you. I think many people do mentally talk to themselves, but I think that's a sufficient condition to have an internal monologue rather than a necessary condition.

People who don't have it would 100% of the time only ever think about things in terms of visual imagery, symbols, or something else abstract. I believe it's quite rare.
I know. I've used C for two decades, I write it professionally today.

Some bugs end up being extremely difficult to debug. I accept that as a fact of life; in exchange, we get pretty decent performance.

Guess what I do when there's a bug I have a hard time pinning down? Recompile with optimizations turned off.

By the way, I don't think I have ever witnessed a bug caused by an accidentally-infinite loop getting optimized out. So making that almost-never-happens situation easier to fix is not worth trading any optimizations for, imo. I'd rather just get a warning from compiler/static analyzer (if the code isn't the way it is due to macro expansion).
Assuming someone starts covering their online tracks from an early age they can probably largely keep their online presence at a minimum with some caveats.

- You can't really opt-out of things like credit reporting

- You can't control what other people post about you but for the non-famous this is probably a relatively modest presence

- There are certainly situations where many of us have a public presence under our real names. If you ever speak at most conferences for example or publish an article or paper.
look up jfk and doctor feelgood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Jacobson
this leads to the very same question Rousseau and Maquiavelo made a long time ago:

are we inherently evil?

Google is asuming we are, thus making this tool in order to "help"
Good catch correcting me that 47% is not half.

Are you saying that the votes of uneducated people should be worth less than those of college educated people?
You can still use a 286 to play King’s Quest, too. A 2013 Mac is in no way an adequate gaming machine in any sense of the idea. You couldn’t still use a 286 to play Falcon 3 or Comanche back when they were new, and you can’t use a 2013-gen tech stack to realize full potential of today’s games. The benchmark of playable Minecraft is not a suitable measure for capability, only a reflection of unchanging demands since 2013.
> some kind of bucket-optimisation (multiple elements per allocation, instead of one element per allocation) should also meet all constraints the standard sets for this type

Pretty sure that makes it impossible to implement merge without pointer/iterator invalidation, which is a constraint imposed by the standard (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/unordered_map/me...).

> it would be good if the person I originally responded to came out and defended his POV

See https://probablydance.com/2017/02/26/i-wrote-the-fastest-has... if you want numbers, or for example this talk by the same author https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2fKMP47slQ.
Why stop there? Let’s force people to sit on different places or use different doors based on arbitrary shit we come up with. Oh look, you just invented apartheid again!
Hide, not delete!! Google will never truly delete anything, just hide it. And then when you're of age, guess what? You're fair game now.
My only critique is that by labelling everyone a Nazi we are washing out the Nazi label, thus enabling future establishment of the actual Nazis, because everyone will think that those future Nazis are no worse than Joe Rogans of today.
Map: Not everybody loves free speech
> You can't turn hitting that undefined behaviour into a compiler error, as distinguishing between the two requires solving the halting problem.

That's a fair point, but it still feels wrong to me that the compiler can throw away large chunks of code and change the outcome of the function silently.
No. I am suggesting that Asra's suggestion that any policy change that reduces the south and east asian demographics at TJ can be considered a "purge" is ridiculous.
I smell an anti-competitive lawsuit in the air.
So now they'll go through a subcontractor.

This needs to be fixed in the OS permissions system, not closing empty barn doors after the horses have gone.
meh, it's pretty common for students to lose/misplace their ID cards. where I went to college, people would usually let any college-aged person follow them into a building without a second thought.
> and the ability to use more memory, since most 286 boards topped out at 4MB or even 1MB, versus 16MB for a 386sx. Few people ever upgraded their 386SXs that far, but they liked having the option.

"Few people ever upgraded their 386SXs that far" is a bit of an understatement. In 1990 2MB of ram cost about the same as a 386DX CPU. By 1992 ram had dropped to about $50/MB, but the Am386DX and the 486SX, both of which blew the i386SX out of the water were generally available at this point and cost less than 4MB of ram.

One thing TFA doesn't mention is that the Am386SX (and SXL) had usage in battery powered applications for some time after this (not as common as today) due to their very thrifty power usage (with a fully static core, there was no lower limit on the clock-speed it could run at and it was lower power usage than Intel's SL when running at full speed).
You’re wrong, from my experience. I’ve interviewed many a “senior developer” who simply cannot code any longer because they’ve spent all their time doing other things or at a higher level.

Some can still code, and that’s your competition. Many cannot.
> Long traditional rivals? Iran and iraq are relatively new 20th century european colonial creations. Iran was carved out by the british/russians and Iraq was arbitrarily drawn out on a map by the british and french.

This is completely false when you're talking about Iran. An Iranian state has existed in more or less continuous form as an independent polity since the breakup of the Timurid Empire in ~1500. The three-way contest between the Ottomans, Safavid Persia, and Russia is a staple of the region's politics for virtually the entirety of the Early Modern period.
Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new U.S.-made war chest
TIL! This is great info
Can we get "Op Ed" put in the title?