skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By crossing your fingers and hoping that the Apple reviewers mistake the grey blobs for porn, the NCMEC reviewers mistake the grey blobs for porn, and the police, DA, and judges all mistake the grey blobs for porn, and that the person being targeted doesn't notice the mysteriously appearing grey blobs on their phone in time for that entire process to happen?
To some degree I imagine there’s also a question of how much demand we put on these modern old computers that reflects changing/diminishing interests as we age. There are certainly workloads available today that would cripple an 8 yo computer (Mac or PC), workloads that a younger version of you may have been more interested in (multiple VMs, gaming, real-time video processing at same time). You probably stressed your 386 to the breaking point within three years of buying it, and you could easily load up an 8yo computer today to its breaking point. My 2016-era laptop is no longer useful to me as, well, anything except an emergency backup.

If one can’t discern issues with a four-five yo computer, I would very humbly suggest it also says something about the demands of the owner stultifying to a degree.
I know you are correct but I don't really see why it's gotta (continue to) be like that. If legacy protocols like RDP and PCoIP aren't up to a modern, multi-4k-monitor workstation environment, this field is ripe for disruption. Endpoints with surprisingly small footprints can stream multiple 4k videos and support cloud gaming... a potential sourxe for ideas? I would think that there is a lot more potential that even newer protocols such as Blast Extreme are only beginning to scratch...
I assume that is if you already have the know-how. Starting from (almost) scratch would require more upfront work, right?
>Perceptive readers will note that 100 does not actually show up on a d100

Yes it does.
I generated a picture that shows its own NeuralHash [Twitter]
It does resonate with me. Having lived in Japan for a year I got a huge amount of benefit from it. I think the author dismisses too quickly the benefits of living and being exposed to a culture different from your own, as it acts as a new reference point for the rest of your life. If you've spent all your life in one country than living in another can really open up your mind in a genuine way. Not to mention learning a new language and being exposed to new things (like my love of karaoke and baths, not to mention tons of manga I never knew about)

And personally giving up my friends and living in a new environment forced me to adapt and become more social and less anxious. It had a huge positive effect on my confidence. I made friends different to the types of friends I had before. I did things I had never done before.

So yeah, if you end up reverting your 'baseline' then it won't help, and I can definitely understand that - I'll never be an extrovert, I'll always value having a few good friends and spending a lot of time alone - but that doesn't mean it can't be profoundly helpful for getting you out of a rut.
It's not fear though. Just watch how within the next five years or so encryption gets back doored. Mass surveillance is fully instated. Social credit score is implemented, and only state authorized programs may be installed upon approval to mobile devices and proprietary operating systems. Soon we will see The Ministry of Truth implemented. The past couple years the state is only after more power. Or, you can ignore reality and keep acting like everything is just normal and ok. Just as the continuous Middle-Eastern wars are designed, inflation will continue to increase to push all the middle class and lower into abject poverty and despotism is not very far away after that. Continuing to do these things slowly while dividing and confusing the mass of the public. This is no conspiracy whatsoever because this is exactly what is happening right this very moment. The most state power can be grabbed today via surveillance programs like that of the NSA/CIA and these false CSAM implementations "for the protection of the children." This is what the state has wanted, in every state, for 2,000 years. Increased government power and watch only goes one direction. What is very sad for me to see the past 20 years in tech is that if this is done slowly over decades and via confusion it seems very easy to get the mass of the non-thinking public to agree to illegal search and seizure, and to give up all freedoms and rights under a false guise of security.

"Regardless of popular sanction, war is mass murder. Conscription is slavery, and taxation is robbery. The libertarian in short, is almost completely the child in the fable, pointing out insistently that the emperor has no clothes. Throughout the ages, the emperor has had a series of psuedo-clothes provided for him by the nation's intellectual caste. In past centuries, the intellectuals informed the public that the state or it's rulers were divine. Or at least, clothed in divine authority and therefore what might look to the naive and untutored eye as despotism, mass murder, and theft on a grand scale, was only the divine working it's benign and mysterious ways in the body politic. —Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty"
I don't know what you mean by "natural boom and bust cycles" but credit cycles and other financial cycles are just a property of the money system. Alternative money systems do not have this property.

The cycles only make sense because people like and want them. I.e. they love the scarcity of money. For example, in a depression the return on money is greater than the return on labor, people logically flock to money rather than labor even though real wealth is eroding as people stop working.
> Do you have to have a 'crude state ID'?

It is not an explicit legal requirement but encouraged through a coercive network of public/private regulation.

> Is there any legal pressure to keep the data on it up-to-date?

There are legal consequences for failing to update data.

> Are the standards for 'crude state IDs' identical between states or would you have to know the rules and regulations of 50 different jurisdictions?

Yes, within the United States there is a "Real ID" standard promoted across states by the federal government. A business operating in any particular jurisdiction is benefited by counsel regarding localization.
This is happening in objc code or in the swift part?
I'm not terribly surprised though, my one experience with core data was miserable once we strayed even a little from the happy path and I ended up rolling my own since we didn't need full functionality anyways. And this was for an internal app, at Apple ┐( ∵ )┌
The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun
Camp Mackall, Fort Bragg, the complex around those two, and an officer corps/civilian contractor base that enjoys golf.

I was just giving it as an example of how whole tertiary industries that aren't directly part of the military-industrial complex will none-the-less vote (R) like their lifestyle depends on it, and for the same reason as contractors.
TL;DR: The plastic barriers can impede ventilation/airflow, which is the best way to stop the spread of covid in interior spaces.

I've been surprised at the continued emphasis on things-that-aren't-airflow related at containing Covid. In particular, if you've stayed at a hotel recently, you'll find a lot of emphasis on surface sanitation. I want to know if the hotel has aired out the room recently -- I don't care that the surfaces were wiped down.
I don’t think it’s a best of SF you haven’t heard of, but a list that simply consisted of the really well known established names wouldn’t really be useful either.

Tastes will differ, and I doubt anybody will like everything on a list like this, but it’s certainly a good representation of books that people have been talking about. It would be interesting to hear which books really resonated with you, not just which on the list you didn’t think much of.
Compassion — not compression — is a big part of design and creativity; coming up with original and unexpected results. What we see in these explorations is that AI is, I think, good at generating a bunch of novel yet visually repetitive and nonsensical outputs. The helpful-looking-elf-santa-hat-robot iterations from AI all look like variations of 1 concept with their monotonous use of gradients and brush stroke styling. Good for brainstorming? A good human designer, based on these same instructions, would ideate and generate a wider range of concepts. And we see that in the results from humans, which are actually much more interesting and diverse in terms of contrasting styles, their use of form, colour and negative space in my opinion.

Curious, was the inspiration for the Labelf AI logo the Wall-E animated movie character Eva?
Basically I view the Republicans as either nazis or people willing to bed down with nazis so yes I agree we shouldn't waste time on such people.
Not life changing, but the last blog post that made me think and had a lasting impressions on me was "the animal is tired" from the awesome robin hobb:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100299
Depends on the platform. Medium does the same.
Really interesting. I've been on Adderall for almost 10 years and am constantly accused of being overly optimistic, which sounds a lot like the "the brain to fix its attention on the benefits, rather than the costs, of completing difficult tasks." from the first paragraph.
As I remember it, it was the same die for all 486s but the SX had the FPU disabled.

I'm sure this was done for marketing in some cases but I think Intel also worked out how to reclaim chips were the FPU was damaged as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX
That's perhaps phrased a bit less charitably than necessary, but gets at an important truth. People who rely too much[1] on these non-verbal cues are, more often than not, doing so because they're not adept verbally. It's kind of like a fortune teller, who of course does not know you or your future but can put up a pretty convincing front by observing responses to their initial probes. I see it a lot among people for whom English is not their first language, just as I see the same people make just about any excuse to get out of writing anything down permanently. Since effective remote work also has to be asynchronous work as much as possible, I'd say these people need to work on their own language skills instead of complaining about how the online experience doesn't perfectly support their coping strategies.

[1] How much is "too much"? There's plenty of room for debate, but a decade of alone-remote and a year of all-remote made it pretty clear that it's a threshold many of my colleagues at multiple companies exceed.
I wonder if HN should offer two sections: Opinion and Insight.
You decide where to post, but others can disagree through reports.
If someone answers a question with an insightful comment, the thread is moved over.
It's not about what Codex can do now, but what the technology will be able to do a few generations into the future. Anticipating this shift in the software labor market is important to many people on HN.

Codex as it stands is just a novelty, but it does show the shape of what's to come.
Joe Rogan doesn't even have a political faction beyond that of his latest guest really.

I don't think it's about politics, Joe Rogan is just very low SNR unless you're tuning in to a particular guest.
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They're only regressive if you're not considering what people are getting out of their taxes. Gas taxes pay for highways. Social security taxes pay for your retirement. The US has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world. The only benefit we seem to get out of it is that the poor and middle class end up spending more money on consumer goods.

In the US, property taxes are so low such that they are uncorrelated with rent. The properties with the lowest tax rates thanks to Prop 13 also have some of the highest rents.
You can always just have it as a feature for super users.
I think we simply rejected the point. There are many newcomers thinking they can disrupt the space with terrible designs. Open source shouldn't mean terrible design. There are many better open source CNC already.
Fact: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
Side note: I used to think I was down voting when I was collapsing the thread and I felt REALLY bad for doing it.

Note to Newbs: you can't dont vote until you hit 500 "points", and then an upside down arrow appears underneath the "up vote" arrow.
What part of it is fucked up? They never promised that their hashing algorithm was uncollidable. The process is specifically designed to be tolerant of hash collisions (and in fact wouldn't work otherwise, because the system needs to ignore small differences between copies of the illegal images, like one-pixel edits or color temperature differences or photocopies).

There are multiple stages of human review in the process and a high threshold for activation of the proccess because collisions are inevitable. The fact that collisions exist doesn't impact the safety of the product whatsoever.

I ask again, what is the sequence of events where a hash collision from a benign image can lead to any consequence at all for the user?
I think this is revolutionary though my guess is it will not please everyone.
We had STACKER, but not the hardware compression module. There were some legal actions between Stac and Microsoft, which eventually led Microsoft to "upgrade" DOS, but it just removed DoubleSpace.

It eventually returned after MS paid out.
Taxes are hugely complicated because they are trying to do two different things at the same time: combat inflation and enact policy.

If we just printed dollars to pay for all gov expenses, we would probably have a lot of inflation. Inflation hits all holders of dollars equally (on a percentage basis). Taxes allow us to spread the burden of shared costs (like infrastructure) in a different way.

Additionally, taxes act as a feedback mechanism on behavior. We can incentivize some things by giving tax credits for doing them, and we can disincentivize other things by charging higher taxes on them.

Balancing these two effects of taxes: inflation and policy, is hard. If the gov. wants to encourage everyone to buy an electric vehicle, we could give a big tax incentive to do so, but that reduces overall taxes, which means more inflation. To combat this, we have to print fewer new dollars or increase taxes somewhere else.

This is one of the big challenges for the Federal Reserve, they don't get to pick how much tax is collected, just how many new dollars are printed. If congress doesn't collect enough tax, there's only so much the Fed can do to balance things.
I wish I could find it.

It was a blog post about how one man's perspective on fatherhood changed after he became a father, and he realized he regretted waiting so long, because all it really ended up doing was robbing him of being able to spend more time with his children.

Before reading it, I was ambivalent about whether I wanted children. After reading it, I wasn't.
> and you could easily load up an 8yo computer today to its breaking point

I've seen people load up a 200 machine cluster on AWS doing quite mundane tasks.

Information complexity is the only physical quantity that doesn't obey conservation laws, so this kind of thing really isn't impressive or interesting.
Good question, as a data-hoarder mining has always been fun but I was interested in seeing the profit. I've yet to find any monetary value in the troves of data I accumulate.
Definitely The Tail End by Tim Urban

https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html

```
It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.
```

^ This is the crux of it, in familial (parental) relationships, we spend most of our time with them early in life, and that we don't get nearly as much time with them after graduation.
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Have you actually used Quest?
Joe Rogan does not identify with the Republican party, I believe he voted Democrat in the last election.
Or you could find pornographic pictures with a person that looks quite young in them, and slighly modify the picture until you get a collision.
Like firearms manufacturers, AI companies bear some responsibility for how their tools are misused.
The Risk Not Taken, by Andy Dunn: https://dunn.medium.com/the-risk-not-taken-40cf0a8919cb

Inspired me to renege on my investment banking offer straight out of college and move to South America to work on my startup instead. Good times.
It's possible, but I find it extremely unlikely. The "end of physics" has been predicted several times, even in the face of obvious unanswered questions, like today's "what's the deal with dark matter and dark energy?", "can chaotic processes be understood?", "what even _is_ gravity?"

When in the past, unanswered, mystery questions like these were finally answered (for example "how come light seems to appear in discrete packets?"), the answer ended up being a door to a completely new understanding of reality, and not a little footnote question at the End of Physics

So yeah, when there are no more unanswered physics questions, I will consider that the laws of physics have been exhausted. Right now that's not the case.
At the time of World War I, the British already had pretty much the rest of non-Ottoman Arabia under various forms of protectorates, and Persia too for that matter--Persia being by far the most powerful country in the region, at least outside of the soon-to-be-carved-up Ottomans.

During World War I, the British freaked out about the potential unrest that the Ottoman sultan (as caliph) could provoke in their Muslim lands, and as a result made multiple incompatible agreements with whatever forces would be willing to help fight against the Ottomans in the Middle East. In particular, everyone was promised Palestine if they would help in the fight. When it came time to do the actual carving, the British, in fine imperial tradition, honored none of these agreements.

In the actual agreement, the British and the French carved up the Arab regions somewhat (but not entirely) in the vein of the Sykes-Picot agreement, with the French choosing for themselves a majority Christian domain in Lebanon and a majority Muslim domain in Syria. The British kept Palestine for itself, granted Hejaz independence along its original Ottoman provincial boundaries, and created independent states of Transjordan and Iraq, each to be ruled by the sons of the new Hejai king (the upgraded Sharif of Mecca).
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

-Stephen King
Abseil has a btree based hash map and it performs much better. I think it maintains the same constrains(iterator invalidation/exception safety...) as std::unordered_map.

The issue is that the implementors won't change their implementation of unordered_map as it's an ABI break, to say it simply. It could be better. But also, there are other tools like flat maps/open addressing that are not done in the std library.
Works fine with Vim Vixen add on
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This is in line with my intuitions; do you have any sources so I can read more?
Anyone looking for a good note taking solution, similar to Roam / Obsidian / Notion, but with a much better native macOS experience needs to check out https://www.craft.do/.

It's incredibly well made and is being developed at a crazy pace. A real pleasure to use and they have Mac, iPad, iOS and web version with real-time collaboration.

Edit: I forgot to mention the calendar sync! Really neat way to attach a note to calendar days or events. Especially nice when used with recurring events, as it keeps the note associated with them throughout their lifetime.
Interesting. But Devil's Advocate here. Is this good news? This study seems to say that these drugs don't change how you think (i.e., somehow improving the effectiveness of the thought process) but what to think about; what's most important, or not.

Not to get a tin foil hat-y, but it easy to see a darkside to this, as well as there being those who would seek to exploit it.

But for therapeutic applications it sounds hopeful.
Kind of bummed that The Stormlight Archive, or at the least the first book (The Way of Kings) isn't on that list.

I'm probably a bit biased, but if we were gonna make this the best 51 then I'd recommend anyone reading this comment check out The Way of Kings ;)
I'm pretty sure you're referencing this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam5BkXIEhQ

But on the off-chance you're not - and for everyone else who's intrigued by this comment's concepts - I can recommend watching it.
The first half is like:

Lex: vaccines are good

Rogan: maybe, but they are for weak unhealthy people. I'm healthy and fit. Also, long term side-effects

Lex: but we don't know the long-term side effects of covid either

Rogan: yeah. I'll just take it like a man. Also, why nobody speaks about vitamins, exercise, why they only speak about vaccines
I kinda liked using 4dos and norton utilities to make menu trees to set specific parameters in config.sys and autoexec.bat based on what you were going to use the PC for that boot cycle.
In my opinion, Three Body Problem is worth reading, particularly if you don't read the back cover before starting. The cover spoils a fun mystery. I found the twists and turns of the series to be both entertaining and sometimes mind blowing. I like that it told a story differently than how most western authors tell theirs.
I think Facebook more or less killed it with closing off their ecosystem. They treated VR like Texas Instruments treat their high tech products, build up barriers for entry for quality control.

It is nice for trying it out and you don't care much about money. But for me it faded quickly. That said, I am jaded because I had a Rift S. Decent device, bad software.
The audit hasn't produced its report yet. They haven't said anything about bamboo fibers one way or the other.

If they had discovered something obvious, it's likely that they would have leaked it (and gotten their report in on time). But I suspect that they'll find something to point out in their draft report due next week -- not a smoking gun, but something sufficient to show that the fraud was just too clever to have left one.

So I'll be curious to know what your conservative friends think when the draft report is released next week. I imagine there will be an HN article about it, so I'll keep an eye out there.
In GitLab you can limit concurrency by using a resource group https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/01/21/introducing-resourc...

Does that address your need?

Edit with more context: We use CI for deploying to GitLab.com and use resource_group to prevent multiple jobs from running concurrently. What we lack is the ability to prevent multiple pipelines from running concurrently (resource_group is at the job level). It looks like concurrency for actions https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflow-syntax... can work on groups which is a bit nicer. There is some discussion about making this better for GitLab in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217522