skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stars in the Milky Way form a pancake-like disc 120,000 light-years across. In ~80 years our fastest space ships will hurl along around 900,000 kilometres per hour, assuming they can leave orbit. ;-)

That makes 144 million years to travel across the galaxy. Now space-faring peoples probably won't have evolved near the disc's edge. So let's say it takes about 100 million years to fan out and colonize most of the galaxy's habitable planets.

Our one data point on technologically advanced life indicates 4.5 billion years for it to find a foothold after the dawn of a new solar system. Depending on the values you put into an E.T. calculator[1], there are between 4 and ~200 advanced alien civilizations loitering about. We know of many Sun-like stars that are ten billion years old in the Milky Way, twice as ancient as our star.

One hundred million years barely registers on either a 5.5 or a 10 billion year scale. That scale affords aliens an enormous amount of time to have sown their seeds. Hence Fermi's Paradox and hence why a Kessler Cascade setback would be a footnote's footnote on these timescales. In short, a Kessler Cascade is important to avoid, but doesn't resolve Fermi's Paradox (it isn't a Great Filter).

[1]: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/alien-civilization

P.S.

I describe a novel solution for Fermi's Paradox in my hard sci-fi book. Am looking for beta readers; see my profile for contact details.
Your comment calls an off-topic question/comment (off-topic to OP):

If you have witnessed, or even just heard of, properly functioning HR, please share your story.
Rust Library for End-to-End Encrypted Secure Messaging
Iraq and Iran are actually pretty distinct historically. Iran is the center of the old assyrian empire, a tradiional stronghold of Shiite islam. Iraq is the traditional center of sunni islam.

They pretty much form the front line of the roman / persian forever war, so they're probably some of the most constant antagonists in recorded history. Then there's this whole fault line in islam that runs between them. Then in modern history they had a really bloody war, that left a huge number of people seriously ill and disabled because of us-supplied Iraqi chemical weapon use.

I've been trying to think of a european equivalent and I've come up short because I simply can't think of any two polities that have been so consistently at odds, or so consistently under distinct and radically opposed rulerships. There's definitely more similarity between Japan and China, for example, or the USA and Russia.
If you have access: scroll to the "Contemporary Issues" section. Further reading linked in that section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peo...
Broad swaths of behavior by the spying tech giants just needs to be outlawed. Discussions about how to mitigate the harm aren't going to fix much. The harmful behavior should be outright banned. "Google and Facebook just have to creepily spy on people, force some workers to look at horrible images, et c., to operate". OK, cool—sounds like they shouldn't operate, then, if that's true.
I disagree unless your comment is directed to the data provided by the OP. In that case I agree (only to a small degree) as factualness dilutes as one goes back in time also these are broad statements. As to my list that I posted above simply aggregates the data provided in the OP.
This is the basic building block for cool old-school plasma effects!

Quick GLSL tutorial: https://web.archive.org/web/20210119091116/http://www.bidoui...
There's benign stuff on PornHub too, but I don't think they'd be able to survive without their adult content either.
That seems like a very long-winded way of saying he didn't love himself, so he worked to reframe and reinforce positive memories and loving himself. That's pretty standard in metta meditation, you are instructed to direct love and kindness towards yourself.
Getting a payment provider an adult business using crypto is going to be even harder than getting a payment provider for just an adult business.
This is what happens when you have risk adverse execs getting paid too much.
Facebook launches what it believes is the metaverse for work
Sue Visa and MC for anti-trust and start working on crypto payments immediately.
It's not.

First, it's not just satellites. There's hundreds of thousands of pieces the size of a marble that'll cause catastrophic damage. And even more smaller pieces, even millimetre long bits of paint have caused damage to vessels.

Second, harvesting (presuming you mean recovery) or just killing (presuming you mean de-orbiting with atmospheric burn up) require expending deltaV. There has been some interesting proposals for using laser ablation or tether based systems, but nothing that I know of that has gone past a paper proposal.

Detonating just adds to the problem.
This is called an "all in one" tool. There are others. The Snapmaker [1] is very similar to this. There are even some with turntables.

[1] https://us.snapmaker.com/collections/snapmaker-original/prod...
Hmm, perhaps it's that no new engines will emerge, rather than no new browsers". I have to say that I'm not entirely sure exactly where the line gets drawn.

In their FAW they say:

> "Currently, we support WebKit and WebEngine (Blink)."

So maybe the point is that no new engines* will be built.
This makes me think of Operation Choke Point. I understand payment processors need to limit fraud and risk, but at what point do they get to determine what a legal business does? I understand the mental gymnastics involved to think a private business gets to choose who they do business with, but when there are only a handful of businesses doing the processing what then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Yes. The same happened to Pornhub too.
because the payment providers have 99% of market share?
> they could literally just tell Apple to issue a software update that streams all desired private data to Chinese government servers.

Uh...this already happened. [0][1]

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/05/17/apple-security-compromi...

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Used our C128 only for its Word equivalent, the rest of the time it ran "downgraded" in C64 mode.
Why is it a hard requirement?
I've never understood the nitty gritty details on how that's supposed to work. Certainly you'd still need both parties to tell the contract that the work was done, right? Otherwise, just one party acting fraudulently could release the funds to the wrong person.
> Unfortunately in the 1800s as other geographies fought wars to rid differences to achieve unification, things were too tribal to achieve that there.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Can you expand?
Yeah this is probably why. If this was accessible to you and me, it would be accessible to every ghoul in the public eye. Kids are the only group that can unambiguously be granted unconditional total privacy.
There are a lot of really valid criticisms of Apple plan here, but Apple has gone out of their way to prevent that exact case. Apple is using secret splitting to make sure they cannot decode the CSAM ticket until the threshold is reached. Devices also produce some synthetic matches to prevent themselves Apple (or anyone else) inferring a pre-threshold count based on the number of vouchers.

https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

Threshold Secret Sharing
Synthetic Match Vouchers
How to run remote and hybrid meetings that don't suck
The IoT shitshow is never going to improve, if IoT device makers can't be made to stop offloading the cost of their laziness and bad systems thinking onto a network layer that was never intended, and is poorly suited, to be the ne plus ultra of device security.
Perhaps the previous editors were decent people, with actual empathy, and didn't want to pile on the whichhunt climate with cheap character assassination news, but now there's a new editor.
Today in the news: "Bag of meat makes bag of cotton"
What I find incredible about this is that it decides that the file ending ".CSV" must not be a CSV file but SYLK. Then loading it as SYLK fails, and it doesn't then try and load it as a CSV file instead.
> And I suppose they must send the banned hashes to the client for checking too.

They absolutely do not. They use Private Set Intersection to achieve that.
No, the very definition of wage theft implies intention.

"""Wage theft is the denial of wages or employee benefits rightfully owed to an employee. It can be conducted by employers in various ways, among them failing to pay overtime; violating minimum-wage laws; the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, illegal deductions in pay; forcing employees to work "off the clock", not paying annual leave or holiday entitlements, or simply not paying an employee at all. """

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft

It's not a delay in payment or a misplaced bag of potatoes.
McDonald's is paying $15 where I am now, and begging for applications.
MasterCard has two customers: card issuers (banks, usually) and merchants (through payment processors like CCBill, usually). MasterCard is saying that CCBill will lose access to the MasterCard payment network if they serve customers dealing in sexually explicit content.
True, but that's not the main factor driving up prices in the Netherlands.

At its basis, its the scarcity of land versus the ever growing demand. The current outlook is that an additional 1 million homes have to be built before 2030.

This mismatch between supply and demand has been here since forever. As such, prizes rise as far as the maximum affordability stretches.

For example, the transition from single income families to double income families has resulted in prices skyrocketing. More generous loan conditions lead to higher prices.

The government may then conclude that young people are priced out of the market, and lower property taxes. This extra room is then immediately used by the market to rise prices even further.

To put some numbers on this: we now crossed the average home price of 400K EUR, or 476.000$. For a young couple both having median salaries, they can't afford it. They'll need a significant cash donation from parents.

If they're lucky to have that, they still need to outbid other buyers by some 30K at least.

And the most bitter thing is that if they overcome all that, they still have a shit house. Smallish, in a busy street, maybe even just a row house, hugging the neighbors.
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. This is what’s being proposed here in Oakland, CA : https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...

Professors and professionals at Berkeley/Stanford and many major universities have written an open letter highlighting concerns to the California Governor: https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13658

Apparently, this was heard and they’re postponed the proposal for a vote to next year: https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr21/agenda202107.asp

I’ll leave my personal opinion out of this one, make what you will.
Procrastination is largely an emotional management issue. Strategies like this can still be helpful for many people, but this doesn't really address the core issue
>Employers that fail to compensate their employees in the agreed upon manner are incredibly scummy and you should run very fast in the other direction

That... depends? If you're salaried and your employer missed a paycheck I'd agree it's scummy, because it's hard they screwed that up. However, if you're being compensated variably (eg. hourly or on commission), and you got paid incorrectly because of some random failure (eg. timesheet got lost/buried, sales numbers got delayed due to ERP issues) I think it's excusable if it was fixed in a timely manner.
This post for me contains deep wisdom: https://dhemery.com/articles/resistance_as_a_resource/
I mean, yeah, that's one of the mechanisms. Charge you close to an order of magnitude more for being "high-risk", while also putting all the actual risk on you as well. Visa/MC are more than compensated for each chargeback with the additional fees the charge the vendor for each chargeback.
transaction fees would be too high, transactions would take too long, and the transactions would be public.
Ah, thank you Dang, I'll reach out when it's ready!! Very much appreciate you letting me know. It'll likely be several weeks before then - I'm super product focused and want to make sure the UX is down before a general release.
The main announcement was Apple was getting hashes from NCMEC but they also listed ICMEC and have said "and other groups". Much like the source database for the image hashes the list of sources is opaque and covered by vague statements.
OnlyFans could be the exchange. You send their public wallet the crypto buying a “OF coin” stable coin or similar (gift card funds essentially), they handle the distribution internally.

Best practice would be for patrons and content producers to have dedicated wallets for OnlyFans transactions, to prevent data leakage from ledger analysis.
Why though? Drexel's a pretty good school IMO
Take a youtube url and put 9xbud.com/ in front of it. Works like a charm for me.

e.g. https://9xbud.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2eXs4pCs3... (A video of guys smoking weed)

This actually works for most sites with embedded videos.
> Westerners fail to understand tribalism, or any clannish attitudes.

You forgot about politics.
Why can PornHub successfully sell a premium porn service but OnlyFans cannot? Is it just the size of the company?
Yeah, that worked well for Elvis...
Okay, let's play peon. Here are three perfectly legal and work-safe thumbnails of a famous singer: https://imgur.com/a/j40fMex. The singer is underage in precisely one of the three photos. Can you decide which one?

If your account has a large number of safety vouchers that trigger a CSAM match, then Apple will gather enough fragments to reassemble a secret key X (unique to your device) which they can use to decrypt the "visual derivatives" (very low resolution thumbnails) stored in all your matched safety vouchers.

An Apple employee looks at the thumbnails derived from your photos. The only judgment call this employee gets to make is whether it can be ruled out (based on the way the thumbnail looks) that your uploaded photo is CSAM-related. As long as the thumbnail contains a person, or something that looks like the depiction of a person (especially in a vaguely violent or vaguely sexual context, e.g. with nude skin or skin with injuries) they will not be able to rule out this possibility based on the thumbnail alone. And they will not have access to anything else.

Given the ability to produce hash collisions, an adversary can easily generate photos that fail this visual inspection as well. This can be accomplished straightforwardly by using perfectly legal violent or sexual material to produce the collision (e.g. most people would not suspect foul play if they got a photo of genitals from their Tinder date). But much more sophisticated attacks [2] are also possible: since the computation of the visual derivative happens on the client, an adversary will be able to reverse engineer the precise algorithm.

While 30 matching hashes are probably not sufficient to convict somebody, they're more than sufficient to make somebody a suspect. Reasonable suspicion is enough to get a warrant, which means search and seizure, computer equipment hauled away and subjected to forensic analysis, etc. If a victim works with children, they'll be fired for sure. And if they do charge somebody, it will be in Apple's very best interest not to assist the victim in any way: that would require admitting to faults in a high profile algorithm whose mere existence was responsible for significant negative publicity. In an absurdly unlucky case, the jury may even interpret "1 in 1 trillion chance of false positive" as "way beyond reasonable doubt".

Chances are the FBI won't have the time to go after every report. But an attack may have consequences even if it never gets to the "warrant/charge/conviction" stage. E.g. if a victim ever gets a job where they need to obtain a security clearance, the Background Investigation Process will reveal their "digital footprint", almost certainly including the fact that the FBI got a CyberTipline Report about them. That will prevent them from being granted interim determination, and will probably lead to them being denied a security clearance.

(See also my FAQ from the last thread [1], and an explanation of the algorithm [3])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232625

[2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/106260/ima...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231218
There is a tool to get infobox data from Wikipedia into Wikidata:
https://pltools.toolforge.org/harvesttemplates/

The easily parsable Infobox data can probably already be found in Wikidata (assuming there is a property).
Is there a difference between the title and "OnlyFans to shut down in October"? I literally didn't know OnlyFans had anything else besides porn/porn-esque material.
We aren't invoking the ethics of "rule-following" to explain why criminals behave certain ways, rather we are speculating on based on incentive alignments and rational self-interest. The answer to your question is quite simple: because they need third parties to work with them. There are lots of ways as to make past history of payouts known without releasing who the individual collaborators were in each case.
For the record? No. Absolutely not. Nada. No way. No how.

I would laugh, but they're actually serious, and that worries me some.

I think what bothers me the most, is that somehow recreating a conference room, or office culture virtually has value over what could be done virtually, and not just in terms of work.
The only way people would reliably help with the sabotage is if the group had a reputation for paying out. Kind of the same way ransomware works already- if nobody gets their data back, people will be advised never to pay
If I'm doing something complex with GitHub Actions I like to work in a branch, iterate with a bunch of messy tweak commits and then squash-merge into main once I've got it working exactly right.

Another trick that works well is putting GitHub Actions in an entirely separate repository. There's nothing to stop actions in one repo from checking out code from another - I use that trick quite frequently.

You do have to jump through a few extra hoops to set it up so that code in your actions repo starts running automatically on commits to your main repo, but you can do that with a small action in the main repo that triggers a build in the actions repo.
Modern observability is a single braid of data
I'm one of those vocal sceptics on HN. I agree with you! Here's finally a huge industry that is consistently shunned by the mainstream payment providers.

I'm not being facetious. I believe it's a one of a kind opportunity for crypto currencies to step in, show the middle finger to the established payment pipelines and prove that a smooth, reliable and safe payment system can be operated even for the adult industry.

According to the Guardian[1] the adult industry clears between $10bln-$100bln a year. That's a lot turnover and clearly they are not being served well by the current providers. I'd imagine the fees are also acceptably higher (due to the increased fraud, etc..) so the profit margins should also be potentially higher.
I think of it more of a "game day" exercise. Let it happen and see how well IT and the security team handle it.
I had a 386SX 16mhz Packard Bell, so I was able to run Windows 3.1 in 386 Enhanced Mode like a boss.
How so? And how is this relevant?
This source [0] shows 34 tonnes of CO2 per GWh from hydro and specifically mentions the releases from reservoirs and 820 tonnes per GWh from coal.

The springer link unfortunately doesn’t have any numbers for tonnes to compare but mentioned lush Amazon rainforest being flooded and the vegetation at the bottom producing the most methane which is 25x more potent ghg than CO2, resulting in 3.6x equivalent warming than due to burning coal which primarily results in CO2.

0: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/uranium-powering-the-cleane...
>They're not making any more of them, and demand and prices only go up (until maybe one day they don't, I don't know).

You can say that about anything - limited run beanie babies, bitcoin, whatever. It's all true until it's not.

In the case of classic Porsches, next time you hear someone say that, ask them (a) what's gonna happen once boomers die out. Do genX/Z/millenials give a shit about a classic Porsche the way a boomer would? (b) what happens if/when we replace ICEs with electric and the gas station infrastructure goes away (not saying it will happen but it's one likely future path.) In the world where you can't get gasoline, is a classic car still valuable?

I don't know the answers to these questions but unless the person who is giving you advice has modeled this out, their advice is of no value.
CD (including ourselves), operational pipelines, sales pipelines, internal events/logic, scheduled flows, and machine learning are a few of the areas I'm seeing.

CI isn't _necessarily_ our current target. As of yet, there's no concept of "failed runs" in the classic CI sense.
We highlight failed workflows but will retry actions by default. If things fail, we allow you to retry/edit the data, debug in line, etc.

It's definitely possible to use the failed workflow runs as a CI pipeline, but the UX would need an overhaul. Right now, we do user-event attribution to show you which workflows users are running in your system, their version, and the steps - which is needed for actual, live system workflows vs CI workflows.
We're not "assuming" anything. The article has the following quote:

> "But then [they] realized, 'Oh dear, it's even worse than we thought.' Because she did have a Wikipedia page. But it was nominated for deletion and then deleted."

If the article is misleading that's on them, not on us for believing the CBC did their homework.
I don't know what's sadder - that you would say this, or that you would accept it.
They wouldn't. They would force apple to add hashes to things that the CCP doesn't like such as winnie the pooh memes and use turn Apple's reporting system into yet another tool to locate dissidents. How would Apple know any different. Here are some hashes, they are for CSAM trust us. They built a framework where they will call the cops on you for matching a hash value. Once governments start adding values to the database they have no reasonable way of knowing what images those actually relate to. Apple themselves said they designed it so you couldn't derive the original image from the hash. They are setting themselves up to be accessory to killing political dissidents.
This is absolutely ridiculous.

What if they decide people can no longer buy dildos or lube or condoms or guns or alcohol or meat on Fridays?

There’s no law with respect to “payment neutrality”??
Have you considered writing a code generator that lets you define actions in TypeScript and have it generate the YAML for you?
Borders are a symptom, not a cause. Yugoslavia was a unified country without internal borders. The lack of internal borders did not prevent ethnic warfare. The United Kingdom was a unified country without internal borders. The lack of internal borders did not prevent a century of violent conflict over the island of Ireland.
Intel Finally Gets Chiplet Religion with Server Chips
What do you mean blinded? It’s already been promised there will be a way to verify the hash db on your own device.
The Apple Watch from 1995
Amazon reportedly plans to open department stores
>The graph was interesting but this wasn’t the primary objective of this exercise. I wanted to write “He is the n-times great-father of his current successor Queen Elizabeth.” on King Alfred’s Wikipedia page.

Wouldn’t that contravene Wikipedia’s rules on original research?