skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just a digital manifestation and continuation of President Obama’s values and policies on Bahrain:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-...
One question I have on CSAM is: so it only detects known pics that law enforcement already has? If so, is that the major issue with child porn, e.g. same pics getting passed around? Just seems like this won't prevent abuse from occurring, with their own new pics and videos.
Please cite a source.

Per https://sebsebmc.github.io/starlink-coverage/index.html we are in the same cell
for ~$400M/year you could also rent over 100K root servers at Hetzner with unlimited traffic etc.

I think you could have a server running for about every 10 or so users that are online at the same time.
Tauri Feature Freeze and Security Audit
In reality they are misusing the words "buy" and "own" to make sales... If they would talk about "rents" in marketing, sales would drop... So they are "bending the truth" to make sales...
A nice bonus of being on macOS is that native Cocoa applications/controls understand a handful of Emacs bindings by default, and can be tweaked [1] to understand far more Emacs keys [2].

[1] http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
[2] https://irreal.org/blog/?p=259
Yep, GP seems stuck about two decades in the past.

In my experience of daily use of Emacs for development, it's much more responsive and helps focus immensely, while CLion only tries to eat as much RAM as is available.

Plus, the extensibility and multiple environments (think edit, shell, debug, SSH, man, etc) in a single viewport without constant context and visual switching help further with focus.
It's a religion, it's based on a work of fiction. Everyone can gatekeep it to their liking, that doesn't mean they are right. You said it yourself, it all depends on interpretation.

> Christianity has a code of ethics [citation needed], they vary by interpretation
I think I've nearly gotten used to it, but I definitely relate. It's frustrating that c-a and c-e don't work in every application, that forward-word and backward-word don't have consistent keybindings or function in the same way in every application. There is probably a moment's hesitation every time I copy text while I consider "Is it c-c or m-w?"
Agreed. When I'm using this as part of a larger workflow I'll sometimes use the GAN to generate a starting point and then manually edit things to remove weird inconsistencies. The output is also quite low-res so it needs tweaking. Of course both problems can be avoided by making the individual images so small that the weirdness is hidden - as I did for this project :)
I don’t believe the author is under any such illusion or confusion. It seems clear from the precisely worded text of the article that he’s perfectly aware of the circumstances, doesn’t like them, and is willing to articulate that in public with a specific example.

By all means throw shade at Apple for tripping on a power complex that puts Battersea to shame, but insulting this writer’s awareness doesn’t fly. They are not such a fool as suggested.
> What do you think, is there a potential niche for like NeoEmacs, a test editor written in a modern Lisp / Scheme

I think that's a non-starter because you instantly lose the entire ecosystem of elisp packages out there and nobody's config would work anymore. The latter is especially important when for some people that's a decades-developed init.el file in a repo that's migrated from CVS to subversion then git.

I've git bisected (mercurial at the time, but whatever) my .emacs repo to figure out what I did to break my Python config, so there's that.
Trace amounts of any element, whether in soil, water, or air, are basically useless, because they can't be mined economically. Even rare and valuable elements like platinum are only mined where they've been concentrated by geological processes over millions or billions of years.

Sometimes you'll see bold claims about the abundance of certain elements backed by the fact that they exist in ppm or even ppb [1] concentrations in Earth's crust, conveniently ignoring the infeasibility of processing teratonnes of material (and completely destroying huge parts of Earth's surface area).

[1] ppm/ppb = parts per million/billion
Insect decline is a global issue and includes Europe.
It has provisions to help limit the harms of slavery, this is not the same as actively promoting it. It's similar to the allowance of divorce (and polygamy) in the OT which Jesus says was simply allowed/tolerated due to the hardness of their hearts.
> "I want to buy X product with P, Q, R features and nobody is making one, we should force them to by law". No, that's not how that works.

Not allowing users to have administrator rights is a "feature" that was added... it should not be very hard to disable it.
Learn How Dataclasses Work in Python
Percy Liang on the tech and social impact of AI's emerging 'foundation models'
> Every card was stacked against me

Considering the insane amount of funds France will literally gift you just for opening a startup there, I find that very surprising. You have to be good at paper pushing and speak the language however. That much is true.
It’s not much different in the US. Leasehold arrangements are less common, but still possible, particularly when dealing with “mobile” homes (that generally aren’t mobile at all once placed).
Does anyone know if https://revealnews.org/ is credible?

Those who were hurt and could no longer work often were kicked out of CAAIR and sent to prison, court records show. Most men worked through the pain, fearing the same fate.

This reads like a Gulag or Uyghur Camp. It's 100% unpaid, force labor. What the hell?

Instead of paychecks, the men get bunk beds, meals and Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. If there’s time between work shifts, they can meet with a counselor or attend classes on anger management and parenting. Weekly Bible study is mandatory. For the first four months, so is church. Most days revolve around the work.

100% reads like a Chinese "re-education" camp. Dear god.
And, if by mobile, you mean network connected, even if you built your own hardware from components, you still don't own and control the networks (cellular or otherwise) over which that device will communicate.

ADDED: And if it's not obvious from the context, by "network" I mean a network that can communicate with the broader world, not just a LAN.
Emacs is many things, snappy is not one of them.

For added fun, try opening a huge file, or one with extremely long lines, and watch Emacs chug.

Now open the same file in VSCode and watch it handle the file just fine.
The key question is, how much does it cost to run Starlink?

This will determine how many customers they need to stay afloat.

The second key question is, are there enough customers that can pay $100 per month for service?

If not, Starlink will crumble.

You have to be fairly affluent to be able to afford $1200 per year for Internet service. If you can afford it, a lot of people would like to sell you terrestrial service for less.
I have never been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
Cellular networks don’t quite work like this. Your mobile data connection is actually a point-to-point tunnel to a gateway somewhere in the provider packet core, so you don’t really just “leak” multicast packets to other devices on the same cell.

Even in many enterprise Wi-Fi networks, it’s quite common to see either client isolation or multicast filtering in place (in part because multicast traffic is often sent at a very low data rate and that can have unintended side effects).
I'm not really sure I follow this logic as when you buy a car you can do whatever you want to it without effecting the warranty as proven by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 which states that only if the modification is directly responsible for the issue could it be grounds to not service under warranty.
> you're telling me that someone making 60kEUR in Berlin could be transferred to SV and their salary would immediately flip to $300k

Yes. And it’s not just FAANG anymore. That’s a totally reasonable comp at about 30-50 different companies in the US right now (and the number of companies paying this comp is increasing along with the size of fundraising rounds).

Also, in my experience nobody is working 60+ hour weeks at these companies (the bigger the company, the easier the job), so it’s not like anybody is being overworked to get this money.
10 years of pattern recognition and probing questions to the point of being annoying enough that companies have to drag out expert engineer XYZ every time I attend a meeting but then I end up striking a rapport with that engineer who tells me what really goes on :)
That's exactly my thoughts recently. As it appears, American venture capital simply can't build a big social media company that doesn't end up being a surveillance-driven, ad-ladden, privacy-hostile, user-despising, fake virtue-signalling behemoth.

So maybe it's time for Europe to shine.
I wonder what the recidivism rates are of places like this.
Hey, they got that system in place already in China! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Go to HackerNews, post a dissenting topic, enjoy no travel or credit!

Work in a high compliance job where you have to submit financials yearly, no more!
> > science alone can never legitimate itself

> Nether anything else, religion is based on faith and dogma. It can never be legitimised by facts as it will not be based on faith anymore.

> So what's the point of your statement then?

That the author of the article uses this argument to show that science alone is not enough. In comparison, like you mentioned, religion can legitimize itself through dogma. Science needs another system that promotes values and goals that can be achieved through science.

> > scientific process itself involves subjective decisions

> Yes, you can use imagination, try/fail approaches but those are then put to the test. And if my magical stone that keeps away tigers was found not to work, then its just a stone. Thats where the non-tangible and mistic claims come to die, or live (ie placebo effect, we don't understand it yet, but we know it exists).

I completely agree with you on this. Given enough time you get more and more knowledge. The interesting cases in my opinion are where there is conflicting evidence from different studies or sources and maybe not enough time to do further studies.

For example you have stomach cancer due to a genetic defect. Your doctor recommends you a medication which works for stomach cancer, but it has strong side effects. In all available studies there was no distinction made between patients with that defect and without. You reduce your survival chances if you take the medication and it doesn't work, but you also reduce your chances when you don't take it and it does work. So whats the rational thing to do?

> In my opinion the author desperately flails their arms in an attempt to obscure the murky argument. And it feels like convoluted god of gaps argument without mentioning god.

The author does not present a very coherent argument, but I still think he makes some good points.
Regardless of the long time horizon, it is still a significant number. Cloud is known to not be the cheapest option at large scale, so it is a bit curious they decided not to build their own infra. I'm sure the folks at Pinterest are smart cookies, so this is an indicator that cloud is now cost competitive even at scale (with these kinds of deals, which presumably come with a discount).
Just to keep some perspective on the numbers, all Starlink satellites launched so far, I mean all of them together, don't make the MTOW of three Boeing 747s or ten 737s.
You're cheating the system, though. The system exists in order to support the way of life in these countries, by bringing your American employment attitudes to Europe you're not really building a company in Europe by any measure: you're building an American company. Your company is benefitting from the robust systems in Europe, without contributing. There are people you want to hire in Europe _because of people paying their share of taxes_. If you don't want to pay employment taxes, if you don't want to offer maternity leave... stick to America.

Personally, I think there is a strong argument to make for the value of America-style lax employment rules when it comes to startups, absolutely, but please don't bring those to Europe by gaming the system. Hiring people as contractors to avoid obligations is an age old way to game the system, and eventually you'll be caught and face penalties (unless you're smarter about it, so I guess my advice is actually: be smarter about it (don't announce it on HN for example!)).
> while other providers offer comparable service with.. 3 sattelites

They really don't. Not in terms of bandwidth, not in terms of latency, and not in terms of maximum number of serviceable customers.
After decades Linux still hasn't penetrated the PC desktop. Not holding my breath for a viable mobile ecosystem.
Thanks for your response, I'll answer just to continue the conversation, not to try to invalidate your points or anything like that.

I read in other posts there's some sort of review process and a way to verify if the image is a match or a collision (I don't know much about he details) but I read the latest posts about the attacks that were being worked on.

I mean, with the complexity these attacks have I think it'd be easier for a ransomware gang to just infect you, plant the CSAM, find reliable contact info, verify it, lock your phone and extort your through an untrackable side channel (if this system didn't exist) or something a bit more elaborate / targeted (not even at NSO level).

IDK, I think the phone burns battery for dumber reasons at a higher rate, this should only be activated when there's a new picture written to disk and it's probably less expensive resource wise than whatsapp / telegram / imessage checking for new messages periodically don't you think?

I think if they don't royally fuck the process up or turn it into some idiotic fake way of getting the cops whatever paperwork they need to force you to give them access to your files it's a good thing.
Is there a way to delete a post? I see we can delete comments but posts seem to be can not be deleted.
This is standard practice. Most SaaS IT departments negotiate big rebates in exchange for long term commitments, and those who don't are leaving money on the table. I've seen datacenter deals over 10 years that looked far worse.
If you're talking about the words, it's a transcription of how he talks. People rarely talk in full sentences and if you actually read how someone talks it's very hard to follow. I cleaned it up a lot, but still wanted to keep some of that nuance in. There's a video version of this on youtube, and try and just listen to the words as if they were written, and leave in all the 'so the thing is' and 'you know's.
Capacity planning challenges can't be ignored and it's interesting that Pinterest share their forecasts with AWS significantly in advance. Makes me wonder if AWS will offer more incentives to older/larger enterprises that are used to datacenter-era capacity planning, I suppose RIs and Savings Plans are a manifestation of that already.
South African Unemployment Rate Rises to 34.4%(Highest in the World)
I am being serious.

Cluttering of the sky is unfortunate, but people in the 19th century were really unhappy about electric wires or wagons without horses and we cope now. There are almost 8 billion people on this planet and we cannot expect them to enjoy certain standard of living without some sacrifices.

If Starlink parameters are Low to Medium for you, I wonder what your standards are. Perhaps you are very fortunate in where you live (a major urban center of a first world country?). An alternative to Starlink would be a very extensive network of optic cables all around, and it certainly isn't clear to me at all that this would be eco-friendlier than Starlink.

I also don't think that Starlink is going to be a first world project only. On the contrary, I think its biggest impact will be in the poorer part of the world. People there will likely share connections (100 USD a month is quite a lot in poorer countries), but still. Even a 10 Mbps shared connection is a huge deal for someone in Kinshasa.

The worst obstacle will actually be politics. Starlink won't be easily controlled/censored by politicians, so I expect them to hate it and go out of their way to ban it.

As for the laptop: yeah, 2016. Reasonably good hardware, you can run Windows 10 on it. But you wouldn't use PC hardware from 2000. The innovation cycle is real, only its length is different in various branches of industry.

The oldest computer I run is from 2008 and it is noticeably energy hungry; I am not sure if at this point, swapping it for something new wouldn't be easier on the Earth. Not a simple calculation at all.
> This is exactly what hackathons try to do. It doesn't really work because the best incentive is internal.

I agree that the best incentive is internal, but wasn't following that hackathons don't work, as I find them tremendous, where space is made for unusual work to be done. Especially awesome if that environment and time is made by your employer.

Then I realized that the 'it' which doesn't work are the prize incentives, etc. This was also found to be true in hackathons I've participated in, where there was a trend toward more effort being put into the presentation of the work rather than the work itself. Upon recognizing the pattern, the formula was changed without placements/prizes, but that seems too far the other way as good work still should be recognized and shared in some way.
> it was either execution or abandon them to starve on the desert on their own

Yeah, that's cruel and unforgiving. Surely an all-powerful deity could've sprouted a few plants and let the kids join the conquerors with enough food.

The much more reasonable explanation is that this was purely human cruelty created by a lack of resources because there never was a higher power helping them out in the first place.
Your option 4 works fine for me.
Many people have raised this issue. How can you call it United States of America when America includes 40+ countries.

I suggest these names for the US government:

- Internal Revenue Service

- North America Management Company

- Corrections Corporation

- Currencies and Arbitrages International
It's introducing the company to an audience how might only barely know they exist. Imagine late night talk show host.
As a LSP user I agree. Having all my emacs muscle memories, elisp hacks, etc. Together with what amounts to perhaps 70-80% of what you get from an IDE (or at least what _I've_ gotten from an IDE) it's a killer feature.
Windows 10’s security is easily thwarted just by plugging in a Razer peripheral
It is actually not clear to me if the service will become profitable:

Elon Musk recently said SpaceX needs $30 billion for Starlink to survive[1] (meaning it isn't profitable now).

He also said that they are aiming for 42000 satellites.

And he said, that they are losing money on the Starlink terminals ($500 / unit).

Starlink is $99/month. If a Falcon 9 carries about 60 SL satellites, and they are aiming for 40000 satellites in orbit, that means they need to do 666 Falcon 9 launches every 5 years. That's 11/month, btw.

Even, if reused Falcon 9 launches are as cheap $10 million/launch (I don't think anyone outside SpaceX knows the actual price). That's $6.7 billion in launch costs alone every 5 years.

$6.7B/(60 months * $99/(month*customer)) = 1,127,947 customers

So they need at least 1,127,947 paying customers to cover launch costs alone just to renew the sky-side of the network. That doesn't include the cost of producing the satellites, ground infrastructure (including terminals), bandwidth cost when connecting to the rest of the internet, staff, marketing, etc.

Now, of course, Starship may make the launches cheaper, and 1.1 million customers is not completely unlikely. However, if he already foresee the need of $30 billion now, their costs are probably significantly higher than my estimated launch costs above.

So let's hope we will not be left with an abandoned constellation of satellites that ends up causing the Kessler Syndrome, because SpaceX abandons the endeavour or goes bankrupt 5 years from now.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-starlink-spacex-ba...
This is the standard misattribution that comes up all the time in bad faith, especially online. "[Organization] published X, therefore that's what they believe."

No, the IMF/NYT/News channel (or whoever) publishes opinion pieces all the time without agreeing with them.
I'm not exactly sure why Berlin Bike Cafe didn't really work out in the end. I do think KW is very well served by existing bike shops, and while Graham focused on a market segment that isn't well-represented by incumbents, it meant that he needed time for it to grow as well. London Bike Cafe seems to be chugging along quite nicely on a similar model, so it doesn't seem like it was an entirely hopeless endeavour on the face of it.
Well, what do we know about the life of the article's author and what failings they have, what they have done and whom they hurt?

Furthermore, how it's relevant in 2021? Asimov could have joined the Nazis and sacrifice orphans to satan and still be a Sci-Fi giant, which is based on his writings, not his behavior...

We could condemn the behavior or sympathize with those affected, but that's about it. He's also 30 years dead by this point, I think the statute of limitations has passed...
Closest I got was: not being introduced to (or not inspired by) xkcd's ten thousand https://xkcd.com/1053/

Ever since I read that one I've loved being able to introduce people to things rather than doing the question mark "you should know this" sort of reply

It was a wild search tangent admittedly
What if you mess around with, say, the OS on a Tesla?

My argument is not about cars, really, it's just a point I'm trying to make.
> Why? They're clearly an abusive company, just don't do business with them.

The market just does not have the ability to act here. Facebook literally incited genocide on the other side of the world and Facebook experienced zero repercussions
Sorry but i have difficulty to understand Starlink business : who are really their potentials customers ? It seems there is only a few possibilities :

- rural area (with sufficient incomes to afford the price)

- urban area with highly expensive/bad quality landline internet (but still with sufficient incomes to afford the price)

With the development of fiber in most urban area (usually fist in high income part) and the small number in the first category, I don't see how deploying tens of thousands of satellites could be profitable.
The only option will be to be able to lower the price but it will need a lot of customers...
Could you help me understand ?
Good, I'm sick of their results in image search.
Every discussion about the average user needs to start with https://xkcd.com/2501 to put yourself in the right mindset.
My assumption was the homes in Brazil were owned by the state, so the restrictions aren't even really hyperbolic. If you've ever lived in government/military housing they can come and inspect how clean you're keeping the place at any time, for example.
> After all, you may have your VHS tapes from K-Mart you bought 30 years ago, but can you actually watch them

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or just a bad example. Yes, you can still watch VHS tapes, since they're physical media that can be decoded by a VHS playback device. You might have trouble finding the hardware, but if you have the hardware, it will still run – it's not going to require a software update.