skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where can I actually see some statistics showing confiscating empty dwellings would significantly reduce the prices of houses?

I don't know of statistics on that question, however an anecdote: after WII across Europe it became very common for governments and city councils to "requisition" buildings/houses and for people to squat empty dwellings, and that is part of how the housing crisis was faced (alongside public plans for more public housing).

There's even a law in France (and to my knowledge in other countries) which says if you've squatted land/house for 20 or more years and paid your local taxes duly, you automatically become owner of that piece of land.

> taller building with smaller apartments allowed in sought after areas

And then you have a strongly degrading quality of life (everyone living in a small rabbit cage) and suddenly you need to invest billions more in infrastructure. For example, for cities built on ancient mines/swamps, building higher/heavier means you need to reinforce the underground and are always at risk of collapsing buildings/streets.

Why try to centralize everything? Why push the agenda of the construction sector/mafia by pretending building anew is the only solution to all our problems? Why pretend they do it to fight homelessness, when the proportion of empty buildings keeps rising alongside the number of homeless folks and new constructions? For the rise of empty buildings, see for example:

- https://en.squat.net/2016/05/27/netherlands-housing-crisis/ : Netherlands, about empty office space rising in proportion after the squatting ban, and the criminalization of poverty
- https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3572856 : France, only about housing space ; over 25 years every year, population grew by 0.4%, number of housing units by 1.0%, and number of abandoned housing units by 2.8% ; abandoned housing units is 10% globally, which does not include 6% additional percent of secondary/professional residence

Both these stats are official government statistics. Also worth considering, the environmental cost of building new stuff when there's no need. When do we stop? Where do all the materials come from (eg. sand for the concrete)? Infinite growth is madness.
LOL! I wonder if, having a dirty mind like that to make that association, should auto-add you to some child predator list. None of this is sane, but in this crazy witch hunt, the witch--hunters themselves are not excluded.
Uh, thats an interesting idea. Now I hope he wins, too!
It was published 6 days ago. Unless you mean the issue the article is discussing is old?
This blogpost [1] by security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis suggests that the false positive rate could be very high:

[1] https://pseudorandom.resistant.tech/obfuscated_apples.html
To paraphrase Clausewitz, "Lawfare is the continuation of advertising by other means."
Gee... After seeing this, I wonder why the Taliban have the support of the populace in Afghanistan.
First step is you actually _have_ those policies, if not create them. Following is you prove that you have them via something like a SOC2 audit.
Something different. I'm a Voice Actor, my "tech stack" is Reaper-iZotope

My "business stack" is Zoho One, which has been fantastic for managing everything else that isn't my tech stack (crm, website, billing, books, docs, mail, file storage, etc...)
> maybe there's a use for something with 16 slots? or at least 8?

You can always connect 2 or 4 of these together.

But I understand what you mean. A project I want to build one day, when I have the time and learn ethernet interfacing through PCB's is to build a single board cluster of Octavo SoM modules. They are individually inexpensive and it'd be relatively easy to build a board with a dozen of them connected to a switch chip.
I can't be doing Christianity wrong because I've never done Christianity at all.

But if Christianity is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, which would make sense since they named the religion after him, they're straying pretty far from the rulebook.
It has now, apparently
That's why commercial services just work. If I want to provide best-effort support for some library of mine I can set up a Gitter channel or a Discord "server" and it will work for sync and async communication, with incredibly low barrier for participation to boot.

I could set up a clever bouncer for my own account, but anyone who asks a question when everyone else is asleep and logs off will never learn the answer.

Yes, that's what async communication services are for, I know. I could run a bulletin board, or use GitHub discussions or Discourse, but the ship has sailed: people are used to chats full of features.
Terraform hit 1.0 quite recently, so let's wait for all that boring and stable please, otherwise the words lose meaning...
Indeed it was. It is a potent infoweapon.

Israel tried hard to prevent release of news coverage with blown to bits Palestinian children on every silly pretext, including "gory content." Yet, when it were blown to bits Israeli children from bombings, they were all over CNN.

The world's outrage is clearly not poweless.
> allows the producers and distributors of CSAM material to ensure that nearly all of the next generation of CSAM will suffer from hash collisions with perfectly innocent images

That’s a really interesting attack vector I hadn’t seen mentioned previously.

Most people are talking about the potential for adversarial images to be sent to users. If they were instead injected into the database itself (either by poisoning real CSAM or social engineering) that would have far wider ramifications.

I wonder what the most widely-saved pornographic images are across iCloud users.

If actual CSAM were perturbed to match the hash of, say, images from the celebrity nude leak a few years back and added to the database then thousands of users could be sent to “human review”. Since the images are actually explicit how would the human reviewers know not to flag them to authorities?
If he were smart he could have justed minted an NFT of the cover and sold it to whatever morons are still buying those.
An amazing case of the Streisand Effect.

> Elden alleges his "true identity and legal name are forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor which has been distributed and sold worldwide from the time he was a baby to the present day".

Absolutely had no idea what the legal name of the naked baby on the cover of Nevermind was. But now I do!
When my oven broke I tried to make a pizza napoletana / margherita in the pan, and it worked better than expected!

The trick is to roll the dough out very thin, fold it and then unfold it in the pan (this way it doesn't break on the way), frie it from both sides before you add the tomato paste and cheese. Then just bake it with the lid closed until the mozarella is run.
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- $5/month Digital Ocean server

- HTTP server: pm2 / Node / Express

- Database: SQLite (because it's fast and needs fewer resources and less configuration than others)

- Front/backend - custom full-stack Svelte framework.

- Analytics: GA

- Email: Mailgun

- Uptime monitoring: Nine9s (https://nine9s.cloud/ from another solo dev I believe)

The Svelte framework I made is really cool. It makes it really easy to have server-rendered pages (for search engines and fast initial page load), pre-compiled static CSS, code-splitting per page, and automatically generated JSON APIs per page that re-render the Svelte component, as well as lets me use Svelte on the front-end which makes development much easier for me. Example code here: https://github.com/Glench/full-stack-svelte-prototype/

The tech stack has basically no effect on success as far as I can tell except that it's fast for me to develop.
I'm not sure you need to do that, but on the other hand - how is the lifespan of France's nuclear fleet? I heard there were crack issues?
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So literally there should never be anyone under 18 featured in any sort of media?
Aside from delusional Trump loyalists that have now flip-flopped and are praising the Taliban, most Americans overwhelmingly supported withdrawing years ago.
Is it cynical to think about all the rest of the suppressed material out of the public domain previously to reduce objections to maintaining a military involvement?
The journalist seems reckless for publishing a photo of the journal. Transcribe that to protect your source.
Is very reasonable, in fact.
> ASICs really are just about cleaner PCB layout

ASIC's are just very small PCB's with all discrete components etched on the same material ;-)
Entirely dismissing that possibility given the timing would be naive.
I thought everyone knew of this site by now. The design is simple, clear, not wordy.

It's a perfect site I've used it when I studied electronics and IT.
Saudi Arabia was the primary source of al-Qaeda funding. The majority of the hijackers were from Saudi, as was Bin Laden. When he was eventually found it was in Pakistan.

At least invading Afghanistan made more sense than invading Iraq.
Apples ethics.
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Here's a HN thread from four months ago about Serial Experiments Lain[0].

I had it on my list of "must watch" anime for years but only got around to it last year. It comes off as purposely obscurant and parts of it haven't aged well but for anyone interested in cyberpunk anime it's essential.

I'd also recommend Ghost in the Shell (the movie and Stand Alone Complex) and the first season of Psycho pass along those lines.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26863490
In theory this is correct. In practice, when all your assets leave the building via the elevator every afternoon, it's not like running a gold mine.

In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're not.
France's most recent experience with expanding nuclear production, Flamanville 3, has turned out to be anything but cheap.

Nearly 6 times over-budget and yet to provide a watt nearly 10 years after its initially projected completion date. Most recent cost estimates are for over 19B euro - $22B. This buys you a single 1.6GW reactor.[1]

The same amount of money would buy 20GW of onshore wind. Even adjusting for capacity factors - about 70% for French nuclear, about 40% for well positioned modern turbines - the cost per MWh is about 7 times higher for nuclear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
Interesting technical problem/solution. Another benefit is saving on millions of server computations when modern iOS devices have neural chips etc.

I suppose folks who don’t like privacy implications can downgrade to an iPhone 4 and maybe it will not support the feature.
>They've almost certainly weighed the cost of a tiny portion of people caring vs a massive reduction in bots.

I'm sure they have. And I, being used to being in the minority of users, will likely find some 3rd party solution around the problem they created. Win-win outside of me wasting a few minutes installing another extension.
No, it isn't.

It is realpolitik.

Nasty game for nasty people.

And it could lead to outrage and spontaneous attacks on civilians and the troops protecting them.

Well done, whatever are the reasons for publishing it now, initiated by which player ever.
> At $40/hour - which maybe is adequate for the 3rd world but not for the US.

In a full time job that's $80k/yr. Median household income in the US is only about $60k/yr.
I give "if you're struggling its hard to turn down money" about as much credence as I give stealing because you're poor.
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I loved kimono I hope you are successful and I will check out your product.
I thought early google essentially ran on a university cluster?
Typically the onus would be to prove someone guilty rather than the other way around.
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I love xsv, but its been 3 years since last release and the PRs are accumulating.. miller seems much more active.
Keep in mind that Apple's claimed false positive rate (one in a trillion chance of an account being flagged innocently), and the collision rate determined by Dwyer in the blog post linked from the repo [2], are both derived without making any adversarial assumptions. Given that NeuralHash collider and similar tools already exist, the practical false positive rate is now expected to be much much higher.

Imagine that you play a game of craps against an online casino. The casino throws a virtual six-sided die, secretly generated using Microsoft Excel's random number generator. Your job is to predict the result. If you manage to predict the result 100 times in a row, you win and the casino will pay you $1000000000000 (one trillion dollars). If you ever fail to predict the result of a throw, the game is over, you lose and you pay the casino $1 (one dollar).

A casino that makes no adversarial assumptions about the clientele could argue as follows: the probability that you accidentally win the game is much less than one in one trillion, so this game is very safe, and the House Edge is excellent [3]. But this number is very misleading: it's based on naive assumptions that are completely meaningless in an adversarial context. Some of the clientele will cheat. If your adversary has a decent knowledge of mathematics at the high school level, the serial correlation in Excel's generator comes into play [4], and the relevant probability is no longer less than 1/1000000000000. In fact, the probability that the client will win is closer to 1/216 instead! When faced with a class of adversarial math majors, a casino that offers this game will promptly go bankrupt. With Apple's CSAM detection, you get to be that casino.

(reposted based on my comment on last week's thread [1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28236102

[2] https://blog.roboflow.com/neuralhash-collision/

[3] https://wizardofodds.com/gambling/house-edge/

[4] How to crack a linear congruential generator? http://www.reteam.org/papers/e59.pdf
That is really sad. The products looked really good and I had the feeling they were targeted at a very interesting niche that definitely needs to be covered.
Now that would be an NFT worth buying.
Based on South Korean parliament records, the amendment bans app store operators with dominant market positions from forcing payment systems on content providers and "inappropriately" delaying the review of, or deleting, mobile contents from app markets.

It also allows the South Korean government to require an app market operator to "prevent damage to users and protect the rights and interests of users", probe app market operators, and mediate disputes regarding payment, cancellations or refunds in the app market.
Did they broadcast violent and bloody content from there?

Genuine question. The downside to fb/Twitter etc allowing bloody/violent content would be that you’d get gore trolls and it would turn into /b
Love to see Crystal in the thread!
> accidental killing of children

On purpose is a war crime now, so it has to be accidental.

Starting/continuing a war is not accidental though. It sure can be baseless (imho most if not all recent US wars were baseless).
I've been looking for an code playground or js fiddle alternative that's easy to use on the mobile devices, and so far this is the most promising!

Also, on the website it's mentioned that more features are coming soon but the features aren't listed on the page. It would be nice to see a roadmap on the homepage
Mongo has strong relational capabilities I believe
It's kind of this:

https://blog.fosketts.net/2012/02/21/cubix-ers-blade-server-...

but for Raspberry Pi's and Nvidia Jetsons.
I wonder will this hatred ever end;
I wonder and worry my friend;
I wonder;
I wonder, wonder don't you?
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Can someone explain the origins of the slang for 'charger'? That one would not occur to me.
Sad news indeed, the Helios64 was promising although some users reported instability issues, but after some work it could have become a killer product. It's all Open Source though, so hopefully other people can join and take over the development/production, also showing in the process one more example (do we still need them?) why Open Source is the better choice.
This could power a portable audio studio. Use the CMs for different VST instruments and sound effects. Zynthian is just using a single raspi, but 6 of these beasts would make up a complete audio studio with multi channel recording and real time effects and synths. Zynthian provides accurate emulations of classic instruments: Grand piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, pipe organ, Hammond organ, combo organ, Minimoog, DX-7, Oberheim OB-X, JX-10... In the 80s I would have given a limb for a machine like that. Put it into a 19 inch case, slap a large display and 16 Knobs and sliders on the front panel, give it 8 line ins and midi connectivity and you have the ultimate audio studio in a box. Sell it for 1000 bucks and it sells better than sliced bread.

https://zynthian.org/
Where's the wuhan lab leaked footage? That's caused a world catastrophe. I guess everyone involved committed suicide or is busting up rocks?
That works when a company is profitable, which it seems spacex isn’t; and as a musk style startup I (presume, with no evidence) that employees would have some stock. Perhaps.
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The same people that are trying fleeing the country?
Since the the actual drone operator is claiming that they were innocent, then it seems strange to insist that they could have been combatants based on no evidence?

Here is another reversal comic/satire about killing civilians:

https://thenib.com/yemen-bombs-yet-another-wedding-in-americ...
"the parts of masculinity that are toxic".

Which parts are those?

The Wikipedia article is pretty disturbingly biased but let's go with it for lack of anything else:

> Traits traditionally viewed as masculine in Western society include strength, courage, independence, leadership, and assertiveness.

What of those do you consider toxic? Personally I view them as all relatively useful for many situations and contexts. I don't view any of them as toxic, though I would posit some extreme assertiveness in places it's not wanted would be "toxic". But I think thats more likely a toxic individual than masculinity being "toxic".

I view feminine traits in much the same way, mostly being advantageous when leveraged appropriately and unhelpful when employed at the wrong time.

But I'm not about to start suggesting parts of feminity are toxic.

Further more if you want to say masculinity has toxic parts, say that instead of saying toxic masculinity, because we all know what you really mean when you say it that way.
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I never use it because I know the process is automatic and I'm always afraid I will be missing part of the text or the pictures.

I've found ad blockers to be more or less competent in removing the stupid European banners, but they are far from flawless. Some sites get stuck without a scroll bar for example
Apple frequently decrypts icloud data including photos based on a valid warrant. This new local scanning method does not stop apple from complying and decrypting images like they have for years.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...

(Note: I have worked with law enforcement in the past specifically on a case involving Apple and two iCloud accounts. You submit a PDF of the valid warrant to Apple. Apple sends two emails one with the iCloud data encrypted. A second email with the decryption key.)
Yes I agree, bit of a stretch. Based on their whitepaper, it's a smaller version of the original image, I guess just large enough to support the human verification step.

But I'm unsure that the thumbnail is included with every CSAM "voucher" -- it's likely only included when you pass the 30 image limit. Need to read that section more clearly.
I don't think anybody said anything about special casing them.

I dislike saying anything in defense of tesla's self-driving research, but let's be accurate.
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>You aren't "owed" a free Twitter account

no you see, that's the problem. I don't WANT a twitter account, but I apparently need to use the site to view local updates in my town.

I'm perfectly happy continuing to not post there. I just don't see the benefit in making me find an extension around this annoyance so I can continue to not have a twitter account.
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Israeli media and the state doesn't release gory pictures of their dead children from terrorist attacks for propaganda, out of respect for their citizens. Palestinian Media and Hamas have absolutely no problem releasing footage of dead children to manipulate you on the other hand, no matter how out of context, old, fake, or even children they accidentally killed with failed rockets. They know you want to root for the underdog!
I tried this out when you had posted on IndieHackers, and it's a nice alternative to pomodoro, and maybe even better since it doesn't have fixed limits and the timer changes based on how productive you've been!
They did. Facebook, and Twiter both have plenty of it. The enforcement is obviously very selective.

The selective enforcement is much harder to prove than selective endorsement, and much sneakier at influencing the public opinion.
So far two people have allegedly quoted this statement, but it never appears on my blog.
This reads like an AI-generated translation. It looks like the source that they're plagiarizing is this Daily Mail article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9924567/US-drone-pi...

The points of difference have a strong smell of machine translation. E.g. "Killing for the sake of killing" turns into "I’ll kill you for the killing"; "Connecting Vets" becomes "Veterinary connection".

@dang This article should probably replace the submitted URL (edit: or alternatively, that article in the top reply comments)

related discussion thread: (identifying abuse of machine translation in published journal papers)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28107614 ("Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science")
It seems like the general population very largely don't support the Taliban, but for whatever reasons the urban populations aren't willing or able to stand up a credible defence.

I suspect the problem is the Taliban are 'only' instituting Islamic law. It's hard to fire up a Muslim population against implementing, er, Islam even if they are against the actual resulting policies.
> The real world results, as measured, showed a 0.3% false positive rate.

Try as I did, I can't find a source for this claim. The best I could find was[1] which seems to indicate a 1.1% false positive rate for people without symptoms (keep in mind my argument is against widespread, unconditional testing). PCR results in the real world seem to vary a lot, but a 3% false positive rate seems appropriate.

> 17 people quarantined from a single positive test. That "17" is a linear constant.

That is a faulty argument. You are assuming total costs of a trace/quarantine regime are linear in the number of people prevented from participating in society and productive activities.

[1]: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-likely-positive-latera...
I said "intensely internal", not "intensely personal". If you think the only thing that programmers do is typing out code without any thought, you have very badly misunderstood the profession.
KVM still needs a monitor which I'm trying to avoid.