skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand what the 5 year plan is. Even less what the 50 year plan is.

On one hand:

We are blessed to have access to mass genetic vector vaccines. Genetic vector vaccines are amazing at shaving off the sharp edge of the pandemic. Even after effectiveness drops against infection, they are still amazing at preventing severe infections. "VE for severe disease is *still high* after 6 months - 94% for ages 40-59, 86% for 60+.", https://twitter.com/_lewisy/status/1430291421085552641.

On the other hand:

* There is no path to ZeroCovid due to high airborne infectiousness, leaky genetic vector vaccines, immense human global population and reported animal reservoirs.

* The genetic vector vaccine effectiveness appears to diminish after ~6 months, thus booster shots.

* Leaky genetic vector vaccines are bound to give raise to vaccine-resistant variants, just like incomplete antibiotic courses give raise to antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

* Every time a new genetic vector vaccine variant is developed, it takes a long time to pass the FDA tests and even then it carries a tiny, but not zero, risk of ADE. OK, we'll roll the Russian Roulette once. But we can't forever play Russian Roulette with a mutating virus.
The antonym is baloney.
Designing tools for casual creativity [pdf]
OF has ruined amateur porn. What used to be genuine and casual is now mostly bored-eyed pros with bad lighting.
> Having a useless degree

Do you mean a degree in weird subjects, or from non-famous colleges?
Thanks that's probably the case!
I’d love to see hand drawn thematic maps (similar to amusement park maps) for specific regions.

Maybe a marketplace for such maps would allow artists to document their cities/neighborhoods.
I don't know what I was expecting, but those really are pretty maps!

I was hoping for some more documentation apart from the usage examples, although those are much appreciated too.
Any lawyers want to weigh in. Surely his parents signed his rights away for the 200 no?
If your enemy can get an image on your phone and in the “child porn DB”, I think they can easily get you in trouble without Apple’s help.

they can either just send the police an anonymous message or set up a child porn web site and have it ‘accidentally’ leak its password database, and make sure your email address is in it.
Why would you say that? If I bought 1000 hotel nights for refugee wouldn’t it be me offering them free accommodation despite the fact that I own zero hotels?

The AirBnB spokesperson says

> ... we will be paying for these stays ...

So I think it’s pretty clear
Unironically, linux isos. Mostly debian and raspbian based images.
Apple basically never announces things before they are ready to be released, so them not announcing this means very little. They may be working on it, and their usual secrecy is biting them in the ass very hard.
> You’d have to disable inbound POTS though.

Why would that be? POTS calls are gated to VoIP above the end-users system.
"After running the hashes against 100 million non-CSAM images, Apple found three false positives"

So closer to 1/10M. The reporting threshold is made artificially higher by requiring more than one positive.

But anyway, that's beside the point.

A perceptual hash is not uniformly distributed; it's not a random number. Likewise for photos taken in a specific setting; they do not approach the randomness of a set of random images.

So someone snapping a photos in a setting that has features similar to a set of photos in the CSAM database may risk a massively higher false positive rate. It's no longer a million sided dice, it could be a thousand sided dice when your outputs happen to be clustered around similar values due to similar setting.

But I can't say I care about false positives. To me the system is bad either way.
Sell This Book
OF is probably similar to Etsy, where the 95th percentile make millions and the median income is $0.
What Makes Work Meaningful – Or Meaningless (2016)
One thing I found fascinating about traveling in Japan is the opposite effect: even in a world-class city like Tokyo, nightly rates on all but top hotels were incredibly cheap: decent hotels I could get $50-80 a night, airbnbs I could find around $20-30 a night. (I imagine it's much higher in peak tourist season, but I was visiting in February). The ample housing supply lead to a glut of stays which made it really cheap as a visitor. It's really a case study for free market housing done right, in my opinion.

The issue here is that we've enacted heavy government action (generally at the state/local level) to regulate development/redevelopment of housing and subdivision of lots, but we haven't had corresponding heavy government action to maintain an ample supply of housing. We can't have it both ways.

One solution to the housing crisis is to have government build hundreds of thousands of units of housing, flood the market with cheap housing units, and drive housing costs down (and ideally also provide for the poor at the same time).

Another is to systematically remove barriers to subdivision and development and let the free market go wild.

Finally, we can do nothing except blame companies like Airbnb and hopefully by banning those short term rentals we can keep our rent price increases to 10% this year instead of 20%.
US lawmakers’ Kabul trip prompts Biden administration fury
A stolen credit card number doesn't generally go and "spend big" - they go buy luxury items they want. There's no end of "my credit card got done and they went and spent $50 on gas and beer" stories.

At the other side of that there is equally no end of "went and signed up for premium porn content" or PPV cable or whatever - and that's what payment processors tend to get unhappy about.

EDIT: Or more accurately, the relative ratio.
python matplotlib lives another day
PSD2 -- an EU FinTech regulation -- requires you to maintain sufficient redundancy. So yes, theoretically a company could be fined for a cable cut making payment impossible. Don't blame the guy with the backhoe for bad management decisions.

IANAL, but I'm unsure if there is legal precedent.
That's decreasingly a risk you can avoid, whether you are an only fans user/model/entertainer (what's the OF equivalent of a youtuber?) or OnlyFans itself.

It's risky to be dependant on an App store, cloud computing platform, social media platform, payment processor, etc. They might change their rules, ban you over a rumour, or just quietly change their recommendation or advertising algorithms to exclude you. There aren't a lot of substitutes, and even if there were, switching can mean leaving behind users.

OTOH, you have no choice. All the opportunities are on these platforms, not just risks.

To be a youtuber, you need to be on youtube. Diversifying to other platforms is doing stuff other than being a youtuber is hard. You can't just take your users, revenue model and such with you. You could try also doing IG or OF, but in the same sense that you can also practice law on the side. Sure, it gives you security, but not in a portfolio kind of a sense.
We can't and they probably will, everyone else seems to already be doing so. There's that Swiss federal police report that only about 10% of NCMEC reports are actually relevant (https://fedpol.report/en/fedpol-in-figures/fight-against-pae...)
I felt that expensive is subjective in this context. It is expensive as a full kit NUC, yes. However, barebone NUC is cheaper and I see a few of them are in $300 range with various of i3 and i5. I seen a very cheap $200 range barebone NUC last month, however it use low end cpu, i3 or Celeron.
Storage batteries are going to fill gaps in generation swings, not power gigawatt scale grids for more than a few minutes. This is the crux of my point and i stated it as such.

A lot of smaller batteries is effectively equivalent to a single larger battery and that does not get around the problem from above - they simply cannot store enough energy for more than short periods. A handful of large hydro reservoirs store more potential energy than all chemical batteries in the world combined.

Meanwhile, extreme weather events are getting more common. Texas - for example - had a nearly 10,000 MW shortfall between their forecast and the actual, served demand. Is a battery every going to supply capacities like that for hours on end? No. During that cold snap, some wind turbines froze, some didn't see enough wind and much of the solar wasn't generating at full tilt. What then? Do we shrug our shoulders and say "no heat, too bad"?

Chemical storage batteries cannot power large grids for extended periods and that is the fundamental problem being ignored, not their cost.

The problem with HN is that people do not think outside their silicon valley and techbro bubble. Another comment here suggested that domestic loads can be served with a battery. Sure, if you live in California and don't need much heat. This is the problem - when someone points out that what is proposed is not viable everywhere and that a mix of solutions is needed, it gets downvoted because it doesn't follow the "renewable energy is the be all and end all" argument.
I'm sure it would make sense if you saw the balance sheet.
If you're forced to live near your employer's office and commute to it, then you're giving up one of the prime benefits of remote work.
“We are giving the populace more options to move around in Lagos”
They say (it’s right there in the article!) that they are paying for the stays.
Apple could also encrypt every upload to iCloud, and not have any scanning on the client, and still be able to say to the government "sure, you can have the files; we can't read them and neither can you". Apple wants to reduce your privacy from the government above and beyond what the law requires. The questions is: why?
I think there is a general issue with platforms “conveniently benefiting” from massive growth from all their users, until one day they suddenly decide who/what they want to “allow”. This exclusion can take different forms, e.g. exclusion by suddenly imposing high subscription fees (not just “moral” exclusion).

It’d be really interesting to see if these platforms would ever have gotten so big/popular without their now-excluded audiences.
> The word tapu has completely different etymology than taboo.

No, it doesn't. What do you think the etymology of taboo is?
> Now you might argue that there should not be a picture a a naked or not fully clothed child of any form ever on any phone

No I'm definitely not arguing that. I'm not American, where I live you'll sometimes see nude bathers in the city centre, and most definitely nude children on the beach.

1 in a trillion is derived from a dataset of 100 million photos, presumably a representable proportion of these were "similar images" like bathing kids.
Show HN: Desktop media player that can play/download online media from websites
Why not just $5.1M for...robocalls? In the age we live in, there's virtually no reason for robocalls to be legal when emails exist. If robocalls are needed, they should be exceptional with exceptions granted, not the norm.
Curious about this. How does one DM folks on here?
Curious, do you stay logged into reddit?

Logging out is the only thing I can think of that would cause you to keep seeing the new layout.
If there is too much wind they stop the blades, but that brake can sometimes fail. There are some good videos out there of turbines failing catastrophically :)
It happens whenever a minimal presence is needed, even in the software industry, e.g. for support.

In general management prefers team members sort things out among themselves. E.g. one goes on leave during the first week of the school holiday the other on the second week.
The apology is exactly there, to suggest that every or most atrocities committed by powerful countries is nothing more than a fabrication.
They are considerably more complicated to build and their main benefit is efficiency in turbulent flows, however it turns out that also turbulent flows tend to be slower in practice so there's less energy to get out of them anyway. This reduces your margins to zero if not negative unless you scale them up to sizes that are not practical for places that actually do have turbulent wind conditions. (e.g. cities.)

Source: I worked for a micro generation helical VAWT startup for 5 years.
Hey,
Krishna Kant Sharma here. Creator of this app.

About App:

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSi30m2BYqA

PintoWebPlayer is a desktop media player that focuses on playing online videos/audios. Next time you are watching an online video in your browser (any website), drag that webpage url to this player. It will try to pull media directly in your player. You can bookmark it, or even download it for offline use.

It supports both plain and encrypted library folders. Medias inside encrypted library folders are password protected.

You can also expose your library on local wifi, and access it from supported players like vlc running on android/ios/tv etc.

You dont need to login, or create account. Just download and use it for free. Let me know what you guys think.

Backstory:
I started this pintowebplayer as a side project last year, around March 2020. It started as a small tool for personal use. Things started getting added as I needed them. Couple of friends started using it too. From there, I decided to rewrite it as a desktop player. This has undergone a year worth of development as a side project, and then I took few months off, to work on this full time.

Since I published it I have had around 80 regular users. Most people who use it tend to like it.

I am a freelance software developer. So I will admit I have no idea how to promote or monetize this. I have always worked with teams and promotion/sales was handled by other people.
I have stayed away from ads. Free version is fully functional (with just limit on how much you can download).

I guess by posting here I am looking for advice from community. Do you see any potential in this? I have put a lot of effort in this, so ideally I would like to monetize it a little. Don't want to show ads though. Subscription seem wrong too. Currently it has a one time purchase for lifetime premium access.

Thoughts?
> ARM boards are hard right now because we’re not quite to the point of powerful, high-RAM systems being affordable

I get the feeling that most ARM SoC vendors had made their first 64-bit products by just pasteing a 64-bit CPU into their previous 32-bit SoC design. It is only recently that reasonably cheap 8GB boards have become available.
The processors that implement hardware-accelerated neural nets are not necessarily using standard IEEE floating-point math.
There’s a CDC study that shows vaccinating while previously infected, further boosts your immunity by more than double https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

What they don’t mention is that previous infection alone is at least as good as vaccination alone. According to data from Israel, previous infection is about 6x more effective in fact. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...

Given that, I don’t at all agree with the conclusion of that CDC study that you HAVE to get vaccinated if you had a previous infection.
if i don't listen to something i'll just continue thinking about work or whatever other issues occupy my mind. i listen to fiction in particular to allow me to disengage from the worries of the day.
If you know where Wikipedia is incorrect you fix it. They let almost anyone edit.
It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Small%20PP%2...
I am a lawyer that does collection work and I use Lexis Smartlinks to get current address information on debtors. Smartlinks includes voter registration information as part of the profile it generates. I don't know about police departments, but I have heard of law enforcement using private data services. I think the statement is true.

I also receive 5 - 10 robocalls per day. To go after these people reeks of selective enforcement based on politics.
> Nobody knew who this person was before he started complaining about it, how could he "suffer damage" from it?

Ehh, that seems like pretty shaky logic. I think it's pretty safe to say that lots of people would be bothered by naked pictures of themselves being posted publicly for all to see, even if they can't be identified by the pictures.

That's not to say he's going to win, but I think you're simplifying things a bit too much.
We need statelessness for service reliability more than we need it for scale. There are a number of services that people use within our infrastructure that need to continue working even when a centralized DB is unavailable.

Logs are a good example. We expose logs as a NATS service, people auth and subscribe to their logs. It's useful to terminate auth right there both because it's faster and because it continues to work when the internet burps.
I totally understand, there's a reason I used the word "fascinating" and not "exciting"

I would personally be open to trying it once, but I have no idea if it would fit in my life as a regular occurrence or if it would be miserable and make me want to quit.
> Bad for the environment. Good for the brain.

That's just bad for the environment two times lol
Show HN: Metriql – The first open-source headless BI solution
Okay. Then why are you worried about this new system, given that the US govt can just throw you in prison at a whim?
>Part of the reason that employers require advanced degrees is so that they are assured that the individual in question can figure out what steps need to be taken to fulfill an objective, and then take those steps.

it seems like if some individual has been working with you for years, you should probably have access to better metrics for this than degree/no degree, such as personal acquaintance and familiarity
50% of Americans use jPhone, and many as their primary computer device.

You can't reach them without paying Apple tax. You can't write software and be done with it - you have to make their arbitrary reviewers happy and wait for releases. No matter what your business is.

They also keep you from forming a relationship with the customer. You don't get an email or anything. You're on their payment rails most of the time, which significantly increases risk.

One press of a button, and your business is obliterated.

Imagine if every car was either Ford or Tesla, and Tesla charged your destinations 30% on everything you do. Every bagel you buy, or every concert you attend.

Margins are tight as it is. Apple makes it substantially harder. Before Apple, people were satisfied with websites and Windows programs. Now everything has to be an App.
It was mainly due to pressure from their payment providers, who in turn were pressured by fundamentalist christian groups like exodus cry under the mantle of "protecting sex workers" and "anti trafficking", but their actual end-goal is banning porn completely.

They started out with pornhub, which as a direct result of that deleted a ton of their content. OF seeing how these groups could effectively pressure the biggest fish in the porn industry through the creditcard companies, they found themselves between a rock and a hard place.
In France you can get a degree (or at least an equivalent) from professional experience. You have to go through skill validation for that!
Where did you find the statistics about pedophiles' intelligence?
Every day with seaborn
So do you have to provide a second piece of ID with it then?

(What's preventing one person from copying their cryptographically signed card?)
I can't imagine that sovereign nations like being blackmailed by tech companies, so whilst in the short term this could work it seems like the exact move that would cause the country to go the other way and outright ban Google and Apple products.
You can't actually be trying to defend spam robocallers.... Can you?
I'm always hesitant to add numbers to my phone's block list because they spoof numbers often and I'm worried that I'll block a number that legitimately needs to reach me in the future. I know the chances are tiny but it would be a huge PITA to debug that issue and if they do reach me through some other means I doubt I'd remember to check my block list to see if I happened to block them in the past.
>2) The record label are the ones who ultimately profited off the image.

Were the parents (or whomever consented) not compensated?
were any of the people you mentioned or other child actors forced to perform in the nude?
> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content

They want a solution for distributing adult content and getting paid for it.

By far, the single biggest hurdle here is payment processing - as evidenced by this whole OnlyFans fiasco. It's Visa and Mastercard who are pressuring OF - they've been doing this to sex workers for decades, but finally picked a fight big enough that it's getting real media backlash.
OnlyFans does have features that patreon doesn't that really improve the functionality for any type of creators; finer grained control over visibility of posts (you can sell things for additional money on top of the subscription cost), built in live streaming and video.

Patreon is really barebones, for example to host video just for Patrons you have to go through other sites which lets users leak out the info to access it since it's not usually directly tied to their Patreon account. There's no built in support for livestreaming on Patreon at all. All in all Patreon is a super basic private text blog.
The majority of my robocalls come from a spoofed number with my same area code. Luckily, I happen to have an area code from several states away, so all my fake calls have out of state numbers. The odds that spammers spoof my local code is nearly 1:1000, so I am able to answer local numbers without issue. It is a less effective system post-covid because more people are using personal cells and VOIP to WFH.

Depending on the logistics, others might have similar success with a google voice number or the equivalent from a unique area code.
> He also alleges the nude image constitutes child pornography... However, Elden's lawyer, Robert Y. Lewis, argues that the inclusion of the dollar bill (which was superimposed after the photograph was taken) makes the minor seem "like a sex worker".

I wish the courts were ok with a response of "Are you fucking kidding me, or are you just batshit insane?" Even remotely arguing that this is somehow like child pornography is a grave disservice to all the actual victims of child porn. I sometimes wonder what it's like to go through life with absolutely no shame.
Building an Objective-C/Swift Class-Dump in 2020
I'v no idea what villi is, but ain't Lustig talking about this for a decade now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Can you share more about industrial protections used by Singapore? And didn’t China grow as an export manufacturer long before it had any homegrown industrials? In fact, IP from the former was likely an input to the latter in my understanding.
For context, I find most people who were full-time in-office workers (and still live in the same spot) prior to the pandemic are the ones who are in-favor for a flex-remote policy. This is all based on local sampling of my coworkers and my wife's coworkers, not necessarily representative of the population.
Up to 2 years? Hold my beer, in Scandinavia 5 year olds routinely run naked on public beaches. You're not even very shocked if you see nude grownups bathing.
It seems to be general problem for the West. Not just for states but also individuals. Somehow we have trained ourselves to reach for the credit card to solve every problem.
I'm not arguing the merit of that.

I'm arguing that you can't point to numbers and say "Look, AP is safer than humans, because in the optimal subset of conditions where AP is 'able' to drive, it does better than humans in all conditions, even ones where AP would refuse to engage".