skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federated platforms are pretty good with getting rid of public objectionable material. I thought that ever since encryption became a thing, we had pretty much forfeit the possibility of preventing the sharing of CSAM? Hence why Facebook is where the overwhelming majority of CSAM is found on the internet.
Back in the 1960's when road construction was underway and diversion of lanes was necessary, at night the spherical black kerosine lamps the size of bowling balls were still everywhere the traffic cones were during the day.

Modern rechargeable electricial markers that could last all night were not common at all.

Rows of bombs with a few inches of raw sooty flame coming from a wick where the fuse would be.

Drive your Model T or Edsel carefully between the lines of flickering fire.

Plus the Pink Panther cartoons had an associated subject line occasionally featuring a mad French terrorist bomber often carrying one of the round black bombs.

This was basically ridiculing the bombers that had been in the news terrorizing them.

Both were enjoyed by American kids as much as domestic cartoons, even though they were basically like silent movies, intentionally featuring no actual dialog, intended for international consumption without need for translation.

All the American villians had the same kind of bombs anyway.
If something is not safe for child porn and terrorism, it is not really safe for everything else. Only as safe as someone lets you be. Alternatively, if something has means to censor “just” child porn and terrorism, they WILL be used for something else one day.
This is a classic Marxist talking point (cultural hegemony):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
Italy, Germany, France, the UK, and Spain are indeed in the range of 1,200-2,000. I got Austria mixed up with Australia.
> If the belief is that we can't entice people to work unless they're scared of poverty

Hasn't the last year or so taught us that, unfortunately, that is the only motivator to work that's actually effective enough?
All the practical means of handling cryptocurrency involve exchanges where, sooner or later, regulatory scrutiny and the risk tolerance people have with money makes them as complicated as banks. This is the same problem people have making new programming languages and frameworks to address existing problems: sooner or later, they accumulate all the problems of the old system trying to address the limits of their simple designs.
How's all the NY/De Blasio negativity detract from the positive right to repair message? It made me, someone not from NY, unsubscribe.

It doesn't only have to be about right to repair.
There's a really good way to explain it
Just want to echo that I believe this to be true, as well. Jobs involving menial, unskilled labor can be almost therapeutic if you're only required to do it 2-3 times a week. I did night jobs while I was working full time as a developer and I would actually look forward to the work. Whereas the other employees who did it 5-6 days a week acted like it was torture.
I wonder how do you expect to deal with a sky partially filled with smoke day and night maybe for months. One eruption in Lanzarote lasted for five years. Sounds like an interesting problem.

Is there something that could be turned into your advantage and measured more easily using the smoke?
The view is a bit more complicated than that, but you gave me a laugh. Thanks!
Pausing Screenshare in Teams Meeting
To me the fact that the SOTA AI-generated art resembles a lot of human-generated art is mainly because there is a ton of low-quality art out there.

However, I believe there have been enough major advancements to assume that there will be more and that it will keep. Obviously that's speculation, but it seems plausible that we will approach closer and closer to human level as time goes on and there are more breakthroughs.
I was forced to use Microsoft OneNote for a while and it was probably designed by someone with that mentality, and I absolutely HATE it. People manage to put unwanted changes into important pages all the time (the horrible Win10 default of not clearly indicating the focused window is certainly related, but that's another rant...) and the fact that it instantly syncs to the cloud for everyone else to see, made for some major embarrassment and irritation.

Changes should be saved with deliberation, not "whenever".
Ask HN: Is Covid19 mass vaccination an orchestrated effort?
What baffles me is how much both media and governments are pushing Covid19 vaccination effort. And how most people are taking all that information without questioning and letting "unknown" formula, that was orchestrated by pharmaceuticals, be injected into their bodies.

Given that both my parents were medics (dad was a surgeon), I just don't buy it.

There are some conspiracy theories floating around online, but even if we disregard a theory that the entire thing may orchestrated, it is common sense to be cautious, given the vaccine is very new and using unconventional mRNA sequencing as opposed to traditional, long-tested vaccines.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one (among my colleagues, friends, and even family members) that is questioning this.
It’s not literally just hosting. That’s not that hard. It’s distribution, discovery, promotion, accessibility. Right now, if you want your video to be seen, you need to be on YouTube.
I love using Discord for my open source app [0] because instant messaging and low entrance friction makes it easy for me to find out what's wrong with the app when an user comes with a problem. Previously I only did email when users had a problem and it took ages to fix issues that I could not reproduce.

Why is Discord a red flag in your opinion?

It is indeed not very searchable, but I think there's always Github and the official website for more persistent information.

[0] https://lunar.fyi
Has any spy tech ever left? I remember vaguely some public discussion about CCTV somewhere in the mid 90s and now I live safely in the knowledge that I can be tracked 24/7 whenever I enter the city.
If nothing else, many people use it for personal, interpersonal and group communications about perfectly mundane issues, uninteresting to governments, on principle.

(... for some definition of "many".)
So I guess same question as I ask below. Are you happy with the current labor shortage, do you see it as a good thing?

It seems like it's directly addressing a problem you have with the current state of child-rearing, and that in order to move to the model you prefer, businesses necessarily need to get used to the fact that fewer people are going to apply for jobs and that they'll have to pay workers more.

This should be a good thing as far as you're concerned, right?
> If they need to start paying $15h/h and have to close from 1am to 5am, some people might not be able to get cigarettes from the gas station, or buy gas without a credit card.

You mean they might not be able to buy gas at all. Gas stations will shut off their pumps when they close, so you can't even do self-service credit-card purchases.
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What happened to my Helium earnings?
More "solved" than solved IMO. You still need some 3rd party to make the initial connection, for example.
Those motivators aren't the ones that disappeared in the last 18 months, though.
This is essentially the common fallacy along the lines of "Everybody deserves what they get and gets what they deserve". Society can't, and indeed does not, work that way.
My company manages a lot of Kubernetes manifests with Terraform without issue. Terraform is just generating the manifests in this case; Kubernetes is doing the reconciliation work. More complex than is ideal (i.e., if we were starting out with Kubernetes we probably wouldn’t use Terraform) but it works reasonably well.
Looking for insight from people who work at low level optimising of code, instruction sets, and hardware.

1. Do you see 128bit processors/systems becoming mainstream anytime in the near future?

2. What type of applications would benefit consumers and general computing at scale?

3. Do we know of any of the main players working on these?
Don't allow it in the house while not in use specifically for school. Keep it in a faraday cage at the least. All sorts of ways of combating this type of bullshit, and it's also a teachable moment for your kids. The problem is this is similar behavior to those wearing tinfoil hats. What used to be signs of crazy are now normal day things.
"web3 is a stupid idea" is still my gold standard article. web3 has shickingly few protocols. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457762 https://timdaub.github.io/2020/09/08/web3/

oh sure there's some blockchain stuff- the most centralized of decentralized stuff possble. globally consistent, no individual freedom, but distributed.

but web3? it basically all revolves around one web3.js file. and assumes everyone has the one same metamask extension installed.

very little about web3 exhibits the freedom, interoperability, protocol-centralism, or loose coupling of the real web. it's all tightly-knit carefully targettee blockchain on ramps. usually via very centralized hosted providers, be those extensions, js bundles, or the gateway providers to the blockchain. the "web3 is stupid" post is so good, really captured gow shallow the "web3" idea feels to me.

a lot of this could be fixable. but the blockchain folk, to me, feel far more authoritarian & control oriented, dont feel like people who respect the individual liberty & permissiveness & exploration that made webs 1 and 2 excellent & enduring. whats going on here is of a very very very different bent.

post script: atek was recently announced, which is a very interesting "self hosting" platform, for bith blockchain & general p2p systems, that calls itself a web3 provider. this is far more interesting & on target, loosens greatly what i think of as web3, in interesting, protocol centric, user empowering, distributed ways. i hope web3 can capture some of this vibes! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28485601 https://atek.cloud/
So the other way around.
Do you employ a GitOps approach this way?

I find it hard to figure out how to use GitOps with Ansible? How do you make a PullRequest which indicates that something should get deleted? You still would have to keep around an ansible playbook for the stuff you want to delete.
The list of games you linked is very different IMO. For example the Gothic Games , you have a major choice to chose a faction but except that everything is always the same(same quests, same dialog, same NPCs).

The games listed in this article have a lot of randomness , random maps, random characters, random events, usually you can change the world and have your action be reflected, each play will be very different then the others. I like watching on YouTube talented people play this kind of games, I am not so creative/inspired to play them.

Probably The Sims series could fit the article criteria.
So much of finance is based on the concept of "time value of money," that I wonder when people notice that it has been essentially zero (or negative) for a while now.
You're not likely to find child porn on Tor anymore unless you go looking for it. It's there, because Tor is much bigger than Freenet and I2P, but it's out the way. The hidden wikis were all cleaned up years ago. I bet the drug marketplaces thought it was bad for business to be listed alongside that sort of thing.

Freenet is the same as it ever was. I don't think you could play around on there and not find that stuff. Dunno what's going on on I2P these days.
Only Spock was allowed to do that.
I also feel like a huge piece of art being fun and interesting is the human to human communication aspect of it. Dali, without knowing he’s Dali and what he and the rest of his generation saw, talked about, wrote about, and valued is just a bunch of goofy nonsense, albeit technically well executed.
> Buried in the school usage guide/hand-out is a paragraph that states that the school reserves the right to enable the microphone and camera at any time, with no warning or notice required by the school faculty.

A few years ago there were cases of cameras being enabled by faculty who observed teenagers in their bedrooms, doing something or another, I can't remember if there were salacious details (nudity, sex?) involved - but it was a scandal at the time. Now it's normal?
To make this as easy as possible I've already found the bug for you
That’s part of the problem, they had 500 detection “events” over 15 years of operation.
> the original SARS had a solid origin within 6 months of research

… citation required and also an explanation of what “within 6 month of research”. Exactly when did this 6 month period start and finish?
I disagree, emphatically. Privacy _is_ a human right; nobody has the right, privilege, or ability to intrude and exfiltrate data from my mind. Computers are nothing less and nothing more than an amplification system for the mind. It ought to share the same privileged status as our deepest, innermost thoughts.

Children have a right to privacy.
Which is, again, a belief you can have. Just don't call it a free market, call it what it is: a forced/captive market.

If you really believe that poverty is the only motivator, then fine. Just own it, don't argue that motivating people through threats of poverty somehow makes them more free.
The value you get is using JS instead of that abomination called Dart
as a french I absolutely never heard "pomme grenade" for the fruit, just "grenade" directly
I see issues like contracts--they have a scope and you are agreeing to work on that scope. If you go beyond the scope, you're breaking the contract. Someone might already be fixing the tech debt via a different issue, you may need to submit a new RFC, etc. Management and PMs will also start to notice and not appreciate the risk that your fixes might cause to the release.
> It's unlikely that the people investigating will be the same ones developing new drugs or treatments for covid.

Maybe not, but maybe they should instead be investigating how policy failed us so catastrophically around the world after it escaped its original area.

When the world obsesses over its origin, it seems to be blatant deflection over failures at home.
Yes they have minus grades.

NEB is still called NEB or the "ECE" building along with Larson/Benton Halls.

There is the new Herbert Wertheim Engineering Lab which is the "New"est Engineering Building. The Malachowsky Data Science Building is under construction south of the Reitz Union, replacing the parking lot at the top of the Center Drive hill.

Source: Finished masters in 2019.
Yes, Owncast [0] is another example of a media app that is in the process of adding ActivityPub protocol support [1] and become part of the Fediverse. I hope they'll be largely compatible in the way they implemented their federation support.

[0] https://owncast.online/

[1] https://github.com/owncast/owncast/tree/gek/activity-pub-1
The button was there just to make you feel more confident.

...and when the autosave inevitably fails, deception like that only serves to anger your users more.
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BitTorrent is easier to understand (IMO) and can sometimes be faster at lookups than IPFS. IPFS dedups content, whereas if you have an identical file in 2 torrents but only one is seeded, you can't download it from the other one. As far as I know those are the only differences.

Edit: Actually BitTorrent v2 dedups files so it seems like IPFS and BitTorrent are now functionally identical.
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The stolen cards are ones issued by other banks, though. Unless you propose that every OF customer has to open an account at OF's specific bank, in which case you end up with the same problems about how they transfer funds in.
We also have a Matrix room and a telegram room.
https://matrix.to/#/#dothq:matrix.org
https://t.me/dothq
I mean, maybe? It's trivial to add noise to a file to produce a different hash. It's a neutral routing protocol that doesn't make prescriptions one way or the other.
>So apparently all schools are amateur at commercialization. UF just has more experience than most.

The professor that originally created the buckey ball (forerunner to carbon nano tubes) was at a community College, and he didn't realize what he had done. Then a nearby university (the one you are thinking of) saw his research and recognized what was happening - so they bought it and expanded it. The university professors eventually got a Nobel prize out of it.
This post is making fraudulent claims for the purpose of promoting the court adjudicated conman Craig Wright and his scam Bitcoin knockoff, "Bitcoin Satoshi Vision".

Wright isn't particularly technically sophisticated and early on he made the error of claiming Bitcoin Script was turing complete on the basis of it having "multiple stacks". It transparently is not-- for it can only execute a number of operations fixed in advance, and lacks any looping, recursion, or similar and any script using the altstack can be turned into a slightly larger one that doesn't. Rather than retracting or recontextualizing the false claim, he's since just continued to double down on it, presumably because doing so helps further isolate the victims of his fraud from people who are technically competent.

To support these repeated false claims, Wright eventually published “A Proof of Turing Completeness in Bitcoin Script”, which turned out to be almost entirely plagiarized from a 1964 paper by Corrado Böhm, the discovery of which apparently result in Wright being kicked out of CNAM. https://samwill102244.medium.com/anatomy-of-a-fraud-a-deep-d...

Publications like the one here are intended to confuse the reader about the definition of turing completeness, and are instead just pointing out the same points that were made that turing completeness was unnecessary in the context of Bitcoin ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGE6jrVmt_I / https://cyber.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/russelloconno... )which had been pointed out by the community back even before Wright ever knew of Bitcoin.

The whole matter is doubly absurd because it would be completely trivial to make Bitcoin script actually turing complete and could be done without breaking compatibility with the existing network. But it is generally considered expressly undesirable to do so by technical experts, because it would remove the existing guarantee that the runtime of all scripts can be determined and limited statically and because it wouldn't actually increase the utility of the system.

Recent court documents have exposed that Wright's activities are being funded by an advanced fee fraud scheme where he promises wealthy investors large amounts of "satoshi's bitcoins" in exchange for loans. Based on their own reports it appears the the total amounts taken are in the hundreds of millions of dollars now, or even more. This would all mostly just be sad and amusing except for Wright's propensity to file lawsuits against people who point out his fraud (such as myself-- he's sued me demanding 6 billion dollars in damages!)

For more information on the BSV scam and Wright's fraudulent claims checkout https://www.reddit.com/r/bsvscam/ and https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/op-ed-how-many-wrongs-m...
I agree and should at least have put quotes in there.

I've made a personal mission of trying to rehumanize every damn job, saying hello, how are you, stopping sometimes to talk about kids or the shitty people leaving shit in the kids playground, or just asking how's the family going. Not only did I make friends with the bus drivers, the street cleaner, the store cashier, the security people everywhere, but now I feel better the pulses of my communities, and have a far less difficult time talking to new people and giving or asking for help. I know those people and they know me. During the pandemic, I just sometimes asked news about family or kids and the amazon drivers here were crushed, their families sick and dying all around. One of them stopped and just cried there. Yes as one other commentor said, it's a job, man up, do it. But also, when there's a crying father there telling me he's been yelled at the whole week, he's been late for deliveries for days, and getting his pay docked, fuck
ALLL that. Come on, have a water, a coffee if you can stomach it, late for late... And talk. Learned some of my neighbors needed a talking to. No one deserves to be treated like that. I... didn't see people were so shitty to each other, especially what one lady called 'the help'.

Even the people I'm never gonna see again, it costs me almost nothing to say hi, hope your day's OK, thanks, and it brings sometimes the simple joy of talking for 2 minutes and feeling all fucking human. Some make it hard (uber eats kids...) but still, hi, everything OK? How's your family? I can't do much, but tipping and talking, yes.

And don't let me started on making your salary almost only from tips. You're really wondering why you can't find 'help'?
Might be a long ways out, as this article still seems mainly about research purposes, but if there's things like the Outer Space Treaty (which to my understanding theoretically limits country-based ownership of things like the moon), then to some extent it feels like there's no "law" on the moon, so will we see company's landers sabotaging other company's landers as they compete for resources? I guess I'm picturing something like the gold rush of the mid 1800's. Maybe orbits around earth are an example of where something similar is sort of "working out" ?
Why don't we just use BitTorrent for videos? Popcorn time works reasonably well and we don't need a social layer, there are already plenty of them. I d like to see everything that i like being seeded with care by its owners
> For example, recently psychologists discovered a simple way to test for creativity. The simple test is to come up with a list of 10 words as different as possible from each other.

When Robert Frost was the poet laureate of the U.S some news magazine (I think NewsWeek, although it might have been Time) did a creativity test on him, using inkblots iirc, and he scored particularly low.

Frost was irate afterwards and remarked something to the affect that to be creative required that you not see things in the inkblot, that is to say to not try to see things in distractions, that he had spent years training himself not to see things in meaningless shapes.

I think that there is quite a lot of truth in this, also if someone wanted to give me a simple test to come up with a list of 10 words as different as possible from each other I would probably get verbally abusive - at least call them an idiot.
> follow more easily the spirit of the spec instead of just the word.

It also allows you to use your experience and expertise to tell the writer of the spec that they have written a pile of junk and that what they are asking for is not what they need. Sometimes when I have done that I have also discovered that it was not what they wanted either but simply what they thought was practicable. Together we were able to thrash out a better spec that achieved the ends that were necessary.

I wish that people would remember that the vast majority of people writing code are doing it inside the same company or even department that will be using the final program. It is often the case that at least some of the software developers in such teams have as much or more expertise in the domain as the customers commissioning the software; it would be a dereliction of duty to fail to question a specification that seemed pointless, inconsistent, or inadequate to the problem it was purported to solve.
In Polish it is literally the same word, "granat", which does function as weapon, fruit, and color (oddly enough, dark blue).
Explain - how does igniting a bomb require vibration?
Isn't that even worse? "Pay not to have your privacy invaded!"
It's no longer as sensible as it used to be to browse the internet any more.

No need, the internet is browsing you.