skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> single executable binary that had around 100MB

I read that and I feel a surge of sympathy for the new guy they hired to work on this thing. How many MONTHS did it take him to even compile it? How many hours of frustration did he have to spend thinking, "I can't even get this thing to build, they're gonna fire me, I need this job or my kids are gonna starve..."
I don't think your statement holds true in practice. Collecting data that you then don't do anything with, in theory or even in practice, is also something that GDPR penalizes, since there's no need for you to collect it if you claim you don't do anything with it.
>For a technical forum the lack of willingness of individuals to read into the system is perplexing.

Admittedly, I may have missed it... But can you point out to me where this system cannot be expanded to non-CSAM material?

As a totally wild example, is this technology restricted, in some technical manner, from scanning for images which display a certain political leader as Winnie the Pooh?
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Subtitles can be a massive help if they're accurate when watching sped up. YouTube autogen ones are often distractingly wrong though
Grindr has around 4 million daily users, and up to 30 million registered users in total. Even a fine of this size would be meaningless once divided between the users.
I received my first and, as yet, only earthquake warning on my smart phone this past September for a 4.3 earthquake here in Southern California.

It was an interesting fleeting experience. I was sitting on the couch, phone in hand, when it emitted an unusual fairly obnoxious noise. I glanced at the screen, saw the words earthquake and 4 something, and understood what was being conveyed sort of inchoately without making it explicit sense of it. My wife was sitting next to me reading so I turned to her and tried to show it to her but she remained absorbed in her reading.

Then the room jolted, rocked a little, and settled. The nice thing about the alert is I remained relaxed the whole time. Because the alert indicated the magnitude, I wasn't too worried about damage or personal injury.

Now if it had warned of a larger earthquake, like a 5 or 6, I imagine I would have been more panicked. Still, the warning would have been even more valuable in that case.

It was one of the more acute "Now this feels like living in the future" moments I've had recently.
Isn't the typical storage and handling for Uranium quite safe and even safer than oil ?

Triuranium octoxide (Yellowcake):

Yellowcake is as radiologically harmless as natural potassium-carrying minerals or thorium-oxide mantles used in paraffin fuel lanterns.
Right It’s the storing and sharing part that’s a liability.
I'm susceptible to dizzy spells upon standing myself. Not sure if this is an issue of orthostatic tolerance or something else. I did a little research a while back and read that this is associated with significantly higher all-cause mortality. Yay for me.

I do drink plenty of water, maybe too much even, am in good shape, and have no medical conditions of any kind. Weed greatly exacerbates this issue for me, probably from the fact that it reduces blood pressure, but this can still happen when I'm not smoking for extended periods.

Recently, I figured out a way to short circuit the onset of a dizzy spell. Hyperventilating completely nips this in the bud, likely because it increases blood pressure [1]. I'd recommend trying this technique to anyone that's otherwise healthy (I am not a doctor) and coping with this issue.

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.HYP.00000523...
SMS has been a surprising key to success. I think because messaging is such a routine, having the note-taking ability embedded creates more surface area between the note-taker and the thing that saves the notes. The named contact that shows up in your recent messages or the share menu listing recent contacts are areas you might trigger the impulse to save something.
I feel like blocking is seen as a bigger deal in the media world than for the rest of us
I'd rather let people freely decide what they want to do with their data. But this is no longer possible in Europe unfortunately.
(1) You won't deploy your first app to production.
Knowing this :

Back : firebase services (authentication / cloud firestore / cloud storage / cloud functions / hosting)
=> All is well documented - Easy to understand - Easy to use

Front : Angular + Angular Material, known as not being the easiest framework to learn but once you understand how components work you'll be able to develop very very fast. Which will be perfect once you realize that (1)
The terms fascism and nazism have been so abused that I wouldn’t be surprised that both ideologies end up being normalized for real in the immediate future. But true fascism and nazism, not this “my antiquated conservative political adversaries are nazis because I don’t like rural Christian white old folks and their last century moral values”
0.0001 * 5 is still 0.0005
I'm working on a simple flash card app for learning. People have decided to call those "wisdom cards" and I plan to have a folder of them for my app to bring up once in awhile.

The coolest thing about vision board desktop background is that I save them every two weeks or so and start another. I now have a folder of two years of my thinking in visual form that's easy to review in just a few minutes. It may be that this works for me because I'm a visual person and others need to write it down and rewrite it down often to learn it.
I moved to mutt 10 years ago, no regret and its the first thing i look in the morning
Lots of people have narratives preset in their minds. Often supplied by the evening news. That applies to both the U.S. and China. So it's interesting to hear a different perspective, isn't it?
a co-worker told me I look like his husband

A female coworker told me that once, didn't seem that weird.
Import tax
The only thing that makes it notable is probably the reason. It's interesting that this topic is so polarizing. Especially where VCs are concerned.

Personally I tweet pro and con Web 3 stuff and every time I tweet something critical I lose on average a couple followers. The Web 3 devotees don't want to hear anything critical.

As an anecdote: I've never blocked someone in my 10 years on Twitter so I'm not sure how "normal" it is.
> However, I have a lot of peers who couldn’t hang on to a paper journal or TODO list during the day if they tried

A bit more meta is that the habit itself is primarily all I need. I journal, write things down, etc... and almost never look at them again. The habit of doing is all it takes for me to set my day on the right trajectory.
I think the less data you collect the less impact a leak or rogue employee can have.

Imagine if Hacker News would leak its user database. I assume there is not much in there, so the impact would pretty much be non existent.
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> I find it repugnant that when BBC and The Guardian (among others) reported back in 2013 on Qatar’s labor conditions in sweltering heat, the deaths, and essential slavery to build stadiums, it met the football community and larger news media with a resounding thud.

Unfortunately, human rights violations don't interest anyone anymore, unless they are of political interest to someone (e.g. the butchering of Jamal Khashoggi).

The UN is a dead paper tiger, with the US, China and Russia in the Human Rights Commission and the Security Council each protecting themselves and their respective allies from consequences.

The US only care about wherever they see economic interests (Iraq!), the EU is too fractured and under the economic thumbs of Russia (gas) and China (cheap goods, destination for German cars), and China and Russia don't give any fuck about human rights.

We live in a world of the strongest, not in a world based on the global rule of law. And I fear it might take another World War or an alien invasion for humanity to finally overcome that. The alternative, and this is where I fear the planet is heading, is China exporting its questionable ideas of authoritarianism across the world.
The late Zig Ziglar, a great motivational speaker and life coach before that was a thing, often said, "You cannot be a wandering generality in life. You must become a meaningful specific."

Giovanni Rose is more than halfway to where Zig Ziglar would want him to be. Now he needs some luck, which may have come to him in this opinion piece by Aditya Chakrabortty.

For those of us who have made it to a level where momentum takes us to more good things rather than further along a path of obscurity, maybe we should read this story and consider if we've done everything we can to help people we've met who have the potential to be like Giovanni Rose, but have not yet articulated what makes them meaningful.
Interesting especially with the rise in popularity of productivity apps recently such as Obsidian, Roam, etc..

A single .txt file can work as a to-do-list and a what-done list but it really isn't a knowledgebase like Obsidian or Roam. It is more comparable to a To Do List app like Microsoft To-Do or Amazing Marvin.

It wouldn't work as a knowledgebase because a knowledgebase has copious amounts of text about a topic which wouldn't fit neatly in the by day subdivision.

Although, I don't use Roam Research, I think the single .txt file approach also has similarities with the Roam style of using Daily Notes and Outlines.

Roam Research is an outliner which emphasizes not using paragraphs of text but instead just using bullet points. His single .txt file approach is also using this outline and bullet-style approach and I think it is an underrated aspect of why his approach works.

Using an outline and bullet points helps a lot, to quickly see the forest and the trees; I've only recently realized how powerful this approach is and so I think it's worth mentioning.

On a personal note, I've operated for years without a to do list app and so I can easily imagine someone using a single .txt file and being way more productive with it. But I highly recommend anyone to try Microsoft To-Do or Amazing Marvin or the single .txt approach since I agree that it is better than going without.
How on earth is this seen as surprising? Its their servers, they can read anything you upload, I thought this was common sense part of the bargain.
I don't know about it being wisdom but this is a rough outline:

1. Have a schedule.
2. Do your best to stick to it.
3. Have a sense of humor and don't treat kids like mini-adults when things go wrong (schedule-wise or otherwise).
4. Enjoy being with them -- they will be grown and gone before you know it.

One thing that's possible with several/many kids is coopetition between the groups (can the boys get their schoolwork done before the girls? can the younger kids get their after-meal chores done before the older ones?). We also home-school and this is a great opportunity to teach delayed gratification (eg: do you want to take your recess now at 09:45 or keep working and get all of your schoolwork done by 1pm and have THE REST of the day free to play?). Kids don't really "get" delayed gratification at first so you do need to over-incentivize it but as they begin to build the habit of "work hard, play hard" you don't have to dangle as many carrots to encourage them. My older kids try to get their work done early so they can do "revenue jobs" for the neighbors (mowing grass in the summer, raking leaves in the fall, shoveling snow in the winter). None of this is direct advice for others; one thing having several kids has taught me is how different each of them are by personality. If I only had one or two kids I think the differences in personality between them and me is something I would perceive as an issue of some sort but with eight I realize it's just a personality difference. I could go on but I'll stop before this becomes a wall-of-text reply.
> not okay to say at work

I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t know the tone and context, which can make a difference but... In general, how’s that problematic?

Also, strangers talking to you does not mean they’re sexually or romantically interested in you. Some people are just platonically social. Moreso in some places than others.
I am Cloudflare's CTO.
> they were able to just throw $350k a year at AWS to make it work (and millions more at their dev team)

Throwing $350K/yr at AWS sounds like peanuts to me, to be honest. How many extra engineers would you hire if you could completely avoid $350K/yr in expenses? One?

There are other, totally valid, reasons to understand your computing environment, but a mid-six figure bill isn’t one of them for anyone with millions in engineer payroll.
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I'm with you. I read this and I think, "ok, well, it's StackOverflow, and they're obviously a bunch of really smart people... but they're still doing it wrong". I've been doing Java for 20 years now, almost since there was Java. I've observed that most Java developers migrate toward "everything is static (i.e. global)". In fact, the abomination that is the Spring "framework" more or less requires it. I don't believe they do it for performance reasons, I believe they do it because you don't have to think much (up front) that way, and you can just kick the can down the road.
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>Sure. But since EU citizens will be enjoying those protections and US citizens will not eventually this will translate into an advantage for companies doing business from the EU and into the US. For that reason alone there will be a big incentive for the US to make a law that is symmetrical to remove this advantage.

Except it's literally the other way around. EU companies will be at a disadvantage because they cannot use the data to neither improve their service or to monetize it in some way.

>The EU is too large a market to miss out on.

Is it? Then what does that make China and the US? Or the rest of Asia? They don't seem to make nearly as many rules that require a service to change the entirety of their monetization system. If companies have to agree to EU terms then why wouldn't they do the same to China? After all, it's too big a market to ignore.

The EU keeps making more rules for all kinds of things. Eventually this is going to catch up with us - if it hasn't already done so. The EU isn't exactly the tech center of the world nor does it seem to have a great trajectory or bright future. When it comes to tech all we seem to have is cars. Everything else is foreign developed, designed, and manufactured.
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You know tech is entering the Koch stage when all of the VC firms start turning into media empires.
There is apparently also a "Donation Edition" -

Everyone who donates is eligible to download a special
version of FreeFileSync without any advertisements,
including a few of bonus features.

It is built from a different source, so it's neither free or open source. Not that anything wrong with it, but it should probably not be distributed under the same name - https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#donation-edition
I visited US once and been reading a lot about the country, I also have a friend living there and some family. I live in a half-developed European country. We have a free higher level education, free healthcare if you work or someone in your family works, some very financial regulations and very strict hygiene regulations (for restaurants etc.). Guns not allowed to broad public.

Visiting The States, gave me an impression that the country does not really like their residents. If you trip once in your life path, you have quite big chance that it's all done for you, and in one of the best scenarios you will end up with huge loans.
Many people prefer not to go to a doctor, or not to go to study, people are not guaranteed any paid holidays etc. How this is making anyone confident? How an uncertain public can be productive?

Plus super expensive plasterboard houses everywhere (however that's not unique for the US), guns to anyone and quite dirty (compared to what I'm used to see) food places. I really didn't like what I saw and I became more glad that I live in my country.
Of course there no only bad things that I noticed, I do like the military effort that protects the status-quo (I wouldn't risk going to army in my country), or ease of opening a business etc. but overall balance for me was not in favour for the US.
As if grindr doesn’t collect any payments in Europe or have executives who enjoy their ability to travel.
I meant giving a million dollar per user. People would try to sue them en masse. They would have no choice but to be very strict about what they do with our data.
My girlfriend is native Qatari. I can tell you that most young native Qataris are as saddened by their government's behaviour as those outside the country are. Until recently there was nothing to be done about it.

What she is telling me, though, is that there are high hopes the World Cup will bring about changes to society, especially regarding gay rights, to accomodate the visitors, which will then stick after the end of the event.

Qatar was finally forced to implement some beginnings of democracy this year, ahead of the WC, after having managed to successfully put them off for a decade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Qatari_general_election
The cynical side of me says: "They" want to control access to knowledge!
Fair to say that this was the best, most successful and most profitable acquisition of all time!
Blizzard! John Cena (although not a company)
Why do you believe any of that marketing? Rogue states? Terrorist groups? It's about power. If the US government cared about its people, then there would be real regulation to protect them. There isn't any because it's profitable to exploit them, not because of any libertarian ideal.

Meddling in the affairs of any corporation that handles just a single US dollar transaction is the opposite of interpersonal freedom. I am not sure how you can get this far into thinking about the subject while holding such a bizarrely cognitively dissonant belief.
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That makes sense. I don’t really care who said it. It’s a great thought.

Another one that I like, and it isn’t clear who said it first, is:

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
I am under the impression that despite the censorship, most people within China actually do know about tank man. So I would say {{citation needed}}.
> "the big mistakes from Unix, besides the X Window System"

The entire X11 system was "a mistake". Got it, we should have stuck to 7-bit text on a VT-100 because that was utter perfection.

With that compelling intro I lost any interest in any other arguments the author presented.
“Token effort”? I see what you did there.

But I agree, a bullshit article about an insightful comment. A16z are the masters of PR so I’m sure the supposed “kerfuffle” is just part of calling attention to their efforts.
That rebase doesn’t lose any history, it’s just flattening the commit sequence coming from multiple computers. This is a good normal/default workflow for personal repos.
How do you know how much carbon the goods used?
also gnunet and its gnu name system might be worth a look

maybe instead of mp4 files no one bothers with, upload your demo on peertube or similar?
As it always has been. Decentralization is key, power to the people.
KTLO?
How come the GoL runtimes are only ~300 times longer than the VarLife runtimes? Is it because the metapixels can be more efficiently simulated than running the game of life rules? Or because of sparsity of cells or some-such thing?

This is seriously cool BTW.
> Any reasonable inversion of control framework

Well, they might have tried an unreasonable inversion of control framework (like Spring) and observed that Spring uses reflection on top of reflection and does slow down your code significantly. The solution isn't to abandon IOC (or, god help us, just give up and declare all your variables static/global), it's to abandon IOC frameworks. They're useless and they don't provide any advantage. IOC is a coding style that you can follow without the help of some idiotic "framework", just like ORMs.
I lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake near the epicenter in Aptos California. My house suffered extensive damage. I think 3 people total were killed in Santa Cruz. One was standing next to a brick building and the other was next to a horse that bolted. A 10 second warning probably would have saved their lives, if they were prepared to take action when they got it. On the other hand, I don't think a 10 second warning would have done me any good. It's a great technology though.
Bus stop announcements on transit, those annoying interactive phone menus, people asking Siri math questions they should be able to do in their head, stuff like that.
You should try org-mode
I think the only real advantage of GIMP at this point is its age and stability. Gimp was around 20 years ago and it is more likely to be there 20 years from now than Krita. EDIT: my error - Krita is much older than I thought.

Moreover stability is important if you access it programmatically.

And yes, even that is not guaranteed by any means. It's just the area where Krita does not beat Gimp totally.
Keeping the Lights On.
It is interesting that nobody discusses the psychology around bringing up the other sides perspective.

Why do these discussions tend to be so NOT nuanced or objective? Each side has a different view of the same events, different populations are fed different propaganda. Why are we seeing certain stories in the news and not others? Why at this time? Why the aggressive downvotes at the mention of other perspectives, with replies kind of shouting back and forth? Isn't there anything to be gained examining things from both sides? etc
3% a month is not reasonable by past metrics. Utility companies like heating oil that didn't want to loan money used to charge 0.5-1.5% per month after the grace period back when normal mortgage rates were ~7% (APY) and car loans more like 11%(APY).

This is simply being in the business of gouging people who will end up needing to carry loans over and are better off having bad credit but never really have a point of change where they realize they need to declare bankruptcy or take other financial advice.