skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a massive issue here of which this is merely a symptom. The amount of harmful content available today is orders of magnitude more than it was 30 years ago.

Sure, there has always been porn and abuse etc. but the scale that is permitted now due to the internet is massive. There are questions around how to reduce demand for content that feeds illegal activity including child abuse but also drugs, terrorist materials, human trafficking from certain porn etc.

It isn't just how do we protect children but how do we protect society from becoming so numb to this that it just continues? How do we teach children that some snuff movies are real? That you cannot unsee an execution? That most porn content is either fake or coerced? How can you teach people that just because someone is called Doctor, doesn't mean their anti-vax conspiracy is true. Sure, you cannot stop them seeing it but we definitely have to think of some way of deciding what is and isn't acceptable and having much better cross-border enforcement for people who peddle this stuff.

I think removing E2E encryption is a piss poor tool unless you fix the bigger problem.
I'd have agreed with you if Bernie hadn't been able to effectively voice his views during the Democratic Preaidential Debates in the 2020 election. And prior, in 2016, he was able to shift the collective viewpoint of the Democrats. I think he has had a tremendous impact, even if he wasn't able to go all the way.
You mean a thing of the present. See the other front-page story about Diablo not working if you're offline for too long.
What is a substance? Does it have a definition in any testable theory?

You claim that causation and determination were conflated, but if the distinction between them depends on terms that can't be defined scientifically, then you haven't shown that they are different in what they refer to in the universe. It's conceivable that on a physical level causality is just a word for a property of a deterministic system.
The two sides of the political spectrum see very different images, and there's a very different "everything that happened" depending on which news source you see.

"Everything that happened" includes cancel culture, woke culture, etc. It includes images like Kenosha burning. If you're a poor working-class white male, it's hard to vote for the party who calls you privileged. If those are the images you're seeing, you'll vote one way. If you see images of police killing minorities, you'll vote another way.
Related question, how does everyone get the family photos grouped together in the first place?

My family are all taking photos on their own devices during a vacation, holiday, gathering, etc. and then someone creates a shared Album on Photos (iOS) where everyone just dumps all the photos taken. It's a complete mess in my opinion. WE have a shared album "Christmas 2018", "Holidays 2019", "Xmas'20", etc. depending on who named it.

Everyone else seems to like the ease of upload and ability to find past pictures. Getting the photos out of the apple app seems like a pain to me. I feel like there has to be a better way, but it has to work for the lowest common denominator (Grandparents, etc).

We have a couple people on Android and are essentially cut off from the family photo stream. When that happens everyone's mentality is, "get an iPhone".
China's military spending is now effectively near parity with the USA and rising rapidly.

https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/chinas-defense-s...
Haha yes, it was quite the challenge! Most of the time it just works, but in rare situations we'll ask the user to pick b/w the Fable version and the version on their issue tracker.
Well said.

I'd like to add (a bit off topic) that humans are not necessarily capable of causal reasoning, at least not alone. It's a cultural process where the true causes are separated from correlations in time, with lots of experimentation. Only with special training and in specific domains can we reason causally, and most population just learns the surface never getting to real understanding. In that regard we're like language models.

So part of what makes us so smart is not in the brain, it's culture itself. If you observe feral people - they never get far on their own.
Changing the definition still doesn't change how many indie studios are out there. There's been zero evidence here that there isn't a healthy indie market, but plenty that there is.

> Many of the games that later make it to Steam, were originally funded by either one of the platform owners

My account is full of games (including top sellers) with no such arrangements. And I have more access to such games than at any time in history.
It's definitely not a single parameter. I've been down this rabbit hole a bunch.

There's actually 5 main subtypes of the dopamine receptor. They express in different concentrations in different brain regions, and have different functions.

DRD2 is kind of the heavy lifter when it comes to goal seeking. If you had to boil it down to one idea, I'd call it "go/no go". It might be tempting to try to map D2 to something like a coefficient, perhaps even the "run coefficient" in run and tumble. But it's not at all like that, even on its own. It's very nonlinear. Furthermore, the action of D1 modulates D2 in a concentration-dependent way. So you have not just D2 signaling, D1 signalling, but also the differential signal as well. We don't know exactly how it maps out, but we know it plays a roll in weighing risk/reward ratios. Screwing with this pathway often results in "low risk low reward" mild manner folks switching to "high risk high reward", often going into gambling, manic spending, hypersexuality, and grandiose thinking. This can be seen occasionally with e.g. Parkinson's drugs such as L-DOPA.

Actually my headcannon is there are some parallels between Parkinson's and control theory. Net loss of dopaminergic neurons results in lower bandwidth on your control loop. In PID loops, one of the symptoms of insufficient I/D gain is ringing, where the controller constantly hunts for the setpoint and overshoots. Tremor is a common symptom of Parkinson's (though it affects much more than just tremor), but if you notice, it's usually not a continuous tremor, it's only when trying to execute motor control, especially fine motor control. The body knows kinematically where it wants to be in space, but the feedback loop rings constantly as it isn't able to get sufficient bandwidth to error correct.

Anyway, I think the point of TFA is not to suggest that this loop is a single parameter, it's just to model it as such. It's a spherical cow reduction. That kind of reduction lets you build practicable theories and test hypotheses. Such as: if Parkinson's is the result of reduced bandwith, can we treat the symptoms by increasing dopamine gain? And in fact, we can, that checks out.
- build small, short range but very smart swarm drones

- package them up (cluster bomb style) into a "dumb" ballistic missile that only needs to get to the general area (e.g. near a city)

- airborne deploy the swarm once near the target

Combines long range "cheap" deployment with short range smart capabilities.
oh boy. I am happy and crying at the same time. I have an idea where this is going and "vendor lock in" is going to be a hashtag for a long time now.

I am Team X-Box because I just like it much more than the Playstation, buuut at some point we will all pay our MS-Fees like the powerbill.
> The original Xbox shipped with an OS, and games ran under that OS.

Not really, maybe by a stretch. Games run under a heavily stripped down Windows 2000 kernel, which most people would not really consider an OS on its own. It's a... kernel.

The SDK that got compiled into the game contained a full tcp/ip stack as it was not included in the kernel, as well as directx, sound libraries etc. The kernel was really just barely what you needed to get things going. It was crammed into 256kb, including the entire bootup animation/sound. Everything else came from the game.
Google Photos with family sharing and Original quality with paid Google One. I used to have a NAS based solution which was backed up to S3 etc. I even wrote a photo browsing server for my NAS but became too complex as we increase family devices among people with different levels of skill.

The ability to search photos easily over time and the weekly "this week X years ago" reels are great value.
> QA, for projects with a good community, can be free or very cheap.

Battlefield 2042, GTA Definitive Edition, Warcraft Reforged, and Cyberpunk 2077 beg to differ.
> Execution Time: 0.128 ms

This is fantastic. Wouldn't it be nice if that was the end of it and your business logic was running with the data after that exact delay?

It doesn't really detract from the value of query optimization (i.e. system load reduction), but I do find it a little contradictory in principle to push for sub-millisecond execution and then decide to send those results to a completely different computer across a network.

The biggest bottleneck we ever identified with any database vendor was the network stack sitting between database server and application server. I've got some SQLite-backed business services that can transact an entire user request (which involves many database interactions) and then already be returning a final HTTP response in the amount of time it takes PostgreSQL to complete this one example query.
> If you look at the actual data from the past couple decades, far more aircraft were destroyed by SAMs or cruise missiles (on the ground) than in BVR or WVR combat. Dogfights haven't been a significant factor for a long time.

Data can only tell you so much. For instance, according to the data, nuclear weapons haven't destroyed any enemy equipment in the last 80 years, but you'd be going too far to infer from that conventional weapons have made them militarily obsolete.
>Independents Are Still the Largest Political Group in the U.S.

Really? I find this kind of hard to believe. I call myself an "independent", but I vote 90% of the time for one party. I wish we had metadata on voting information so we could see how many people are straight-ticket voters, because I have to imagine that it's a lot.

I think most of the election swings come from apathetic voters coming out.
Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics App
For those who like Bethesda Games and bought into the Sony ecosystem? Good for you, maybe.
It probably won't be every home, but certainly some percentage of customers could be covered by fixed wireless pretty easily enough. It then becomes yet another point of competition for wired network providers.

This was previously the dream with 4G/WiMAX, but ultimately they weren't able to have enough bandwidth per tower to make it reasonable. 5G has much better efficiency enabling way more clients per tower and far more throughput.

And its definitely a serious plan by cell companies. Several companies are already selling this. Obviously, they're not exactly planning every home, but enough to actually market it as a real service.

https://www.t-mobile.com/isp
https://www.verizon.com/5g/home/
>I don't think Gaben will sell

He is ex long time employee of Microsoft and if the price is right he would probably sell. But Microsoft's mind is on Xbox/PC, cloud gaming, Xbox pass etc.
2A is dead. Learn to 3d print guns. It's very easy. It will get even easier. Some fine folks have even figured out how to make ammunition from unregulated components in Europe.
> Wouldn’t this mean it’s calculated by something that can conveniently ignore both computational complexity and logical completeness

Assuming God has either access to more advanced technology than us or more advanced knowledge, why would that be unreasonable? Something that seems computationally complex now (like factoring primes) might be more manageable with more advanced knowledge/technology. Terraforming, bioengineering, factoring primes, etc. are within the realms of possibility for our civilization, so why not for a more advanced being?
Lyn Alden - https://www.lynalden.com/ (finance)

Mr Money Mustache - https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ (unusual approach to minimalism and FIRE)
But from a security point of view this is a massive improvement! That password is never shared with anyone else. Someone has to first get ahold of your private key before they can start brute forcing that password in order to steal credentials. This is not a trivial thing! Plus users only need that one password, not a unique one for every website/app.
200 is already crazy large. Super crazy. The original request from Boeing was only 100

These altimeters are dangerously defective if they need a 400mhz guard band. That is nuts
Our team is across several time zones and we're all well versed in the product of course :)
See, this is what I keep going on about to my friends - Matrix is actually a graph syncing protocol, not an instant messaging protocol, and is a great way to build federated applications.

I get that Element needs to focus on one use case in order to pay the bills, but there's a lot of room for applications that have barely been explored - calendars, contacts, games, social media, heck - you could build a federated gitlab-like collaboration site with truly federated data. You get multi-device sync, e2e encryption, and identity management out of the box.

Thanks for putting this together, I hope there will be a gold rush as people realize how much low-hanging fruit there is!
This deal has to be approved by a lot of regulators before it will go through. AB is a global company. MS thinks it will take at least 12 to 18 month before the deal will happen. Or not, since regulators are a bit iffy with big-tech these days.

But overall even though it's a big acquisition both together will still remain one amongst a few big gaming companies.
Same here, drawing and painting is such relaxing activity for me. Much easier to do than meditation, at least, for me.
Well since this is what the insurance industry uses, presumably "accidents" causing no damage (or minor damage not turned in to insurance) don't count.
So I'm gearing up to buy a Kubota FEL soon.

Two reasons we passed on JD FEL is 1) financing isn't as good 2) you have to pay JD a yearly maintenance package AND take it in once a year otherwise your warranty is shit. That could be incorrect and just one dealer we spoke to, but it didn't add up with the better stuff we're hearing from the Kubota side.
Absolutely; Apple is the well-known offender but the issue extends to medical equipment, white goods, televisions and probably a whole lot more. This really is about preventing monopolies and I've seen basically no tenable argument against strengthening right to repair laws.
it does not have it's own implementation of libc, it just makes easier to work with implementations of libc and letting the cross compile, I think it was like that.

However a libc is a thing that zig probably wants and something I am also thinking on doing if I have the time
Does Nintendo compete with Sony and Microsoft? Their segments are different. They compete with Xbox and PS just like Apple TV and the iPhone apps do, not head on. So yeah only two console companies in that segment of the market.
I'm surprised how technical and homegrown all these solutions are (well, it's an HN crowd so maybe I shouldn't be). I'm a techy too and pretty into photography, but I've gone the other way.

I store all my photos on a desktop computer and use BackBlaze to automatically keep everything backed up.

It violates the 3-2-1 rule but in the 10ish years I've been using this approach I've had tons of harddrive failures, had to restore some backups due to my own mistakes, but I haven't lost a single image.

I used to do complicated sync stuff but I found that the more moving pieces there were the more I would lose photos for various reasons.
> Is there any way to implement E2E encryption that wouldn't "put children at greater risk" if we accept that framing?

Given that a lack of E2E encryption means that it is impossible for children to have private conversations with each other, it also means that predators have an easier time watching those conversations and using them to do harm. As such, the mere act of enabling E2E encryption reduces the risk to children.
It makes me so angry that people don’t see how the current administration was given a hand grenade with the pin pulled by the previous one. Pumping the stock market at the cost of all else by unprecedented money printing, seeding incredible division into America, ignoring Covid and refusing to even wear a mask and then handing that mess off to the next guy. The American public blaming the next guy because he couldn’t put the grenade back together seems so short sighted and ignorant.
This reminds me of every western company operating in Iraq that was against the Iraq war.

Btw, most muslim nations, including the democratic ones, made it clear that China is fighting terrorism is Xinjiang. Many are the victims of Uighur/ETIM international terrorism themselves.

The US government actively bombed Uighur terrorists and agreed there was a problem until the trade war began... then Uighurs became more useful as pawns.
Sony already locks out competitors with exclusives, whether via studios they acquired or games they pay to make exclusive.

Not to mention that ATVI is a behemoth but their catalog isn't the same "everything-store" as 2000s ATVI (or current EA), it's a few (big) franchises. Hell, the Bethesda deal had more franchises involved.
I'm sure we'll see a Tesla tractor (Teslactor? Tesla model T? Elon Deere?) being announced at some point, never to actually make it production. Built for farming on Mars. With gullwing doors and autopilot (I'm aware that modern tractors have autopilot too), made out of stainless steel.
they are "skewing" republicans because the democrats are not doing a damn thing to help people who faced inflation, supply chain issues, higher gas prices, COVID, endless mass shootings, etc.

Biden's agenda is dead, he blown up BB spectacularly, he is limited to executive orders power but he does not seem to be willing to apply it properly(cancel the students' debt, legalize weed, use ACA to the full extent, etc)

Republicans have NOTHING to offer to people except of cultural issues, but they are winning because they are not democrats.
It is quite wild. The only thing missing is good will.
> The retail cost of electricity consists of the capital cost of generation (20-30 year cost of building a plant) PLUS fuel costs; depreciation and maintenance of the grid; financial risk of selling electricity at a fixed price to consumers while purchasing it at a variable price; billing and collections; the risk of non-payment and compliance burdens as a regulated entity along with overhead and profit.

For the electric company, a rooftop solar panel is a source of electricity with no capital cost of generation, no fuel costs, no depreciation, no maintenance, no variable pricing, and no new billing and collections, no additional risk of non-payment, and no additional compliance burdens - it's free.

> A rooftop solar owner under net metering has zero costs or risks outside of capital depreciation but still sells electricity to the grid at full retail price

A rooftop solar owner gets a credit on their own account for what they would have paid for the electricity they provide, so it looks like they are getting paid retail rate, but this is fictitious. Let's say I buy 10 bottles of water wholesale for a dollar a piece ($10 total), then I retail them to you for 2 dollars a piece ($20 total); I'm currently up $10. You sell me back 5 water bottles at 2 dollars a piece ($10 total); I now have $0 in cash, but I have 5 perfectly good water bottles. I am in exactly the same position I would be in if I had only sold you 5 water bottles to begin with. Now I retail my remaining 5 water bottles to someone else for $2 each; overall I'm still up $10. I haven't subsidized you nor has anybody lost anything. Every customer has paid the same price for what they actually consumed, and I have made the same profit off of my wares.

Likewise, ff the electricity company purchases a kwh for 5 cents and retails it to you for 11 cents, then credits you back 11 cents if you give them a kwh, that kwh only cost them the initial 5 cents, and is ready to be retailed.

No one has ever claimed that rooftop solar is the be all end all silver bullet to fix every issue with power generation. It doesn't need to be. More rooftop installations which the electricity company isn't paying for don't inhibit investment in energy storage and robust distribution systems. But rooftop solar decreases emissions, reduces grid demand in turn reducing stress on the grid, locates power generation much closer to power consumption reducing transmission losses, and overall increases the available supply of electricity. If you live in the environment or have an electric bill, all of those things are beneficial to you.
I think that's the wrong question. Who would use Intel as a cutting edge fab? Unclear. But plenty of people would love access to a fab for their non-cutting edge needs.

The risk with this is that Intel will become a fab for older, less expensive chips, while TSMC and others gobble up the top tier stuff.

But the world needs more, not less, fab capacity, and there are plenty of people would gladly use Intel for their needs if the opportunity was there.
MS dont care you buying their console, barely make a dollar out of it. It is all about gamepass
1. I have an Amazon Prime subscription, and we get Amazon Photos with it. Any photos taken on our phones are automatically uploaded there (I don't recall if these are original resolution or not)

2. Periodically I take photos and videos off our phones and store them on my desktop PC, imported into Lightroom. They are stored on 5400rpm HDDs in mirrored RAID config

3. I get terabytes of OneDrive space with my Microsoft package (I can't remember the name of it right now!), and it automatically uploads all the media from my desktop PC

4. I also have Seafile installed on the desktop, and it automatically uploads everything to my Seafile server, which uses Azure Blob Storage
In Colorado, at least, independents get to vote in primaries. In 2016, Colorado Proposition 108 passed allowing independent voters to vote in the primary elections. Now, independents can request a party’s ballot before the election. If they don’t, they’ll be mailed all parties’ ballots but are instructed to fill out just one. If they turn in more than one, their vote is invalidates for all primaries voted in.

Other states could also require laws like this.
Bernie Sanders won't get a serious chance to debate because his platform appeals to a small minority of Americans and most folks don't want he's selling. Democrats make up less than half of votes and progressives are a minority of Democrats.

To borrow an analogy from Jerry Garcia, Bernie Sanders is the black licorice of American politicians. Most people don't like him, but the people who like him really like him.
Sounds like Apple post-Steve Jobs and post-Jonathan Ive.
The difference between quickly getting to a point where you can't forecast the weather, and the fact that you can't predict wavefunction collapse at all, is significant on a more than metaphysical level. Figuring out which bucket human beings fall in to is a legitimate question.
Biden didn't do anything. No major bills passed, they didn't fight for abortion, and seems to be making the pandemic worse intentionally so voters switch from Coke to Pepsi since the only hope for change is to punish the dems. Too bad they're nearly the same as the republicans except in style and rhetoric.

When the choices are plugged in from the top, democracy is a sham. We live in an authoritarian state. We need a new republic that would do away with all the mechanisms of minoritarian rule.
Consumers loose literally nothing from Microsoft's acquisition of Activision/Blizzard.