skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USSR was actually much worse than Nazi Germany. They had much more time to do bad things.
And even if we only account WWII timeline, people in territories between Germany and USSR preferred to be conquered by Germans, purely because their soldiers were more disciplined than the ones from USSR (which were just peasants, frequently even without boots, equipped with weapons).
And what are these common goals then? I really don't see the endgame here.
Milky Way Results from the Event Horizon Telescope(EHT)
>I wouldn't quite agree that people will happily give you money for anything that makes their pain less.

I think OP's point is that the customer is a better judge of "worth" in the sense of money spent vs pain reduced than you are.

It's impossible to do that worth test yourself. Expose to what you make to customers; see if they vote with their dollars.
> nobody wants to start falsely accusing innocent people

I mean this is just blatantly false. History has shown us this is false. Even if you think the current government is fully comprised of kind-hearted, magnanimous, good people, what makes you think that will be the case for the next 10, 50, 100 years?

A story - I have a google alert set up for my name. Someone in a different state with the same name was recently arrested. I've gotten 5-6 alerts every day for the last week from various local (to him) newspaper and television station websites announcing his arrest. Name, address, age, alleged offenses, etc. How many will I get if he's found innocent two years from now? My guess is, at most, 1 or 2. Why would we want AI, even with human verification (which is just them checking the hashes match, anyway, so not real "verification"), to trigger the cascade of events that would occur from someone getting arrested for CSAM based on this technology? It would ruin someone's life. Now if I'm being honest, if someone actually has CSAM, I couldn't care less if they end up homeless and their life is actually ruined. But taking a step back, and acknowledging that someone innocent will get caught by this, as it's just a matter of time at that point, it's not worth it. If we had a society where you could just say in a job interview "oh yeah that was a false positive, I can prove it" and that's that, then there's a bit more of an argument to be made. But that's not our society. Once your name pops up with this kind of thing, that's who you are for the rest of your life, guilty or not.
I failed to see any of these warnings you're talking about in any of the Superbowl ads.

I'm pretty sure if I followed the Superbowl ads to crypto.com, I would fail to see these warnings.

Yes, for everyone deeply connected online, who has been following crypto for the last several years, of course we've talked about plenty of warnings many times. But the current marketing campaigns are not aimed at such people.
And yet Ungary alone is stopping the 6th round of Russia sanctions from the EU. They are not afraid to veto to protect their interests, like any nation should do.

It's not a coincidence that von der leyen wants to change the voting system from hunanimity to majority. They don't like to lose, and the rules are fine only as long as they can do what they want.

So vetoes have more power than you would let us think.
There's a very natural feedback mechanism to a hot stove.

When former world leaders are turning up and crypto conferences and the industry remains largely unregulated, then can you really blame people for investing?
Astronomers Reveal 'Groundbreaking Result' of Milky Way's Black Hole
Additional coverage from: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/event-horizon-telesco...
Cache reserve is a similar concept but a bit of a different product (although some people might be happy with the no-code approach that enables). Migration is a bit of a different thing.
> … unless you count UBI/Citizen’s Dividend as growing government.

You don’t?

LVT supplanting all other tax would absolutely mean it’d be ruinous to use land in ways contrary to the wishes of the government body socially-engineering land-use policy.
I doubt it because at that point they cant pretend anymore to have rule of law, or being a democracy.

Sure, it could be a gradual decent into such a reality, but it will take a long time.
These are more enterprisy:

If you sell through a channel, that channel is your customer, not the end user. They have needs and actually those needs (not desires, needs) are more important than the end users' -- if your channel doesn't sell the product it doesn't matter how much you've worked to add that end-user feature.

Have the entire exec team go on a sales call once a quarter (not all together on the same call!). They don't have to say anything in the call (in fact it's much better they don't). I remember a CFO I told to go on a sales call telling me it was the first time in his career he had been in front of a customer, and that he really had had no idea what the customer thought about what we did. It makes the team far more effective.

Don't allow inter-departmental sniping. We all know it: sales guys won't sell the product and always want stupid one-off features; engineering is lazy and won't write what the customers actually want; marketing is just lying all the time. Instead make sure everybody understands that without sales folks, no paycheck. Without engineers, the sales folks have nothing to sell. Without marketing, who will know that they need our product, and how can we prioritize which features to build? That mild-mannered A/R clerk is the real difference between paycheck and no paycheck.

Don't do free pilots for enterprise. There's always someone interested in new products and technologies. If they can't put some skin in the game they aren't serious. Ideally cover your costs, but in any case make sure the number is larger than the person you're talking to is automatically authorized to spend (this means they'll need to get some buy in, PO, contract etc). They don't have to give it all to you up front, they just need some commitment and desire to do business if the pilot works. And they have to give you some payment up front, a meaningful amount.

Don't have one customer be all of your revenue (ideally don't have one customer be more than 20% of revenue). Edit: note that Google has this problem: 80+% of revenue is advertising, and Google is a large part of the overall advertising market. They have been trying, and failing, to fix this for more than a decade. This is a case where you want to be able to say "we aren't google".

Don't go in too high in the organization. If your first call is to the CEO and you convince them to try your product, it will be handed off to someone who likely only cares because the CEO said so, and would be quite happy to screw around a little and then tell the boss "yeah, we looked into it but it didn't work out". Follow the standard enterprise sales playbook and go in at the right level and find your "coach": the person who is committed to getting your product into the company because it will make their life better (perhaps promotion, but at least better execution).

This is for when you are bigger: If you work with another company, and your company meets with their CEO, your CEO should go to that meeting. Until you're Apple-sized, always treat your partners and customers as peers. If not, why are you working with them at all?
Sure, they should mind their own business instead of trying to infect vaguely related businesses. Your initial post sounded like a suggestion to allow offloading their crap app to my phone to eliminate just the hardware and OS portion of their crap tablet.
Are you certain that more people, numerically speaking, use the comma as a decimal separator? India and China do not, although admittedly India has another decimal grouping system.
> are committed by NATO members and aligned states

That's not the same as committed by NATO.
When we say that privacy rights can absolutely not be touched, we are, among other things, also saying, whatever criminals get best at abusing those increasingly powerful rights (given the relatively growing space covered by encryption and stuff that happens through or over the internet) get to be more criminal and that's just the price we will have to pay for our collective freedom.

This insanely childish and irresponsible way of looking at and reasoning about our world gives of strong NRA vibes. As soon as you say NO MATTER WHAT you are in deep shit. When we become so dogmatic, that we can't even think, let alone talk about a problem anymore (and a problem it is, but, of course, there's then also the subset of people that will even call that into question) it's an issue.

I am not against privacy. I get glimpses of the good the bad and the ugly that are attached to it. None of these things are boundless. Reasoning about the space is hard. Pretending a concept as fragile and young as privacy is beyond reproach is just weird.
>> this keeps getting proposed every few months and it keeps getting rejected

> This has been going on for 15 years

I paste here the comment I wrote a few hours ago in the thread “European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344817

Indeed, in the words of the previous President of the European Commission:

“We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.” https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker#1999

The current President of the European Commission has been a long time advocate for Internet control:

“However, in the digital community, her posturing for the EU’s top job has caused concern. In 2000 [sic, actually 2009], when Von Der Leyen was Families minister, she advocated for the mandatory blocking of child pornography online via a list of offending websites managed by police authorities. Germany’s Pirate Party claimed that the law would lead to censorship of the internet.”

“The outcry that resulted was dubbed the ‘Zensursula’ scandal, blending the German word for censorship (“Zensur”) and her name (“Ursula”). The move was eventually repealed after it being challenged broadly, including a petition that had garnered tens of thousands of signatures.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/digital-brief-...
>Show me another way to write a song in an airplane, and you can have my money.

Pencil and staff paper.

My email address is in my profile if you would genuinely like to send me your money.
Turning Side Projects into Profitable Startups
>Do you have a guess about who is behind that lasting global push against private communications?

Every single government ever?
Why to decouple Authorizations with latency and CPU benchmarks
Are you sure this is not just the amount of exposure to each type of clock?

On the other hand, I’ve noticed that children who understand how to read only digital clocks are quite capable of answering what the time is (just read the numbers right off), but have trouble telling how many hours there are from 10am to 3pm.
Governments have violence and it is even better than gold/wood/whatever commodity. What does Tether have?
> Yeah. If that happened in Berlin, we'd have WW3 by now.

Had that happened in any other nation surrounding Ukraine that would have been the case, too; it's odd why they let that slip. Are we really to believe that if Serbia decided to attack again on some absurd notion of Russian loyalty or whatever they wouldn't defend Croatia despite being a NATO member?
>What expense is there for governments and contractors, that is directly tied to housing prices going up?

In theory, nothing.

In practice rich people complain about everything that isn't "nice" and want it made nice. As the community gets richer as a result of the minimum buy-in going up the municipality will be be fixing more potholes, changing more street light bulbs, painting everything on a more regular schedule, hiring more enforcement officials to harass people over increasingly smaller violations, hiring more cops because rich people call the cops over more minor things resulting in more calls, etc, etc.

It costs a ton more money run a city/town the way people who can afford $500k houses and $2k rents want them run than the way people who can afford $200k houses and $800 rents want them run.
This proves that none of these institutions and politicians pushing for more surveillance actually care about the problem (while the urgency of the problem is dubious to begin with).

It's all about power and funding. If the problem was eradicated, then they would lose their purpose and funding.
There are aspects to Iain M Banks' "Culture" novels that might qualify.
The sole purpose of NATO is to defend from Russia. Nations join NATO because they afraid of Russia, not because they want to conquer Smolensk.
Could have done without the violence expressed in the opening.
Maybe he is just doing his nation interests? Why accept sanctions that would cripple your nation?
* 1USDT is always $0.999 on tether.io

* But only if you're exchanging at least $1'000'000(and you can't exchange at all below $100'000)

* But only after you've paid $150 verification fee.(all per https://tether.to/en/fees/)

* And of course "Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens" (https://tether.to/en/legal/)
Show HN: Haptic Timer Made for Fitness
Hey guys, I made this free haptic rest timer for Apple Watch and would really appreciate your feedback!

Main idea: use haptics to notify you when your rest is up and it’s time to go for another set.

It functions similar to a timer. However, a traditional timer continues to ring until the user presses the stop button which can be quite annoying when done frequently.
Instead, this app simply notifies through haptic feedback when the break is over. User input is minimal.

My goal is to reduce gadget interactions between sets and make the workout experience more distraction-free and enjoyable.

Would love to hear your thoughts! Thank you

Link to App Store: https://apps.apple.com/en/app/haptic-fitness-timer/id1623382...
Market size means absolutely nothing. Every startup can twist the data so the market size is "billions of gamers/mobile phones/developers/cows". It translates to nothing.
These are all logical fallacies that are (and have been for ages) conventionally bad patterns to follow in a casino, let alone with life savings.
Scientists create reliable and renewable biological photovoltaic cell
> No, but I really believe European leaders are jealous of the authoritarian powers they lack, and are working to resolve that.

You can believe anything you want.

That wouldn't make you right.

national parliaments have to pass these legislation, EU is formed by 26 countries, all with very different ideas, traditions, political stances and objectives.

So, Orban?

Yeah he would love to be the sole leader of his country.

In my country?

those that tried have been destroyed by their same allies, out of fear of having to live in someone else's shadow.

If everyone wants to be the one and only leader, nobody will ever be.

Opposing forces always balance themselves.

Funny that all USA businesses lament that there is too much democracy in EU (like too much democracy is bad!), but now HN says that there is an imminent risk of totalitarianism...
Ah, yes, children, the second rate people. What you wouldn't tolerate for a second they can always be forced to comply with. For Security, or just because some local school bureaucrats decided on something.

A giant security theater already exists in the form of rating systems, age verification prompts, legal agreements of popular services stating they prohibit underage users completely, etc. For decades every single kid has ignored it or learned to find another way if common one was blocked. It's the “responsible adults” who need such large scale stimulation to keep believing in some “naturally unspoiled children” who only need to be “protected”, and therefore can happily live without education and guidance (on topics that are not quite clear to most grown ups either, to be honest).
> NATO-aligned states

Notice the constant careful weasel-wording.
Amusingly anyone who does know the backing amount has an incredible opportunity to profit off of a decision to flee too
That’s not a dark UI pattern, that’s just a poorly made modal window
A VPN would not be relevant. The ask is for scanning to take place at the source or destination, not across the wire.
Basically btoa was probably a quick hack implemented to treat JS strings as byte arrays and then lived on with that behavior. The sensible API approach nowadays would probably be for a Base64 encoding to take a TypedArray as well as functions to convert strings into bytes in a desired encoding.
My favorite occurrence of "asshat" was by Metafilter moderator jessamin in 2006 justifying her decision to remove a comment. A bad argument made in good faith deserves a response, but trolling does not. Jessamin said that when she deletes a troll comment she didn't see the necessity in writing a letter explaining why:

Dear asshat, you're being an asshat. I deleted your asshat comment. Please stop the asshattery. Love, jessamin

This non-letter was set to music by her Metafilter co-moderator cortex: https://music.metafilter.com/480/Please-Stop-The-Asshattery
I've been thinking of this event as soon as I saw the stablecoins collapsing. I happened to be in London visiting friends the week the pound lost the peg and even though I'm not in the biz and in fact back then didn't really pay attention to the financial markets at all this was quite exciting.
Thank you! In non-technical environments, shell scripting with awk is a superpower, and it's almost always on csv data.
> I realize I'm preaching to a very cynical crowd here but I just don't see EU countries locking up innocent people accused of being pedophiles en masse by some garbage AI

555 wrongful fraud convictions because of Second Sight, between 1996 and 2014, with a 2015 claim of no wrong doing and no system problems [0], in the UK.

Rubina Nami, jailed for a year. Seema Misra jailed for longer, whilst innocent and pregnant.

Noel Thomas jailed for twelve weeks at the age of 60 - the judge refusing to consider a flaw in the computer system to be possible, because of a report that concluded:

> If the Horizon system was flawed, I would expect to see issues raised by all 14,000 branches in the UK and not only a handful.

They locked up people over a garbage AI system over something much less sensitive than protecting children. Recently.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Get paying customers, then start a business. not the other way around.
> You’re chances of success are 10x higher trying to build technology for tanning salons

Except tanning salons (or hairstylists or dog walkers or plumbers) usually a) dont have cash to spend b) Dont see their problems as software related c) are in many cases hostile to software, due to geniune bad software

I remember some time ago when I used to hang out in bootstrapped.fm, every week a person would come in and say "Oh I built a software for salons/hairstylists/dog walkers" how I can sell it? 4 weeks later they had shutdown their business, and a new person would come in, rinse and repeat.
You're being pedantic and apologist for very little reason. There are still dozens of families who have yet to be reimbursed for this mistake, let alone the damage which was caused in the aftermath. Instead, we have a bunch of people still arguing what to do about the situation, all which are paid in tax money that could've been used to solve the issue already.

It's not about them being evil. It's about them feeling justified to use the algorithm in the way it was used, which then lead to pretty dire consequences for many families, followed by a lack of action and a general lazy attitude towards the entire situation. Along with a general lack of foresight when they implemented it.

This is a very clear example of what happens when you optimize for true positives at the cost of false positives. You can argue the costs and benefits, but you can't argue "people don't want to harm innocents" when they select to do so in a scenario where it very clear does harm innocents.

"Caring about not harming innocents" gets dropped the moment it feels inconvenient. That's something people need to be aware of instead of living in their idealist dream world.
>If you win the bet, you won't have anyone to collect from.

They have $78B of assets, not $78T. It wouldn't rival even the smallest of national defaults. Heavy rhetoric but a bit OTT don't you think?
To you, does "prop up" mean "act as the only value behind", or "noticeably increase the price"?

This may be where we diverted from each other.
I would support efforts at restraining exploitative use of algorithmic content for all ages. The main issue is that age-restricting teens especially is logically difficult and can create unintended consequences. Teens are going to act on their own and since many of today's adults (particularly of the generation that tends to legislate in the US) were not raised in a digital world, there will be groups of teens that are better with technology/computers than the adults making laws and therefore the laws either need to account for that (and requires controls so draconian that companies are likely to just ban the kids or stop operating, which opens up the 'what about lying' issue).

You mention casinos. One difference between casinos/alcohol/cigarettes is that there are easy places to intervene/place responsibility: the point of service is a physical location subject to local law. Digital regulation is a lot murkier and easier to exploit. (And not just by creepy adults: a lot of us kids in the 90s/early 00s picked up on the argument that if we weren't legally able to be held accountable, then we couldn't be legally held accountable for things like piracy either).

The only way to ensure something like this could be enforced would be to require ID for signing up for/into any algorithmic service and HELL no. Not only should we not throw the baby out with the bathwater, we also shouldn't set the cradle on fire.
What I usually recommend at that point is that users do one of two things:

1. Switch to a hosted solution like Shopify for actual order processing, inventory, etc and keep Wordpress around for the read-only business type pages or blogs. Let each component do what it is best at.

2. Switch entirely to a hosted platform like Wix or Squarespace, which let you do both.

I have yet to encounter a Wordpress eCommerce plugin that wasn't, at some level, a disaster. Every one I have seen is janky and the code quality is usually quite poor.

There is also the security implications of doing this. Especially for small businesses, if you can't or don't want to pay someone to constantly patch Wordpress up against the most recent security issues [0] (again, in fairness, this is largely plugins and themes these days), you're taking a very real risk at having your installation hacked and possibly data exposed depending on the severity. I've seen Wordpress installs hacked within hours of a zero-day being dropped. Every plugin you bring in increases your attack surface, and the more complex the plugin, the larger the attack surface.

People really need to just let Wordpress be Wordpress. Wordpress was designed to be a blogging platform and basic CMS. Just because you can extend it beyond that doesn't mean it's a good idea. You can use a screwdriver as a hammer if you try hard enough, but that doesn't make it actually a hammer or the right tool to use.

[0] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress