skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t like this line of argument: it has weak knees for 3 reasons.

1. They question the “1 in 5 children are abused” figure. That is fair: it seems tremendous at first sight. But the real figure of 1 in 10 that they reveal is very close and similarly shocking…

2. They emphasize that children know their abusers. But then imply that scanning chat messages cannot help in this situation. There is an obvious retort: abusers can abuse children in their local community and share images of their abuse online. Catching that sharing can identify them and stop them. (I cannot see any statistics on how many, among abusers, actively share things about it online. Intuitively, it would be a low percentage, but that argument is not used.)

3. They calculate that police surveillance orders were only issued for 0.1% of abuse cases, implying that they do it so little because it is ineffective. But the obvious retort is that they do it so little because they have no grounds to do so. “A chat sent from this person’s phone tripped the detector” is a reasonable justification. (I expect there are some much more obvious ways to have that justification which are poorly tapped, like confidential school reporting. But that is not part of the argument.)

The fundamental argument should be that abusers are listening to the EU too. They will gear up. There is nothing anyone can detect in encrypted base64 sent by chat or other means.

Meanwhile, any weakness created by this system will be turned into abuse imparted on the innocents, like sharing to an unwitting victim a zipped adversarial image of a prairie whose pixels were flipped until it triggered the detection.

Overall, that, along with a possibly inadequate false positive rate given the rarity of real abusers 1) actively sharing and 2) doing so insecurely, it is possible that this system would cause more victims than it would help.
> Oh, we know for sure that it is reposting partially disguised sentences written by a human author. What's impressive in its own right is the fact that it can find sentences that are relevant and meaningful to the context

No. That's not how this works.
This mattress compress/press machine is mainly used for compress the foam mattress/spring mattress. There are 4 cylinders at this mattress compression packing machine to make it more stable when machine working. The steel we used are the best. Do you know how to compress a mattress?
Some of it might have to do with both covert and overt influence by China on foreign powers. https://harpers.org/archive/2022/04/the-spies-next-door-uigh... goes into a little detail here:

"China also employs diplomatic pressure and financial incentives to secure foreign assistance in its efforts to persecute Uighurs abroad. Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan—one of China’s principal allies and the recipient of billions of dollars in loans as part of the Belt and Road Initiative—has said he accepts China’s explanation of the events in Xinjiang, despite frequently speaking out against Islamophobia elsewhere. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, which is China’s largest oil supplier, defended the CCP’s “right” to carry out “anti-terrorism and de-extremization work” during a 2019 trip to Beijing, where he signed a multibillion-dollar trade deal. The kingdom was one of the thirty-seven nations that signed on to a letter to the UN Human Rights Council praising China’s “remarkable achievements in the field of human rights.” Saudi Arabia, along with other countries such as Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, have extradited Uighurs at China’s request, and the Associated Press reported last year on the alleged existence of a secret Chinese-run black site in Dubai, where abducted Uighurs had been detained. After an injection of Chinese funds into Turkey’s crisis-hit economy and shipments of vaccines during the height of the pandemic, even Erdoğan appears to have muted his once-strident criticism. Over the past two years, Turkish police have detained over one hundred Uighurs, including a number of activists, and deported several others."
I don't see any difference wrt western sites here. Try talking about topics that irritate western establishment on youtube/twitter/facebook and see what happens.

In the end, it boils down to "us" (or "our guys") vs "them" (or "their guys").
It also feels a bit like the title is editorialized in that it makes it sound like they are doing this by choice instead of fighting back and being legally forced to.

Perhaps a better title would be something like 'Avoid using Quad9 DNS: They are being forced (or made, if forced is too inflammatory) to block pirate websites'
It enters into caretaker mode after the election of the parliament, so how long it stays might vary depending on how long it takes for the council and parliament to elect them. But the term is tied to that of the EP

For instance this last commission took office in december rather than September/October because there was a huge delay in picking the President and then parliament blocked two/three (don't remember exactly) commissioners so new candidates had to be chosen from those countries.
Is this also what is called a portative organ? They're all through art history
No. I am not affiliated with them. But, I have been following them for a long time, and I enjoy poem readings and content created by them. That quote is from their YouTube post. Sorry about the confusion.
We have lots of practice for that treatment: https://landgeist.com/2022/03/18/beer-consumption-in-europe/ ;)
Yeah, the alternative is called proof of stake. Now please explain to me how "having a lot of money means you get more control and more money in the future" as a system is in any way adhering to the promise that crypto will disrupt the existing oligopolies and bring power back to the people (unless you define "the people" as "other billionaires who missed out on being part of the current tech oligopolies and want to be Caliph in the place of the Caliph).
Fortunately I don't have to write laws or adjudicate these things. I simply cannot draw a line at X number of beers, or whatever other arbitrary thing. Were they walking straight on their own and talking without slurred speech when they left or were they stumbling out? Did they go out specifically with intent to get laid by a stranger they haven't met yet? Did the would-be rapist encourage them to drink more, or order them strong drinks on purpose? Lots of factors would affect my opinion on whether it was a predatory situation or not. I think I would tend to believe victims are victims, though not if there are clues they are just playing one and using the sexual encounter as a weapon.
For the life of me I could not get this off of my recommendations no matter how many channels I blocked.

There must the millions of them.
Web3 by itself is not a real danger because anyone who looks at it objectively can see that there's nothing there worth working on.

What does make web3 a real danger is the amount of money behind it. VCs and wealthy tech influencers and billionaires are pushing it because it's an easy way to scam retail investors out of their money in ways that would get the SEC breathing down your neck if crypto and web3 weren't largely lawless territories at the moment.

In a lot of ways the aspect of the web that web3 actually builds on is the lawless "wild west" spirit that legislations have been finally trying to clamp down on in the past decades. The only technical innovation happening in it is the equivalent of software patents for existing technology but "on a computer" (or in this case "on the chain").

Even the crypto enthusiast tech nerds cheerleading the technology because they currently (or initially) make money by sitting comfortably near the top of the pyramid scheme will likely be screwed over and lose everything eventually, but until then they're going hand in hand with the grifters who know better than retain any actual stake in the ecosystem by the time it collapses.
It depends on the CPM for his type of content. But yeah your estimate is what I would guess as well, if he only monetizes via youtube ads.
You would need to make that a serious research, people are throwing some stats around like it means something.

What’s the severity of the fire is most obvious thing that can’t be easily measured.

EV cars tend to burn down completely, while ICE cars do not.
Yup, I agree with you about this. It’d be interesting to do a deep dive into a library like FingerprintJS and see what has the most weight in terms of uniqueness. Maybe getImageData is worthwhile blocking, but perhaps other APIs will increase the amount of entropy.
but these shruti boxes are actually tuned to standard ie 'western' notes/frequencies, maybe even equal temperament tuning.
Why Are We Teaching Pandas Instead of SQL?
> We planted a bunch of apple trees. For that we used an auger attached to a sub-compact tractor to get holes. This was pretty rough with the rocks and clay especially because the auger does not have reverse. Which meant that every time it got stuck we had to disassemble it, drill a 2x4 into the side and spit it out by hand.

While planting trees was absolutely the best choice, you could have avoided most of the physical efforts, the auger and the disassembly, by just planting younger trees. Most trees develop their full strength after a year. You can grow them from seeds, wait a year or two, then delicately plant them with a mix of clay and compost in a small hole. You would have traded physical efforts for patience, but trees fare better when they are not transplanted.

Also, roots grow thicker and stronger in compacted soil (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-5696-7_...) this often leads to a better anchorage.
> they walk away thinking "I enjoyed that".

I really enjoyed reading your comment :)
Tether is pretty much another arm of Bitfinex, and Bitfinex is where all the whales trade. Its a huge insider game.

I wouldn’t hold Tether long term even if I was being paid for it
Don’t give them any ideas, next they will mandate cameras in every bedroom streaming back to the police.
The last public payphone in NYC has been removed from Midtown
Given that there's already many competing models in this space prior to any of them having been brought to market, it seems more likely that it will be commoditized.
A useful read, thanks.
The UK was even worse in this regard, with asian sex gangs grooming kids while the police knew about it and choose to ignore it to not look racist for targeting minorities with dark skin.

This move is all about surveillance and has nothing to do with keeping kids safe.
And ? Should every company yak-shave to satisfy FOSS zealots ? Where does it stop ? Is running Gitlab on Windows a problem ?

Let Gitlab focus on git repositories, project management and devops. Everything else is just a pure waste of time.
Anchor protocol[0], which was most likely a large contributor to the collapse, was a lending application. Would have been easy to get a large chunk of UST from that. Not sure how your collateral would fare in the current situation, though.

[0] https://www.anchorprotocol.com/
I think this needs to change, yes. The European Parliament is the only democratic body on the EU level, and as such needs to have more power to at least check the Commission.

Mind you, there's plenty about the European Parliament itself that could also use some improvement. They're still moving between Brussels and Strasbourg every month, for example.
CRA isn’t really an alternative because it doesn’t have a server-side component. It’s also a lot less opinionated around things like routing. I’d say Remix is probably the main competitor to Next, that’s built around React Router and already has support for nested routes/layouts, and has opinionated support for the server-side too.
A fork by more people than just gitlab is going to be easier than a reimplementation created only by gitlab.

1) It is a product that exists, maintenance is easier than building from scratch in this case.

2) a consolidated effort by many people in maintaining a fork will allow much more effort than gitlab alone can spend.

3) mindshare on how vscode works already exists externally, a new webIDE doesn't have the same level of developer mindshare anyway.

As a paying gitlab customer I'd rather their money be spent on things that actually matter; reimplementing open source tools does not matter.
I'm usually on the fence between gross incompetence and straight out deception as the cause for these proposals, but in this case I'm convinced of the latter.
> No-one with nothing to hide would protest again Child Pornography laws, now would they?

There is lots of opposition to the recent proposal of the EU. This article being part of it. Even Nancy Faeser, the German minister of the interior opposes it[1].

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/chatkontrolle-me...
wouldn't be surprised if YouTube suddenly decided to charge for storage
One of the other problems is that the ultimate last hop for data would still have to be an rf link satellite to earth station through atmosphere, where lasers don't work well at all (there's a rain and junk in the air reason the telecom industry has given up on free space optics lasers for 1-2km, 1 to 20Gbps data links roof to roof and uses millimeter wave fdd radios instead)
You seem to be getting a lot of downvotes for pointing out something fundamentally true about the purpose of TikTok.
is your team/division hiring?
Yeah, the UK had a bank run (Northern Rock) during the financial crisis in 2007. Once confidence was lost, some of the run was people with more money than our insurance limit in there, the rest ordinary small depositors who didn't feel like trusting an untested insurance mechanism when they could have banknotes.

That run was stopped by the government guaranteeing all assets and nationalising the Rock. That's not likely to happen with crypto.
But that's not the point. Aside from what military does when military does something, military installations are a huge factor in the areas where they are. When Trump threatened to remove US military bases from Germany - where I live - the main issue here in Germany was the significant economic impact on those local areas, often in less developed more remote regions.

https://www.dw.com/en/german-towns-face-economic-hit-should-... -- "German towns face economic hit should US troops go"

Much of the military is used by politicians as an economic tool for certain regions, independent of their fighting value.

So, you certainly have a mostly local economic impact of military bases.

https://www.areadevelopment.com/siteSelection/june09/militar...

https://www.tpr.org/military-veterans-issues/2020-06-22/texa...

OPs flippant comment reminds me of the equally un-serious suggestion I read somewhere, some time ago, that people should pay for their jobs so that it can be made visible how valuable they think a job is.
If the regular expression engine accepted tree structures instead of just strings, you could have first class definitions of fragments of regular expressions. Even better, you could define them as functions, so you could have parameterized fragments. So then you could just apply something like http://edicl.github.io/cl-ppcre/#create-scanner2 on the resulting expression tree without having to use the bizarre definition syntax above.
Harmonium is very similar to church organ in design and operation. Only major difference is that church organ uses pipes while harmonium uses reeds and thus is smaller but more limited in sound spectrum.
Tether seems to have invested $286M in Salvadoran volcano energy bonds
EU members have to be democracies, but the EU itself isn't. A country governed like the EU would not be allowed to join.
Welfare should rightly fund "survival" and "levelling the playing field" resources, but charity can offer more than that - it can offer quality of life and a sense of community/belonging. It's nice to be around other people who are going through the same things, and people who support you.

So I think charity will always have a role, both financially and socially.
in the last election they had a load of debates all around Europe with the prospective leaders of the commission, with what their plans for their term were, what they wanted to achieve, etc

guess who ended up being appointed leader? someone who didn't take part and wasn't even part of the process

it's a complete farce, and the powerless parliament is only there to give the entire the thing the appearance of being democratic
Good man, I hate Dyson shit so much. It's all overpriced rubbish. Whenever I see their hand-dryers in a public bathroom I just use paper towels instead because they tend to blow stagnant water and particles in your face.
Actually the Prime Minister got in by winning a vote, twice!

1. He had to get elected MP in his constituency.

2. He had to win a vote by the Conservative party membership (anyone can become a member).

Both the big parties in the UK have some degree of internal democracy for choosing their next leaders. It's true that it's not a presidential system, but it's not comparable to the Commission where the commissioners haven't won any votes ever (the GP post sort of implies there's a vote amongst national leaders but we honestly have no idea how vDL was selected - maybe there was no vote at all and it was all some sort of stitch-up).
It's surprisingly easy to construct such a thing.

If you want to be trivial about it, you can just have white back-rank mate with a rook, and black has 4 pieces to block with.
The two numbers are entirely unrelated. Ghost does not take 40% of your earnings. If you take a platform such as Wordpress, you can pay $5 every month to have it hosted, and eventually set up a payment system on top. It's not Wordpress taking a cut of your payments, it's you paying them for a service you would have to pay them for anyways, payments setup or not.

Same thing for Ghost.
Can we please stop with the whataboutism? It only serves to detract from the conversation, and HN mostly shuns disingenuous discussion tactics.
If you need an async one:
pipe(a, b, c) is equivalent to a().then(b).then(c)

function pipe(...functions) {
(async () => {
let accum;
for (const fn of functions)
accum = await fn(accum);
}());
}
What would you even consider credible criticism?

[0]Zenz is a born-again christian zealot who imagines himself to be on a mission against Satan (or in this case China) and who build his whole career on "uncovering" Chinese atrocities and aligning himself with questionable orgs like the Muslim Brotherhood.

In our current economy where attention is currency, he has to come up with ever more outrageous material. Now that 100% of reporting about these camps and the "Uyghur genocide" comes from one single source, namely Adrian Zenz, this makes at least me skeptical outright. His anti-China activism is so clearly in line with US interests and CIA activities that it's no surprise he gets a lot of praise from establishment media.

That is why my original comment said that Uyghur activists should avoid Zenz, since that man has all the motivation to fabricate evidence to further his personal (lucrative) crusade.

If he's genuine, that's a pity, but a this point he is unfortunately "burned" and a detriment to Uyghur activism.

[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-german-data-diver-who-expos...
But EU citizens do vote for an EU parliment - sure, they don't vote for the European Comission, but again, there are all kinds of comissions operating alongside all EU governments, and those are practically never elected democratically. They either form by the institutions that need them, or the government picks them arbitrarily. And anything the EC proposes has to go through the EU parliment to be approved - so in the end your representatives who were democratically elected have a say. EC only proposes laws, it doesn't pass them.

Again, such mechanism exists in nearly all EU countries - you have comissions proposing laws, then parliments pass(or reject) them. The comissions don't need to be voted in by the populace, because the final say is given to people who were voted in.
The original statement was "A language with static types would have made it easier to build correct software." This is an empirical claim that the evidence does not support. Note that it's not that there's merely no evidence supporting the claim, but that studies designed to support the claim failed to do so.
I hate this trash. If you search for some obscure math topic on YouTube you'll 100% get these type of Wikipedia-to-speech videos instead of actual lectures.
Ah that's new to me that the US has mandatory military service after Vietnam.

However, sorry for being angry toward you. You are just partially (a really small part) responsible for the war.
IIRC china invited many nations to xinjiang, not just muslims but some western-aligned countries too. The muslim countries and said it was fine and no major mistreatment was going on, while I believe some western countries refused to go, claiming some sort of taint.

So if you believe something, then you get invited to see what's going on, and you refuse, what does that say about you? It's the makings of a thought bubble.

Edit: Wow downvotes! Looks like I might have spoken to some of your hearts
> For some reason I had imagined the umbrella of web 3 tech and protocols were somehow additive to what we have now.

Because that's how it is sold. The tech is additive (though at this point hardly novel) but the value proposition boils down to "what if everything was a financial transaction".

> In looking at the Web3 Foundation's page I can see they have an entire stack defined but nowhere was I able to find where their "vision" for the web was laid out.

Yeah because the vision isn't particularly appealing to most people. The momentum web3 has is part astroturfed (i.e. wealthy investors leveraging their "fiat" fortunes to pump crypto currencies so they can cash out and VCs pushing their web3 startups for an exit) and part people buying into the hype without fully understanding the bigger picture and its ramifications.

> Isn't this what "oracles" are supposed to do though?

Sure, except they're vulnerable to manipulation (just search for "oracle" on https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ to see a number of noteworthy attacks).

The only way to fix the problems of blockchain technologies is to move everything on the chain. The reason crypto enthusiasts don't worry about the privacy implications is that it will still be possible to "buy privacy" and they believe they're going to make it big so it won't be a problem.
Do VCs add value? Sometimes
In Spain we do the latter in theory. In practice, in almost all cases I know it's the supervisor who writes the proposal because there's no way a fresh PhD student has the experience or knowledge of the field to write one. And anyway, the proposal often gets overwritten a few years down the line after Plan A fails and the thesis is pivoted towards Plan B.
$139aud/month. Nothing.
if you feel like crap, fix (in order of priority): sleep/nutrition/exercise

don't beat yourself up over "missed" opportunities, like getting into university or a job, there's always an easier long way around

play the long game, generally.
But if you have nothing to hide it will save you from yourself...

"Think of the Children" has been the immoral rallying cry after it worked so well in the UK for passing several 5-eyes compatible laws into power will little resistance. The message poltically became that we will accuse you of putting childrens lives at risk if you object to this overly complex law that you as a politician likely don't understand.