skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I thought this was posted already within the past six months or so.

Edit: Found it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103

"TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS"

(1545 points, 521 comments, 6 months ago)

p.s. thanks for the overeager downvotes, I've stopped downing any threads on HN unless they're aggressive or otherwise egregiously bad intent. Ymmv
Laminar go to great lengths to keep aircraft from the previous version compatible. Only occasionally developers with DRM try to scam people to buy the same plane again.
Exactly. He's powerful.
Color Contrast Picker
I'm sure most people who would benefit from this software have heard of it.
Your opinion is irrelevant because I have dismissed you, freemint.

(See?)
This isn't how cryptography engineers think about cryptography. It isn't like a PHP program, where there's inevitably going to be some bug found somewhere, and you do what you can to find as many as you can and react responsibly when more are found later; cryptography engineers use formal methods (among other things) to foreclose on vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities documented in this paper are "own goals", not cryptographic inevitabilities.

For instance, the weird authentication scheme that gives rise to the RSA key recovery attack --- that problem is what PAKEs are for.
Mullvad VPN drops option to create new recurring payments
Maybe they finally released official builds for Apple Silicon after 2 years?
You're right that this is not just a MindGeek problem, and that it's hard to filter out good nudity from bad nudity.

But I think it's only fair to hold the company to the standard they set for themself. They said that all the content was reviewed, but that definitely wasn't the case, and would've been physically impossible. That was a lie. Any sane person running or investing in a porn business that accepts user uploaded content should know that's much riskier than other user content sites because it's more inviting for this sort of thing and much harder to detect.

I would really encourage you to read that article if you haven't, I think this is beyond a question of the technical difficulties of user content filtering and crosses a line into criminal negligence. It's a hard problem to solve and every solution is imperfect, but from the information we have, they weren't really trying at all. And I say all of this as a person that thinks that most non-porn sites, especially YouTube, go way overboard with automated, proactive takedowns and am really cognizant of the encroachments on free speech.

In 2019, the operators of Pornhub content partner Girls Do Porn would be charged with sex trafficking in the US. Following the charges, 50 women filed a class-action lawsuit against MindGeek in 2020, alleging that MindGeek knew Girls Do Porn employees were coercing and lying to performers about how their videos would be used. Still, MindGeek continued to partner with the studio, allowing their videos to be distributed on Pornhub and other tube sites. Pornhub ostensibly removed the Girls Do Porn videos after the operators were arrested, but clips remained available on the site.

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I contacted MindGeek hoping to answer the nagging questions I had about how content moderation was handled when I worked there. Specifically, I asked: were user uploads screened by Manwin employees before being published live?

“All content was reviewed by human moderators at that time,” a spokesperson named Ian responded, adding that this applied to all tube sites.

Somehow, that didn’t seem right to me. Hundreds, if not thousands, of videos were uploaded to tubes every day back then, and I wasn’t aware of anyone screening the uploads. Was it feasible that every single video was reviewed and approved by someone before going live? And if that was the case, how could illegal or pirated content still end up on the sites? I followed up with more questions, trying to clarify how the process worked: Had there been a team reviewing videos before they went live working around the clock, including weekends, while I was there? Or were we after-the-fact moderators the only ones accountable for the content?

The company didn’t respond to my follow-ups, but my questions were answered by Pornhub moderators who spoke out in December 2020. They recounted how they were handed lists of thousands of videos on the site to review and, if warranted, remove. This suggests that only once videos were on-site, ballooning Pornhub’s content offering, were they gradually reviewed, leaving wide-open windows for any type of video to exist on the site, at least for a while.
A Robot and I Brainstorm a Detective Story
The evidence is inconclusive not negative. That trial was halted but later restarted. There is some evidence that it works, and this is better than any other potential treatment which has not shown any evidence. And alzheimers is a fatal disease
i'm not sure i would compare a person coached to despair so hard that they would sacrifice their life to a person seduced by their cope club into staying in the cope club.
It’s too bad all the quantitative easing money isn’t required by law to be directed only at funding basic science research, instead of buying assets. I suspect we would have much better returns.
Restaurants routinely can't uphold their standards and often get wildly different results on every inspection. But yes I do say the same about all audits.
You might want to check into ultralight flight training. Much cheaper than a "real" private pilot's license (in Canada, a minimum 10 hours of flight time, including 2 solo, although it's sensible to budget for double that). At my local airport, ultralights can be rented for CAD $150/hour or so.

There is also the classroom portion, which for an ultralight should be under CAD $1,000.
How do I try it without a credit card?
Did I read it correctly that this whole 65 page document was created by interviewing 27 people only.
Oh man. I guarantee they were inspired by The Home Edit, who are the Instagram'd version of Marie Kondo with none of the depth. Lots of "organize by rainbow color", not a lot of practical advice.
Restic had some professional cryptanalysis, and was very well received.
Someone from GitHub reached out to me because of this comment and said they were fixing it. The problem is that Racket's license file isn't simple enough for their automated tools.
> no person can write a test case that would never occur to them

Not true. Write a simulator that randomly triggers events against the software you are testing. Write a separate checker that checks if the software ever gets into an illegal state. Run until failure. Expect the events that lead to the failure. That’s a test case that never occurred to you.

I have used that method to check very hard to get right distributed systems. The simulator found many test cases that broke the software. After fixing them all, I ran the simulator for a simulated 100 years with a simulated 50% failure rate for everything. And it never failed. Good enough for practical software. Not as good as proven correct software of course but probably the next best thing.
Just don't arrange them by color. I see this sometimes on bookshelves in the backround on zoom and I think "What monsters would arrange their books by color?"
Oh, come off it. This might be respectable as a high school science project. "What percentage of forest fires were caused by birds?" would be one question I'd expect to see answered.

Their reports were from five years ago and covered a four-year period. They did some half-hearted Google searching, and ignored, say, [1] and [2], from agencies with a vested interest in investigating the causes of fires, or the Audobon Society [3], which of course is interested in birds and transmission lines.

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/search?k=fires

[2] https://www.pge.com/en_US/search/search-results.page?%26quer...

[3] https://www.audubon.org/news/transmission-lines-and-birds
This is why I don't see how services like Mullvad can stay afloat forever.
Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality
Alphabetical by author, then by title. What it tells you about me is that I have a lot of books and like to be able to find them when I need to. This business of organizing by whimsical connections doesn't scale well.
Thanks! This puts it a lot more succinctly/clearly than I could.
What if an Artificial Intelligence program becomes sentient?
+ lobbying against Right to Repair https://illinoispirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/who-doesn%E2%80%99t-...

>Microsoft offered to pay more in taxes to fund STEM education in the state if Right to Repair never went to a floor vote.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/microsoft-and-apple-wage-war-on-...

>Microsoft’s top lawyer advocated against a repair bill in its home state.

>February, Microsoft held a meeting for state lawmakers to go over the company’s priorities. It was a snow day, so executives convened over a conference call. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, ran the meeting, according to a person on the call. He ticked through a couple items before arriving at the repair bill. Microsoft didn't like it, and Smith argued the measure would threaten his company’s intellectual property. Later, as the legislative session continued, Microsoft treated the bill as an “existential threat,”

If Xbox is out of warranty and optical drive controller fries (it really happens) its the end of that console - drive is crypto paired to CPU, no optical drive handshake prevents updating/reinstalling os and cuts off online store.
Just an idea (take into consideration that I'm not a lawyer so I may be wrong). You can try something like a dual license: an open source one like AGPL for hobbyists and people that want to use it in an open source project, and for companies or people that want to use it commercially should be able to buy a commercial license and use it in their closed source code/apps.

Otherwise I think following the API of Processing in C is not a bad idea and I know that implementing the backend for a few operating systems implies a lot of work. You can also look into how other people fund their open source work like the implementer of the Zig programming language Andrew Kelly and the implementer of SerenityOS.
An oldie, but a goodie. I recently dusted off my install after ManyCam re-wrote the definition of "lifetime" and screwed over a bunch of its most loyal customers.
The downside is that ammonia is a heavier-than-air poison, like chemical weapons from WW1. Its hazards are significant.

- "Anhydrous ammonia is lighter than air and will therefore rise (will not settle in low-lying areas); however, vapors from liquefied gas are initially heavier than air and may spread along the ground."

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/MMG/MMGDetails.aspx?mmgid=7&toxid=2
or maybe you should just cold wash
Running Lightning Network Daemon (LND) for the First Time
My experience running LND on my home Linux computer
Especially in California where homes are already expensive, this could be more like 6k to 9k on a $1.5M home
Notwithstanding the problems pointed out with specific thought experiments, the author doesn't seem to realize that all things are computation. Every biological, chemical, and physical process is, at the end of the day, itself a product of the computation of various mathematical principles. Invoking XKCD as the author does, it's the classic "$X is just applied $Y" chain, with mathematics being the final $Y.

Given this, consciousness must be computation, because everything else is computation. The author rejects this not because his definition of computation is too broad (as he asserts to be the principal objection to the viewpoint he describes), but because it's too narrow.
I'm glad people like you exist and want to make the world a better place for everyone you possibly can.

I suspect you will continue to find ways your applications are not received in the context you hoped. But is also an opportunity to do better which it seems you might enjoy.

I also think you won't be financially competitive in the larger world. And while I'd love a world where this doesn't matter, money makes the world go around until humanity as a whole can figure out how to do better. So I don't think many will follow your path.

I honestly wish you the best to make it all work. For my own part, I will continue to try and leave contexts I am involved in better than I found them.
The other thing is how much work the GraphQL/REST experience is now

https://forum.strapi.io/t/discussion-regarding-the-complex-r...
Well put, same goes for the sibling comment from the electronics hobbyist.
OK, I didn't downvote it (yet). But is it too much to ask that you provide a few references, given that this not a well-known theory, at least for me?
> There's more to life than the political, so why should there be only political art?

function_seven's observation that "To write "everything is political" is to water down the term "political" so much that it loses meaning." is the most insightful, but does not answer the question.

But the answer is simple. Those who write "art should be political", do so because they think art will advance their brand of politics. Anything that advances politics counter to theirs is, of course, not art, but propaganda.
I'm not a philosopher or a Nietzsche expert, but Nietzsche wrote about this at length in his book "Beyond Good and Evil." It's been a while since I read the book (surface-level Wikipedia summary link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Good_and_Evil), but the argument he advanced was to frame morality as a means of people who lack power to feel superior over people who do have power.

For example, he speculates that gluttony may be seen as a sin, because it was a way for disempowered people to feel superiority over people who had an abundance of food and wealth. If this frame is true (a big if), then one can be guided to not care about morality, and do what is in one's best interest.

Of course, there are good psychological reasons for why it is a bad reason to throw away morality. If one's identity is tied to being a good person, doing bad acts in conflict with one's identity can cause a lot of distress. There is also a "hedonistic treadmill" where one gets used to more and more wealth, and how additional wealth at a certain point doesn't make someone happier. Lastly, there are society reasons for why morality is important (e.g. the Golden Rule as you wrote); a low-trust society where no one is moral is not a healthy society to live in.

Counter-arguments aside, there is quite a bit of writing, also by philosophers, who argue that morality does exist for dominance alone (though I disagree with this, largely from a psychological rather than a philosophical perspective, due to lacking background to make rigorous-enough philosophical arguments).
I can understand where you're coming from, but if a developer commits auto-pilot code without understanding it, that's not really auto-pilot's fault.

That dev could have done the exact same thing with stack over flow snippets. And create the same situation.

Sure its easier to make mistakes when copilot suggestions are so readily available, but its just a tool that needs to be wielded properly as any other.

It feels like an evolution of your typical IDE niceties that modify characters as you type.

I still remember when people were worried autocomplete would lead to code mistakes and variable mix-ups.

Now the one argument against this is if we become shielded from the full input and outputs of a tool.

It would work bad, but you could have a "copilot(code_fragment, args, ...)" that makes an executes a snippet blindly, hoping it's correct. That's when it stops being a hammer and starts being a boss looking over your shoulder and telling you what to do.

Fortunately, I think we have a while before AI can reliably spit out useful AST programs. But it could happen eventually.
Am I mistaken in thinking that’s totally ridiculous?

Let’s charitably say you can run your app with a 1GB cut down snapshot of production.

You’re going to do what, save a snapshot of the database for every commit? Every schema migration?

…and then provision that up in a running database server… which is notoriously not container friendly…

? It doesn’t sound very plausible to me.

Our database is ~1TB, and the app runs with maybe a 10GB cut down version of it, which is a pain in the ass to deal with, just for example, for local dev environments.

I agree with the parent post; it’s cute, but I can’t imagine historical per commit deployments being useful for me, honestly.
> Eh? 42800 / 28571 = 1.498

I calculated percent difference.

> Eh? "includes all forms of income as well as taxes and transfers in kind from governments for benefits such as healthcare and education"

You're right, thanks. I was reading off my phone and missed that.
We already synthesize and handle industrially millions of tons of it annually, and have done for going on a century. If there were a worrying problem with ammonia, you would already be hearing about it.
Same. I found it impossible to concentrate. Similar disrupting effect as gifs (visual noise) next to the text or similar.
A few choice quotes:

> Chesa Boudin resisted calls to prosecute these dealers, instead referring to them as victims of human trafficking

> Like drug use and drug dealing, shoplifting has been effectively decriminalized in San Francisco

> Together, Prop 47 and the DA’s non-enforcement policy have removed any incentive for police officers to make arrests for shoplifting, which, in turn, has made it far less likely that retailers will even call the police in the first place

> Today, in San Francisco, you can walk into a Walgreens, a Safeway, a Target or a CVS, take hundreds of dollars of products off the shelf in front of customers and employees, walk out the door, and then come back a few hours later and do it all over again

> Those drugs kill two people a day directly. The organized robberies and thefts they spawn create thousands more victims, from targets of muggings, burglaries, and home invasions to working class, elderly San Franciscans whose local pharmacies keep shutting down or reducing hours, to retail employees who are laid off as those stores are closed
working out what it is worth is tricky, I just look at what I'm paying for at the moment, like Jetbrains All product suite costs me $150 yearly.... so Copilot at $100 a year seems insanely out of proportion. In fact all of the SAAS type products that are around $10 a month per dev offer far more significant functionality. For me copilot mainly fills in boiler plate code, which is useful, from time to time it generates a function that's great, but it would have been trivial for me to write it too, I like it, but comparatively compared to other tools, its pricing seems out of whack. Some are trying to use time = money as justification, but it rarely works as a direct translation like that when coding, in fact I doubt it has that much impact on time, it just makes some things less mundane to do. I have other plugins that are free that probably save me way more time, if all the plugins that help started charging at the same rate based on time savings, it'd be a nightmare.
@adrianthedev I gave it an hour and here are my thoughts.

Generators for resources should be smarter and look a models attributes and type_for_attribute and add all the fields for me. Things like enums should be easier than needed to also specify them as select options.

You also dont have any datetime field types. (edit it appears you do but the docs dont list them on the https://docs.avohq.io/1.0/field-options.html)

Also using the models schema should give you default filtering. Strings should be loose, numbers/enums should be exact, datetime should be ranged.

All attributes should also be default sortable.

The suggested generators for namespaced models ```bin/rails generate avo:resource Cms::Page``` dont seam to work.

It feels like its for admin/mgmt stuff but you say its also for normal users and i feel like it under delivers on both.

Hope this feedback helps.
There are ways to version your database schema. Then you just need to make sure your code version is tied to your database version.
The parasitics all depend on the model, as I used LTSpice recently for an RFIC class for a 5 GHz LNA. The .net directive allows two-port analysis and even a Smith chart. Though Microwave Office is my go-to tool.
You’ll end up with Waterfall
Does Argentina have much of a Navy? There is quite a generous coast line. One that I would think would make customs control very tricky unless you have first world tier surveillance of the coasts.
I think this level of key management is relatively simple for a production application. There are not really too many pieces and certainly no unnecessary steps (the mitigation recommendation was to add more keys, not fewer).

The interesting part is really just the first step - starting with a user's password, to statically derive a service-authentication key and a data-encryption key that the service provider ostensibly never sees.

At $DAYJOB we independently came up with this same zero-knowledge solution too, using slightly different primitives. Ideally there'd be some well-reviewed zero-footgun nacl.SecretBox()-style thing for this use case, but there simply isn't.
>Until battery technology makes several quantum leaps in efficiency, nuclear energy is the only possible answer to climate change as well the needs of humanity.

If you have unlimited electricity, why bother reinventing all the infrastructure for battery powered vehicles? You can just make liquid fuel out of air and water.

I believe the US Navy has been testing this sort of thing so that carriers can be self-sufficient at sea.
Yes, don't forget, be conscious, but for me is fine that Gnome take that money.

The situation remembers me in some capacity to a recent Atlanta episode when one of the black protagonists choose to accept the money/opportunity of a white rich dude, even knowing the whole troubled past about slavery, and knowing that he is scamming him.

The episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Tree

A good analysis: https://youtu.be/PAk9UTNKNEM

By the way, the recent Gnome 42 was a milestone on UI/UX and performance improvements, that may be in part of that MS $ (oh, this donation is more recent, but you get my point).
After noticing a coworker opening Photoshop to check color contrast within a DOM element, I thought it might be helpful to have a simple tool for this purpose using the new EyeDropper API. I welcome any suggestions.
I think maybe for cars it’s over but the energy density argument still favors hydrogen so I’d add another option.

C) provide greater energy density allowing for heavy equipment, trucks, trains, and planes to use electric power.
Keith Jarrett’s harmonic improvisational ability is insane. You could get lost analyzing small parts of his concerts for a long time.
As a matter of fact, it's exactly the opposite.

We have web accessibility standards and companies get sued for not following them.
Perhaps Pournelle's Iron Law fell prey to itself.
Not sure what you mean by csvw. But, zsvlib is a CSV parser, and zsv is a CLI that uses zsvlib. zsv also uses the sqlite3 vtable based on the example in the original sqlite3 code, but it modifies it to use the zsvlib parser instead of the original CSV parser. The zsv parser is different from most CSV parsers in how it uses SIMD operations and minimizes memory copying. zsvlib parses CSV based on the same spec that Excel implements, so having data URIs in the CSV is fine, but if you wanted a compound value (e.g. text + link), you would need to overlay your own structure into the CSV text data (for example, embed JSON inside a column of CSV data). Not sure that answers your question but if not, feel free to add further detail and I'll try again...
Yep. I've been lucky enough to work with a few people who are (mostly) open to hearing evidence they don't agree with. It forces you to up your game, for sure.

It's always harder to convince them than when they already agree, but at least it's not impossible.