skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda curious how "child abuse" a remit outside the scope of GCHQ is being used to push for weaking of encrption. Not that I wouldn't love GCHQ to tackle child abuse, drug dealers and lots of crimes that the police seem unable or capable of dealing with to noticable effect.

That said, police gained powers on the back of `terrorisim` so can see why GCHQ would want to push thru some changes on the back of the police scope of work.

What irks is the premise that it is using the minority of people to penalise the majority of people. That and the issue of challanging anything that uses the "think of the children" angle is often countered with "why do you hate children, why you defenfing peodos...." and that kinda see's many who would speak out, very much put off.

Shame leasons not learned though as weakening encryption or removing it only aids and helps criminals who cover a large percentage than the child abuse numbers.

For example when digital mobiles came about, GCHQ and others pushed to weaken the enryption and saw a certain amount of the digits in the encyrption fixed as 0, so whilst it was advertised as 56bit encryption at the time, it was in reality 48bit (ogoing from memory on this one so maybe a bit off here or there). But crux being handicapping encryption enables a wider array of criminal activity above and beyond the scope of children being purported to protect.

One aspect overlooked, this will only enable identification of some child abuse, it won't prevent it as by time digital media of the abuse is made, the child is already abused. That in itself is sad and tragic and focusing upon the aftermath over prevention at source is perhaps an area that should be addressed as I worry that things like this, if they came to pass to weaken encryption per-say will be seen as a magic solution that misses the root causes of such crimes.
The existence of trans people is not an "issue", or a question to be decided. The fact of that existence is certainly very inconvenient to a great many people who are used to ignoring it.
Yeah California has enough eucalyptus. I second the suggestion to plant native local plants that get the goals you want (eucalyptuses are the opposite of native).
Before digressing, can you just first acknowledge that when I ask "do you know this or are you guessing", the answer is you're guessing?
While you're correct, all of these things happen in metric-driven organizations, too... often exacerbated by the obsessive metrics focus.
I wonder how many lines of code it takes to run Craigslist. They probably haven’t refactored much since the 90’s. The profit margin is so high who cares about putting in new code to data science spam and scam.
You're thinking of paracetamol / acetaminophen. Ibuprofen has little effects on the liver / kidneys.
Some of this advice requires clarification. There's only one commercially available breed of milkweed available around here. (Ask for "native" and "for monarchs" at the nursery)

Also, if you plant too close to the coast (5 or 10 miles; can't remember) it discourages migration, and does more harm than good.

If you are near the coast, plant pollinator gardens (native wildflowers) instead. Your local nursery can give more accurate and more specific advice.
It's funny your term "vortexing" has an actual name in the world of psychology, it's called dissociation. Anyway well done for realizing these things, it's taken me years of continued therapy to keep making progress on mental health. I only brought it up because I believe everyone can benefit from therapy. :)
Aren't eucalyptus trees invasive and a hazard for fire control? I know they're clear-cutting loads of eucalyptus in the Berkeley Hills for concerns of fire risk.
> Small countries are a rounding error for global emissions.

Not if they are allowed to develop too. Are they not allowed to develop to western living and energy use standards per capita?
What's most concerning IMHO is that this appears to be from community spread with no known recent travel history (polio apparently incubates in 7-21 days so they would have caught it in the last few weeks).

Even more troubling is that they were paralyzed which means they were one of the less than 1% of polio cases that turn into a severe event like being paralyzed. The vast majority of cases are asymptomatic or just give you diarrhea.

How many people could be out in the community and spreading it without anyone knowing?
jobs on salaries still have an expectation of how many hours you will work and some provide PTO comp for "overtime". tracking this often does mean filling out a time sheet or punching a clock, even though those times don't directly figure into your paycheck.
cia is an organization that uses torture (among other unethical things). if you ever worked for such an organization, I'm not even looking at rest of your cv. your ethics are clearly lacking.
If you have young daughters, though, the Tiffany Aching books are a great place to start.
Airbnb had a problem with party hosts, so your example of having 3 ? Additional? To the number booked is something very serious to Airbnb.
My understanding is that peertube still uses a single host to store the data. It works like P2P only when there are multiple viewers on a video for bandwidth-saving reasons.
Who's idea was the app in conjunction with business responsibility.

Building an app does not equate to owning an app.
A minor quibble with your use-case explanation: The advantage of a bloom filter isn't strictly time complexity. For example, a hash table would also have constant lookup time (best case), and would give a definitive answer on set membership. However, to store 1 million IPv6 addresses would take 16 MB. You can see very quickly that this would not scale very well to, say, a billion addresses stored in-memory on a laptop. With a bloom filter, we can shrink the amount of storage space required* while maintaining an acceptable, calculable false positive rate.

* IP addresses actually aren't a great use case for basic bloom filters, as they're fairly storage efficient to begin with, as opposed to a url for example. Taking your example, say we need to store 1 million IP addresses in our bloom filter and we're okay with a ~1% false positive rate. Well then, if we use a bloom filter with 2^23 bits (1 MB), the optimal number of hash functions is (2^23)/(10^6)*ln(2) = 6, yielding a false positive rate of (1 - exp(-6* 10^6 /2^23))^6 = ~1.8%. So we're using 6% of the storage space, but with a nearly 2% false positive rate.
Is the scam basically ... a host will book someone, then closer to arrival if the rates in the region are higher they'll cancel and rebook with someone else at a higher rate?
The original comment was "Totally not like how access to Russian news outlets has been blocked by the West."

This statement is factually incorrect. I don't see where that argument was actually made.

But sure, some western countries have a level of censorship, yes, but that still doesn't approach the level of China.

And just because there is a wiki entry called western bloc, doesn't mean the western countries are uniform. The US is pretty well known for having broad, but not absolute, protections for freedom of speech.
So is the Earth flat or not? That is, are there any mathematically possible ways the earth could be considered flat or two dimensional after all.
A Search Engine for Metaverse
Hi there,

I am working on a search engine for metaverses. The idea would be to index the contents such as events, rooms, games. These assets are not present in the supporting blockchains and thus it would be nice to have them indexed somewhere.

Currently it's a bit stuck due to lack of APIs to query and index metaverses. But I am confident that the situation will change.

Should you collaborate, please contact me at mirko-here put the AT symbol-mirko.io.
It definitely helps with the associated upper back pain that gets amplified when I indulge too much...
Also son with Autism.

Meltdown happen when you remove the stimulus without warning. Always, Always give a countdown. Either in time or turns.

So reason - i.e. Time to eat now, 10 more seconds before water is turned off. 10..9.8..3.2.1 Turn off water.

The Autism Society do a LIFE changing course for parents on understanding Autism.

Embrace the water games. Make a clear pipe water feature and enjoy to together.

Hope this helps.
I reviewed the $20k trash cans SF is testing. Here’s what I found
> he's a nice guy

Is he?
I would recommend any Discworld book wholeheartedly, anything with Rincewind is hilarious (The last continent is a favorite of mine), also I think Moving Pictures is pretty interesting commentary on modern entertainment. I read them all over a decade ago and some of the lines I remember still make me chuckle. EDIT: Also the movie(s) Going Postal are great..."The Smoking Gnu" :)
Yeah I know and it doesn't change my statement or the advice I would give to anyone young or old.
AirBNB was useless when I was unable to get into an apartment around 10-11pm because the door had been physically bolted/latched from inside and the off-site owner wasn't responding.

The customer service agent slipped up (apparently) and confirmed there were other AirBNB guests in the unit, but when she escalated to get permission to call them, the story changed to "we cannot discuss whether there are other AirBNB customers in the unit due to privacy reasons."

I was not offered any help finding an alternative listing.

I was not offered a refund or any sort of compensation whatsoever.

I was left standing outside in winter in a cold part of the country, with nowhere to go, at midnight.

Fuck AirBNB.
I am way outside of my field, but what you describe sounds like Fouerier series.
I'm going to be even more cynical than you: being charming and easy to work with _to your superiors_ while being a prickly "expert" asshole to everybody "beneath you" seems to be the best way to move up into middle management.
> mentioned the head of the project doesn't know I exist

Was this said in a way that may have been trying to get you to feel like you're missing out and encourage you to come back to office? Not saying that's appropriate, but your other comment makes me think this org doesn't have a strong remote culture, and so likely one to stack the optics against remote work.

I'm wondering if the comment was made more in the spirit of "[as the remote member of this project] the CEO doesn't even know who you are, and thinks I made the whole thing [which is clearly a shit deal, and so by implication you should really come work in the office]" (bracket context as unsaid, but implied)

Anyhow, this sucks, and I feel for your sense of being mistreated. Attribution is important, and a failure to offer it (nevermind their views on remote work) is a bit of a smell
> the most permanent thing is a temporary hack

What jams me up is the staggering number of programmers who believe the file extension somehow dictates the content-type

Followed closely by how Microsoft made an option to hide the extensions, which went so poorly that "totally-safe.docx.exe" became a compromise vector

What a mess
> it probably played a role in Sony pushing out an update that disabled Linux on all PS3s

Pretty sure that was due to it being used to hack the PS3.

> Blame for the latest culling has been pinned on computer hacker George Hotz, who was originally infamous for unlocking Apple's iPhone. In January of this year Hotz claimed that he had successfully hacked Sony's PS3 by exploiting Linux, gaining "read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV [hyper-visor] level access to the processor".

> Hotz released this to the public on 26 January, boasting, "Sony may have difficulty patching the exploit". He may well have been right, since Sony's latest response has been to completely lock off the required 'Install Other OS' feature. Shame on pirates, shame on Sony.
I'll just be on holiday.
I think AirBNB should do all the leg work on cancellation just like a real hotel or airline would do. They should present me options with no additional cost showing. Just let me pick. The fact that you have to shoulder the stress to find a place absolutely sucks. Imagine if an airline overbooked/cancelled on you and just said fuck off, find a new flight, here's your credit.
I think the best way to handle that sour taste is to make a product that actually lives up to sales hype.
Unless guests are able to set their own cancellation policy — including the host is forced to cover market rate at time of cancellation if rebooked within X-days for a like or better booking, this is a joke.

AirBNB’s penalties for host go to AirBNB, not the guests, and AirBNB frequently waves the host penalties without explanation. If the stay was canceled prior to booking and the fees waved, no review is allowed to be left either by the guest or automatically; the automatic cancellation reviews are only left if host gets a penalty, which again AirBNB frequently waves without explanation.

I have personally lost thousands due to AirBNB allowing host to cancel at the last second then repost and book the stay for 300% more; host even offered to allow me to rebook, so clearly cancellation was unrelated to anything to do with me.

Use AirBNB at your own risk, they will happily leave you without a place to stay if a host cancels a booking. Always have a backup plan and look into travel insurance.
Agreed that direct conversation is the only good approach.

But I also want to mention: have their been any actual outcomes from this project, or is the board just "excited about it"? Has there been revenue realized? If you ask for "credit" before there is real outcomes, you are basically asking for the boss to name drop you to their boss. While that's not _egregious_, personally I would wait until there are business outcomes as collateral to ask for real recognition: a promotion, more responsibility.
In Santa Cruz, California, where monarch butterflies roost in winter:

"The number of Natural Bridges’ overwintering butterflies is still down more than 95 percent since 1997, and the Tasmanian blue gum eucalyptus canopy that has sheltered generations of butterflies is falling apart."

"Eucalyptus trees have small leaves that are thin enough for monarchs to wrap their feet around. For longer than anyone can remember, those trees have also provided the butterflies a convenient food source and a haven during the winter months, like a warm blanket or an umbrella to protect them from the wind and rain."

https://www.goodtimes.sc/eucalyptus-grove-monarch-butterflie...
Vimes is my favourite character arc; I don't always rate Guards Guards but it is essential entry to Night Watch (IMO one of the best books).

Also a shout out for underrated options; Soul Music (great tag line, lovely observational comedy) and Carpe Jugulum (some fan favourite characters, but also one of my fav bit-part characters - Lacrimosa)
> You pay $15

Only if you complain and ask for a detailed list.
Plant an oak tree in your yard and a variety of flowers that attract pollinators in your garden (and specifically milk weed for monarchs)

Oak trees build ecosystems because an unusually large number of species of insect and birds use them and what feeds on them for food.
My parents and their neighbours had plenty of flowers and suitable plants growing in their gardens. They live in a small tourist town in south west Ireland.

I have vivid memories as a child of what was likely thousands of monarch butterflies every summer, probably until I was 10 or so, in and around the flowers and plants.
Then then open pastures behind my parents house were bulldozed and a private housing estate was built and at the same time my parents also tarred their front drive. From then on the butterflies started to dwindle significantly.
Those two events were the only great change in the immediate surroundings until twelve-or-so years later when a brutal winter killed a lot of the trees and plants.

Never again have I see as many in a single place.
http://archive.today/88nTO
I think it's less about population growth and more about habitat destruction. One does not imply the other. Town living instead of suburbs, more pollinator gardens. That already will make a huge difference.
I've never actually had it happen to me, but it's one of the reasons I always book a hotel for the first night or two of a longer international trip, even if we're staying in Airbnbs for the rest of the time. Never want the experience of landing somewhere and having nowhere to stay.
Those rings are top down and covered up at every turn. When its the pedo warmonger necrophiles(Saville was a lifelong friend of Charles, Ghislaine was basically raised with the royals, need I go on?) in charge who want to break encryption be very wary.
Radio, and before that, newspapers, the local sports teams, gossip about town.
For what it's worth, AirBnB does try harder now to find you similar places if your host cancels. Possibly they even eat some of the price difference, if necessary.

That said, I fully approve of raising the penalty on hosts who cancel. A guest who cancels is an annoying lack of income. A host who cancels could result in cancelling an entire trip, or staying in a terrible or even unsafe alternative.
2 dimensions of time would allow supertasks in our reality. A problem is solved in the perpendicular axis and the result is returned to our observer axis. No time travel paradoxes. Next thing after quantum computing.
Yep, that's the second worst XKCD! :D
My wife's doctor said the optimal does for an average adult is 600 mg (typically 3 pills) - he warned that going below that won't product the same results. When it's been prescribed, it's always 800 mg.
As a long time Pratchett enjoyer I thought it was pretty well done, it certainly wasn't a screen version of Guards! Guards! but it was pretty clearly inspired by it and, honestly, it managed to bring humor of its own right to the party.

I certainly wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to Pratchett but it is quite Pratchett adjacent.
Tell me about it.

He's a smart dude and I can't help but appreciate his work. But his defense of racialism is getting harder and harder for me to ignore.
My suggestion is to :

1) Put your name as Author in every bit of code you have written.

2) Document everything about the app and publish it in an internal wiki.

3) Find a way to distribute the wiki internally so everyone is aware of it.

4) Appreciate that the boss is taking your app to the board and is getting their sponsorship. Now ask for a good raise.

5) You don’t have to live in anyone’s shadow. Let people know what you do and get more familiar with the business side of things.

6) Credits Just like everything else in real world is complex and multidimensional.
related: Goodhart's law

Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Like other posters have said, metrics are useful and convenient, but they are NOT the focus of the business. The business defines goals, defines measures to help support the goals, and re-evaluates as needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
> When you combined the sales of all of his novels together, he became simply the most popular single British author of the 1990s

I'm honestly surprised that Pratchett's ~20 novels beat the three Harry Potter books released in the 90's. That may be because I'm an American though, and while I knew one guy that had read some Pratchett in school seemingly everyone had read Harry Potter.
El Salvador’s Embrace of Bitcoin Didn’t Bring Prosperity
Down 84% in the past year, down 38% today... wtf, this just a meltdown.

Is is advertising related - Facebook and Google are down 5-7.5% today too.
Do this at most companies and you'll get sidelined fast. The management caste protects their own. Uppity ICs don't get "the attention they deserve" they get sidelined.
Yep, this is it. The key is not that there are two time dimensions but two independent time translation symmetries, each which translates the system by a different period of time corresponding to the two frequencies in their pulse. The two time dimensions is an analogy that’s useful for the theoretical treatment of such a system.
> read the tail pointer (acquire)

> append your node using CAS(release)

> update the tail pointer with CAS (release).

I thought as well, but, when I wrote that impl there was no way to shortcut the 2 releases into a single atomic operation. That ended up creating forks or loosing blocks.

I tested that model and a few variations with loom (https://docs.rs/loom/latest/loom/), so I'm confident that it didn't work. However, I also think that a working design might exist. I just haven't found it yet :)
"Ibuprofen became an effective treatment for the disease, but it was no cure."
Perfect, says the pharmacist.
Well, there are cosmopolitan Rodriguezes
Russian Oligarchs’ Top Banker Breaks Free After Making a Fortune Himself
> Naturally everywhere that isn't already booked up is 2-3x the price now. Just a huge hassle.

So the host can cancel, rebook at 3x , pay $1k and still come out on top?

Correct way to do this would've been start is exponential fines. Start with 100, 200 next time, 400 after that ect till an upper limit.
I hope you are prepared for many more russian and/or china backed regimes in africa/se asia. This would put any ressource extraction/trade from these regions in the hands of Putin/Xi.

Expect some unforeseen problems at the most unfortunate economic moments.
Forcing others to conform to your preferences so that you’ll enjoy a better UX is also known as fascism.
Aren’t we nature too? Isn’t every species of living thing trying to thrive as much as possible in a ceaseless competition for space and resources?

Are we the shepards of the world or just another organic life?
Chaotic systems, at least, were not known to Einstein. They weren't described until after his death, from Lorenz' computer simulations. Earlier hints of the theory were there, but no one took them seriously. Ian Malcolm, though, is a solid authority.
Fair 'nuff.

Good Omens was awesome, though. I was spoiled by that. True labor of love.
I worked for a company that got acquired by a larger company and one of the main things they acquired was the tech I had built. I recall one day when several of us were standing around -- me, my boss, the CEO of the big company that acquired us, and another top executive. The CEO remarked to the other executive that my boss had "built the tech" that they were so happy about. Of course I had coded every line of it, but that's not the way business works -- the guy who makes things happen on the business side is the person who gets the credit, and that is as it should be. Think of bosses as programmers of people.
> On the other hand, when it comes to marketplace, I very much don't want to have a no-name random person with burner phone and fake account showing up to my door to pick up synths or cameras or baby stuff :-/

That's an interesting perspective. Is it the 'burner' aspect that you don't want, or the lack of being able to look at someone's social media to determine if this is someone you want to do business with?
This is true for the vast majority of people, but some percentage of our population will have Psychopathy/Sociopathy/Antisocial Personality Disorder.

There appears to be a genetic component to this, so it seems like no matter how nice we make society we're still going to have to deal with these kinds of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde...