skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the incentive for Google to EVER give the accounts back? If they wrongly deactivate an account (like here), you get a bad article, EFF and friends ruminate about your behavior, and the world mostly moves on.

If Google wrongly gives an account back, you get a different article: "Google helped child pornographer even after discovering CP in their account". Now that gets attention. That's a scandal that leads to political action, criminal charges, etc.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for how Google behaves. They're a lot more like a utility and probably should be treated like one (alongside the protections and requirements that come of a utility, you don't hear "eletric company stopped serving house since man suspect of CP lives there").

For the responses saying "Well the police cleared them", again I don't disagree. But if you're an executive making this decision you're thinking:

1. We never give back an account in this case and avoid the massive downside risk

2. We go through a lot of work to design a process that will impact a marginal portion of customers and really really hope nobody manages to social engineer themselves past, and pray that no enterprising news outlet/politician tries to make the "Google helped CP person recover their CP story" - they already have a target on their back.
Here’s an American one used in the UK. That had a data breach exposing sensitive images. I won’t ever trust consumer computers for sensitive medical stuff.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52986629

Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23471347
This is the same situation with "private" search engines.
Your search query is ironically less likely to be shared with government if you are using Yandex, than with DuckDuckGo that is hosted by Microsoft (before it was even Amazon).
What do you mean by pushing it to the limit? And do you have any insight of what’s it’s like to be on call with Elixir? From what I saw it has many great tools to debug problem. Also the “it never crashes” is quite appealing.
What do you think is the ratio of innocent to nefarious pictures of naked children Google encounters in aggregate?

This is relevant to how outraged one should be by this story. I think it is probably > 1:100000. As such, probably not much outrage is warranted, although it’s obviously not great for this one guy.
Why store passwords that are only used once per half a year with other passwords?
I agree, but presumably it's already necessary to determine if it's a picture of a naked adult.
This particular prompt form, including the lens type, is from this reddit thread:

https://reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wsi97q/_/ikyjqhh/?conte...

> High detail, macro portrait photo, a [physical descriptor, regional identity, etc] man/woman with [eye color] eyes and [hair color] hair, smiles at the camera, set in a [field/dimly lit room/whatever] at golden hour, shot using a ZEISS Supreme Prime lens

The suggestions in that thread are quite effective, particularly the notion of reducing synthetic ‘beauty’ for a more human appearance.
Silent crisis of soaring excess deaths in Britain is only tip of the iceberg
Maybe from here?

Six Words on Privacy

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/six-words-about-privacy
If everybody sailed their parcels across the Sea, we'd avoid 4.5% of global emissions [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/feb/13/climatec...
> Not only did he lose emails, contact information for friends and former colleagues, and documentation of his son’s first years of life, his Google Fi account shut down, meaning he had to get a new phone number with another carrier. Without access to his old phone number and email address, he couldn’t get the security codes he needed to sign in to other internet accounts, locking him out of much of his digital life.

> “The more eggs you have in one basket, the more likely the basket is to break,” he said.

I only have a google account to have access to Play store. Everything else, mail, calendar, photos and storage, has been moved off Google
Or to any China-aligned or vassal states, they don't need to bother with complex extradition procedures, they just ask the government 'nicely'.
eg https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-china-uighurs-id...
I will trade ease of use over performance everyday. I can code in Rust but Rails or NestJS can work just fine.
If I recall, more advanced signalling than ECTS is required to enable metro style operations in the core section.
Why didn’t Marc Anthony have a traditional Roman name?
Yes, it's the same time in different timezones. "0 +0000" is "00:00 +0000", "0 +0100" is "01:00 +0100": same time.
Not sure I'd agree. It was very public, very much reverted and very much a demonstration of the context of the internet. Not to mention a very easily verifiable proof, if people picked up the textbooks and noticed the subtle mistake.
This policy does nothing to impede a person with that intent. The employee still looked at the photo.

In fact, the policy was why they examined the photo carefully.
What's your preferred password management solution, and what do you see as its pros/cons over a dedicated password manager?
> Is it a good idea?

No, because email forwarding is a thing and many people use it
I think an accelerated bs/ms might be another exception you should consider. (This being when a bs student can do another year immediately following to get their ms.) It makes sense on ROI as many companies have HR departments more likely to get you into the interview process, and then it’s often a slightly higher starting role. Also, from a knowledge standpoint, some graduate classes help practical abilities only. A 500-level databases course, for example, isn’t research-oriented. It just teaches more advanced topics that might actually matter in the workplace (an intuitive understanding of how/where to use an index, more complicated examples of projects with database connections, etc.). I fall into the case of your first exception, so I’m not actually sure undergraduate courses don’t teach these things. I’ve had a few 500-level classes that had absolutely no research orientation (“object oriented design and development” is another example of a class where the projects are just super-complicated examples of what you experience in industry). Pursuing an accelerated degree shows that the student wasn’t careless in thinking research was something they wanted to do.
It will be the "execution client." It will still run the transactions, it just won't pick the blocks.

At some point I'm sure they'll remove the legacy mining code, I just don't know whether they've done it yet.
In order of shipping speed:

- The one you already know

- The one closest to the one you already know

- The new hotness everyone is talking about
Just personal opinion, but if this product is as valuable as you're suggesting, then definitely try selling at a higher price point! - Your target market can afford it.
\popular take: they shouldn't use services that they don't care about
As much as the evangelicals of America screw with the rest of the world in their quest for purity, the better answer seems to be:

How do you know those nudes are taken consensually? And what's your liability for developing ("reproducing") them?
For this type of encryption, I think the password could be “password” and that would be good enough. The primary goal is to frustrate automated scans, not targeted brute force attempts.
Let's just call this phenomena redistribution of thoughts and ideas to a central power ;).
How would you (for example) apply for a job without the Internet?
The central core stations are capable of handling longer trains, I believe an additional two carriages. But the above ground stations may not be capable of receiving those carriages, leading to a few where the carriage doors will not open.
I've seen similar numbers on an ecommerce site. The theory there was the people may be on a device where their email isn't logged in. So doing that and then clicking your link is a lot of work and could run into even more hurdles like Gmail 2FA popping up because they don't use that device frequently.

While the 4 digit code is easy enough to read on their phone in a notification and then type into the other device.
the obvious thing is “the fact this user used to be in the room and left”. nobody cares, unless you are looking at historical messages from when they were in the room.
Somehow I think there more parents who sometimes need to take a photo of their naked children than there are paedophiles.

Or at least the ratio is clearly not 1:100000, maybe more like closer to 1:10.

You would need statistics how many times google have reported police and how many times it have turned out to be a false alarm. Does google even keep record of false alarms? Most likely they don't to avoid responsibility.
he did. his name was Marcus Antonius.

we know him as Mark Anthony because of Shakespeare.
What's wrong with Marcus Antonius?
> You are very naïve.

I am your of the same generation of your father...

My grandfather was already 40 years old when D-Day landed.

> None of us know what will happen in the future

It's safe to assume that it doesn't matter.

You could die tomorrow, so why are you worrying?

> If you don’t control the data it is public

Unless the network is firewalled by Chinese government...

Safety is not about paranoia, but about layers.

car alarms aren't there to make it impossible to steal your car, but only to make it inconvenient for the thief and convince them to steal someone else's car.
This was decades ago, so I doubt it!

The lecturer pre-generated small black & white square bitmaps of single characters from a sample set of fonts to use as aids during development. (Just the lower case letters a to m.) Then your mark was the percentage your OCR could recognise from a much larger set generated from about a thousand fonts.

In the same course the next major project was to make an AI for the card game Hearts. This is a four-player game, and the project materials included an automated tester that could be given any 4 AIs and would score them against each other. In the labs we would battle our AIs while developing them.

I ended up getting the second highest score out of a class of three hundred students and I still don't know how to play that game well. (I got the AI to teach itself the probability tables for optimal play, which I didn't memorise.)
This story should serve as a warning and a motivation to move away from iCloud, Google Cloud, and alike for video and photo storage.
The easiest thing is to just purchase a drive or NAS and store your media on it. If you're a bit tech-savvy, you can run your own NextCloud. I run NextCloud on Hetzner, 1TB storage box + web server for a total of $7 a month. Or you can get Hetzner to run the NextCloud for you for about $4.7 a month for 1TB storage, but then you don't have full control over it. Then there are quite nice NextCloud apps for Android and iOS that you can configure to sync your photos and videos into your cloud.
"rashist"?
Your gold analogy makes no sense to me, so either I'm misunderstanding it or you don't understand what you're trying to explain.

> I think maybe bitcoin enthusiasts think that value is a sort of spirit...

Interestingly, that is actually kind of how it works. The money you use itself has no value, it's value is in the things you use it to trade. So if you start trading in other currencies, those currencies receive that value, which gets reflected in the purchasing power metric.
Reverse Debugging and Other Stories
Microsoft flight simulator 98 only works on xp
What makes you think you know how other people consider those words? Attributing or inferring meaning where there is none is a common logical fallacy. In other words, you thinking there is a certain rationale to other people's actions doesn't mean their actual reasoning is anywhere close to it, nor that there even is any.
>claiming to be “anti-fascist”

I can't fault them too badly for that. I consider myself personally against the horrors that go into gathering the constituent materials for, and the assembly of, computers. This position co-exists with the fact that I, like most others here, derive the majority of my livelihood from Doing Things With Computers, which wouldn't be possible without the computers themselves, which wouldn't be possible without the horrors.

Worse still, I live a provably better life than those of my peers whose youth did not, for whatever reason, revolve around Doing Things With Computers, let alone the far-flung people whose labour provides me with the computers on which I do those profitable things.

It's difficult to morally reason about.
I'm an atheist, and I intensely disagree with the sexualisation of everything in our society dressed as a new sexual revolution, and see it as a direct effect of capitalism.

What say you
> “I decided it was probably not worth $7,000,” he said.

lol. Missing 4 zeros there.

Part of the reason for the brazen actions of companies like Google is that their substantial financial means and legal department sizes grant them a substantial degree of immunity to judicial review.
I keep myself "busy" (It's 7:30 AM on Sunday. I've already walked 3 miles, found and fixed a bug in the project I'm working on, and made a TestFlight release, then taken a shower).

But I also manage to make time for people. I'm highly available. I participate in a mutual support organization, where we "mentor" others, and that often takes a good bit of time. These folks know that they can call me at almost any time (when I'm awake), and I'll give them as much time as they need from me.

People are important.
Nope, the final call was made by NCMEC. The article is a bad one, didn't highlight how the process works. And it's a federal law that google is obliged to follow.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
Wow, I'd guess the opposite when we consider the base rate. Seems like a classic Bayesian problem.

It's fairly normal for parents to take pictures of their children naked in the bathtub/at the beach/ camping/etc.

Conversely, I'd expect actual pedophiles and CSAM producers to be really quite rare.

So even a relatively low base-rate of normal parents with normal nude photos would likely dwarf CSAM upon detection.

So, if we say 1/100 are pedophiles, and 30/100 are parents, and of the parents 10% have such photos, the ratio I'd expect without getting into detection rates is like 3:1 in favor of normal parents.
Isn't that the point? The Internet is an "inter-network", a network of networks.

But it wasn't even "The Internet", singular, to begin with. Any network of networks is "an internet". It's just when all the networks (or internetworks) are connected together (because Metcalfe's Law - the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users) that it becomes "The Internet".
It is an off the shelf part. It is (at least in the models I have worked with) possible, but not easy to replace, as the holder is blocked buy other components and the thermostat is not designed to be disassembled. The existence of the battery is undocumented.

Since we had over a hundred of these deployed in an apartment complex, when they started failing I carefully characterized their behavior. It just makes them go wonky when it is removed or dies. The at328p functions fine without it, there is no RTC or anything that needs a battery., and the chip is not powered by the battery when power is removed. In fact, there is no discharge from the battery when power is off. The at328p has nonvolatile eeprom and flash storage.

Interestingly, the wonky behavior it exhibits is the same (but doesn’t go below 40 degrees (f) ) as an old electromechanical one failing lol.
Employees of this office are very small and delicate, deserve protection from local pervs. Better a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man roam free.

— Dwight K. Schrute
Should we all live in 15-minute cities? [video]
https://dmarcian.com/fortune-100-dmarc-policies/

Around between four and four and a half orders of magnitude for the Fortune 100, with five orders being the maximum possible wrongness.
It does not look well for an outsider looking into Ruby maintenance to see a technical discussion devolve into a discussion about politeness and race. Luckily matz made the right call.

Felipe is right that:
1. `%s %z` is inconsistent in ruby.
2. He has consensus everywhere else.
3. Nobody has provided any good technical arguments against his.

Whether he is polite enough or not, code talks, bullshit walks.
Django gives basic web framework.
Django rest framework gives rest api.

Pl use django spectacular for openapi compatible rest api. Will make feont end code gen easier.
If due process was followed, and the police / state exonerated the parents, I don’t think anyone would blame Google for reactivating the accounts. They’d blame the police or whatever flawed exoneration process was used.

At least, that’s what I’d hope.

Google here looks even worse than I thought possible, and I’m a de-Googled, anti-fan, so I already had a very dim view of them.
Hence why cost of travelling is going up next year!
> I love using these RAD tools but I think part of what we're forgetting is how much lower the standards were (both visual and functional) for UIs back then.

They weren't lower then, they're lower now.

> Sure you could throw together a professional UI in a lot less time, but part of that was that the definition of "professional" was "looks exactly the same as every other Windows application and uses the same 5 form elements".

Yup. That's still the correct definition.

> We've just come to expect more variety so the RAD approach doesn't take you as far these days.

Yes, unfortunately users have been conditioned to expect myriad variations of something like Kai's Fucking "Power Tools". And most of them have even been deluded into thinking of that as a good thing. They're wrong.
Maybe you should edit your post to have actual translations then.
> And you can’t even escape these companies

So you are forced to use an iPhone or Pixel phone, forced to search with Google, forced to use AWS.

Even though open alternatives exist for all these who would love your support.
Postal? Or deliver the envelope in-person to their box when they are nearby.

I learned it like this, its since recently that applying by email more commonly an option.
What??? WTF are you talking about?
This article sums it up pretty well: https://www.railengineer.co.uk/crossrails-signalling-challen...

Seems like ETCS couldn’t do automated train operation (ATO) back when the tenders were going out, so they commissioned Siemens to deliver their proven Trainguard CBTC system for the core. Since then, systems like Thameslink have used ATO on top of ETCS Level 2, but that’s still a fixed block system so probably couldn’t do enough trains per hour for Crossrail. ETCS Level 3 can do moving-block, but I don’t think there are any ETCS Level 3 implementations anywhere in the world yet.

I believe the way that they operate is that the train is driven by the driver through the ETCS and older TPWS signalled areas, and then when it goes into the core the train switches over to automatic control.
We had a over a hundred deployed so I did pretty exhaustive analysis. There is no rtc or anything that needs power. The at328p chip used has nonvolatile storage, the battery does not supply power when the power to the thermostat is removed, and the battery keeps a gpio pin on the mcu high. It’s pretty plain.
Preprocessors and CSS methodologies essentially solved that problem already. Container queries are nice, but :has() gives developers novel functionality to CSS that wasn't possible before without JavaScript and DOM traversal.
This is something I think we are still getting wrong in the UK. We are building something that should be largely utilitarian with some basic flourishes, perhaps, but instead we end forking out enormous amounts for "high architecture" and the associated build costs for something that rarely pays itself back.

I feel that somehow we hark back to the Victorian days where everything had to be epic but unlike the Victorian days, we are not making enormous profits by stealing resources from the empire that pay for the epic buildings.

In Japan, I think they have it right, basic concrete buildings designed for efficient boarding.
It’s also stating the obvious to some extent. Extrapolating “master’s” to “PhD”: a company designing and selling hardware verification software would be better off hiring someone with an algorithms PhD to work on their SAT solver. Plenty of self-taught folk are better programmers, but experience parsing the academic literature defining cutting edge SAT techniques is valuable here. This isn’t even really an “R&D” role in which the research experience is necessary. If you care about ad hominem aspects of the discussion, I identify as a code monkey.
Before the Internet became widespread, people were using BBSs, and several large (for the time) networks of interconnections between them. Fidonet, and many more regional ones like Z-Netz. There were also networks for businesses and research institutions that were not the Internet. None of these were just a bunch of Telex machines, even if the network in the article was.
Thanks, I try, 100% sure aware that they’re suboptimal, but guess that’s only human.
IIRC both Cambodia (2012) and Thailand (2014) extradited TPB founders. Thailand case was already convicted for "aiding copyright infringement" (ie. pissing off a cabal of private companies) and had skipped bail, nabbed crossing inbound from Laos. Cambodia case was unconvicted and the countries had no extradition treaty, but they nabbed him anyway. Possibly because of alleged Wikileaks affiliation. Democracy in action.
I will rant here a bit.

I say: let them experiment. Let this guy implement his clever scheme and see how spam bots population increases several folds and conversion drops 10-15%. If he knows what conversion is and have a metrics for it. And knows what metrics are, also. And if spammers are interested at all in his product. Or whatever.

Also let the legion of newbies and dilettantes vote articles like this to the moon and higher. Let it sit in top 1 HN for weeks. At the end, isn't it a creativity and smartness we should praise and encourage? This is Hacker News, home of brightest startup ideas.

After all, it is good for us, old and inert creeps. Ones who knows what metrics are, how to collect, store and analyse them, how to implement A/B test, and what "statistical significance" means. We still will have several open offers even when all the code would be written by GitHub Copilot, all the texts by GPT3 and all the art by DALL-E.

Forget about retirement, folks, there are interesting times ahead.
This is at best authoritarianism or corportatism not fascism. There is no ultranationalism, there is no "othering", there is no enforced hierarchy of individuals.
Aren't all FAANG using these style of coding interviews? And if you look at Amazon, they have almost the opposite problem of pushing out too many (AWS) products.
One of those days, as I got to share an idea with a coworker on how to move forward with a project, which has been in the planning phase for a while, I was posed with the following question:

Coworker: Were you not scheduled for another project this week? I wonder how you balance working in both projects.

That was very true. I was scheduled to work on another project and, yet, we've been exchanging ideas and communicating with other stakeholders the whole week. The inquiry led me to explain how I structured my day. And it was roughly like that...
His anglicized name is spelled Antony (without an ‚h‘.