skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stalking as a Service? How could that possibly go wrong?

I’m equal parts horrified and amazed. And curious what The Algorithm thinks about my ramblings.
I think one fear is about the proliferation of reprocessing technology. So currently, with a traditional LWR, you buy X fuel rods, then later IAEA inspectors come by and check that those X rods are in the spent fuel pool. Reprocessing, to the very little extent it's done at all, is done by countries that already have nuclear weapons (except maybe Japan?), so the horse has already left the barn.

But a MSR, at least for some of the more advanced concepts, would have online reprocessing on site (continually siphoning off fission products and adding small amounts of fresh fuel). Additionally, since the fuel wouldn't be in discrete bundles, I think there's a fear that small amounts of fuel could be diverted to a clandestine weapons program.
Yo. But a bizpark with signs reading: 'Vee arr hiring!'
Not so common, these days.
Sadly, drones are so cheap that they can be used by anyone for any purpose.

We're lucky people haven't discovered yet how dangerous drone swarms can be. And as commercial delivery drones are allowed to fly the skies, many nameless drones can blend in among them.

Really a very dangerous future. Then again we also have nuclear weapons and the collapse of ecosystems...
The disparity is much greater among EU countries. The average Bulgarian income, for example, is well below bare survival income in Western Europe. US geographic disparities are much smaller, and less geographic than racial (which then bears out geographically through different demographic mixes). Also, for the first 150 years of existence, the US was not a federal welfare state. The federal government was even limited to taxing states at an equal per capita rate until after the 16th amendment, ratified in 1909.
We did a pretty good job with chemical weapons. I realize that autonomous weapons have a couple orders of magnitude in specificity, range, stealth, etc. We don't have to just accept defeat.
I think I came across a YouTube video a while back that said even the platform was sponsoring fake artist accounts to recoup/claim streaming royalty payments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCAPll9A5F8

After years of grinding to break ground on spotify and seeing the names they promote taking the lion share of revenue it becomes very apparent that it's a cash grab that just can't be trusted. There are literally dozens of other sites that do the exact same schemes and only pay out a fraction of the revenue they rake in for doing little to nothing for artist and music discovery.

The social Internet just seems more scammy than ever, and that's why I keep most of my music work offline until it gets worked into a project. Eventually there will be a correction hopefully, but the vast amount of free/unrewarded work that is being hustled out of people from these sites is not sustainable, and eventually it will turn into a content creator drought/strike if it goes unchecked too long.
There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder...

Of course Hollywood accounting is already "This movie took $100 million at the box office, we spent $98 million on 'marketing', using our own internal marketing company.".

I guess making crap Hollywood movies loses you money rather than laundering it...
Just wait for the next message. 9/10 times I just don't respond until I get the actual request, then I say hello back and continue with helping.
When there is nothing to be gained from guessing the random number (to the point where you could just hardcode it, then it is safe to use a weak random number generator. Examples would be randomizing background images in a website header or picking a random quote of the day from a list.

If there is a benefit to guessing the random number, then use a secure random number generator. Anything related to passwords, private keys, or anything you expect to be reasonably hard to guess, use a secure number generator.
Yes! Agreed. That is the reason for my xkcd reference.
Suppose you have five lasers on your nuclear aircraft carrier, they have 20km range, they need five seconds on target to destroy it (plus an insignificant amount of time to switch to the next target), and your radar/OpenCV/whatever is good enough to detect all the incoming drones. Suppose they go 200 km/h (56 m/s), which is a pretty leisurely clip for aircraft. If they all come into range at the same time, you have six minutes to burn them all up.

In this scenario it takes 361 drones to land one on an aircraft carrier, sinking it unless the attacker totally fucks up. If they're like these Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones the article says have destroyed 750 land vehicles (I guess in the Ukraine war alone?) that cost US$5M each, that's US$1.8 billion dollars to sink the aircraft carrier. That's not too bad; you can build a new aircraft carrier for US$9 billion or so.

But what if the drones cost US$5000 each? Or US$50? Or what if they travel at mach 2? Or are submarines, like loitering torpedoes or guided mines?

It may be more economical to just send drones to the country where the aircraft carrier is from to kill the family members of its military officers, or at least the ones who don't cooperate.

Although I have no particular love for US foreign policy and military adventurism, I fear we are passing out of a period of relative peace and entering a period of extreme unpredictability. There is no guarantee that the new stable equilibrium will have states or civilization in it.
It sounds more like they say "We're wrong and your account remains banned."
Steering away from your actual question, another would be: how is Google's photo algorithm supposed to know it's their son or not? I get that Google knows a lot about us and might be able to piece that together, but CSAM laws might not care.
Also, in the U.S. there seem to be an extremely large number of people who accuse their political opponents of being child abusers, so that might make sense for Google from a purely strategic perspective.
Time to move out of gmail
For me the quickest and most robust way to build anything web related, as a single dev or as a small team is Laravel + Unpoly + tailwind. That's a real full stack: from authentication, translations, background jobs, componetized views, ajax updates and form submissions, etc, etc.
Lazier Zink Descriptors
YouTube is also full of this, with bots narrating the story using text-to-speech, some of them sound passable as humans...
LOL

Nextjs is to a backend framework what a fly is to an airplane.
It's not. I demoed Google's beta of assasins creed oddyssey on a fiber connection. It basically works like a youtube video. One second its working pretty well, the next most inconvenient second it boggs down to 144p and you get stabbed in the face and can't ready any text.
It's not that it doesn't look completely non-kangoroosih. I could see it nicknamed "the kangaroo case" easily. Specially since we already have the "bread bin."
BBot, an OSINT Swiss knife for everyone
I think mainly that I do not envy the lawyer that has to make the service argument.

We could get lost in the technical details of why it is or isn't a service but ultimately they only need to prove that x person of the project knew about the issues, could have done something about it (like shut it down), and didn't do enough.

It was just the one contract wasn't it? i.e. someone was responsible for deploying the contract that inputs and outputs the blending between addresses. In this scenario, the other permission less stuff is theatre.
Who said anything about sails? I meant wind turbines powering the engines.
Like in a submarine?
Mercury and Capital One
except it will cost you way more money, if I have to choose between breaking antena in TV for 600 USD or buying special display for triple price, I am fairly sure I'd prefer to void the warranty and still buy 2 other TVs in case I would need warranty

when I check cheapest/mainstream 65-75" TVs (wouldn't buy smaller nowadays considering cheapest 75" TV, which is Samsung here cost like 680 USD), all of them are smart
That holds given today's pricing of fuel, but I expect that will change in the next couple of decades as the world decides to tax carbon emissions.
Poppycock, it’s just communism with extra steps. Google’s email server is not your email server just because you’ve come to depend on it. If you want your own server, build your own server.
Sailing is a very international activity, and if one is doing large crossings, then meeting sailors from around the world is quite common.

A lot can go wrong on a boat, and sailors - especially, small family crews can be forgiven for putting their safety ahead of a boat full of men that can outnumber and overpower them.
Isn’t the idea to eliminate the need for oil tankers?
What they put on TV is not American culture. That is programming, in multiple senses of the word.
Especially since its literally untrue. SQL, with the addition of recursive queries (supported by all since the late 90s AND used in an example within this very article), is Turing complete. There's literally no operation on data that can't in principle be expressed as an SQL query (albeit the construction might be painful and tedious).
Frankly, we're in much deeper shit if we continue to add carbon to the carbon cycle, and while strip mining the earth for precious metals isn't ideal, we don't have many other choices. Still waiting on at-scale biofuels.
I agree with you. I’m arguing one could likely get Google to back a reasonable proposal.
I largely agree. There are many public utilities on the internet on which we each individually rely.

Careful what you wish for, though. Ever tried to sign up for a public utility without your real name, personal identification, a physical address, or billing information?
I agree.

I argue in this way since quite some time.

Same goes for Apple, Facebook etc. In Germany there is also some sort of compulsory contracting, for example in regards to energy supply.
It's clearly the "universal" that's the problem there...
Oh man that sounds pretty bad... I feel you. Hmm I guess one way of looking at it is just in terms of power. Like your immediate boss has power over you and treats you like shit. So I wonder, is there any way to gain power elsewhere, like demonstrating value to higher ups or other people? Like if the concerns you raise are really hurting the bottom line, that really should get known or else it's an inefficient organizational system.

But yeah if there's no opportunities to increase your visibility or power, it's pretty hard to overcome a shitty manager... and especially if he doesn't value your work, why even bother doing good work?
do these rules and automatic flagging only apply to US citizens?
There are smartphones in so many hands around the world and you want to decentralise compute power?

Need to USE that power already there.
https://havsco.co.uk/
> cats out of the bag.

Yeah, the autonomous weapons cat left the bag decades ago. Acoustic homing torpedoes were first used during WW2, and became very sophisticated during the Cold War. Missiles that can be fired blind and left to find their own targets were also developed during the Cold War, like the (since discontinued) anti-ship variant of the Tomahawk. "Autonomous weapon" describes a lot of systems already in use. Banning them all is DOA in America, let alone in Russia/China/etc. They're too useful to ban.

America won't even sign the Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines (because the American military considers them important in Korea.)
Works better with NewPipe.
Transcranial direct-current stimulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_st...
A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post that explains supervised contrastive loss in more detail. It is quite beta and I have never really shared it with anyone outside the company so far, so happy for any feedback.

https://ai.worldcoin.dev/supcon/
yes. but the cost side matters: if a criminal has $1,000,000 but can only recover $1,000 "safely" burning $999,000 then a method which returns $500,000 for burn of $500,000 is better, if riskier. "it depends"
The electrical network as it is right now won't be able to resist each and every apartment, or each and every building, using a heat-pump during the winter at -5 or -10 degrees celsius. The network in my city is on the brink of going down even during the summer, when AC is turned on (and not everyone has AC, but everyone will have to have heat-pumps in the heat-pump scenario, because you literally risk dying in your home when there are -10 degrees outside and if you don't have heating inside).

More generally speaking, I never quite could understood this obsession for heat-pumps. Again, the Soviets (yes, the Soviets) have managed to do it right when it comes to central heating during the winter, they even had lower costs compared to the West, not sure why and how we have to use more inefficient solutions.

To say nothing of the fact that under the central heating scenario you can more easily subsidise people that cannot afford to pay for heating, after all, if you're providing heating to an entire micro-district might as well heat the old lady pensioner's apartment who cannot afford to pay for the whole heating bills, but under the heat-pump scenario your electrical utility sees that you're behind with your payments and doesn't care that you're an old pensioner lady, it will just cut off your electricity (and hence your heating), while leaving the electricity on for the rest of said pensioner lady's neighbours.
It’s stated clearly in the ToS Google will not stand for explicit images of a child. Google reserves the right to punish those who break the rules. It may not seem fair but it’s not worth the risk, it’s easier to just delete the user’s account and move on to the next user.

As a user, there is a dispute process but as a user I must obey the ToS if I don’t want my account to be deleted. If someone came into your place of business and began taking explicit photos of their child, for medical or any other reason, would you stand for it? Would you give them a second chance to explain themselves?

Google’s place of business is whatever you do on your phone and any content generated by it. You don’t own Android OS just by buying a phone the same way you don’t own a pizza shop just by buying a slice of pizza there.
I didn't mean to imply that, only that it's the sort of behaviour they are famous for.
I sent a postcard last week without providing a senders address. I also bought the stamp with cash.
Here's an excellent documentary on molten salt reactors if someone is interested in learning more about it.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l08Qzz4j-I0&ab_channel=gordo....
Instantaneous efficiency is well and good, but a sail only redirects power; it doesn’t capture it. To me, the goal of adding wind power to a cargo ship would be the same as adding solar power: to recharge the batteries asynchronously to demand, to then later use that power when there is demand but no active supply. Wind→electric gives you the ability to “save up” power in a tailwind, and then later “spend” that power against a headwind.

(You’d think pure wind power would do this as well—the engines can in theory work less hard if the sails are full—but wind is too precarious to match the slow ramp-up/ramp-down times of the giant motors used to power boat propellers. Those things are what power plant designers would call “base load” — mostly you don’t even turn them off, you just engage a giant clutch to put the boat into neutral when you don’t want to be moving. The master “transmission” of a boat is essentially a cylindrical steel flywheel; and you don’t want to lose its momentum. This is why boats a good match for bunker-fuel furnaces — or, on subs, nuclear — which are power sources that also ramp up/down slowly.)
> There is a shitton of crap movies in Hollywood. I wonder...

The movie doesn't need to be crap to be a product of money laundering! The Wolf of Wall Street[1] was infamously funded by money laundering (from the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund),

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_...
Modern fridges are much more efficient than ones from 20 years ago. They're not changing as fast as phones, sure, but they're not static.
I thought the implication was every Friday in the 13th Month is a "Friday of the 13th" which is close enough.
My example is limited to

a) the person already having assets in Tornado Cash also being the licensee to withdraw assets from Tornado Cash. the assets they withdraw are as liquid as any other non-TC assets and do not have to go to a fellow licensee.

b) a person that wishes to continue depositing assets into Tornado Cash is also the person that is the licensee.

the only reason for the license is for interacting with the Tornado Cash smart contract - as by default that is currently a sanctions violation for US persons - it has nothing to do with whether another recipient is comfortable accepting those assets, and that isn't a limitation of liquidity at all.

Hope that makes sense. The license is just a bureaucratic nuance for people that dont want to gamble with liability. They can totally try to hide it and risk a sanctions violation charge.
Well, then you also don't need an email address, since you can just email from a random new one each time, so I think GP's point stands.
I think it would. There exists at least two economic systems in a country, the capital economy and the productive economy. The capital economy represents assets and wealth that aren't involved in day to day things. Inflated property values, portfolios of gold holdings, etc. The productive economy is the one where most people participate in with daily life. Its' the $7 you hand to a worker to transmute into a sandwich. The $80 a wage earner gets paid over a shift that is mostly parted out to things like groceries and rent.

Universal income promises to tax the capital economy and shift that money into the productive economy. In effect, you are taking gold that previously was sitting idle underneath the sleeping dragon and returning it to the village, increasing the real productive money supply by taking money that's just being sat upon and using it for real productive use.
Disagree. Google, Facebook, and Apple only seem like entrenched behemoths because this community grew up with them, and it's hard to imagine a world without them. But make no mistake, they're just as fragile as every other Standard Oil that's ever existed.

Pay for an email service, and sue if you incur damages due to them terminating your service. Or run your own email server if you care to.
I thought we'd at least be using PNGs by now. But I guess we're stuck with historical artifacts still.. ;-)
I'd totally do any government/police assisted dance, even if that cost a couple hundred bucks and needed an unpaid day off, to get a banhammer-immune Google account. And that's despite currently working there.
To stay on topic, I'm a parent and have autoupload to google photos.

How can I prevent the photo from bring uploaded? I could disable autoupload, but as soon as I resume it, the photo will be uploaded, unless I remove it from the phone.

Any suggestions?
Maybe they should shout a bit louder about the “this is not fit for any particular purpose “. Not buried as some legalese boilerplate in the EULA but on the signup page in big letters.
I wonder if a ship could tow a big solar array rather than have a big battery.
Paleoclimatologist uncovers ancient climate loop behind last global warming
Netflix explores cloud gaming as it looks for new hires
The Pictorial C64 Fault Guide has a similar screen capture in the broken U7 (6510 CPU) section: https://www.pictorial64.com/fault.htm?id=u7_4
Letting customers slip through the cracks of the traditional support channels is a bad indicator obviously, but what's the problem with keeping an eye on social media channels in addition to the traditional channels? Why is that not a "serious way to run a business"?
Not much, but related:

Risk Everything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192 - Aug 2007 (2 comments)
How far does that argument go? "$ELECTRICITY_COMPANY's power is not your power just because you've come to depend on it. If you want your own electricity, build your own infrastructure".

Granted, most people here on HN would be able to deploy their own, but you can't ask that of the average citizen who just needs email.
Run VMs on iOS
To a certain degree, yes. Insofar as getting a computer assembled and functional.

If you want to get fancy with the cooling, design/aesthetics, etc. that becomes another art form of its own. Diminishing returns obviously apply.
This approach was tried by Britain and France in the 1920s and 30s. Didn’t end well.
Honest question: can one (reasonably) use an Android phone without a Google account? If not, should one just accept losing access to half the phone market? What if Apple decides to pull a similar move?

In many places, you need a phone from one of those two providers in order to do mundane things like riding the subway without having to jump through extra hoops.
> You must have a way of paying the debt back, or you wouldn't have been able to obtain the resource you did on a promise

This simply isn't true. On small scales, people lose their businesses and families declare bankruptcy. That's why I said this isn't a hypothetical. And on a large scale it causes financial collapses if many people go bankrupt at once.
I live in Dresden and I agree that there is are groups with pretty bad, conservative, racist or extreme views. But there are also other groups and I would say the 'other' groups are definitely the (largely silent) majority. Similar patterns exist also elsewhere: What are the 'Querdenker' (or Pegigda) in Dresden are the 'Gelbwesten' in France, the Brexit-voters in UK, the 'Unite the Right' In Virginia, Charlottesville, etc.

Saying that you would never move to Saxony or Thuringia is a generalization and it doesn't help anyone.
I've grown up to believe that we deserve this, at a societal level. As long as we've let technology invade each and every inch of our private space this was bound to happen, sooner or later.

Props though to the SF police which has stopped the investigation when, I guess automatically, they had been made aware of the whole thing by Google. I suspect in a few years' time that won't be the case anymore, even the Police investigation in this sort of cases will have become "automated".
"Explaining" is easy. You sold an NFT and they paid via Tornado.

The hiding is a real issue here.
> There's literally no operation on data that can't in principle be expressed as an SQL query

That may be technically true (or not, I don't know), but in many cases some complex data manipulation (especially when it's done in multiple passes) practically needs a lot of ram and a programming language to be more time efficient.
Ok, this is epic
Aight, I paid for an e-mail service and now I had to sign the same agreement as google except I had to pay on top of that. What exactly can I sue them for that I couldn't sue google for? If I run my own server what fraction of clients and customers will actually get my mail rather than it being auto-filtered out as spam?
The former group is also only reporting anecdotal experiences charged in emotion and isn't exactly performing a rigorous observational study.
I would hazard a guess that nobody on this forum has an alternate electric company they can go to. But there's dozens of search engines, and thousands of email providers that users can choose from, all competing for your business.
What a fintech company learned from posting 30 TikTok videos
Cute but am wondering about the type of user who wants both discord and tor installed by default.
No, the concept it was based on: https://www.britannica.com/technology/grey-goo

> grey goo, a nightmarish scenario of nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating nanobots destroy the biosphere by endlessly producing replicas of themselves and feeding on materials necessary for life.