skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every website is used by children. Law of large numbers, Murphy’s law means if any website is accessible online and children have internet access, eventually a child will visit it.

I don’t think we should have books moderate their content for children. The library, parents, teachers and everyone else responsible for children should take the responsibility to restrict these children’s access to material deemed inappropriate. This is how things have worked for countless years, and worked reasonably well. I don’t think controversial shoehorn legislation is going to work any better, but it will come with some downsides.
This becomes an issue when ad companies put unverified users on a lower tier.

And, the user experience will be restricted (no commenting, video uploads, and who knows what "safe" means).
>can't extrapolate a trend a few years into the future

It's better to not extrapolate S-curves into exponential functions when you don't know what you are talking about, yes. A good advice for both DL researchers and "techno-optimists" who haven't seen unsubstantiated hype they didn't jump on yet.
Why wouldn't a left-biased SCOTUS also bless things a left-biased legislature wants? I'm inclined to believe that the makeup of the SCOTUS wouldn't make that much difference in a case about this.
>I do want to be treated like a child online.

Many of us don't want to be treated like children, much less have the government mandate that we treat everyone has children. We already have a mechanism for protecting children and filtering what they are exposed to, this mechanism is called parents. If this mechanism is broken, then we should work on ways to fix the mechanism instead of deciding that we will simply treat everyone as children and absolve parents from their parental responsibilities.
One problem is that one can't bring a prosecution oneself; not only does the state maintain a general monopoly on the use of violence, but it typically maintains a monopoly on prosecution. If police or prosecutors dislike you (perhaps because you are a member of some socially disfavored out group) what recourse do you have?
Possibly even unconstitutionally vague.[0] If a law requires someone to accurately predict the future actions of large numbers of people they've never met, then that seems (to my non-expert understanding) like an unreasonable burden on citizens.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness_doctrine
Because I didn't know: DARFC = Ducking And Running For Cover
VR does not add enough value to counteract the UI problem that most of the people who try to use it experience nausea, vomiting, and visceral aversion.

Minecraft is plenty cool and my four year old is making amazing stuff in it. But increasing the resolution, frame rate, and immersiveness of that experience is decidedly evolutionary, not revolutionary.

And there was already no money in music or graphics design before the machines showed up, so I'm not sure how that's going to justify the investment bubble.
> Chloe Sagal seems to have had mental health issues - if not Kiwifarms then it would have been something else that trigged her suicide.

Harassment is associated with suicidality.[1][2]

> Also the solution seems kind of obvious to me - just disconnect yourself - delete social media , curate your feeds and stop posting about your real life on twitter , your job or where you live and find another avenue not twitter to engage with.

This was prompted by the harassment of a professional Twitch streamer if I understood right. Just delete your career.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34968122/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808508/
It’s in the guidelines that 100% decorative images don’t need alt text.

In general I think the model of ‘follow a bunch of rules’ is less effective than ‘bring a screen reader user in to help with testing’ but few organizations will do the later. At one point though I was pretty good at using the app I work on in a screen reader.
You watch everything she watches and then discuss everything she watches? Sheesh, if I was your kid I'd find that pretty overbearing. How about letting her have her own headspace?

I'd be more motivated to sneak around my internet activity just so I could watch something embarrassing like Smurf cartoons.
You don't need massive machines, you need a certain ratio of crops to labour and capital.

If the go kart tractor allows experimentation with automation and presently difficult to automate farming methods or crops then it may be viable.

It won't compete with the ten hectares of wheat needed for one person to earn a living wage even without other costs, but there might be a niche for produce rather than calorie crops that looks like 1000 gardens rather than a vast ocean of corn.

Edit: Opened your link to the rather small tractors, this is what I had in mind with the one in the article being more along the lines of what the reprap was in the 2000s compared to a ratrig now.
Related, and maybe older is the SRI NABC approach [1] which was the basis of a long-running innovation course they taught

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/kcarmody/sris-nabc-approach
Yes, but it makes up for the lack of HTTPS by using plain text passwords.

/s

(Sorry, I initially forgot the sarcasm indicator.)
I would assume that outboard CD/DVD drives (USB, maybe others) will be available for a long time to come.

3.5 inch USB floppy drives are still routine. 5.25 inch, try the used market. Who knows what happens in 10 years?

That's for recovery. I wouldn't use floppies as a primary medium these days. CD/DVD might be on OK choice.
This is a little confusing. You talked about protection rackets, then you said this company should collude in taking entire countries off the Internet.

I think that would make them… A protection racket.
Be careful what you wish for. Extra-territoriality is a useful concept for Blue states defending themselves from commercial effects of laws passed in Red states too. You can have federalism while being a good neighbor.
Hawck – Linux AutoKey alternative that also works in Wayland
In light of the recent post here on HN with an AHK (old version) port to Linux, I set out to find a Wayland compatible version for AutoKey (which I'm a previous user of on X11) and found Hawck. Since nobody seems to know it in the other post I thought I'd share it with you all :)

The creator mentions that "The ultimate goal of the project is to serve as a user-friendly Linux alternative to AutoHotkey, but this time with a sane scripting language."
You can't really compare the 90s to today. Kids weren't online 24/7 through smartphones. Cyber bullying and sexting were unknowns.
Is a compiler "toolchain" package tooling?

Is the standard library included with that "toolchain" tooling, or a library?
We produce significantly more food that is needed to feed everyone.

Energy crisis in Europe is entirely man-made because, as I said, we are shitty.
I don't think it's fair to attribute their losses directly to Krebs. While this instance is in their favor, Ubiquiti have been doing plenty on their own to alienate their client base. Half backed software updates, pushing products in new verticals without delivering on existing prodcuts. It's clear that there are still issues within Ubiquiti that aren't washed away by this "breach". They're attempting to be enterprise and barely delivering in the Prosumer market.
> Apples control over WebKit is not any less than Googles over Blink, which many say is the source of many of the webs problems

I'd say that the issue with Google's control of web standards stem from their surveillance capitalism business model.
The reason that so many people ask for calls is because they are slow/bad at typing. Speaking is faster/easier for them because they are not trained.
I have literally 0 inside knowledge but from the article it seems to be a more human visual thing than a software problem, something like this was working in 12 and broken in 13 is a more obvious regression than this was working in aaab131 and broken in ccad53s
> The Git dev model is _very_ different from cvs, svn, etc so the trade offs are less obvious.

I think that the difference makes the tradeoffs using anything other than git, more obvious. I even held out myself for a very long time with svn vs. git and once I switched... I kicked myself for not doing so earlier.

But, like they said in the post... they did need a feature, which is core to svn (incrementing changelog ids) and a workaround in git. Minor in the grand scheme of things.
It's spelled out everywhere in the bill. They make it so scary to serve content to children (knowingly or not, since it's so vaguely defined) that you'll either have to A) Verify age (which requires identity) or B) Lock it down for everyone.

Making a person/business predict someone's age over the internet is just absurd... and fallible... so you will have verify identity.
Awesome, sounds like the perfect fit for your project!
Here's one by Stability AI themselves: https://beta.dreamstudio.ai
That's a really interesting take. I'd love to see an experimental language based around this approach because I think it could really push your idea much further than a library.
The Open-source projects generally do things separately - e.g. llvm, as you're otherwise requiring apple set up a new account system (blocking contributing on iCloud account would seem less great), and building up its own UI and infrastructure for a git interface.

Also given that GitHub is a somewhat universally understood host that people seem to like, and it has all that UI/development integration that people like it kind of makes sense to just use that. It also seems that having GitHub accounts is increasingly widely spread so contributors would not necessarily have to create yet another account with yet another service.
lol so much noise, if this is a browser dev company, they're no better than I am on HN right now during work hours.
Great writeup; bookmarked, will revisit soon.
"zero-tolerance performance regression policy"... no patch can land if it regresses benchmarked performance.

I'm guessing the tooling around this used subversion's increasing commit numbers and it was easier to add a shim to git, than to rewrite or rethink the tooling.
As a non-parent and a tech guy who believes in freedom, my preferred solution is parents doing their jobs properly and restricting their children's access to devices and content that is harmful and not meant for children. If the burden of responsible parenthood is too much for someone to handle, they don't have to have children. It shouldn't be incumbent on the rest of us to childproof the world because parents are unwilling or unable to monitor and control their children.
This is great, thanks

P. S. If I'm using a separate Firefox container just for Amazon, they would isolate my Amazon cookie right? So then I could just whitelist it and avoid capchas?
There is a crisis, but it is hardly "existential", yet. Self inflicted? How so? Because nobody could predict the future?

My "seriously" comment was a reaction to a post of what basically is a meme in a rather serious discussion.

As far the "German" crisis goes, isn't it rather a European, and one could make the case, global energy crisis? Compounded by a global economy heading for a recession (the US are already in one based on two quarters with negative GDP growth) caused by too much cheap money and staggering inflation due to supply short falls caused by Covid?

But yeah, if Germany would have bought US gas instead of Russian one all would be good... By the way, Nord Stream 2 never went live over this. Before any of the current mess happened. You want to blame someone, blame Putin to do something the USSR was too smart to do during the cold war.
Does Arm have a history of this?

This strict litigation-heavy control over an architecture is what has put Intel in a bad place. It would be ironic if Arm played the same game and eventually lost to something else like RISC-V.
They all certainly made the web a worse experience for those using it. Wether that was avoidable or not is moot compared to what happened in practice.
What do you mean? (Not facetious, I'm out of the loop on such matters - I thought it was still just git on the cli?)
Have you built a website lately? Forget an alt tag on some graphic on your homepage that has nothing to do with your content like to some stock photos. You're going to get an accessibility lawsuit threat. Page could be simple one pager of your restaurant with all the important content in text like location and hours but forget one alt tag on a photo of you restaurant.

Not to mention all the patent trolls. Have login functionality, there's another lawsuit threat you're going to have to settle for $10k.
>However, another side of the vanity publishing world is pretty scammy, basically promising writers and musicians and artists (generally ones with little commercial promise) 'a chance at success' by taking their money and doing things like this.

My wife’s mother is a lovely lady whose hobby is writing. I won’t say she’s particularly good at it, but hey, let a 60 year old lady do whatever makes her happy, right? Then one day she announced that she won a “contest” with one of her novels, and it’s going to be printed by a publisher! She was super pumped about the whole thing, but gradually it came to our knowledge that she’s gonna pay a substantial sum for this from her pension, because the “prize” was actually just a 50% “discount” on getting her book printed with this publisher…

Clearly, there was no real contest at all. This was just a vanity publisher preying on less sophisticated aspiring writers to part them from their money. It’s a complicated situation, because on one hand we didn’t want to ruin her happiness; on the other hand, she was clearly getting scammed badly… In the end we managed to convince her to go with the smallest possible quantity, which was of course then distributed mostly among family and friends.

Very disgusting and sad practice.
It's literally equivalent to the evaluation of a polynomial in a point. It's not even an idea, it's just notation. There isn't even any meaningful sense in which it's "good" or "bad".
Humans evolved under much warmer conditions than exist today
and the fact that it is a replica

anyway, copying money is a crime, almost anywhere in the World, the simple act of making a copy is enough.

Money usually contain artworks

I would also not generate pictures of child pornography

There's a reason why SD apply censorship filters to generated images
I agree with you if it's a customer reaching out to a company whose product they use, or service they've purchased, etc.

But if you're using internal company support, it is by definition your job. You should be expected to put in the minimal effort of reading through the "What to do when X doesn't work" documentation when your ticket subject is "X doesn't work" and the body is "help"
>They generate billions of dollars of profit

Number 1 has probably generated ~0$ in profits.
It's not immediately clear that number 3, when weighting its contribution apart from everything else in the products it's integrated in, has reached 10-digits in $ profits.

So you're only left with number 2.
They have different primary purposes, but they can both be used to engage in tracking and other privacy-destroying behavior.
Saying goodbye to my parents’ library
It is support -- kiwifarms isn't a free-for-all, they have their list of "lolcows" (people who have a thread dedicated to them), and only moderators can add new threads.
And yet here you are
I mean ssh certificates can be x509, Azure VMs used to be provisioned with PEM actually, also PGP can be used. Not sure, I guess a use case could be to create client certificates remotely that are part of a certificate hierarchy. Obviously this doesn't solve any root of trust issues if the creation is initiated by the client.
Logging in and verifying age are very different. See the new account creation process for the comment you typed, as an example.
Which episode is this?
I don't think it even has to be at a startup. Just having some actual job experience in general goes a long way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgm14D1jHUw&t=10s
> Which no one uses.

If it's in DNG as Wikipedia suggests, I think a lot of people are using it.

Either way, you can't say "JPEG is lossy" when there's almost 30 years of support for lossless coding, even if no-one is using it.
>research and quote all the works done over the last 10 years or so by researchers in this space!!

I totally understand your point and appreciate you linking those resources, however I think it's important to remember that the author's post is from a personal blog, not from a scientific journal or arxiv.

Perhaps OP would've never posted this if he felt that his "contribution" wasn't novel enough.
Additionally, there's a chance that the wording and tone the author used might speak to people who found the articles you mentioned opaque(and vice versa, obviously).

If the author, feeling the urge to write something up, had looked very hard for "prior work" instead of following the flow of their insights gained through experience, perhaps they would've felt compelled to use the same vocabulary as the source, which has its pros(forwarding instead of reinventing knowledge) and cons(propagating opaque terms, self censoring because of a feeling of incompetence in the face of the almighty researchers).

That's one of the great things about blog posts: to be able to write freely without being blamed for incompleteness or prior art omission.

On a different note, I think this may also highlight the fact that the prior work you mentioned isn't easy enough to find. Perhaps knowledge isn't circulating well enough outside of particular circles.
The point here is that it isn't just a tool for content. The way I see things, there is no useful distinction between content and any other kind of data. Payload makes it trivial to set up custom data structures and manage it.

The tedium of development in my experience is building CRUD—whether it is for a SaaS app or anything else. When you're rolling a project using a framework you've got to set up a database, write the API logic and build an admin UI to manage that data. It is complicated and time consuming work even with a great framework. To be able to skip all that is a massive advantage.

I personally would not build a SaaS app on Wordpress and ACF, but I would use Payload to build just about any custom business app.
Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer
Future? This has been an implicit feature of HN for years. It is in no way new. That is in fact one of the perks of YC, being able to post a Launch HN.
While maybe not "as good as a human" creatively, wonder when this matures a little more, we'll see whole art/design departments go to the wayside and be replaced by stuff like this...
The most common users of "We're sorry but we can't be bothered to figure out how to comply with GDPR" notices I've seen are for smaller US-based media organizations. The newspapers like the Ft. Worth Star Telegram or the St. Louis Post Dispatch (random examples, not sure if they actually block EU traffic) have (probably correctly IMO) concluded that the cost to comply with GDPR is likely to be more the than the revenue that could be gained by allowing the occasional EU reader and so have concluded that the most rational choice of action is to block access from the EU.

This is a very different proposition than saying that Tik Tok, Youtube and Facebook would block CA-based users. In addition to the obvious fact that they all have hundreds or thousands of employees in CA, they would be forgoing one of their most important markets in terms of advertising. Furthermore, a lot of the top creators on these platforms live in greater LA.

It's a non-starter. If you're doing anything social for anything that's not an domestic only market (e.g. VKontakte, WeChat) then you need California.
I suspect the (grand)parent is flagged because of completely bogus numbers.
Zero-tolerance performance policy. You can find the policy [1] by searching the web. And the hashes don't have to be ordered.

1: https://webkit.org/performance/
A story was submitted on this topic. I don't wish to give the right-wing site that published it more exposure, but the top comment [1] is falsely defaming the website and giving cover to Google's deception, and should be corrected.

It claims the article misquotes Google, that where they cite "additional nominees must self-identify as a woman, Black/African American..", Google didn't use "must", but "we strongly encourage".

While I doubt even "strongly encouraging" is legal (try "strongly encouraging" white candidates), Google in fact did use "must", then silently changed it, probably in response to the publicity. The "must" version can still be seen through the linked archive, included in the story itself.

Any journalist worth their salt has by now learned to archive websites, as companies like to alter them, then gaslight us that the incriminating version never existed.

It should also be noted that Google's 2022 US workforce is 48.3% white [2], while the US is 57% white [3]. So Google setting caps on an already underrepresented group.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32667463

[2] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/about.google/en//... page 31

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...
IBM OS/400 binaries (nowadays IBM i), can be executed in a completly different architecture from 1988, without any changes, possibly the source code doesn't exist anymore, while taking full advantage of IBM Power10 on its last iteration.

Same applies to any other bytecode format making use of dynamic compilers.
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>plus the expectation that the client will add this data to subsequent requests sent within a certain timeframe

That's the definition of "client-side state". Cookies have no purpose other than maintenance of client-side state.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6265

"This document defines the HTTP Cookie and Set-Cookie header fields. These header fields can be used by HTTP servers to store state (called cookies) at HTTP user agents, letting the servers maintain a stateful session over the mostly stateless HTTP protocol."
Here is the text of the bill:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

Section 1-5:
(5) Children should be afforded protections not only by online products and services specifically directed at them, but by all online products and services they are likely to access. In order to help support the design of online products, services, and features, businesses should take into account the unique needs of different age ranges, including the following developmental stages: 0 to 5 years of age or “preliterate and early literacy”; 6 to 9 years of age or “core primary school years”; 10 to 12 years of age or “transition years”; 13 to 15 years of age or “early teens”; and 16 to 17 years of age or “approaching adulthood”. adulthood.”

I don't know if I fully agree with it being required on every website but the arguments claiming that typically seem to say: Who gets to define "likely access"? If a website link gets posted on a kids forum or social media does that not mean the site will likely be accessed by children?
This legislation does seem rather poorly written, at least in the excerpted sections. By poorly written, I mean vague and easily misinterpreted.

With GDPR, one consequence of the vagueness is the current hellscape of ubiquitous cookie popups on the web, most of which don't actually comply with the regulation, and most of which have not actually empowered consumers in any way.