skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, the huge possibility of false positives. They're not "checksums", but rather "perceptual hashes", which are nowhere near as solid as a cryptographic hash. When you multiply a small chance of a false positive across hundreds of millions of deployed devices, you end up with many false positives - false positives that result in people being characterized as "child abusers".

Second, the overall aim of the technology also targets legitimate or inadvertent activities, that the law has also unjustly criminalized - say taking family pictures of your kids, 17 year olds sexting, or someone trolling you. Once again unjustly branding people as "child abusers", this time with "evidence" to back up the narrative.

But even in the case of a proper match to the NCMEC list for its bona fide purpose, that still is undermining the phone's owner's interests. That's the philosophical contour, even if you personally wish to brush it aside with the desire to catch people looking at evil images. Our society respects similar longstanding privacy boundaries, even if it does end up helping some "bad people".

It's really not in the NCMEC's interest to respect any of this, as their foundational dynamic is that there is a horrible thing happening in the world, and they must do everything possible to stop it. That kind of advocacy is certainly needed, but we shouldn't just accept their desires as if they're an unbiased neutral party.
The Network Behind FTX
> The gain listed on antennas is really just telling you how directional it is, any gain above 0 means it has directionality over a perfect omni and must be oriented properly to take advantage of it.

This is generally correct, but for more context ERP uses a gain in dBd which is decibels relative to a dipole antenna. A dipole is not a perfect omnidirectional antenna.

A perfectly omnidirectional antenna would be an isotropic or point source antenna, which is only theoretical (no truly isotropic antenna can actually be built as far as I know, but dipoles are simple to build and widely used). Gain is measured in dBi when comparing to isotropic antennas, and EIRP (Effective Isotropic Radiated Power) would be used, not ERP.

This may sound like a small nitpick, but its a pretty huge difference in practice! 1MW ERP is approximately 1.6MW EIRP.
Getting the ex-president to call for the termination of the constitution was a kind of mayhem.
Ultimately the hygiene benefits of closing the lid when flushing are negligible in most situations. These studies always show evocative images of aerosol spreading from toilets when flushing, which understandably elicits a disgust response in certain individuals, but they fail to show that e.g. homes where the lid always stays up have higher rates of disease, or that the pathogen exposure from flushing has any real impact on health.

Also given that the majority of people flush without closing the lid (I suspected this but just confirmed with a quick search) it's a bit weird referring to them as "these people" whose type you can tell. I don't think this habit is constrained to those who publicly joke about it.
Right but Julia is specifically built against the criticisms made about Python in those spaces. All I'm saying is within that space there's gonna be less to critique
I know plenty “Industrie Dr.” 22 or 23 yo
This is where a short abstract or executive summary upfront can make all the difference. If the main points are summarized, they will (hopefully) be read; the rest of the document, no matter the format, can then be read for context or with references from summary.
I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that.
Between a society-wide, probably state-organized committee-controlled standardized configurable children educator appliance and Amazon, yeah, I'll pick Amazon.

Not only will they delivery decades earlier, I don't want to have to open issues on some repo reporting a problem where their project told my daughter to kill herself and have some guy tell me "works for me, I don't have any children, I just use it to entertain my dog, but PR welcome". Thanks, but I'll take the Amazon product for my nonexistant children.
Read "why are artists poor?" By Hans Abbing, who is an artist and an economist himself. It's more focused on the economy of what we call the contemporary art market but it does spend time contrasting it with the economy of """lower""" forms of art (recorded music, commercial illustration etc)
Really bad form to:

- copy someone’s content without their permission (illegal actually)

- not link to someone else’s site prominently when you critique it
Exactly. From the king himself...

https://twitter.com/MagicalTux/status/1598113040918249473
Community Land Trust Brussels Wins World Habitat Award
Add a bidet to this equation and it will blow your mind. Best not to dive too deep into this.
It may be prettier, but:

1. Links aren't underlined[1].

2. The links in the footer are indistinguishable from normal text.

3. Links in the menu on top are white, while most links are blue.

In general, the site lacks consistency around the styling of links.

[1]: <https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/why-you-should-almost-alwa...>
Stephen Wolfram got it at age 20, in theoretical physics, from CalTech.

(OK, that's also 40+ years ago by now)
What I want to know is: "can I add Codon to a site like https://cocalc.com that I host as long as users of Codon explicitly agree to only use it in a way that is compatible with the license?" I have absolutely no idea if that would be allowed by the rules or not.
The hosted Actions Runners are super convenient. I use them a lot for OSS.

For private repos and work stuff, we are working on actuated, which comes with unmetered billing minutes because you BOY machines or cloud instances.

ARM builds show to be ~ 20-30x faster than using QEMU too.

https://docs.actuated.dev/

It was up on Hacker News recently, so you may have already seen it.

https://blog.alexellis.io/blazing-fast-ci-with-microvms/
Hash-based digital signatures (almost) from scratch
Show HN: TwitRiv – open-source Twitter client
Disgusting.

Edit: Account created about half an hour ago. That explains it.
He donated the same amount to the GOP it's not getting as much attention.
The old one looks like a cicada 3301 puzzle
That rings a bell with me. I think is was during the early days of Dart and it was a special Chromium build if memory serves me.
It’s virtual memory and it has a TLB.
'Oral' is also ambiguous. 'Vocal' might be better than either, though it sounds awkward, perhaps simply because it is not used.

Then there's 'interrogation', which Heisenberg might have concurred with...
That's an apples to oranges comparison. First, the WSJ article came out in 2015, and things didn't really start clamping down until 2016. In 2018 they were charged by the SEC.

Nobody is saying the FTX saga will be concluded in 1-2 years, but it's quite reasonable to think the principals will have been indicted by then with legal proceedings underway.
His girlfriend fled and he is outside of the US. I'm not sure why you think that is proof.
I don't share GP's cynicism, but I think the argument would be that none of those people are "similarly powerful" to the Clintons.
Function over form any day. 'Good wine does not need laurels'.
Heheh, a lot of criticism here on HN like you might expect -- for what it's worth, I really like the design!

Also, you have a small CSS bug in the dark-mode version of https://prettygraham.com/blog :)
Oh, now I see it, very nice. I had missed that there is at least one additional exchange after wait returns.
Probably people like me who use either vsc or vim depending on circumstance
Every time SBF speaks publicly or gives an interview is further proof he is delusional or an idiot because he either hasn’t retained personal legal counsel or is ignoring their advice.

Any lawyer will tell you to shut the F up [1]. No good can come from speaking at this point.

This case is so egregious (ie stealing custodial assets) that he will spend the rest of his life in prison or on the run.

If something is a grey area you might be able to buy your way out politically but this isn’t it.

Classic example: after the Mar-e-Lago raid Trump made statements about how those documents were his and he declassified them. What did this do? It removed the possible defense of not knowing they were there. And he gained what? Nothing. At best it was political points with people who were on his side anyway.

There is nothing smart about SBF talking.

[1]: https://youtu.be/sgWHrkDX35o
I assume people believe claims like this with zero evidence because it is convenient and alleviates any cognitive dissonance (re: Democrats being for the little guy and not just as 'corrupt' as Republicans). If SBF did donate the large amounts of money he claims he did as "dark money", surely he could prove this.
It looks modern, and better, but I don't like it. It's not good for reading. The font is large, line height huge, side paddings really large, there is very little text per line and too few lines in the screen. There might be a max amount of text per line that can be enjoyed, but too little and I am prevented from really getting into a flow of reading, if that makes sense. It feels herky-jerky.

So the operation was a success, but the patient died.
She had connected investors who felt defrauded. That increased the odds of her getting convicted. If they thought there was still a chance of getting value out the odds would probably lean the other way.
Serving up raw block info is different from the various other apis offered.
> they don't want to mine your data, they don't want to know what you store on there, the don't care to scan your pictures with AI 20 different ways, they don't want to monetize it, etc, etc...

What's stopping them from doing this scanning at acquisition or access by the user? We already see Google running models on your phone for things like Magic Eraser.

All Apple has really announced here is that if you're using Apple Apps and Services then they're the only ones who can mine your data. This pivots nightly into their Ad Services.
Btw, I retract my "buggy" comment.
To what extent do we know that low-level exposure to degraded
/ intact pathogens is immunoprotective?
> There is always a professor of distinguished, but long forgotten and superseded past-expertise on the orals.

Wait, are you claiming that knowledge of experimental physics is "long forgotten and superseded"? As a mathematician, I'm all for recognising the importance of theoretical physics, and think that there's no reason a good theoretical physicist has also to be a good experimental physicist—but I wouldn't go so far as casting experimental physics on the dustheap! From the relatively sparse information given, the questions asked, about the operation of basic optical instruments like the telescope and the microscope, do not seem like questions that are excessively recondite; they do seem to indicate a basis lack of competence as an experimental physicist (which Heisenberg neither was nor apparently much wanted to be).
What made you move to Vanuatu as an American? Work opportunities? Beautiful weather?
What I would often do was write a result or impact sentence or two, a summary of no more than three bullet points, and a summary of how or where to follow up. Someone who is in 8 hours of meetings a day and receives 200+ emails a day isn't going to read anything longer.
Seeing SBF and saying 'look how corrupt America/NYT is' feels like deflection from the more obvious 'look how corrupt Crypto is.'
I am stunned this is on HN. He got _20k EUR_ for a (not fantastic) poem he quite likely didn't use more than 160 hours of work on. He played the game with his daughter for a while and then wrote this according to the article itself! How could you possibly demand more than 20k? How could he even believe he has _any_ legal case when he took the money, gave Mojang/Notch a license verbally (especially given he took the money), even if Microsoft bought Mojang?

The entire article is just egoistic/greedy nonsense.
I get your point that one can't have their cake and eat it too, but the scale at which Apple operates (and its sustained strong performance) makes it super hard to justify any form of exploitation. In MBA terms, regardless of the positive influence of ginormous captial, ESG matters for ginormous companies even more.
This is exactly my point. Without knowing how common {wearing helmets in cars, wearing PFDs in kayaks} is, the statements imply nothing about safety benefits of either, and yet that one was presented in a way that suggests that it does.

What would be a non-misleading value to quote would be absolute change of risk of drowning (e.g. that a typical trip without a PFD costs X micromorts, while a typical trip with one Y micromorts). What would be less problematic (but still potentially misleading[1]) would be a relative risk reduction (wearing PFD makes you X times less likely to die).

[1] Because it doesn't tell you anything about the original risk that you're lowering. E.g. helmets are a good protection against falling bricks: equally good at construction sites as when you're walking down the street. The only difference is that falling bricks are more likely on a construction site.
This is wonderfully perfectly provocative. A clever button pushing projectile innocently lobbed into the everyday pitter patter. An imposter post meant to deviously short circuit the HN tropes' internal logic.
This is a very good point mtmail. I am going to add screenshots soon.

In a nutshell skedlo gives you a feed of un-replied mentions that you can reply to straight from the app using the integrated tweet editor.

That amount of access is standard in the twitter api in order to be able to post on user behalf.
Form over function strikes again!
Google 'plagiarism' and 'copyright violation'.
I do try to ensure that others are always getting credit, I'm not even mentioned in the release notes of who did the work.

And the board doesn't keep people out. If you read the bylaws and charter, you would know that it is all contributing members of the projects that will vote for the board members, and the board will elect the officers of the organization.

You are obviously not an RESF Member and I trust the Members of the projects to make the best decision for the RESF and Projects. If I am among them, cool, I will always do my best job there. If not, I will support the decision and enjoy knowing that the structure that I helped to create, is working, and will keep the project open, free, and in the community for decades to come.

Last point, it isn't cool to discredit non-technical contributions, every role in an open source project is important.
Maintainer of code-server here (:wave:). A couple days ago we did a recap of the ecosystem of code-server and how people are deploying code-server to support multiple users. See https://coder.com/blog/code-server-multiple-users
While I like Java Client apps for cross-platform development on desktop (I wrote one myself), it's hard to argue that this platform is successful. Have there been any popular desktop apps written with Java Client that aren't Java IDEs?
The one improvement I'd wish upon Paul's original site is a correct SSL certificate (it still appears to be configured with a cert for *.store.yahoo.com ) so that one can connect over https instead of http.

But that's a quibble. Otherwise I see no advantages to the new design over the old one.
Madoff admitted to his crimes (once his family turned him in I believe) which made that go much faster. It will likely take years for DOJ to build a case. From what I've read they tend to be very meticulous once they believe they have a case that is winnable.

I think he and/or others will likely be in federal prison at some point but it will take a lot longer than the hot-take-minute culture of the internet would like. He also has no source of income (right?) to keep greasing the legislative wheels (aka political donations) to get laws/rules written in his companies favor as far as regulations go.
It does not unless the OP got permission from PG to republish his work. I suspect PG won't particularly care about this but it's certainly a copyright violation.
The problem isn't whether he will be prosecuted, but for what. His play right now seems to be playing dumb. I don't know if it can work, but he still needs to build a credible alternative story to the criminal behaviour that many here seem to suspect, for the different parties who seem to be happy to keep supporting him.
Yes. I've heard directly of the chaos. If I hadn't heard directly I wouldn't have commented but sadly have, from multiple people.
Welltower: Exposing the Shell Game
This is a very good point Matt, as I already mentioned in the reply to the previous comment ;)
1. raspberrypi.social is the official raspberrypi mastodon instance.

2. Raspberry pi hired an ex police person, I guess the concern is that he is a maker who previously made surveillance gadgets.

3. #fediblock is an announcement of defederation. As a server admin, you can jump in on #fediblocks. Or, you may want to stay federated with the instance. Originally they were used to announce defederation with pedophilia/gore/spam/harassment instances and other things you don't want your community getting polluted with. They are still used for that, but there's a lot of activism in #fediblock also.
Should've had it generate a transpiler for the language as well.
Yep, Dartium. That ship has sailed years ago.
> What exactly can’t you block with iOS ad blocker that you can block with just 1Blocker’s “give json to safari” blocker

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

This is specifically looking at (pre-manifest-V3) Chrome, so there are some other differences with Safari, but CNAME uncloaking is the most obvious example.

See also some of the previous comments I've made about this in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23622206). A few of these details might have changed (I vaguely think I remember Apple raising the rule limit), but I think the fundamentals are all still true.

> Did you personally vet the open source code? Did you compile it from scratch and install it on your phone or are you trusting it’s the same code?

I have read through parts of uBlock Origin's code, yes, but ultimately I'm trusting the broader Open Source community to say it doesn't have holes in it. And yes, I'm trusting Mozilla's vetting process for its "trusted extension" category. I think that's a reasonable thing for most people to do.

Of course, I could compile the extension myself, but I think to a certain degree that would be security theater.

----

Again, just really surprising to see an argument that boils down to "this Open Source application might potentially spy on me, and that's a greater danger than the websites that I know are actively spying on me right now." If Safari adblocking is good enough for you and your threat models, great. You don't need to justify that by pretending that uBlock Origin is insecure.

I will note, by the by, that Safari's limitations mean that (at least on desktop) the top-rated adblockers like AdGuard have shifted to running as external applications separate from the browser (https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html). This is not a dig at AdGuard, I think the AdGuard devs (as of last time I checked) are doing really great work. But if you're worried about sandboxing, running a desktop app is a lot more invasive than running a browser extension. I don't know if there are ways to do the same circumvention on iOS, so it's possible that AdGuard devs are staying in the browser sandbox there; I'd need to double-check.

Of course, you can use apps like AdGuard as pure extensions in their more limited form (I don't recommend a specific iOS app, but unless something has changed since the last time I checked, AdGuard is a solid choice) -- but you will get a more limited adblocker as a result. The performance might be good enough for you, and that's fine. But it's still correct to say that it will be more limited.

----

I will also add to this just to preempt anyone arguing otherwise that I am not saying that browser extensions shouldn't have better sandboxing. They should, extension sandboxing is awful and it needs to improve. What I am saying is that the specific sandboxing model that Safari uses (and that Chrome is moving towards) for adblocking limits their effectiveness.
TwitRiv.com is part of my 12 Startups in 12 Months Challenge (Open Source Edition).

It is inspired by the simplicity of Nitter.net but it uses the official Twitter V2 API. It has the benefit of allowing you to connect directly with your account so you can see users you actually follow on the main timeline, but that also means it has limitations imposed by the official API limits.
I thought this was gonna be a political post about progressive politicians and far-right conspiracies
> Close to none

so zero dollars were spent adding null safety to languages? False.

Zero dollars were spent converting code to those languages? False.

Zero dollars were spent solving problems uniquely created by not having the benefits of null? Also false.

> I'd take his expert opinion and experience on the matter over anybody referring to him as "a dude with a fancy name".

Sounds like a crappy way to reason about facts. Just because he did cool shit once upon a time doesn’t mean that we should believe him when he pulls numbers out of his ass.
She very much did have an association with the Clintons: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11586966/theranos-ceo-elizabet...
Of course, he has a professor father lecturing laws in Stanford university, I guess they had a plan right when the fiasco hits, any move since then must be designed meticulously to avoid being charged, what a shame.

Comparing to SBF, Holmes is nothing.
It was an example of GPT offering a notation unrelated to anything mentioned in the prompt. I wasn't suggesting we all adopt it as our new notation.

This whole comment page feels like a chain of "it clearly can't do X" -> "it does X" -> "no obviously it does X but it can't do Y", spread among several threads and repeated over and over.
In this case, its not true though - the gain on this sort of FM broadcast antenna should be uniform in all horizontal directions. The gain is from reducing power in the vertical plane (that is, less energy radiated up into space and down into the ground). Orientation thus shouldnt matter.

Antennas with a non-uniform horizontal radiation pattern do need to be correctly oriented. A simple example of a directional antenna is a Yagi, where more energy comes out the front than the back and sides.
And it also has to be done right. I noticed a small leak in my home that aligned with where a new vent was installed a couple years ago and I went up to confirm my suspicion that the flashing was installed wrong. And it was.
again, there were definitely huge problems with PHP prior to 5.6 and 7, but the flaws in the language that made it a security nightmare have been gone for about 10 years (at least). Now the main problem is that it's still used as a dynamically typed language with some type coercion and juggling that can lead to unexpected behavior.

But you can use strict_types! With strict types, PHP 8+ is a very nice language.
This is an interesting discussion I would love to listen more to.

Pagination (this site) vs a long list of all the titles (Paul's actual site). Which is better user experience?

OP seems to suggest pagination for sites where new content is high value & old content is low value. Long list of titles where all content is equal.