skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ruby is a poor abstraction AND inefficient. text based manipulations and crap like IFS are terrible abstractions. languages like standard ML were made SPECIFICALLY for abstracting. they literally were meticulously designed to provide proper abstractions (think, for example how the elements of a union type are abstract objects, and can be built up to model coherent ideas, while in ruby any variable probably requires a lookup at runtime in ascii^Wunicode^wunicode-minus-whatever-feature-was-found-to-be-harmful-in-this-context)

what im saying is that the academic idea of abstraction is far better and less leaky than ruby (dynamic name resolution and such "scripting language" crap) or java (data structures are intended to be used once or twice per program (exaggerating) instead of fluently like you would make trees in a functional language); its just obscured but if everyone understood the motivation it would have replaced stuff like ruby in all use cases.

i see ruby and java as a little shop where the owner will let you instantiate one or two objects according to some terms, and then let you maybe make your own class, but it will essentially just be a wrapper around a few of the shop's objects. whereas in ML you can model anything from the ground up, even numbers, and it will still be nicely implemented and the abstractions will be almost perfect.
>Real question: What is a reasonable solution?

I thought of something like IntPtr in C# (native size int). Although, to be portable, JVM would have to disallow doing pointer math on it, to make IntPtr fully opaque.
It's expensive in that part of the country. Say I rent a room at an Oxford college for a conference which is subsidized, I'd be looking at 70 or 80 a night. Say it's five nights, that's 350/400 just on accommodation. Have 30 people and that's 12k per week saved, against a non-depreciating asset in an area that is very unlikely to reduce in value. On top of this you can do what you want with the place and have permanent work spaces etc. Seems sensible to me, even if my first instinct was WTF.
> Scanning for CSAM by companies does catch a lot of child abusers and result in children being rescued from abuse, and it’s likely that Apple implementing such scanning would have done the same.

A strong claim that still lacks any strong proof. Especially once you start defining the term "child abuser".

According to actual child protection organisations [1] encrypted communications play a very minor role in distribution and is barely relevant, and the biggest factor is not detection, but the lack of proper resources to actually investigate cases and leads. There is no shortage of hard leads to investigate.

It is also rarely acknowledged that are very large percentage of abusers are from the victims social circle and often family members [2]. Meanwhile the whole surveillance fetishists very much try to keep up the false image of children being kidnapped by strangers and such.

The whole idea that child abusers are incredibly hard to catch and are oh so well hidden is a fairy tale. It is also important to differentiate between 1st and second grade child abusers, those who actively abuse the child, and those who "only" encourage it by sharing/purchasing the results of the abuse (I'm sure there is a significant overlap, but I do not know).

So is there a cost? Sure. But let's not pretend that it is even the lowest hanging fruit, or that the people building these services and asking for them are even interested in actually improving the situation, otherwise they would throw their weight behind one of the dozens of other more effective ways to actually improve child protection instead of screaming for a perpetual noise machine that even further drains the already very scarce resources of child protection services.

[1]: https://netzpolitik.org/2022/massenueberwachung-das-sagen-ki...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse
FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page
Observable Universe.

There's likely considerably more unobservable Universe.
Apple doesn’t control ads shown on TV outside of Apple TV+.

How will they do recommendations if they don’t keep track of what you listen to? How will they do recently played lists?

How will they know if they should send notifications to your phone for your apps if they don’t have a record of what apps you have installed? All notifications are bundled together and sent from their servers to save battery life.
To be fair, I recall seeing an article here a few days ago stating that Apple was moving a significant chunk of their manufacturing out of China. I don't think Apple is that dependent on China. I'm sure Apple has lines they will not cross. Maybe giving you up to China isn't one of them, but I'm sure they have them.
I would rather cut off a finger than ever use Jenkins again. What a piece of shit. Design from the 90s, maintained by people who can't code and don't care about users, trying to turd-polish it into new tech stacks to justify themselves to the sad old enterprises invested in them.

Circle is decent. It has all the functionality you wish was built into Jenkins, but way easier and better, with no maintenance cost or insane languages to learn. It has some drawbacks but nothing you can't work around. Orbs work fine, they also can be private. Circle's self hosted functionality is... bizarrely stupidly designed, but essentially works.

I would much rather use Drone.io for any new paid CI project. The best functionality, literally as simple as possible, with cloud native design. Extensible, flawless as self-hosted, does everything you need.
Can't say I detect a difference. Might be an Aus-E thing:

https://youglish.com/pronounce/rose/english/aus

https://youglish.com/pronounce/tone/english/aus

But I would have thought I use -əʊ- for both, which is what's shown as the Br-E pronunciation for both words on that site.
Will it matter in this case?
Also a huge "Save Soil" campaign by Sadhguru, an Indian ascetic, to recruit millions of volunteers planting trees around the world
“I don’t like tracking. But I’m okay with a third party ad blocker intercepting all of my traffic”
> a "green" cow that can get energy from photosynthesis

Sun-fed beef?
> After starting a post like this, it is disappointing that you fell in the trap you warned the OP about. Being contrarian and using mis-informed tropes is not a good way of having a rational discussion. It is not being cool or clever at all.

Once a brand starts to build large-scale mindshare, there is of course the inevitable brand-wars fanboy faction, but there also pretty reliably seems to emerge an anti-brand faction - this pattern is consistent across NVIDIA, Apple, and many other leading-but-controversial companies. The mere mention of these companies in a positive context gets another faction reliably winding up about how awful they are and how everything they do is actually fake and a lie and intended to rip off customers unlike my favorite brand, etc.

It's essentially another form of parasocial relationship - but it's a negative parasocial relationship instead of a positive one. People gain identity from opposing the brand-signifier rather than supporting it.

The existence of fanboy factions is oft-observed at this point, but I rarely see anyone acknowledging the opposite side - the people who just are reflexively contrarian and negative about anything surrounding a brand, regardless of any counterbalancing concerns or factors. The hateboy, if you will.

And blind hate is just as destructive to nuanced conversation as blind devotion. It's also destructive to actual progress - positive steps need to be acknowledged and encouraged even if you think it's still the overall worse option, and negative steps from a brand you favor need to be acknowledged even if you think they're still the overall better option.

To do otherwise is to oppose actual progress over what amounts to parasocial tribalism - in both directions. The hateboys are just as toxic as the fanboys to reasoned discourse.
That would ironically go against their stated principles.
is anyone working at bigtech that got laid off starving though?

bigtech pays a lot of money relative to US median; layoffs should suck for us but not be completely life-altering, especially given the severances/continuance of healthcare/etc.

i didn't say that big money ceo will be suffering, but spending more than you have always hurts when you can't afford the debt, and going down in lifestyle always sucks
"Happily travel" and get to the wrong place? What's the point of that?
It is widely suspected that the US NSA runs a large number of Tor exit nodes themselves. Tor was originally developed by a US military research lab and received additional funding under the justification that it would help dissidents in China and North Korea evade their country's censorship and surveillance. It also doubles as a way for the US government to surveil anyone seeking to evade surveillance as well.

See the sources cited at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)#Exit_node_eavesd...
A relative has just graduated with a PhD in philosophy of science and has zero job prospects, so he is leaving academia. Nobody wants to know this stuff. He’s a good teacher if anyone does know a place trying to teach it, though.
I've read more compelling arguments in theological discussions

Maybe it's time to coin a new term: "altruism washing" whereas people will come up with wishy-washy reasons of why they should buy a 15MGBP castle and make it look like they're doing good with it
I am pushing 50 and the idea of America becoming cashless in my lifetime is not going to happen.

There is no way our law makers are going to want to lose access to cash. No one wants to get a bribe or conduct a shady deal in a highly traceable digital currency in the US.

Not to mention, we can't even get rid of 100% utterly useless pennies. They are basically a form of government printed litter that I am not sure is even worth a homeless person's time to be bothered with.
You can also dramatically reduce the latency by testing before attempting the CAS, which will switch a lot of cache line requests into Shares instead of Owns. I didn’t see it in this implementation.

But the point of the wait/notify in the post to sleep if I understand correctly. My guess is there is some amount of spurious waking up that’s happening, or multiple threads are woken up by the notify_one (it only guarantees at least one is woken up!) An exponential backoff would reduce the probability of these spurious wakeups colliding dramatically.

On a separate note, fairness isn’t always required, just throughput. If you need predictable latency then this lock won’t work for you, but in this case optimizing for mean latency seems more worthwhile.
Thank you for expressing exactly how I feel.
Mid/late 1970s, some kind of university time-shared system (maybe a CDC-6600, at least I know the university had one at the time) accessed from home, my dad had a teletype (110 baud) and later an ADM terminal (300 baud) with an acoustic coupler modem. Playing with BASIC programming and the Adventure/Colossal Cave game.
Higher than cis people, perhaps, but much lower than if they had not received treatment.

Which is the whole point. They're better off with proper treatment than without. Anti-trans activists don't care about kids' welfare, they just want them to conform at any cost.

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00568-1/full...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/277...

https://www.hcplive.com/view/suicide-risk-reduces-73-transge...
Discussions about overcommit are red herring for OOM situations. You could be fully within commit limit for allocated unreclaimable memory, and still be in effective OOM situation, if working set is larger than RAM.
Before search engines, my childhood was filled with Funk and Wagnall encyclopedia sets. Most family arguments were settled with them, and thus it spurred my love for learning, and to win more household debates I would just sit and read the Funk and Wagnalls.

The library was awesome too, but you had to be there, usually at school, and most of the time you had to do your own index searches.

Once I got my hands on the internet it was a brave new world.
If it talks like a scam and walks like a scam, it is a scam.
Sleep as in do a syscall to tell the kernel to unschedule it.
I don't believe that's a constitutional right at all.

Consider "mandatory reporters". People like schoolteachers are legally required to report certain things like parental abuse or neglect of their students. If the government wanted to write a law that said you are required to report a crime if you witness one, I'm not sure that would be unconstitutional.
Thinking about this more, I'm so baffled by this decision.

EA touts itself as the best strategy for giving as they present themselves as a rational force evaluating all approaches, then going for the 'best' one.

Buying a multimillion pound stately country estate for your HQ is clearly not the 'best' use of money. Yet, EA argues that it is the best use of money with their usual vocabulary. That means I now cannot trust any of their decisions as they clearly bend the outcomes to whatever they want them to be.

I.e., there's nothing 'effective' about the entire organisation, it's just your run-of-the-mill moneypit for rich people to feel better.
Or even just, "you are liable for any CSAM your users upload to your platform".
You don't need to give out your name and address to be doxxed, there's enough information from your comments across your accounts to reasonably identify you if someone wanted.

Oh, if a comment needs a personal detail it's randomized. Sometimes I'm married, sometimes I'm straight, sometimes I'm American, etc.
What he meant was that everyone can accept buying is better than renting. Most people can’t accept that this was the most efficient purchase possible.
Discovered in the deep: the extraordinary sawshark with a weapon-like snout
It is not "Experimentation on human subjects" to inform them of the things that drive ads to them.
I never used CircleCI so I can't speak to it specifically, but there's tons to improve on GitHub actions.

The Actions web UI is so bad it's almost a parody. Debugging stuff is harder than it needs to be. No good way to manually control builds. Possible but not very easy to run stuff locally. Very limited platform support (Linux Windows, and macOS, although other platforms are possible with VirtualBox hackery but it's SLOW and pretty unreliable).

It is enough to make a viable business when GitHub actions is right there? Who knows... But there are tons of reasons for external CI tools to exist, IMO.
It's hard to believe people taking multi-million $donations have no association with FTX.

The box is still to be opened on that side, but I don't doubt we might find something soon
If "Demographic A has higher suicide rates than demographic B" is not falsifiable, then I'm not sure what is.
> He's single and drives a 4.8L vehicle to shopping and golf and back and that's about it.

It sounds like he drives significantly less than the average family of 4. Isn't he therefore consuming less than them, in a 20 year old Kia Carnival?
They'd be totally wrong if you are an entrepreneur and they'd be totally right if you're a lower class worker. Doubt you'd find a synthesis there.
I had one. Probably 1982 or so. They were a few hundred dollars initially, which was not insignificant for a high schooler in those days, but dropped to $49 just before they were discontinued in 1984 or 1985.
Wouldn't it make more sense to be able to hold workshops all around the world, thereby attracting a global audience instead of just people who can/want to travel to England?
I think you confuse two different things: The optional nudity detection and the mandatory iCloud CSAM scanning.

They abandoned the later and that’s what the article is about.

The first one is a child safety feature that scans content and warns the user, if enabled.

The second one scans everyone’s all content and if it detects more items than some number your data is decrypted and you are reported to the police. A deeply disturbing, dystopian feature where your personal devices become the police and snitch you. Today they say it’s CSAM but there’s no technical reason not to expand it to anything.
Just rent a small vps somewhere with dual stack ipv6 and ipv4 and run Tayga on it to make your own NAT64 endpoint.
> Doing it on device is probably preferable to on cloud and at worst no different.

I own my device, I don't own their cloud. That's a big difference. Don't co-opt my property to do work you want done. Data stored on your servers is your business, so doing the checking there is fine, as long using them isn't mandatory.
> They're required to write software to make it easy for law enforcement to tap into phone calls, given an appropriate warrant.

Not exactly right. They are required to make it technically possible to tap a phone line, which can be as simple as giving access to cables. It's not necessary to give investigators a tap-from-home capability and free foot massages.

> it need only make them liable for any illegal material stored in iCloud, with or without their knowledge.

I can see a mall lawyer ripping up that requirement three ways - Apple has an army of way better educated legal representation.
It is 100% false that Tor was funded by the CIA. However, it is a very well documented fact that Tor was initially funded by the US Naval Research Laboratory, which also has a mandate for international intelligence gathering. Get your organizations right.
It was not “this kind of speculation” and the comparison is weak at best
Ewwww. Yet another reason to dislike TikTok.
I got SUPER excited about the NSScrollViewRubberbanding option, because I really hate that rubberbanding animation; sadly it looks like it hasn't worked for several years now.
It’s even worse than you can imagine. Even when you find an image… you can’t delete it right away, so as to not tip your hat that it was automated.
Adding features doesn’t mean breaking backwards compatibility, I can only think of modules since Java 8 that can maybe be.

What Kotlin features are possible because of that freedom ?
Genetics can be an example I can’t say it’s impossible for Java to add in out refied keywords
> I.e., there's nothing 'effective' about the entire organisation, it's just your run-of-the-mill moneypit for rich people to feel better.

Same scam, different copy. The good that SBF did for the world was exposing this particular underbelly. The world will move on, to the same scam with new window dressing.
> reflecting recent experience

What happened? Is this about CentOS's demise?
The GPL doesn't require anyone to contribute back to the upstream project, only contribute forward to downstream users, who may or may not care about source code and even if they do, may or may not bother to publish the code they receive, and even if they do, they/others may or may not try to contribute that code back upstream. It is only a culture of contributing back upstream and more importantly the costs of forking vs merging that leads to upstream contributions. Of course the GPL and copyleft are a big part of forming that culture, but not all of it.
This is the modern version of God, which also uses Latin alphabet, not some Linear A or cuneiform.
> it's mathematically provable that these false positives must happen

This is not true. It’s mathematically provable that false positives are possible, not that they must happen. In fact, the chances of collisions happening are astronomically low and basically nil when you use them in the way Apple was proposing (two separate hashes; several matches required).
When the most famous advocate of your philosophy is the perpetrator of one of the biggest frauds in history, the conflation is unavoidable. EA will have to rebrand.
Yeah this whole FTX thing has to be some sort of government op. At this point it makes less sense that it is not.
I got hit by a scooter (on a sidewalk) while boarding a public bus. I had my wallet in my hand to tap on. In my daze, i set it down next to me instead of placing it in my purses.

30 seconds later, the guy who had to have seen me hit grabs it and hops off the bus.

This is about 12 hours before im meant to catch a plane to Mexico.

My bank cant do shit. My cc company cant do shit. But phew thank lord Western Union can undercut bank professionals and be open in my grocery store so my parent send me cash. I shove their CC on to my Uber since of course one of the biggest cities in the US DOESNT RUN TRANSIT AT THE TIME.

I get to Mexico, my parents lose one bank card and get another eaten by an atm.

This is fun! At least they have a CC that charges a horrid rate! Good luck to me when they leave and I'm here for another week. Really, so great.

Meanwhile... with crypto and moneygram, i can get cash sent straight to the state bank here. Im open to other suggestions, but... LOL.

Idgaf im holding (and have been more than partially for over a decade). Though I really need to get off my butt and move more into Monero.
Encouraging to see the CubeSat program producing such notable progress. Hopefully, we'll see many more reports of engineering advancements from miniaturization and commercial components adapted to the rigors of space.
Cheers for engaging. I'd like to write my own blog post on parenting, but it'd be long and contextually detailed and would therefore be off-putting to anyone looking for the easy answers, because the easy answer is: if it's easy, you're doing it wrong*

*except if you've done the hard work early, it's eas(y|ier) later
So two words I can't find in this thread are "lawful intercept". If a judge comes down on Apple and says they are required to produce your private content, is Apple going to throw up its hands and say, "Nope, it's e2e encrypted." No, they will not. They will either run something on your device to scan it, or they will exfiltrate your encryption key, because at the end of the day they own your device. Maybe this makes it harder for man-in-the-middle attacks or whatever, but if someone with the right amount of power cares, your data isn't secure.
Thumbing through their catalogue, I notice #208 and #285 are missing.
A significant amount of grad student time is sunk into being human PID loops and sensor fusion models for their experiments. Repetition makes humans dumber and/or depressed. The search space is limited to human scales and predictive models with may rely on hidden variables. These hidden variables may also necessitate more sensitive electronics to sample and introduce timing constraints on the experiment design.

It is ripe territory to create automated experimenters that generate PID loop algorithms and gradient fields without accounting for hidden or difficult-to-measure variables of the environment. These algorithms are not too complicated and we can already see it in fuzzing / concolic execution platforms for discovering security vulnerabilities. This concept can be applied across disciplines.

In this paper’s case, we this concept is applied to a robot (an STM) to control for hidden forces impacting the atoms and biasing its own output. These forces change over time. Source code, highly legible, good references for a beginner, even included the controller code… this is research!
> The gardening costs alone will be astronomical

They don't own the land, they own the house.