skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Porngraphy harms the soul? What exactly is the soul you're referring to? Something metaphysical? Do you have any science or data behind this assertion?
There are about a gazillion porn websites and legislation only affects the top like 3 of them. Completely pointless unless you have an entire surveillance system like China's firewall
https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.5/admin/overv...
Indeed.

For newcomers: if you get a pen that seals properly (so it won’t dry out), consider getting a fast-drying ink; you won’t end up with streaks across the paper and on your hands. I found Lamy T52 acceptable.
no

they are for boot chain security which is an essential featur for any laptop

TPM by itself never prevents anyone from doing anything

but it's used with features like secure boot, but as long as they fully implement the spec they don't prevent you from doing with your laptop what you want as long as you don't install software which does so

secure enclave and similar used for DRM isn't directly a TPM feature but more an extension using TPM and other CPU features

and yes it can be used to security store keys in your hardware. Any keys! A feature any user understanding security would appreciate.
Maybe it's time to regulate privacy to make the retention of personally-identifying information illegal for companies that have no need to retain it. PII should be considered legally radioactive. There's no excuse for a mere wireless carrier to need your SSN.
Note that `test -v` is not in POSIX sh (see https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/t...). And you don't need `builtin` because `test ...` invokes the builtin by default; if you want to run coreutils test you need to use `/usr/bin/test ...` or `env test ...` or `(exec test ...)`.

The usual way to check if $2 is present is to use `[ $# -ge 2 ]`. For named variables, I like to use `[ "${myvar+set}" != "set" ]` (the parameter expansion `${myvar+word}` expands to "word" if myvar is set or "" if it is unset, see https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...).

(Often people want to treat an empty value as unset, so they just use `[ -n "$myvar" ]` to check that the value is non-empty. If you enable `set -u` to treat references to unset variables as errors, this should instead be `[ -n "${myvar-}" ]`.)

Some comments on the script you linked:

I highly recommend ShellCheck (https://www.shellcheck.net/), it picks up a legitimate issue in your script: `tr -s [:alpha:] Y` should be `tr -s "[:alpha:]" Y` (otherwise it fails if the current directory contains a single-letter filename).

Also, you should use `printf "%s\n" "$var"` instead of `echo "$var"` in case $var is "-n" for example.
absolutely agree. Github has this nice thing. They keep trying to protect you. An unintended side effect these protections make it easier and easier for you to do things with other Microsoft products. Well of course, why would anyone have a problem with that? And at some point if you decide github is not for you - the price is too high, your account is frozen or whatever - you will find that getting out of github is extremely difficult. If you believe there are plenty of good alternatives why not use one now?

Nothing on the internet is free. You may think you are getting something for free, but you have to ask yourself how the company giving you that freebee makes its money? Qui bono && quid bonum? Lock-in anyone?
Also "git + ssh" can be a sufficient stack in and of itself.
Having used GitLab, GitHub, and BitBucket in enterprise, I actually prefer gitlab-ci to github actions. GitLab feels buggier overall (so many lines in my .github-ci.yml were prefaced with a link to the GitLab issue requiring me to do some hack instead of what the docs suggested), but the PR tooling was good enough on all of them for everything I was doing.
IMO the biggest advantage isn't really anything objectively measurable. Yes, You can come up with things like smoothness, lack of resistance (my personal first reason to switch), sustainability, but ultimately IMO You end up with "it just feels nice".

To me, the main motivation to use them these days is that it simply feels good to use them. After spending some time tinkering / cleaning / nib polishing, fountain pens give me the same sort of pleasure that one gets from any other good tool - a well sharpened knife that just fits into Your hand, a good screw driver, a nicely worn in shoe, a well maintained / fitted bike... The list goes on. It becomes a sort of a self-sustaining feedback loop. The more You use one, the more You "want" to use one.
That can't be right, an air conditioner alone pulls more than a kilowatt.
$120k is a very high salary in most parts of the country. You really need to adjust for CoL
I preferred the Pilot Metropolitan, with a Medium Nib (equivalent to Fine in Europe). It was my goto pen for a number of years, despite getting more expensive ones.
Not only code, I have heard horror stories of employees uploading regulated customer data to Open AI.
Dropbox to close R&D operations and leave Israel
they will use the azure services.
How to match your SaaS user intent to your user awareness levels with content
Massage therapists qualify for H1B?

"and in some cases drain their assets and sometimes also take corporate secrets"

Sounds like they're draining more than assets: Is there a sperm donor facility next door too? This type of problem sometimes comes in twos. Just sayin'!

(scene set on a small ethnic cafe in lower SF):

7-year old Paki-American boy strolls in: "Rohaan! Hello, I am your long-lost son. Are you not glad to meet me?

Rohaan (confused): Excuse me, I am eating my paratha! WTF are you!

7-year old boy: Mom can tell you - she's at the door -see her waving, huh?. She says remember seven years ago in downtown San Francisco when you enjoyed a wonderful "happy ending" massage? Well, she saved the ending and with it planted ME and I am half YOU! I am so very happy to finally find my father!(tries to hug)

Rohaan bolts for the back door, paratha in hand (subsequently flies to Islamabad, assumes a new identity and lives a modest remainder-of-life in celibate penitence).
> at least before telescopes.

That distinction must go to Tycho Brahe, who made all his astronomical observations without any telescope (Galileo started using a telescope in 1609, while Brahe died in 1601).
"by existing" = because the blog post exists does not prove something is true.

I'd sooner listen to people who are leaders in their field when it comes to LLMs than someone rambling on their free WordPress blog.

It is just an LLM. That's an objective fact. IBM's Watson is a pipeline of different algorithms. Neither are like a human brain, but multiple processes are going to be more brain-like in concept than just an LLM.
That’s very impressive from a Mac market share perspective. Not every Mac user uses Safari, but every non-mobile Safari user uses a Mac.
>Yes it's true. Children can't go in a physical store and purchase porn anywhere.

That's not what I asked... you said it was "literally illegal for children to view porn". Give me a source for it because I can't find one.

There is a difference between SELLING porn to underage children, and children being able to view it. I'm talking about viewing it. Going to google and searching for porn and getting results is NOT the same as a store literally selling porn to kids- and since you are on a tech website, you obviously know that.

>You're making excuses for allowing this. Just stop

>The mental and physical health of children takes precedence over adults need to keep their fetishes "private"

Ah the response of "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" to justify taking away our right to privacy. Where have I heard that one before?

>Until very very recently everyone had to go into a store to purchase this stuff.

Yeah, going to some random store in the 80s and buying what you wanted with cash where no one had any idea who you were, no way to track you is definitely the same as my license being linked to every link I click on at pornhub. Yup, same thing... why are you giving such a disingenuous argument?
Email has the issue that it wants to be an arbitrary person-to-person communication protocol, which communicates through servers. Therefore, if I want to email you, the behavior of your server is my problem. The set of such people I may want to communicate with is large and heterogenous.

Git does not have that problem. If four of my buddies want to get together and start a startup together, and I start out by simply setting up git on an SSH server, the four of us do not care that GitHub recently extended the Git protocol with a hot new feature that only works on Windows 13. We just use our git. I am not in the position of wanting to share arbitrary source code with everyone in the world. The relevant social circles are much, much smaller.

I don't know that I'd say git is immune to such takeover, but it is about as resistant as it is feasible to be.

The problem with GitHub isn't git. In fact, that is the least problematic aspect of all. The git repo, the branches, the tags, commit history, signatures, that's all the stuff that is not only easy to take with you, the git protocol all but stuffs them all down your throat with a "git clone". You have to ask git not to give you a fully independent copy of the whole repo.

The problem with GitHub is all the other stuff; the issues, the PRs, the conversations in there, the fact you gave out so many URLs pointing to github, etc. The thing that makes me most nervous about GitHub and my Go libraries is that if GitHub does turn evil, I've got "github.com" embedded in a lot of people's source code. I've decided it's not quite worth it to host on my own domains (plus I imagine people look askance at that anyhow) but it's a long-term concern of mine.
reminds i have to give goethe's theory of colors[1] a serious look one of these days

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours
It'll work fine, Microsoft even explains how to upgrade: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-windo...

They chose an arbitrary cut-off date for hardware support for their new OS. They decided not to support old stuff anymore and they had to pick a date/technology platform. It was always going to be arbitrary. In my opinion they should've picked a clearer distinction (i.e. require a certain level of AVX support so all binaries can be built with AVX optimizations enabled) but I can see why they chose to do this. After all, they're going to have to support the OS for ten years, that four year old CPU is fourteen years old by the time Windows 11 goes out of support.
I am a volunteer EMT who has run thousands of calls.

If someone is "bleeding out" in that they have an uncontrolled hemorrhage driving faster is never the preferred option.

Generally speaking there are two types of hemorrhage:

1. Those that can be controlled through direct pressure and the body's clotting ability.

2. Those that cannot be controlled through direct pressure and the body's clotting ability.

If the hemorrhage is type 1 the best course of action is to calm down, slow down, and apply direct pressure while the patient is immobile until the bleeding stops. Driving fast will only stress the patient and may possibly lead to additional bleeding through jostling or poor application of direct pressure. Once the bleeding has stopped you can travel to the hospital at a reasonable and prudent speed.

If the hemorrhage is type 2 the only course of action is to apply a tourniquet. Once the tourniquet is applied you can proceed to the hospital at a safe pace. It is impossible to drive fast enough to save someone with an uncontrollable hemorrhage unless you are within 180-to-300 seconds of a hospital. A tourniquet can be anything, including a shoelace, belt, or torn-up shirt.

Even if the hemorrhage is a type that cannot be stopped by a tourniquet or pressure, like a chest wound, driving faster will likely not help because without applying an occlusive bandage to the wound(s) the patient will likely be dead in minutes. An occlusive bandage is any airtight barrier, like a piece of plastic, that can create a seal needed to allow for adequate respiration.

In all cases treating for shock is more important than speed. For non-EMS personnel the only preventative measures for shock are: stop bleeding, wrap patient to retain body heat, and place patient in a position of comfort.

When it comes to bleeding driving faster without basic interventions does little-to-nothing to improve the outcome for the patient, and a lot to increase the chances of creating more than one patient.

Driving faster than is reasonable is called "diesel therapy" and the only times I have used that is for breech presentations during childbirth, which are also the only times I've heard my paramedic sound scared and we've run some gnarly calls.

If you come across someone who has amputated their leg with a chainsaw and you are five minutes from the hospital at maximum speed and EMS is 30 minutes away, it is better to lie the patient down, keep them still, apply a tourniquet to the appendage, do whatever is necessary to warm them (including putting them in an idling car, preferably lying down, with the heater at maximum), and call 911 than it is to throw them in a car and drive fast.
tl;dr: An earlier version of ChatGPT provided example responses to chat-based human customer service reps. It improved productivity 14%, but almost all of the gains were among reps still onboarding; experienced reps saw little to no benefit.
No, there are fairly well established technologies to do this without giving the third-party any information about which site is asking for authentication. The most famous that comes first to mind is the Kerberos protocol.

An simplified example could be that I ask the third-party to sign a package that include my current IP address, a message that say "I am over 18", and a validity period. They sign it (after I identify myself to the third-party), and give me the requested signature. I then give this to the website and the website can verify the signature of the third-party. The website only know my IP address, the time, and what third-party service I use to verify my age. Third-party only know my ip address, the time, and that I requested a token for "I am over 18".

A major drawback occur if this is only used for porn. In that case, the message "I am over 18" will be synonymous with porn use and thus giving the third-party information that they should not have.
Git lfs is a lousy hack. I wish git had better support for large binary formats.
> It makes no sense to me that every physical store in a state must check IDs if you want to buy porn

Right?
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A lot of those porn sites also are not free ( so automatically age restricted).

PornHub is somewhat unique in that it’s so large and totally free.
There's three ways. One is the git way, which is to let people do whatever and then ask them to handle it afterwards. The next best is used by some other annoying system I used early in my career, which is to require people to check out a file before they can get write permission on it, and only allow one person to have write permission at once, so that there's no real risk of merges. And the worst of all is to just let whoever comes later overwrite whatever was there before.
> But Git is pretty good, so it will take something vastly better to replace it.

Git is fine, but honestly, my favorite of the several I've used over the years is still svn.
Recently someone posted this on HN: https://blog.r2devops.io/blog/All/GitLab_Marketplace/
Typical Linux installation will not rely on TPM in any way. But if you use systemd-cryptenroll to provide BitLocker-like UX for FDE then the concerns are mostly same.
this is absolutely not the job of the government. you are responsible for your kids. this is just inviting more and more police state big brother bureaucratic bullshit and less rights, less freedom.
When they do, then our goals will misalign :-)
If you want a UI for pizza peel hands, the clear choice is flag semaphore!

I don't have VR goggles but I feel like someone will eventually come up with a successful Minority Report imitation. We'll all have very tired arms but that seems a fait accompli of VR stuff anyway?
I don't like that people are doing this, but I also feel like Elon has been bringing this kind of negative attention on himself by acting in an increasingly awful way over the past 5 years. I hope acting like a troll on twitter is worth all the lawsuits and lost Tesla sales for him. Such a strange state of affairs.
I don't get mad, I get odd.
The only downside is: extremely limited device support by design (ease of support).

Has tonnes of hardening though.
>not going to hold for long

honest question: why do you think that?

My believe is that a good analogy for such leads would be an average marathon runner vs Kipchoge. His "lead" will only increase with time.
In fact `${foo+some_string}` is supported by POSIX sh (unlike `test -v`).
> To me, this seems akin to dropping ID requirements at liquor stores and bars, and instead enacting a law to jail the parents of minors who drink liquor.

Purchasing liquor isn't a first amendment right. The standards are indeed different.
Don't forget -0 (negative zero)!
I don't think they have as much power as they used to:
There are a lot more writers, and a lot of people, who, if aided by chatgpt, can write competently for TV/movies/whatever. Less of it is in person; market is less closed than it used to be.

Kind of depends how hard the studios want to fight on this, but I get the sense that they can just take foreign series and dub them for a while.
Raise your hand if you want your open source project to show up when somebody is searching. Or if you maintain a github mirror so that your project doesn't languish in obscurity. There is one thing that is truly essential for alternative platforms: easy discovery of projects. I think for alternative platforms to have a chance you need to somehow have a global, platform independent index of software projects that live on different repositories. You can then show them to people on equal footing irrespective of where they are hosted.
Some systems do exists though, for example IRMA: https://privacybydesign.foundation/irma-explanation/ – I do think IRMA suffers from some issues, but options do exist.

If there are no laws then there is no pressure to create technology, and if there's no technology we can't create good laws. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg thing innit? It's hard to tell where the future will go, but I will bet we will see more of these kind off laws passed around the world.
Utah hasn’t said what the solution has to be, just that age verification needs to take place.

I think the market should find the best solution here.
They missed a lot of excellent pens, and included some boutique makers - including a couple who, from the photos, use very cheap nibs while charging a premium price.
Any reason why Node, php are not mentioned?
SVN took over the hobbyist area rapidly due to its workflow/UI similarity to CVS, but P4 held fast professionally until at least 2015, as well as Source Safe if you were an MS shop. (And conservative places never switched off CVS at all.)
A healthy amount of skepticism is good. You can easily take your skepticism too far and turn into a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist who doesnt believe anything and has a completely cynical view on the world. I know a few of these...
Where else would someone gain this sentiment?

Certainly not rational thinking, people aren't discussing specific psychological research at mass. The instant ad hominem attack instead of rational discussion is highly indicative of ideological underpinning.

United States certainly and unfortunately has a strong religious background. Quite a few remnants of it are in peoples minds without it realizing it. For example, lot of people would consider it rude not to say "Bless you" when someone sneezes, which is 100% religious origin.
That's a strawman no? You're trying to colour my argument by associating it with another one.

There are some notable differences though. If I play a violent video game then no one is actually being shot.

If I watch a woman being choked and ejaculated on by 20 men calling her a worthless slut whore in a porno then I'm watching that genuinely happening.

It's more akin to letting children watch videos from actual warzones. Even as an adult I find beheading videos to be disturbing.
You get X BTC out, you don't get $X. If prices were stably denominated in BTC it'd be worth the same amount of goods. But then, prices aren't exactly stably denominated in $USD these days, as a lot of savers have found out to their chagrin.

"Price stability" is one of those value-adds to a currency that's pretty important, and it's also one that's been bolted on repeatedly (stablecoins) to cryptocurrency. IMHO a more interesting property would be algorithmically pegging a cryptocurrency to a basket of goods rather than to the USD, though, because the USD has had a pretty shitty peg to that basket of goods over time. There are actually cryptocurrencies that do this, but they rely on centralized oracles that have the same problem as the Fed and the CPI - it'd be interesting if a cryptocurrency could embed price stability into the protocol itself.
Can you explain what you see as sensationalism? Hinton is not the first researcher that has abandoned the machine learning field over fears of the technology being used for nefarious purposes. For example, object detection and image recognition are already used in commercial weapons systems.
Reading a description is very different than seeing and listening to simulated rape or sexual assault.
Multiple issues with this.

It starts off with arbitrary definitions of what pornography is (https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0287.html):
"nipple of the female breast"

You can suck on it when you are a baby, but god forbid you ever take a look at it again before you are married. What's wrong with these people?

Even public nudity laws differ from city to city (e.g. in California), so clearly, people aren't aligned at all on this subject (I'm emphasizing the arbitrary nature here).

Forbid and censor the things you're afraid of educating on.

This trend reminds tangentially of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority.

On a closing note, I do recommend supporting organizations like https://www.aanr.com/ who also provide legal help to citizens in states that'd rather have you wear a burka than show a nipple.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by this, but I think I understand a little. The reason why the study of health is separate than the being of health is that the being requires time and experience. I cannot convey how I feel when I eat clean, lift well, read a lot, and socialize often, but I can say that I feel "happy" or "good" and give you a list of steps to achieve that state.

This essence of "lossy transmission" is simply our reality.
We waited for the French Exchange kids to be staying with us. They all looked about 25 when we were all 15. They were always happy to buy our booze for us :-)
OsInfo : Linux rave-flags-1.localdomain 4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64
I have WWW user permissions, and the station table permissions, how to propose the right
All executable functions in PHP are disabled.